Debate: Can government create jobs and wealth?
Side: No

That's true of any job creation, however. Money from one hand exchanges into another.This doesn't even make sense. Money exchanges from one to another when there is trade for goods or services, not for creating jobs or wealth. Jobs and wealth are created through capital, land, and labor.Even Obama agrees with me."Government can’t replace -- can’t create jobs to replace the millions that we lost in the recession, but it can create the conditions for small businesses to hire more people, through steps like tax breaks," Obama said." ObamaWow, government can't create jobs, and the best way to hire people is tax cuts.Unless you're mining gold and silver, you're never really creating wealth but exchanging it. This holds true even if you take cheap goods and combine them to make something valuable, because your profit is traded from someone elses' pocket.NEWSFLASH!!!!!! The United States isn't currently on the Gold and Silver Standard, but since 1971, the gold and silver standard is gone, so your statement is moot, not to mention totally irrelevant.What does gold and silver have any relevance to taxation in a non gold standard era? Nothing!Which I imagine is still a rational tradeoff compared to living in a depression.I hope you are not as dumb as this statement because you do realize that when the government borrows money, it does have to pay it back. It is not free.Which goes back to my statement about gold and silver, and really any precious resource that printed money may symbolically represent.This is completely and utterly moot because again, the United States is not on the gold and silver standard, thus, when you go to WalMart, you can't buy food with gold. Government printed notes are accepted along with other forms of transactions.So therefore the government created those jobs.Again, no, it was the transfer of wealth of those who produce. Government employees don't produce anything new. They only take away.For example, if I grew corn, and it was 100 bushels. In this production, I created new wealth through labor, land and some capital.All of a sudden, the leader of the town comes from and says, hey, Billy needs food, yet Billy doesn't do anything of production, so he takes 10 bushels, then Heather wants 10 bushels. Now, I only have 80 bushels to sell whereas before I had 100. Now, I have to layoff workers because there is less corn to produce.So your complaint isn't that government cannot create jobs, it is that government isn't a trade market representing entrepreneurs since it operates as the police force.WTF??? Government doesn't invest, it spends or wastes our money. What is so complicated about that notion?Investment is the commitment of money or capital to purchase financial instruments or other assets to gain profitable returns in the form of interest, income, or appreciation of the value of the instrument.An example would be schools, where education being profit-based means it will either be more expensive (through unnecessary classes, or higher up-front costs when few alternatives exist), or it will cut corners (outdated textbooks, curricula, lower salaries).Again, I already proved that public schools are more expensive than private schools in Washington D.C. Public-$24000 per pupil to Private $14,000 per pupil