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To: neverdem

Good read.


3 posted on 10/04/2011 10:41:49 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
His focus on drawing the workless into work leads him to support some policies to which contemporary conservatives object, notably a European-style health-insurance system and the legislation commonly known as Obamacare. As Glazer sees it, the reform, by extending Medicaid to people more prosperous than those it currently covers, removes a disincentive to work harder and make more money. “Our jobs for poor people are on the whole made very unattractive,” he says. “Compare that to Europe, where it isn’t only immigrants who do poor jobs and where those jobs are much more attractive. They’re more attractive because they include things like vacations. They include health care. The jobs don’t include it, but health care comes anyway.”

He sounds like he wants to spend big government bucks to me, while lamenting "unintended consequences" of past expenditures. If he's still enthralled with the European model at this late date, he's either disingenuous in his overlooking things (like chronically high unemployment in Europe) or just plain blind.

4 posted on 10/05/2011 3:08:25 AM PDT by gusopol3
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