Brad De Long wrote:
>
> Their unemployment rate *is* disturbingly high... and I at least am worried
> about the long-term consequences--fearing that high unemployment will lead to
> too many people whose idea of a good time is to throw Molotov cocktails
> through the windows of apartment buildings in which guestworkers live...
>
> But as Ralf Dahrendorf once said, surely it is better to be unemployed in
> Europe than poor in America.
>
> Brad DeLong
First, it has already happened more than once, with no political consequence. Secondly, perhaps then the US will extend her humanitarian intervention and moral imperialism to Europe and bomb Berlin.
Henry C.K. Liu