From McClatchy News Service via Atrios comes this quote from the Republican/Libertarian candidate Rand Paul:
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on Friday urged Americans who have been unemployed for many months to consider returning to the workforce in less desirable jobs rather than continue relying on government unemployment assistance.
He's entitled to his take on it, of course, but I would urge something else. Instead of accepting low-paying, demeaning, and servile work -- "less desirable" as Rand put it -- I would urge people to seriously think about assuming different social roles from the ones they've played up until now. Adapting to changed economic conditions means a lot of us are going to be required to live much differently than we do and have in the recent past. The question is, will we do this gracefully, and with a little style, or will most of us be helpless and collapse into grimy and desperate sorts of poverty?
We're talking no mortgage no car payments no credit cards and fewer trips to the store here. It's pretty down home.
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If nothing changes in a revolutionary way with regard to the economy like a awesome invention that supplies cheap energy, good jobs will remain scarce. Even with cheap energy, there is still the problem of depleted resources and pollution.
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