“When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.” GovernmentJobsProcessEconomicPoliticianActivityProjectsInvestingObjectivesConsumersProductivePrivate SectorBureaucrats Author:Sheldon Richman
“The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.” KnowsGovernmentProcessPrinciplesAlternatives Author:Sheldon Richman
“Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.” GovernmentPoliticalProcessEconomicObjectivesConsumersInterferenceSubstitution Author:Sheldon Richman