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Paul Krugman on the House's final approval of the Senate healthcare bill: "There is, as...
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Sunday, March 21, 2010, 11:03 PM ETPaul Krugman on the House's final approval of the Senate healthcare bill: "There is, as always, a tunnel at the end of the tunnel: We’ll spend years if not decades fixing this thing. But kudos to all involved, with special praise for Nancy Pelosi, who is now a Speaker for the ages."
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I think Nancy Pelosi is a traitor to our country and exemplifies just about everything wrong with our Congress.
So in this case I will have to disagree with Mr. Krugman. And lets hope there is another tunnel. One where we kill this bill, cut back social security, cut back government salaries and pensions, make honest attempts to improve access to health CARE and attempts to lower health care costs in the marketplace, and generally balance our budget.... Nothing could be better for our children's future than to enter this world with a country on solid financial footing.
Please list examples as to how this will happen.
Seems like real leadership would have demanded a bi-partison bill... oh ya, we elected change, not leadership. Welp, we gettin change!
As among those responsible for this disaster, Krugman is high on the list of chief assholes, peddling delusion and twisting and poisoning people's minds for over a decade with his political obsessions thinly disguised as economics. Few economists agree with him, and expect him to get more desperate and shrill as federal bankruptcy approaches and economic stagnation grinds on. As with almost everything else of significance in the last decade, that bankruptcy and possible ensuing revolution will take him and a lot of others by surprise.
The right economists to pay attention to are the ratings agencies (for once, on the ball) and the IMF, with their discreet and sugarcoated warnings about the spreading sovereign debt crisis. They're still being nice, for now. But their timing, ahead of this vote, was obvious. No American can say he or she wasn't warned.