Obama says the feds ‘saved’ 2 million jobs. But the cost of each job saved was as much as $65 million, according to our not-very-precise accounting.

Was it worth it?

Yesterday, we went on at some length as to why government jobs weren’t the same as private sector jobs. Since they’re never put to the test of the market, you never know whether they are worth having, let alone saving. Do they add to the sum of human wealth and happiness…or do they subtract from it? No one knows for sure.

But here’s the strange and remarkable thing; modern economists actually would prefer jobs that are NOT worth doing.

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