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"If" there were more responsible people who cared about the country at large, that is:
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I wouldn't mind GOPers so much if they didn't consistently act like there was a definite end to everything.
On a similar note, Anne Laurie points out Krugman's take on our current "structural" problems with unemployment:
There is no shortage of jobs that need doing in America, from repairing our crumbling infrastructure to digitizing millions of pages of public records to adding desperately needed hands in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes. Many unemployed and underemployed Americans already have the necessary skills, and many more are capable of acquiring those skills—if the people at the tip of the economic pyramid were as interested in preserving our shared community as they are in preserving every last scrap of their hoarded power and resources.
That's another example of a great, big effin' IF...
