Guess who comes out on top?
There’s a great deal of voter education that needs to happen. People need to understand what’s keeping unemployment stubbornly high — it is precisely the policies that Republicans endorse.
Krugman vs. Fehrnstrom
charley-on-the-mta
| Mon, Jun 4, 2012
11:08 PM EST
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4 Comments . Leave a comment below.someone with so little talent (Fehrstrom) can get so far ahead.
He advises cutting government spending, which is exactly what Greece and the EU generally has been doing, and look where it is getting them: unemployment of 11%. What kind of a ridiculous campaign platform is that? Scott Brown’s, I suppose. What it will do is create space for cutting taxes on the rich, which is his true objective.
The conservative narrative seems to be that, if we have a stimulus and increase the debt, then, like Greece, the interest rate on our debt will skyrocket, we’ll have mass unemployment and no one to blame but ourselves.
Quite obviously, there is nothing true about this narrative, but an easy-to-understand story of what happened to Greece has not trickled down. Moreover, the Republican candidates will talk a lot about Greece. And Democratic campaigners lame response? They’ll try to change the topic.
And boy, that’ll be convincing.
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