David Brooks Wants Us All to Just Accept That the Unemployed Have to Suffer

David Brooks piece today is titled the "the planning fallacy." The gist of it is that because of the financial crisis the gods have dictated that the United States simply must experience a prolonged period of high unemployment.

In Brooks view, the only problem is that the Democrats are stupid enough to rely on the actual history of the New Deal, and mountains of other evidence. They therefore believe that we can actually do something to bring down the rate of unemployment to more acceptable l...