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by Chris Bodenner
Dan Fejes applies Cheney's Law to the economic crisis:
[W]e are looking at near-double digit unemployment through the end of
next year, and the economic picture is generally pretty bad. [...] We should therefore create a program with a catchy name like Work Makes
Freedom to address it. The WMF’s could be involuntarily matched up with
employers, who for a nominal fee would provide permanent food and shelter in
exchange for labor. A classic win-win situation. Unemployment would plummet, GDP
would go up, and the economy would soar. Illegal immigration would all but end
by virtue of eliminating the economic incentive to come here, business costs
would go down and that would presumably redound to consumers in the form of
lower prices. It would, in a word, work. While reasonable people might disagree
on the morality of the WMF program, its effectiveness would be beyond
dispute.
This outcome-focused approach to policy is perfectly in line with Antonin
Scalia’s recent
observation that the legal system is not ultimately concerned with actual
guilt or innocence. All that matters is that we have a well-defined, efficient
process that comes to a final, immutable conclusion.
