The greatest political disaster of Keynesian economics was to shift the political focus away from how to raise living standards to how to increase the number of jobs. And the Keynesian answer of increased public spending has been the wrong answer on both counts, it neither increases real incomes nor adds to the number of jobs. For an example of the profoundest idiocy, I have been sent this article on Jobs to flow from NDIS in SA. I won’t mention names, but the article came with a note which read, “Reference your article on the electricity woes in our state, please read what Mr Weatherill said yesterday about NDIS being the future for jobs in our long-suffering state. Someone needs to save us!” Someone needs to save us all since these are the same beliefs that are found everywhere across the political void, with Malcolm a serious carrier of the disease. This is what that article said:

More than 6000 jobs will be created by the full rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in SA, Premier Jay Weatherill says.

The increased workforce will provide support for 32,000 people when the scheme is fully operational from July 2018.

Many of the new jobs will go to people in the northern suburbs who will be hit hard by the closure of car maker Holden in 2017, the premier says.

“This scheme is important because for too long people with disabilities have not been included in all of the benefits of our society,” Mr Weatherill told reporters on Wednesday.

“For too often they have been second-class citizens in our community.”

The premier said the disability scheme would also provide the biggest boost to job creation in SA over the next few years.

Job opportunities will include 1600 positions for support workers, 1500 for personal assistants, 900 for therapists and more than 500 for mental health nurses.

Mr Weatherill said more than 1700 of those were expected to go to workers in the northern suburbs, hopefully to those who face losing their jobs with the decline of the car manufacturing sector.

“Some people have already transitioned into disability care and the NDIS will provide many more opportunities for those who work in declining industries,” he said.

JOBS EXPECTED TO FLOW FROM THE NDIS IN SA:

1600 organisational support workers

1500 personal assistants

900 allied health therapists

800 case managers

600 local area co-ordinators

550 mental health nurses

400 direct care workers

Either a job pays its own way or it does not. There are lots of worthy and important tasks that we should undertake if we can afford them. But if you are of the view that these kinds of things will create growth and prosperity, you could not be more in the dark about what actually makes a community prosperous. This is such deep set ignorance that unfortunately only insolvency may be able to cure.