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Applicants wait to enter a job fair on June 11, 2012 in New York City. (John Moore / Getty Images)

For a country that supposedly scorns European-style social democracy, the US has proved a very apt pupil of the European willingness to shrug off mass long-term joblessness.

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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