Katrina vanden Heuvel: A consensus we can’t afford

[kenny blankenship]

4. "mass unemployment," she says? MASS unemployment???

We don't have high unemployment in this country. We have MODERATE employment.
It's Just Right.

FULL employment would be EXTREME. Good Centrists know that employment figures, and concerns about HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT are the hobgoblins of EXTREMISTS. We are all moderates in this party, and know we are living in the best possible world, through the beneficence of our corporate protectors. We will continue to strive for pro-business conditions, such as falling wages, looser regulations, etc.



We know that an employment to total population ratio that has crashed to levels last seen when women were first entering the workforce has been positive for business conditions since corporate profits are at their all time high. And we will therefore continue to resist the efforts of Red union agitators, malcontents, and "Occupiers" to force us to renounce our Supply Side orthodoxy. We are Moderates, and there is no room for EXTREMISM in our party, whether of the "full employment" variety, or the "Stop Global Warming" kind, or any other. Moderate Global Warming will continue just as it has. Employment will be kept at moderate levels to inspire business confidence. The bust of Reagan stays in its place on the White House mantle, unmoved by a single millimeter. The help will get a 10 instead of 20 dollar Christmas bonus, but the same sound advice as always: Don't spend it all in one place!