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Originally Posted by buggyone
I overheard a conversation a short time ago that was interesting and would like to get viewpoints - not to argue any viewpoint.
One person was talking about being instrumental in setting up the processes for establishing a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) unit in a hospital that would be used to treat patients suffering such injuries. The hospital and community has no such resource at the present time. He was saying this would create as well as to bring additional jobs to that community. The jobs would be in the form of medical personnel such as specialized doctors, nurses, clinical and counseling psychologists, medical support people, and rehabilitation personnel.
The other person was saying that was a noble thing to be doing however, it did not amount to his idea of what is needed. What would be more important would be to create jobs that would stimulate the economy such as manufacturing things in a factory. The funds to create such a specialized unit in a medical center could better be used to upgrade a local factory so people would be put to work.
Any viewpoints?
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I think this is comparing apples to oranges. Treating a traumatic brain injury
within a small window of time available in which to save a person is
not something I would regard as a "job generator".
The reason for building it is to save lives in the very short time the person has to live on his own, without trauma care and intervention.
As an example, if a town has no police force, and people mobilize to form a police department in their town, the police force is being established to protect the public from harm, not to be a "job generator".
Plus, when a manufacturing company builds a plant in a new location, they're not doing it "to provide jobs". They're doing it to produce something they can sell and make a profit from.
They can't produce without the people they hire into the jobs. The plant is not built in order to be a job generator even though it does
result in providing jobs.
And apparently, the guy thinking it's a better idea to use money on a factory providing jobs must not realize what it's like when a factory worker becomes an industrial accident victim who is severely burned, electrocuted or having massive brain, skeletal or organ system injuries......with the closest trauma center being 60 or 100 or more miles away.
Comparing the saving of life and limb to the manufacturing of widgets as job generators does not work, in my estimation. Just an opinion.