Show Only More Production Wilt Wilt- Wil Make More for lor All Ali f to Share Shari Senator Thomas of Utah one of the sponsors of a measure known a as the full fuU employment bill told the senate banking committee ommittee holding hearings on the proposed legislation that thata a 8 mans man's right to a job is becoming a generally accepted belief Full Fun employment he said should be an objective tive of government Now there is s 's a good deal of sense in government efforts to promote stability in the national economy and arid there are certainly many things which the government can properly doto doto do doto to level out business cycles and prevent the terribly destructive tive depressions with their wide unemployment and Sand distress and economic loss But there is danger in hi placing too much emphasis on the idea of a government guarantee of jobs for all al It isn't the job that cou counts counts It ts-It ts it is the production from the job Merely creating j jobs bs by government fiat will not solve our economic problems if those jobs are the W P A type of leaf- leaf raking jobs Government work make or dole Gale programs ms simply spread aro around nd ec economic di distress tress They are on only y a palliative for fr depression not a cure curc Its It's as if a community would try to solve the unemployment problem created by the shutdown of its only industry by bJ giving everyone a job taking in washing Everyone might have a job b hilt but t there ther still sUit wouldn't be any production of the goods and services needed to maintain a decent decent decent de de- de- de cent standard of livi living g. g Youve You've got to start with production production production-because because nobody can consume what isn't produced produce And if little is produced then there will be little consumed and you will have a low standard of living That's why the emphasis must be placed not just on n jobs or the vague Ideal of full employment but on work and pro- pro The idea that every man has a right to a job is fallaI fallacious falla- falla I claus cious because if the job is just leaning on a shovel and drawing drawing drawing draw draw- ing a pay check it has no economic value The only right which might be accepted is the right to work work work-to to EARN a living as distinguished from drawing a pay check for a r job doing little c t or nothing productive and worth while We should have learned during the experiments with full employment in the middle thirties that government cant can't pull the the nation out of a depression b by tugging on its bootstraps We should have learned that jobs just for the sake of jobs irrespective of whether the jobs are productive or worth while II 0 are an economic mirage mirage- You think you see full employment and prosperity but l you OU find when you try to grasp it that there isn't anything there bere I Lets Let's ts t's by all means try to do something about our economic eco ceo cycles of boom and depression Lets Let's try to limit unemployment unemployment and distress But lets let's keep our feet on the solid economic economic economic eco eco- ground that only through production and work human effort and en enterprise can there be more for all to share with real jobs willing to work and real prosperity |