American Intelligence Test #15: How To Create Jobs?

What with it being Presidential campaign season and with both parties issuing loud and frequent assertions that they will create jobs while their opponents will eliminate or cause jobs to decline, now is an appropriate time to put another American Intelligence test to the test. You don’t have to be afraid to take the test for fear of failing, since you can easily deceive yourself and no one will know. Besides the usual dissembling about what you have thought through is no more detrimental here than in other areas of life. On the upside taking the test does provide an opportunity for self-discovery and broadening the scope of your thinking. Not that that is necessarily a good thing if you’re an eager partisan of either party.

Just to irritate you the correct answers are provided below, but don’t cheat getting the answer right is of no value whatsoever if you haven’t gotten then based on your own cranial processing power.

Engage the grey-matter and begin the trial by a jury of your own imagination.

Question 1: Which of the following would the most capable of creating more jobs?

                A. Obama   B. Romney   C. Both   D. Neither

Question 2: Which of the following are essential to creating jobs?

                A. Low taxes   B. Minimal regulation   C. Infrastructure Investment
                D. Government spending   E. None of these

Question 3: Which of the following are essential to creating jobs?

                A. Customers   B. Employees   C. Resources   D. Profits   E. None of these

Question 4: Which of the following creates the most wealth?

                A. A wealthy upper-income group that provides investment capital
                B. Large private sector job base and small public sector job base
                C. Broad and affluent middle class income levels
                D. Unregulated free-market economy
                E. None of these

Question 5: Which of the following suppress the creation of jobs?

                A. Government spending
                B. High cost of healthcare
                C. High national debt
                D. Welfare programs
                E. None of these

Now that was painless, right? Of course that was painless; it didn’t require you to confront any conflict between your view of the world and reality. That part comes when you don’t like the answers. The answers are:

Q 1 = D;  Q 2 = E;  Q 3 = A, B, C, D;  Q 4 = C;  Q 5 = E

Given you are unsatisfied with these answers, you should take comfort with your own view as long as you can explain what the physics is that links your answer to the creation of jobs. If you can’t you are in the realm of well – “I believe that this works, but I don’t know that it works or how it works.” On the bright side, you might be qualified to be a politician.