GumboFilé: Renewable Electricity 'Creating' Jobs, Destroying Wealth

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Gumbo Filé is supposed to add flavor and substance. We'll see. I'm adding to the glut of already superfluous information and opinion on the worldwide web. What will make this blog distinct from all the other self-important know-it-alls out there? Nothing, really, except that this will be the only place on the worldwide web where you can find all GumboFilé all the time. You can ignore me, bookmark me, or add me to your list of blocked sites. I'll be right here.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Renewable Electricity 'Creating' Jobs, Destroying Wealth

It is easy to invent policies that create lots of jobs--just make delivery trucks illegal and create work for human porters. Hire people to shatter windows in homes and businesses, and you will create a boon in the glass-making industry. However, it wastes the skills and services of a labor force that could have produced things that people really wanted.

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Renewable Electricity 'Creating' Jobs, Destroying Wealth

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