There is a debate going on about extending long term unemployment benefits. This is the wrong debate. In this age of globalization and industrial robots there are simply not going to be enough jobs for everyone who needs one. And it’s not just manufacturing – with thousands of fiber optic cables circling the globe everything from software development to accounting and finance can be done anywhere. I just had to deal with a Microsoft call center in India to register my MS Office on my new computer. So how do with deal with this new reality? I am not nearly wise enough to have an answer. Do we do like the French and reduce work hours? Do we put people to work fixing our crumbling infrastructure? I don’t have the answer but it is a discussion we need to have.