{"id":864,"date":"2013-02-06T18:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:30:47","slug":"consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m with Atrios on this one<\/a>. Last night, I heard a story on Marketplace about a guy who was long-term unemployed, and then got a job writing for Mad Men. The end. It was a wholly unfulfilling story, essentially saying nothing other than \u201cThis guy found a way.\u201d Nothing on how, or what is happening to those who aren\u2019t as lucky. Incidentally, this is not really surprising for Marketplace of late: last week I heard somebody say \u201cNot paying your mortgage is a moral choice\u201d and I wanted to smash the radio.<\/p>\n

These stories<\/a> are far more common than the guy who came out all right. People who did the right thing, who went to college, who had good jobs, who saved some money, and now can\u2019t find a job to save their lives, literally. Sure, it\u2019s easy to poke holes in each individual story, saying \u201cMaybe you should have gone to a cheaper school\u201d or \u201cMaybe you shouldn\u2019t have bought that house\u201d, but let\u2019s be honest: these are the decisions that we all make in our lives, and there is nothing wrong with them. Except when the economy falls apart and we collectively let it.<\/p>\n

There are millions of people who can contribute to society and are unable to right now. This is not only an economic disaster<\/a>, it\u2019s a human one. Productivity is being lost that will never, ever return. Years of making, innovating, and creating are being lost. This is a national emergency and nobody in power is doing anything about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m with Atrios on this one. Last night, I heard a story on Marketplace about a guy who was long-term unemployed, and then got a job writing for Mad Men. The end. It was a wholly unfulfilling story, essentially saying nothing other than \u201cThis guy found a way.\u201d Nothing on how, or what is happening… Continue reading Consequences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-economics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}