Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, July 05, 2010 3:33:51 PM
A response to Krugman’s column on “heartless” Republicans
The only problem is that Krugman ignores that Republicans were
in favor of extending benefits by taking the money from elsewhere in
the budget, including unused stimulus funds. It was the Democrats who
balked at this solution, insisting on running up more debt. So the
entire premise of Krugman calling Republicans heartless
amounts to nothing more than a fiscal policy dispute. Why aren’t
Democrats heartless for not going along with the Republican proposal?
Krugman
says this phenomenon is irrelevant in a bad economy, but once again he
ignores that Republicans were willing to extend benefits if the benefits
were paid for in the budget, not paid for with more money borrowed from
China. So who is the clueless one?
Back to the title question. Is Paul Krugman heartless, clueless or
confused?
Yes.