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Egalitarian Thug

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2. We should but there is no will in DC to actually solve anything. It is much more useful to

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 06:30 PM

Jan 2013

create false crisis and terrify the dim bulbs into begging for "The Cure*". Just let them keep their drug of choice and their TV and they'll let anything slide.

*Whatever theft the owners decide on at any given moment

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Krugman: Democrats should stop obsessing about deficits. [View all] pnwmom Jan 2013 OP

Then why raise taxes at all? Or try to cut any spending? Apparently it's alllll gooooood. dkf Jan 2013 #1

Because otherwise inflation will run too high. nt PETRUS Jan 2013 #4

He thinks over the long run we should deal with the moderate structural deficit that we have, pnwmom Jan 2013 #5

So Krugman of all people thinks the Bush cuts created only a moderate structural deficit? dkf Jan 2013 #7

You're forgetting about the intervening four years in which Obama has brought pnwmom Jan 2013 #8

I've been examining the numbers and have seen a modest but still unsustainable trajectory dkf Jan 2013 #9

Another link: pnwmom Jan 2013 #10

A decline in the rate of increase is not a cut dkf Jan 2013 #11

True. But the decline has meant that the structural deficit is now a small pnwmom Jan 2013 #12

We should but there is no will in DC to actually solve anything. It is much more useful to Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #2

While dkf is at least consistent in his conservative deficit hawking, this column is probably alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #3

They went the other way this time. Ignore it, it's economics and it will sink like a rock. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #6

No one on TV seems to talk about employment or jobs anymore. amandabeech Jan 2013 #13