You could easily create jobs by cutting welfare and offering all of it's former recipients government jobs paying $50/day to dig holes, but this would not be a

You could easily create jobs by cutting welfare and offering all of it's former recipients government jobs paying $50/day to dig holes, but this would not be a positive outcome. Call me crazy, but I suspect that we'd be much better off with a situation like this. Imagine the boost in motivation to improve your career prospects after spending a few weeks doing work like this. And surely we can find some use for a bunch of holes in the ground. In contrast, I know an awful lot of folks who got laid off in the last 18 months who decided to just take some time to find themselves because they were getting unemployment.