Paul Krugman on Paul Ryan's plan: Ezra Klein Asks the Wrong Question

[cal04]

He asks, Why should anyone trust Paul Ryan’s poverty plan? That’s easy: nobody should. This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

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No, the real question is why so many people in the news media still want to find reasons to praise this con man. Of course, the answer has been clear for years: people are still trying

to slot Ryan into a role someone is supposed to be playing in their political play, that of the thoughtful, serious conservative wonk

He has never given any sign of actually fitting that role — but there’s nobody else out there, and so he keeps being given the benefit of the doubt no matter how many times he gets caught in the same old con.


need to read the whole article
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/ezra-klein-asks-the-wrong-question/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto&_r=1&

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Paul Krugman needs to be in politics somewhere.

It's good that he has a platform to speak already, but we really could use his intelligence and sense in Congress. He'd fit right in with the 'Warren Wing' of the Dem Party.

[Doctor_J]

4. not really. He now favors for profit insurance mandates instead of healthcare

He used to be a liberal, but joined the personality cult and is now opining in favor of heritage care.

[JI7]

2. it's the same way they keep going to Cheney and McCain on foreign policy issues

[dgauss]

3. Right. It's like their words and ideas are not judged according to the words and ideas themselves,

but by the role each of these actors play in our political theater.

[Cha]

5. Got the answer right here.. "No, the real question is why so many people in the news media still..

want to find reasons to praise this con man." Because.. wait for it..

They're fucking Cons, themselves. US Media Con Inc.