I know I've been HARSH on Dean......... (re Krugman on Fresh Air) [View All]

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and maybe a lot of it is based on the anticipation that he's headed in a direction which he may not be heading, and I met yet find my self appologizing for everything I've said, however....

for anyone who listened to Krugman, did you hear what he said the ENTIRE PURPOSE of the Bush administration was? He said it was a roll back of America to Herbert Hoover. He said that they want to deny the US the money to conduct those social programs we've been conducting. He said that they're trying to transfer all the burdens of running society to the middle class, and all the benefits to the rich.

I grant that he has been talking about the defecit, but what he's also talking about is the big picture, which includes the sytem of taxation which shifts the burdens to the poor and benefits to the wealthy. I believe he said that running defecits is good if it's short term and leads to greater wealth down the road.

So, if Krugman's right, shouldn't we be looking for the democratic nominee to be talking about these same issues? Shouldn't the debate be about how we're going to equalize the burden? Shouldn't we be talking about how the burden needs to be taken off the middle class and shifted to the people/companies which have been benefitting so imensely for the last couple decades?

Maybe I'm wrong. But I'll need convincing if I am.