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“To me, it sounds like a fiscal version of the classic definition of chutzpah — namely, killing your parents, then demanding sympathy because you’re an orphan. Here we have conservatives telling us that we must tighten our belts despite mass unemployment, because otherwise future conservatives will keep running deficits once times improve.” — Paul Krugman NYT 5/6/13

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/opinion/krugman-the-chutzpah-caucus.html?ref=paulkrugman

“Whenever anyone talks about the need for more stimulus, monetary and fiscal, to reduce unemployment, the response from people who imagine themselves wise is always that we should focus on the long run, not on short-run fixes. The truth, however, is that by failing to deal with our short-run mess, we’re turning it into a long-run, chronic economic malaise.” —Paul Krugman NYT 5/2/13

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/opinion/krugman-not-enough-inflation.html?ref=paulkrugman

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=OPHRIjI3hXs&feature=em-subs_digest&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOPHRIjI3hXs%26feature%3Dem-subs_digest

”, , , Conservatives love, for example, to quote from a stirring speech Reagan gave in 1961, in which he warned of a grim future unless patriots took a stand. (Liz Cheney used it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article just a few days ago.) “If you and I don’t do this,” Reagan declared, “then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.” What you might not guess from the lofty language is that “this” — the heroic act Reagan was calling on his listeners to perform — was a concerted effort to block the enactment of Medicare.” —Paul Krugman, NYT, 4/8/13

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/opinion/krugman-insurance-and-freedom.html?ref=paulkrugman&_r=0