Quiz on "Won't Government Spending Programs Create Jobs?"

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What should a country do to create highly paid jobs for digging a canal?

Hire 10 people with bulldozers to dig the canal.
Hire 100 people with large shovels to dig the canal
Print money and hire 1000 people with smaller shovels to dig the canal.
Print money and pay people who don't have jobs so they won't be hungry.

Which of the following is true?

When people pay for goods they also pay for the cost of transporting those goods.
Once the canal is built it will be cheaper to transport goods.
If goods are cheaper people will be able to buy more things
If people will buy more things there will be more money to hire people to make those things
The sooner the canal is built the sooner more people will be hired.
Hiring people with shovels is the best way to create jobs
Hiring people with bulldozers is the best way to create jobs

Is hiring a company to build the canal better than having the government hire people to do the job?

Yes government in order to get votes for hiring people might hire people with shovels to show its hiring a
lot of people but that won't be the most efficient way to build the canal and create wealth.
Yes A company is going to make the canal as efficiently as possible and that will create wealth which will create jobs.
No companies are run by greedy people you will charge you to much.