The good news: After spending a year and a half talking about deficits, deficits, deficits when we should have been talking about jobs, job, jobs we’re finally back to discussing the right issue.
The bad news: Republicans, aided and abetted by many conservative policy intellectuals, are fixated on a view about what’s blocking job creation that fits their prejudices and serves the interests of their wealthy backers, but bears no relationship to reality.
The GOP is quite united in their willingness to take a completely false talking point and repeat it so often that people begin to think it must be true. This lack of integrity in our politics is a HUGE part of the problem of our federal government. It will only end when GOP voters insist their leadership tell the truth.
Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/opinion/krugman-phony-fear-factor.html?_r=1&smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
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