There has been No surge in Government Spending

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/even-more-on-the-origins-of-the-deficit/



The red bar is the growth rate of government spending.


The big increase in the deficit is due to less taxes being collected because the economy collapsed.

Not a surge in total government spending.

[BootinUp]

1. Recommended. nt

[spanone]

2. shhh. this doesn't fit into the media meme

[bullwinkle428]

3. Recommended; see Videos section for an amazing deconstruction

of EVERY ONE of the 'Pukes alleged arguments against the Democrats by Rachel Maddow.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=516418&mesg_id=516418

[leveymg]

4. Small increase in spending mostly went to bailout big banks and multinational corps. Why is the GOP

complaining?

It seems the only way to bring the revenue numbers up is to boost employment, which means stimulating the economy and getting business to rehire. What exactly are Wall Street and the MNCs doing about that - nothing, they're just stashing money ($1.8 Trillion, so far) into offshore accounts, ensuring that the system collapses when gov't stimulus stops.

The Brits and France are going down the same road to ruin, slashing public expenditures by 25 percent.

I thought the conservatives were the ones who were supposed to understand how money works. . . Not.

[BootinUp]

7. Krugman analyzes spending here

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/the-non-surge-in-government-spending-continued/

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

11. I agree that the money party's (public) ignorance about money is puzzling

In private they might be more shrewd... these disastrous policies would help some people.

[Skink]

5. why do they even call it stimulus?

our taxes should always go for roads and schools etc.

[NJCher]

6. could be argued that it's less spending

Krugman says he doesn't understand why all the talk about runaway spending. Doesn't he understand that the facts do not matter to republicans; only their (permanent) talking points count.

Does he not understand that the media is nothing but an echo chamber for GOP talking points?

Furthermore, one could actually argue that spending is less. How? On a per capita basis. The population has grown but government services have not grown to service the increase in people.


Cher

[Scuba]

8. But there has been an increase in the number of ....

...illegal aliens being deported. The MSM would have you believe the borders have been opened.

[Turbineguy]

9. But there seems to be a surge in

RW bullshit.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. ...

[undeterred]

12. Big surge in right wing lying happens every election cycle.