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In the U.S. economy, being employed is key. That's how you get your insurance, your credit cards, your car and house loan, etc. Unemployment is a personal financial disaster, and a big jump in the unemployment rate is about the only thing that's going to move us towards 1930s-style quasi-socialism...

I thought the lesson of the 1930's was that unemployment should not be a personal financial disaster, and moreover the New Deal showed that it was possible to make it so it wouldn't be.

How was that forgotten?

It'd be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that — François in Paris