Ryan's plan, it is brilliant, increase the deficit so we can increase the deficit...double positive means it will decrease the deficit.

Anonymous wrote:The boy genius is lying to us saying his budget will reduce the deficit.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/03/1097034/-Paul-Krugman-calls-Ryan-Romney-Budget-a-Fraud-says-their-budget-numbers-are-insane-imaginary-

"Boy genius?" Bwahahahahahahahaha...

You mean the guy who has just a B.A. in Econ and Poli Sci (given the two-subject major, that means he probably took, say, econ 101, micro and macro at the undergrad level and a sprinkling of other survey classes) from a middling school that accepts 80% of its applicants, and who worked a couple of years for his dad's company as a "marketing consultant" before going into politics?

We knew the GOP's bar was as low as can be when it embraced Sarah Palin and once again it's on full display. Ryan is in many ways the best apostle of this type of pseudo-economic nonsense designed to decimate the economy for the benefit of a tiny sliver of the population because he doesn't need to understand anything to believe this gobbledygook: I bet he can't even tell a straight-line plot from hole in the ground.

The Ryan Plan and Grover Norquist’s Vision
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and one of Washington’s most influential anti-tax conservatives, told National Public Radio in 2001, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” The CBO report suggests that other than for Social Security, defense, and health, Chairman Ryan has a similar vision.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobel.

I don't think the Nobel proves much -- Obama got one too, remember?

But Krugman's criticism rings a lot truer to me than the GOP's. He urged Obama to do more, and his prediction of what would happen if he didn't is pretty close to what ensued. The GOP said Obama wanted to do too much, so they blocked a lot of what he wanted and blamed HIM for the fact that his policies did not work. What he did was a hell of a lot closer to GOP than to Krugman; the least they could do is man up and share the blame.

Uh, Obama doesn't have a Nobel prize for economics. He has the Peace Prize, which is basically awarded by politicians.

Anonymous wrote:Nobel.

I don't think the Nobel proves much -- Obama got one too, remember?

But Krugman's criticism rings a lot truer to me than the GOP's. He urged Obama to do more, and his prediction of what would happen if he didn't is pretty close to what ensued. The GOP said Obama wanted to do too much, so they blocked a lot of what he wanted and blamed HIM for the fact that his policies did not work. What he did was a hell of a lot closer to GOP than to Krugman; the least they could do is man up and share the blame.

Nobel.

Anonymous wrote:Well if Paul Krugman says it, then it must be true....ha

But in this case, he is absolutely correct. If you would like to post a counterpoint that would be great. Frankly a snarky dismissal of a novel economist with no supporting evidence is pretty weak-minded.

Well if Paul Krugman says it, then it must be true....ha

PP ask Osama Bin Laden or Anwar al Awlaki, et al or the Auto Industry who's the president?

Anonymous wrote:I didn't know that Romney actually committed to any plan other than badmouthing the President. He's only been running for eight years, it's not enough time to get into specifics.

Hey, that's almost as long as Obama's been campaigning. When's he going to start being President? ; )

What ever the US Chamber of Commerce wants.

I didn't know that Romney actually committed to any plan other than badmouthing the President. He's only been running for eight years, it's not enough time to get into specifics.

The boy genius is lying to us saying his budget will reduce the deficit.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/03/1097034/-Paul-Krugman-calls-Ryan-Romney-Budget-a-Fraud-says-their-budget-numbers-are-insane-imaginary-