KRUGMAN: Over the next few weeks, House Republicans will try to blackmail the Obama administration

[kpete]

How to Kill a Recovery
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 3, 2011

The economic news has been better lately. New claims for unemployment insurance are down; business and consumer surveys suggest solid growth. We’re still near the bottom of a very deep hole, but at least we’re climbing.

It’s too bad that so many people, mainly on the political right, want to send us sliding right back down again

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Over the next few weeks, House Republicans will try to blackmail the Obama administration into accepting their proposed spending cuts, using the threat of a government shutdown. They’ll claim that those cuts would be good for America in both the short term and the long term.

But the truth is exactly the reverse:Republicans have managed to come up with spending cuts that would do double duty, both undermining America’s future and threatening to abort a nascent economic recovery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

[woo me with science]

1. How come Obama is so good at killing pirates,

but he keeps getting taken hostage by Republicans?

[Angry Dragon]

3. Weren't some pirates killed when that captain was rescued??

[woo me with science]

4. Chart may need updating...

:shrug:

[Nancy Waterman]

2. Government by extortion

That is the GOP model.

[ejpoeta]

5. well it worked before with the tax cuts for the rich didn't it. so of course they will

keep doing it.

[fascisthunter]

7. yup.... they keep giving the fascists what they want

why else change their tactics when it worked before.

[fascisthunter]

6. the Very Same Party That is Bankrupting the Country for the wealthy class

the enemies within