Line up: All You Can Eat

Why doesn’t our government pay people to dig holes in the ground and then pay them to fill them back up? Economist John Maynard Keynes used this as a metaphor for progressive government these days: It creates social dysfunction, then shovels out money to correct it, according to the WSJ.

According to a December report from the Labor Department, between June 2023 and June 2025, health care and social assistance added more than 1.6 million private-sector jobs. The U.S. gained only 1.3 million private jobs during that period, meaning there was a net loss of jobs in other industries.

These two industries made up more than half of the new establishments (businesses and nonprofits) created over those two years.

It makes you wonder, after Minnesota’s welfare-fraud scandal, how many of these new entities and their employees will help people?

How many are merely looting the government?