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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (114177)6/30/2009 8:59:12 AM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (1) of 543351
 
John;

In response to your defense of Krugman, I'm going to quote from the piece freehovering posted;

.....decided by the American people themselves. Yes, the decisions of our democracy may be slowly arrived at. But when that decision is made, it is proclaimed not with the voice of any one man but with the voice of one hundred and thirty millions. It is binding on us all.

That quote from Roosevelt of course. Roosevelt too had a great mind but he used it in such a productive way. My complaint with Krugman is not so much his shrillness (although that too is bad) but rather his missed opportunities. He destroys his own argument when in arrogance he makes his arguments because he knows whats best and those who disagree with him are wrong. You say Paul is clearly a top notch economist, but if so, that mind is wasted if all he does is push people into corners. Both of his stimulus arguments and energy policy ideas do just that. And now back to the Roosevelt article; Roosevelt or Bush was the theme. Which way is effective?
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