[ZenGum]

Did he pay a contractor to do it? Did it thus create even a short-term job? Did he buy the fencing materials from his local store?

All this talk about "documented jobs created" seems to me to be missing the point.

If you spend, say, ten million, even if you directly employ a few dozen people, that ten million is out there flowing around the economy, and every time it gets spent and respent, someone's job is made a little safer.

Until the money flows to China, of course.