Govt just sucks at job creation

Imagine being so bad at something and committing to keep doing it.

- RICHARD CHEMALY

The president is having sleepless nights about unemployment, yet if we go through nearly every state of the nation address during his rule, unemployment features, sometimes even with a hint of addressing it.

Economists may marvel at a 1% improvement here and there while we disregard the drops in previous quarters but largely, there's not been much to boast about over the last 15 years.

Conclusion; this government is bad at creating jobs. I'm certain beneficiaries of the numerous stimulus packages will take the relief those offer, regardless of how temporary they may be, but we've had the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme for half a decade and the statistics aren't convincing.

Defenders of the project will say the economy and unemployment would be worse without this intervention and that is true.

In much the same way as hiring five carpenters to build one bench would be. It doesn't improve anybody's long-term prospects, nor the country's.