> A politician should not need to hunt for job creating policies, and yet they do because admittedly the alternative is poverty. This is assuming that the purp

> A politician should not need to hunt for job creating policies, and yet they do because admittedly the alternative is poverty. This is assuming that the purpose of "job creating" policies is to create jobs, as opposed to more abstract economic stimulus while trying to win the votes of people who happened to get a new job around that time. It helps if the unemployment rate goes down, because that generates positive reporting, but it's not required. People find new jobs all the time, after all, even when unemployment is rising on net. Without the economic stimulus, most of them would still have a job, though maybe a slightly different one.