[lbo-talk] A comment on Paul Krugman's article "'Structural unemployment is a fake Problem" in NYTimes

[Miles Jackson]

On 09/27/2010 06:24 PM, Mark Wain wrote:
> Structure of Excuses
>
> By PAUL KRUGMAN
> ¡°Structural¡± unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an
> excuse for not pursuing real solutions.
> http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/opinion/27krugman.html?sort=oldest&offset=3
>
>
> A Comment by 52. Old Curmudgeon Akron, OH September 27th, 2010 11:06 am
>
> [snippage]
> Aside from a miraculous epiphany on the part of voters and senators
> from places like South Carolina, there are no short-term solutions
> save massive economic pressure, secession or another civil war. In the
> long run, immigration into, development of, and demographic changes in
> the obstructive states might do the trick. But as the great economist
> John Maynard Keynes once said, in the long run we are all dead.
>

I'm growing increasingly fond of Confederate secession at this point.
Just saying.

Miles