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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Good. I wonder why Detroit is but a shell of what it used to be?
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Really? I think the reason is pretty obvious.
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I bet it makes liberals feel all warm a fuzzy when they implement a government program to re-trained displaced workers. To bad they don't take the next step and see if the programs actually work.
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Do you really think this? I'm pretty sure that neither side has a monopoly on prioritizing plans over their outcomes. I would hope that the idea of keeping a family off the streets would make anyone feel warm and fuzzy, not just liberal folks.
And in any case, measurable outcomes can't be too important to someone whose economic philosophy eschews them altogether because the market knows best. Whole finance industry toxic and going to poison the world's economy? Let 'em die, the market knows best. Crushing economic depression? Who cares? It's the market at work. Crippling unemployment? Why does it matter? It's the market, just doing its thing. Just let the market be free, then we can all sit back and bask in the amoral glow of a dynamic system running its course.
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I am almost out of business, think I can sign up for re-training? I want to try special high intensity training in feng shui or flower arranging - think I can get a job after 6 months of SHIT in those disciplines?
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Maybe you could pick up computer programming in a week or two and take one of the job opportunities currently being squandered by those uppity union workers in Detroit?
I don't get it. Why would government provided job retraining be bad? Why does it not make sense if we're going to encourage the kind of economy that treats people like cogs? Why does it not make sense for the government to help displaced workers become economically productive as soon as possible? Wouldn't this in principle also make the markets free-er?