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"Mr President, ‘towards a job-rich recovery’ is a report title that could really have come straight out of the Ministry of Truth – and I promise that is going to be my last Orwellian reference of the day. We have had all these promises of job-rich recoveries before. We had one when I was a new MEP – it was the Lisbon Agenda, do you remember that? It was going to give Europe the most successful, competitive, knowledge-based economy in the world by the year 2010.
Well 2010 has come and gone and, as Sarah Palin might ask, how’s that working out for you all? Then it was the euro. We have forgotten that this was one of the great arguments we were given in favour of monetary union – that it would boost employment throughout the eurozone. Again, how’s that working out?
Now we are on to our latest conceit, our latest bit of hubris. The truth is we politicians cannot create jobs; we cannot legislate them into effect. Even if I employ somebody in my office I am doing so with taxpayers’ money which is being taken out of the private sector where it would have been used more efficiently. One thing we could do is stop destroying jobs with pointless, intrusive, pettifogging regulation, to allow the entrepreneurs, who are the real drivers of the economy, to create jobs and employment."@en1
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