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Government is Defining Prosperity Down
« on: August 02, 2010, 03:00:03 PM »
Government is Defining Prosperity Down
                                       


 Paul Krugman, New York Times
I'm starting to have a sick feeling about prospects for American workers - but not, or not entirely, for the reasons you might think.Yes, growth is slowing, and the odds are that unemployment will rise, not fall, in the months ahead. That’s bad. But what’s worse is the growing evidence that our governing elite just doesn’t care — that a once-unthinkable level of economic distress is in the process of becoming the new normal.And I worry that those in power, rather than taking responsibility for job creation, will soon declare that high unemployment...

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