“For every dwelling not built, two workers will lose their jobs,”
I kind of laugh at statements like this — it’s as if this person is suggesting that it is the government’s job to ensure that these workers will have additional houses to build (regardless if there is a demand for these houses).
One of the biggest “fatal flaws” with left-wing idiots like these is their complete inability to understand the concept of supply and demand. They have all been indoctrinated to reject this concept.
Last month I read Spain is planning a huge gubbermint infrastructure program to stimulate the economy and employ Spanish workers. Housing crashed in Spain. Too many vacation condos for Brits and Germans
HAHA!!!! Europe’s chickens have come home to roost!!!
As if that “contagion” wasn't right there all along... The Anglo-Saxon world didn't make them build those houses that are sitting empty now. It is just the blame game, it must be somebody else's fault...
I thought it was just the opposite. I was under the impression they believed that when the unwashed masses demanded, the government would supply ;-)
Oh, I get it, I confused demand and supply with supply and demand. My bad!
Remember, they do things differently than we do and attempt to get ahead of the curve.
They never succeed of course, but that's what they try to do.
In France they sought to spread unemployment with a 36 hour week that prohibited overtime, even for lawyers!
Didn't work.
But, our best bet is to let the Europeans play. Their alternative "plan" is almost always a bit of looting on a major scale ~ you know, like Spain invades France, France invades, Belgium, Sweden nukes Prague ~ on and on.