American in Paris

And Bernanke Didn't Think Unemployment Would Reach 10%

Ah yes, doing nothing as the Right advocates would have been the right solution. Let the unemployment rise to 20%.

And oh, by the way, as an American living in Europe, our quality of life is vastly superior to the American. In large part due to 'socialized medicine, a modern public transportation system, funding for the arts, restrictions on destroying magnificent old buildings, and laws that protect workers from being laid with a one month's severance.


Oh, and I choose my doctor d


On Nov 08 06:24 AM Steve in Greensboro wrote:

> Don't worry, Mr. Slavo. All we need to do is more of what we have
> been doing: print more money and have another stimulus or two. Plus,
> let's raise taxes by socializing medicine, taxing carbon dioxide
> emissions, allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2011, imposing
> a VAT, etc. Plus, let's impose massive tariffs like the G-20's "balanced
> trade" plan. Paul Krugman thinks these are all good ideas and he
> has a Nobel prize -- in economics!
>
> Happy days are here again!