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Originally Posted by transplant99
Why would anyone oppose their elected officials doing their job....you know SUPPORTING job creation and growing the economy.
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Supporting job creation and growing the economy is not the sole job of an elected official. A good elected official should consider all the concerns of their constituents, both short and long term, and then make their decisions based on their analysis of those concerns. If an elected official determines that it is better (preferably in the long term, but it's usually a short-term consideration, and ideally the consideration should be the actual well being of their constituents, not merely the political repercussions) for them to oppose a particular project then they should do so.
It is profoundly unwise to run societies entirely like businesses. It always has been and it always will be.