DE-Globalize, America~DE-Globalize~and be doing it right away~

Mr. Krugman and Mr Reich, silly, lugubrious, Marxists~are, I must say, spot-on here as to their recitation of the history and causes of the American financial death spiral post-2008 Panica, but they are~predictably~spot-off as to solutions~which can only be attained by the DE-globalization of American productive capacity~the immediate result of which DE-globalization will be flooding America will good, permanent jobs~

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The past five years reflect “an immense failure of economic policy,” writes economist Paul Krugman in his New York Times column. And economic policies continue to fail, he stresses.

It’s been five years since Lehman Brothers collapsed. A second Great Depression was averted. “But, by any objective standard, U.S. economic policy since Lehman has been an astonishing, horrifying failure,” Krugman says.

Millions of discouraged Americans, he says, have probably dropped permanently out of the labor force, millions of young Americans have probably seen their lifetime career prospects permanently damaged, cuts in public investment have inflicted long-term damage on our infrastructure and our educational system.

The output gap – the difference between the value of goods and services produced and the potential value – is over $2 trillion.

“That’s trillions of dollars of pure waste, which we will never get back,” Krugman writes.

The percentage of adult Americans employed dropped from 63 percent to 59 percent and remains stuck there. Only a small part of that is due to an aging population. It’s mostly because of failed economic policy.

It certainly is not because of a “mass outbreak of laziness” of Americans “living high on food stamps and unemployment benefits,” he says, taking a swipe at right-wing claims.

If the U.S. government had postponed fiscal austerity and tax increases until the private sector recovered, the stimulus would have been about three times larger.

“Would such a policy have worked? All the evidence of the past five years says yes,” Krugman writes. “Government spending on job creation would, indeed, have created jobs.”

The Obama stimulus, while inadequate, stopped the economic plunge in 2009. By contrast, Europe’s spending cuts, what Krugman calls an “antistimulus,” prompted a severe contraction. That’s just what textbook economics predicted.

Such a spending program would have increased the federal debt by about an additional $1 trillion. The ratio of debt to GDP would be a few points higher, nothing that could conceivably cause a fiscal crisis. The nation would be richer and stronger and have a brighter future.

“And it’s not just the politicians who fell short: Many economists, instead of pointing the way toward a solution of the jobs crisis, became part of the problem, fueling exaggerated fears of inflation and debt.”

Krugman probably has been the most strident high-profile commentator advocating more government spending to decrease unemployment, but some other pundits agree with him.

“Right now the central challenge is to reignite the economy – getting jobs back, improving wages, and restoring growth,” wrote former Labor Secretary Richard Reich on his blog. “Deficit reduction moves us in the opposite direction.”

The government must be “the spender of last resort” because consumer spending, representing the bulk of economic activity, has faltered, he argued.

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Wave buh~bye-bye to the boss~~it’s our profit~~it’s his loss~~

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~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~

Rejoice and Glad!!

Amen~~

EX LIBRIS

~~THEOS EK MĒCHANĒS~~

JOHN DANIEL BEGG

Washington, District of Columbia

United States

Monday, 9th September, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, 2013~

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