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Re: Krugman To Colbert: "Ireland Is America's Future If Romney Is President"

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re: '"Ireland Is America's Future If Romney Is President"'

I'm not sure what Krugman means by that, but something along the lines of Weimar and Nazi Germany is America's future if we remain on the current track. It will surprise me if Romney takes us in a different direction, but we know for certain that Obummer won't.

Ireland isn't too bad compared to the fate awaiting us if we continue in THIS direction.

Hopefully, there's still some other, better direction to go. I'm not smart enough to find it, though. It would probably require the instillation of an extremely intelligent, benevolent dictator, a la Rome's early Caesars, who repeatedly steered their country through difficult times and then relinquished their power to the Senate. I don't think that's going to happen in America.




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Krugman To Colbert: "Ireland Is America's Future If Romney Is President"
By: capt_nemo in ROUND
Wed, 20 Jun 12 8:10 AM 		Msg. 42130 of 45651

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/19/2012 - 20:07 Great Depression Greece Ireland Krugman Paul Krugman Recession Stephen Colbert

Forget turning Japanese, an anxious-looking Paul Krugman appeared on Stephen Colbert last night to hawk his book and suggested that "Ireland is Romney economics in practice". Noting that Obama "inherited a Depression" but has unfortunately not taken us out of it due to a "whole lot of opposition from 'the other guys'". The Kaped Keynesian Krusader went on to note that "a recession is when things are going down but a depression is when things are down" and suggests an Obama campaign slogan "It's Not As Bad As The Great Depression" to which Colbert retorts that electing Romney would seem to be the path to 'ending this depression now'. While Krugman opines that if we would just re-hire all the government workers who have been laid off over the past few years then all would be well in the world, we suspect Colbert is closer to the truth when he comedically adds that "obviously the way to end the real depression is a war in Europe" and while USA is not Greece (or Uganda), it appears we will be Ireland if Romney gets elected.

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