Robert Reich vs. Paul Krugman on Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton

[NorthCarolina]

Now that both Hill and Bern have gone negative and set out to disqualify and demolish each other on the killing fields of New York, it helps to recall the wisdom of Bill Clinton's labor secretary Robert Reich. Hillary Clinton, whom Reich has known since she was 19, is "the most qualified candidate for president of the political system we now have," he said. "But Bernie Sanders is the most qualified candidate to create the political system we should have, because he's leading a political movement for change."

It's as simple as that. Do you want a widely recognized face fronting an oligarchy of billionaire tax dodgers, Wall Street bankers, multinational corporation execs, and the merchants of death that President Dwight Eisenhower originally called the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex? Or do you prefer a more just and equitable social democrat welfare state similar to those that flourished in Scandinavia and much of Western Europe in the decades after World War II?

"The upcoming election isn't about detailed policy proposals," said Reich, a self-admitted policy wonk who endorses Sanders. "It's about power -- whether those who have it will keep it, or whether average Americans will get some as well."

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist for The New York Times, takes an opposing view. Consistently.....



Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Robert-Reich-vs-Paul-Krug-by-Steve-Weissman-Banks_Bernie-Sanders_Hillary-Clinton_Paul-Krugman-160411-126.html

I think I'll side with Reich on this one.

[DanTex]

1. Robert Reich couldn't carry Krugman's notepad.

[Human101948]

4. You couldn't wipe Robert Reich's ass...

He towers above you.

[ViseGrip]

2. Krugman is now seen as a sorry sellout from readers across the U.S.

Much has been written.

[Nye Bevan]

3. How many Nobels has Reich won? (nt)

[Human101948]

5. Krugman didn't get any for political punditry...

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Try again.

P.S.--Milton Friedman also won a Nobel Prize for Economics. The hero of Republican supply siders. Do you revere him as well?

[kristopher]

6. Tell us - off the top of your head - what earned Krugman the Nobel Prize in Econ?

He essentially wrote a justification for Walmart.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2008/press.html

[Human101948]

7. That's awesome!

Explains why he likes Hillary so much.