Caution! Job Loss and the Fear of It Could Cost You Your Life!

Surprise, surprise, new studies indicate that the loss of your job or the fear of it might well bring on your early demise. Does this shock anyone?

Michael Luo reports on the findings in today's New York Times. Naturally, this is about as unAmerican an activity as you can get. Job loss is your hard luck. No one owes you a job. America is about the possibility that you can win the lottery, get rich while your neighbors can just suck it. We are a nation of individuals, where each individual has the right to the pursuit of his own happiness. Ask Mitt Romney. He got rich by closing down other people's work places. That's the entrepreneurial spirit that has made America great. (Whatever "great" means. A great opportunity to exploit everyone else, I suppose?)

We are a nation built on "self-interest." Unfortunately, everyone's self-interest interferes with everyone else's self-interest. You can go west, young man, but please note that you'll be standing in your neighbor's back yard.