Isn't this simply "fiscal stimulus?" I mean, the federal government is supposed to create jobs by spending money. Doesn't matter what they spend the money on.

Isn't this simply "fiscal stimulus?" I mean, the federal government is supposed to create jobs by spending money. Doesn't matter what they spend the money on. The only acceptable way to measure economic output is in terms of the dollar value of all the goods and services bought and sold. It could consist of marijuana farming, muscle car paint jobs, bass fishing lures, watery beer, custom gun barrels, cow-brain sandwiches and East European strippers. Doesn't matter. We can't go around imposing our value-based notions of "bullshit jobs" on top of that measurable dollar amount. That wouldn't be economics.