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But those aren't what most politicians mean by "creating jobs."

And most jobs "created" at the state and local level are really just jobs swiped from another state or locality.

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Yep. When I was in Tampa, they paid a company to create 300 white collar jobs in the area. 7 years later they bought a company in Atlanta and got paid to create 300 "new" jobs by relocating those people from Atlanta to the county just north of Tampa. They then laid off most of the people in Tampa since they were now replaced by the people in the neighboring county. I'm sure they did a swap out, but anyway a lot of people LOL'd at how stupid it was but the politicians still enjoyed the headlines. Companies are gaming us big time.

I guess the next step would be to get Louisiana to pay them to move the jobs over here and then when that's done, get Georgia to pay them to move them back, and so forth and so on.