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    The REAL Job Creators

    Consumers are the main job creators, for without the consumer there would be no jobs. If a person is an auto mechanic, for example, she can fix cars . . . and she does not need to work for a company to do this. All she needs is a consumer who requires her services. Conversely, without consumers no company can exist.

    For the most part, service companies are merely "middlemen" who ultimately raise the price of services. The consumer might be paying $50 an hour for "shop labor," but the mechanic only gets $25 an hour.

    Without consumers there would be no jobs, period. But without companies there would still be a demand for services. Labor exists without capital, but capital is entirely dependent upon labor. Labor is therefore independent of, and superior to, capital.

    But unless they have money, citizens cannot be consumers. This is why the best and simplest solution to a stifled economy is ensuring sufficient income for consumers.

    Given sufficient income, a citizen becomes a consumer, and will create jobs with or without a company.

    It's time we stopped kidding ourselves about companies being "job creators" when the need for labor stems from the consumer, not the company.
    No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged. -Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, I .viii.36

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    Been saying that for 6 years ... you need to spread the word and Vote for it in November

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    Consumption cannot occur without production.
    Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
    --John Adams

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amazon View Post
    Consumers are the main job creators, for without the consumer there would be no jobs. If a person is an auto mechanic, for example, she can fix cars . . . and she does not need to work for a company to do this. All she needs is a consumer who requires her services. Conversely, without consumers no company can exist.

    For the most part, service companies are merely "middlemen" who ultimately raise the price of services. The consumer might be paying $50 an hour for "shop labor," but the mechanic only gets $25 an hour.

    Without consumers there would be no jobs, period. But without companies there would still be a demand for services. Labor exists without capital, but capital is entirely dependent upon labor. Labor is therefore independent of, and superior to, capital.

    But unless they have money, citizens cannot be consumers. This is why the best and simplest solution to a stifled economy is ensuring sufficient income for consumers.

    Given sufficient income, a citizen becomes a consumer, and will create jobs with or without a company.

    It's time we stopped kidding ourselves about companies being "job creators" when the need for labor stems from the consumer, not the company.
    Well go work for a consumer then! what do they pay?

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    Both consumers and producers are obviously necessary, to cut either off at the pass is to hurt both.

    It's a shame that our economic system hurts both consumers and most producers.

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    I'll go along with that, but to sell you have to produce in quantity and not everyone has skills, hence the company who produces and requires unskilled labour. The current system prints money, distributes it to those that don't produce and creates an illusion that the economy is doing well.








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