Paul Krugman: Electing Romney Is Like Electing Paul Ryan

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OK, so Krugman's not as funny, at least not intentionally
 
Solyandra as infrastructure program lol

Obama finally pulled Kenyaisan economics down to the bottom of the abyss where it belongs[/QUOTE]

Solyndra failed because we aren't socialists. We gave it loan, it didn't pan out. Like with the GSA scandal, that sort of stuff gets me angry. At the same time neither gets me as angry as the $12 billion the Bush Administration and a Republican Congress had JUST DISAPPEAR overseas! At least the GSA scandal and Solyndra, were waste in AMERICA, and not waste abroad, free gifts of our money to foreigners. Solyndra therefore is not infrastructure, but a venture, and the broader program of which Solyndra was but a part has saved or created 82,000 jobs when initially it was thought it would only do that for 66,000. By and large it worked. Infrastructure jobs are repairing roads and bridges, replacing rusted rails, laying down high speed rail, fixing schools, police stations. Now the House is sitting on Boxer-Inhofe, and is instead passing more costly emergency extensions. They had the opportunity to save 2 million jobs and create a million more not to mention get rid of the uncertainty that emergency extensions cause the private sector. But no, to do that would actually help the country and that is anathema to the Republicans.
 
lol, that award winning Krugman came up with THAT?

Romney is like Paul Ryan.. what happened to he is like BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

the commies be getting desperate
 
By Sahil Kapur

Mitt Romney’s diversity of policy positions over the last decade has left conservatives and liberals wondering: What would he actually do as president? Would he return to his former, more moderate self, or would he embrace the ideological fervor of the right as he did during the primary?

According New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, it’s hardly a close call: A hypothetical President Romney would do pretty much what House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan tells him to do, because he won’t have much of a choice politically. And that, he argues, would be a disaster for the economy.

“Romney — well, who knows what Romney thinks. Romney’s economic advisers are not crazy,” Krugman told TPM in an interview. “But I think it’s unlikely Romney would have the leeway [to break from the Ryan mold].” The presumptive Republican nominee for president has effusively praised Ryan and, during the primary, attacked Newt Gingrich for criticizing him.

The Princeton professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist, who is touring his new book End This Depression Now!, said Romney would be wedded to Ryan’s economic policy prescriptions which have become too entrenched on the right: Above all, massive tax cuts for the rich and draconian spending cuts on programs for the less fortunate, which Krugman argues will amount to an “upward distribution of income plan.”

“You’re never going to get people in the Republican Party accepting the idea that unemployment and food stamps insurance are expansionary,” he said. “That they are actually policies that are good for employment. They’re too wedded to the notion that the undeserving poor … are the cause of unemployment. So I think they’re basically incapable of doing what needs to be done to support this economy.”

The conservative base eagerly wants its president to implement Ryan’s vision, which House Republicans overwhelmingly reaffirmed their support for late March. Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, arguably the most influential outside figure among modern Republicans, says Romney’s role would be to rubber-stamp Ryan’s agenda.

“We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget,” he told New York magazine. “Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States.” Of course, the GOP would still have to deal with rebelling Democrats, but a president on board with the broader approach would open up a major opportunity to advance at least parts of Ryan’s vision.

If Romney is elected president, Republicans “certainly will ditch the concern with deficits. They don’t care about deficits at all. Never have,” Krugman added. “But the trouble is they want a combination of policies that, while will on balance expand the deficit, will in fact be bad for the economy even so. Because the programs they really, really want to cut — which is aid to the poor — are the ones that matter for the economy right now.”

Paul Krugman: Electing Romney Is Like Electing Paul Ryan | TPMDC

He's Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Charles Manson, and Richard Nixon all rolled into one.

Obama is Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and FDR reborn.

What a wonderful man.

Oh.....one question......who was in Congress when the economy collapsed? Who wasn't?

Enough said.
 
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"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income." - Robert Half

Sooo, does that apply to all people?
 
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income." - Robert Half

Sooo, does that apply to all people?

if we were responsible and had a Balanced Budget Amendment for the government liberals would be gone and all of our economic problems would be too.
 

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