dagblog - Comments for "Pain Is the Agenda: The Method in the ECB&#039;s Madness" http://dagblog.com/link/pain-agenda-method-ecbs-madness-13980 Comments for "Pain Is the Agenda: The Method in the ECB's Madness" en Did you happen to notice the http://dagblog.com/comment/157092#comment-157092 <a id="comment-157092"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/157084#comment-157084">This article tells it, like</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Did you happen to notice the author is talking about the EU? Just checking.</p> <p>Because there are some significant differences in some of the things that have happened here and what is happening there, i.e., our Fed has cut interest rates, not raised them, etc.</p> <p>The blogger is suggesting (to economic writers like Krugman) that the EU powers that be may not doing what they are doing for financial reasons alone (which people like Krugman think are crazy reasons) but to subject the workers there to some pain so that they get used to having not as many socialist-style benefits, job guarantees, pay, hours and perks, as they have come to expect. That's just a suggestion, he has no proof, it's like a shout-out: "hey someone should check this possibility out."</p> <p>But even if he's right, I got the impression you didn't care what happened to foreign workers, i.e., you think we should put tariffs on the stuff they make for export, etc, that our only consideration should be American workers' jobs and benefits?</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:28:51 +0000 artappraiser comment 157092 at http://dagblog.com This article tells it, like http://dagblog.com/comment/157084#comment-157084 <a id="comment-157084"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/pain-agenda-method-ecbs-madness-13980">Pain Is the Agenda: The Method in the ECB&#039;s Madness</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This article tells it, like it really is. </p> </div></div></div> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:16:00 +0000 Resistance comment 157084 at http://dagblog.com