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- From: bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano)
- Subject: Economists Predict Unemployment (theirs)
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 02:37:28 GMT
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- Stephen Tomlinson under the message "The New Economy" quotes economist
- Beck as stating that one of the great "four new engines of economic
- growth" in the U.S. is the health industry.
- Great. First we get the great recession. Then NAFTA comes along....
- taking hundreds of thousands of more jobs across the border.
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- Now we can look forward to the great new engine of economic growth:
- the health care industry....in the only western country without a national
- health care system, where health costs are ridiculous...
- I guess I can look forward to getting a job in a hospital if nothing else.
- Somehow I cannot view health care as a fundamental --positive-- driving
- force in any economy.
- I prefer to look at it as a necessity. Perhaps similar to the fire depart-
- ment. If for some reason the U.S. is headed for a great increase in fires,
- then that would mean new jobs in fire departments...and therefore a "great
- new engine of economic growth..."
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- Mike Romano Univ. Calif. Berkeley
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