As economist James Crotty observes, the Beltway mindset has roots in the far Right’s resistance to the New Deal in the ’30s. Thanks to corporate-funded think tanks, political campaigns and—yes—broadcast media, the nostrums of the fringe Right of the 1930s now represent the policy mainstream. When it came to the automatic spending cuts of the sequester, “the people who fund the [right-wing] ideology [are] pretty happy,” Crotty says. “They want to privatize Social Security. They want to break the unions. They want to get the working class desperate for a job under any conditions and under any wages.”
But Joe Scarborough wants you never to forget, even for a moment, that Paul Krugman’s the one who’s being extreme.In These Times
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More neoliberal nonsense.
2 comments:
Krugman has to demand to bring along a "friend" next time he is on or his will naturally look like the extreme view sitting next to the 3 morons.... Mike endured this type of singularity for 10 years.
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Kelton and Norman would be a dynamic duo. Norman would scoff, laugh and ridicule the non-sense, shock everyone… and then Kelton with her modest but confident tone would slide in to affirm and elaborate.
Good Cop, Bad Cop.
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