"Paul Krugman: Ryan Budget 'A Fake Document'"

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Paul Krugman: Ryan Budget 'A Fake Document'

The Huffington Post | By Alana Horowitz

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/09/paul-krugman-ryan-budget-fiscal-cliff_n_2267848.html

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"Republicans are unable to actually make concrete proposals," he said. "If you actually look, all that talk we just heard about, you know, deficits and China and Greece, which is all nonsense, but all that talk about how we need to deal with this and ask, what is the Republican Party currently proposing? What have they actually put on the table? They put down some numbers, but what specifics?"

The specifics they did offer, he said, are "almost nothing."

"How is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, "Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy"?

This hardly the first time the New York Times columnist has criticized Republican budget plans for being nonspecific. In the past few months, he's called the Ryan budget flimflam, "a set of assertions", and "not a serious policy proposal."

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1. I love Krugman. Nt