NYT: Krugman Calls Out Entire GOP Field
Today's opinion piece by Paul Krugman of the New York Times was seriously good. I would consider it a must read in understanding the mind of the average Republican. It is so important to understand the world we live in. It is of even greater importance that our leaders, that "We The People" elect, understand that world too.
Republicans have latched onto ideas that are just not true. They are in a box. They put themselves into this box and there really is no way out. Why do they not have a way out? Because in order to get out of the box, they have to admit that they were wrong. I do not think this will ever happen in your lifetime or your childrens lifetime.
Krugman takes us back to 2009 and explains what happened. He further explains how Republicans in their haste to make political hay, latched onto ideas that sound great at political rallies but have no relation to actual reality. The reason Krugman's article is so important is that our pensions are gone, we have to have a 401K, we have to invest ourselves now and this requires a modicum of financial literacy.
If you had listened to Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck in 2009, you would have run for the hills and put everything in gold. Gold is not a bad thing, it is only that they were literally screaming at you to buy it at 1800 an ounce plus 20% handling fees. These fees paid for the commercials, made the people selling it rich and made Beck and Hannity very, very wealthy.
On the Progressive side, the opinion was opposite. It was that the economy is a mess. Let's get a stimulus going, get people hired and back to work. Even though the stimulus was not enough, it gave people confidence that the government was doing something and that things were going to get better. A progressive investor would have seen this and stayed the course and not sold all of his stock at the bottom. Those that stayed the course have gotten their money back even after this current downturn. Republicans, on the other hand, sold their stocks, ran for the hills and missed out on the bull market. This has made them even more angry than they already were at that Narcissistic Dictator Obama.
They are full of rage and are supporting ideas, like the sequester and government shutdowns, that are very damaging to our economy. Krugman just lists everything these guys support and how wrong they all were.
Here is a sample:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/28/1416245/-NYT-Krugman-Calls-Out-Entire-GOP-Field?detail=email
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People, as a species, aren't dumb. As a Party, ooh boy.
