Scott Brown sums up the bottom line of the American Right

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The economy creates jobs, not the government.

The government is to create an environment in which the economy can thrive.

The government is part of the economy; you can't easily separate the two. The government is more than capable of creating jobs both directly and indirectly, but such a method of creation is not the most ideal method of making jobs when other methods are readily available, and such jobs are often inferior to non-governmental jobs.