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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (3463)	12/27/2007 11:10:49 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

OT: Nobody who reads any news can avoid the NYTimes' opinions. Most newspapers follow their lead. I think you exagerate things a lot when you say "the dot com bubble that nearly destroyed our economy". Perhaps I was too emphatic in my point. To call the bursting of the housing bubble a catastrophy of huge magnitude is rather over reaching. IMHO the dot com burst had a significantly greater impact. The impact was immediate while the implosion of the housing bubble is happening in relatively slow motion. "The burst was a major factor in a recession, maybe it caused us to have an "extra recession" that we might have otherwise avoided," I will buy that. The point remains that no serious news entity would print the partisan hack drivel that Krugman is famous for without a huge disclaimer and accompanying rebuttal by a sane person.