According to "The Myth of Job Creation", Editorial, New York Times, 2012-10-21, Obama and Romney agree that "government does not create jobs". The New York Times disagrees, "Except that it does, millions of them — including teachers, police officers, firefighters, soldiers, sailors, astronauts, epidemiologists, antiterrorism agents, park rangers, diplomats, governors (Mr. Romney’s old job) and congressmen (like Paul Ryan)."
It is so hard to break the Norquist attitude that government is useless. If government was so useless, why do so many corporations spend fortunes to get a government that will pass laws they favor? If government was so useless, why do so many corporations seek government contracts? If government was so useless, who would give corporations patents? If government was so useless, who would adjudicate corporations billion-dollar suits against each other?
