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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (246807)	3/7/2014 1:54:07 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

Actually, I could care less whether Krugman and Ryan agree. They won't and it's no big deal. The political problem in the US right now is that the governing elites tend to lean much more toward the baggage of assumptions Ryan brings to the table than the ones Krugman does. Thus, in Washington, a center right governing culture. John Sides has a post at the political science blog, Monkey Cage, in which he rehearses and analyzes the somewhat familiar argument that the majority say they are conservative but are liberal on specific issues. I don't have the link but that argument suggests Krugman's set of assumptions fit the popular mind better. One can then ask, as apparently Sides does, why that doesn't translate into policy. The answer is quite obvious--the role of large money in politics these days with no way to change the campaign finance laws.