KRUGMAN: HOUSE GOP BUDGET 'THE MOST FRAUDULENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY'

[Shankapotomus]

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Pink Slime Economics
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: April 1, 2012

The big bad event of last week was, of course, the Supreme Court hearing on health reform. In the course of that hearing it became clear that several of the justices, and possibly a majority, are political creatures pure and simple, willing to embrace any argument, no matter how absurd, that serves the interests of Team Republican.


But we should not allow events in the court to completely overshadow another, almost equally disturbing spectacle. For on Thursday Republicans in the House of Representatives passed what was surely the most fraudulent budget in American history.

And when I say fraudulent, I mean just that. The trouble with the budget devised by Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, isn’t just its almost inconceivably cruel priorities, the way it slashes taxes for corporations and the rich while drastically cutting food and medical aid to the needy. Even aside from all that, the Ryan budget purports to reduce the deficit — but the alleged deficit reduction depends on....

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[TroglodyteScholar]

1. K&R

Paul Ryan represents the future of conservative "intellectuals." Everything old is new again.

[progressoid]

2. Snake oil salesman

[TahitiNut]

5. Ryan would give snake oil salesmen a bad name.

Their ethical standards have traditionally been far higher than Ryan's.

[JHB]

9. They get their oil from actual snakes...

...rather than relabeling the squeezings from worms.

Which was apparently the source for Ryan's numbers.

[marshall gaines]

11. look

i look at this guy and i want to throw up breakfast. i just end up shaking my head and asking myself, "how did america sink so low?"

[uponit7771]

3. Conservatives never want to out and out say they're supporting the rich over the middle class...

...I wish the DNC would make this point for them

[dotymed]

4. Re: the SCOTUS,

IMO, it is more "team corporate" than "team republican." Although the gop is corporate, many of "our" democrats have chosen the same path to riches.
OWS must survive and triumph.

[harun]

6. Well said. Team Corporate is both parties.

[BB_Troll]

7. OWS is definately working the correct angle

and focusing the spotlight on shameful Corporate behavior. Corporations have both parties in their pockets.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. A budget only Randian sociopaths would love.

[Nevernose]

12. And stupid people

People tend to underestimate the overwhelming power of stupidity in American politics.

[midnight]

10. Team 1% is running the place.

[Electric Monk]

13. K&R

&U&G&M&A&N

[idwiyo]

14. K&R

[Thinkingabout]

15. Be on notice, the repubs know there is not a chance in 2012

But Ryan will not sign on this year as VP but will probably run in 2016. The House needs cleansing, get the extreme right out and let's get back to governing.