unproductive job

So we can have unproductive jobs paid for by the state?

But critics say these often amount to little more than shell games in which workers are shifted to other unproductive jobs, draining other budgets.

That will mean cutting subsidies - on food, housing and most other things East Germans buy - and shedding unproductive jobs.

Has the US economy grown as a result of restrictions there, over-taxation, legislation introduced with the apparent aim of giving protection, artificially preserving unproductive jobs, restricting competition or seeking to increase federal bureaucracy?

In southern Europe, by contrast, it means removing the regulations that protect firms and workers from competition and shrinking the government's presence in a number of areas, in the process eliminating unnecessary, unproductive jobs."

Many of President Bush's welfare proposals are not realistic and would encourage states to place poor people in menial, unproductive jobs to meet stringent new work requirements, state officials say in a survey conducted by the National Governors' Association.

Keeping transport moving, maintaining buildings and roadways, paying pensions, keeping people like you stuck at your desks doing unproductive jobs while you wait for your seniors to die off so that you can advance to perform their unproductive jobs.