Posted on 09/30/2011 8:07:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
Listen to just about any speech by a Republican presidential hopeful, and you’ll hear assertions that the Obama administration is responsible for weak job growth. How so? The answer, repeated again and again, is that businesses are afraid to expand and create jobs because they fear costly regulations and higher taxes. Nor are politicians the only people saying this. Conservative economists repeat the claim in op-ed articles, and Federal Reserve officials repeat it to justify their opposition to even modest efforts to aid the economy.
The first thing you need to know, then, is that there’s no evidence supporting this claim and a lot of evidence showing that it’s false.
The starting point for many claims that antibusiness policies are hurting the economy is the assertion that the sluggishness of the economy’s recovery from recession is unprecedented. But, as a new paper by Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute documents at length, this is just not true. Extended periods of “jobless recovery” after recessions have been the rule for the past two decades. Indeed, private-sector job growth since the 2007-2009 recession has been better than it was after the 2001 recession.
We might add that major financial crises are almost always followed by period of slow growth, and U.S. experience is more or less what you should have expected given the severity of the 2008 shock.
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Why does this man soil himself every other day?
I have one word: EUROPE.
How often does this guy have to be proven wrong before people start rejecting him?
Please explain to me how this guy got an award in Econ. Was it sort of like Zero and the Peace Prize. Only requirement is to be a blatant ignorant Socialist.
So according to Krugman, we can tax and spend our way to prosperity.
And we’re supposed to believe that these are the guys with fresh, new, innovative solutions to get us out of our economic mess?
Krugman considers himself a liberal, calling one of his books and his New York Times blog "The Conscience of a Liberal". Some critics have described his recent journalistic writing as politically partisan.
I don't know what rock he's been living under, but his assertion that there is no impact from regulation is simply bogus.
RE: So according to Krugman, we can tax and spend our way to prosperity.
His idea in a nutshell : TAX AND SPEND IN BAD TIMES, RESTRAIN SPENDING ONLY DURING GOOD TIMES.
RE: Please explain to me how this guy got an award in Econ.
I could if someone could explain to me how the following won the Nobel Peace Prize: Al Gore, Yaser Arafat and Barack Obama.
Ask any CEO what the effect of Sarbanes-Oxley was.
Krugman, Al Gore, Barack Obama, and Yassar Arafat (among others) are the poster children for why the Nobel Prize no longer has any value or meaning.
how would this guy know?...he’s never started or run a business in his life. His opinion means nothing.
Kruigman’s taxes should be raised to 99.5% and then the remaining .5% should be subjected to regulations requiring that he spend 105% of that net balance on ‘spending permits’.
Then let’s see what that jerkwit has to say.
and regulate. Tax, regulate, and spend is every liberals' dream. And you are correct, it does not do anything but destroy.
Read the comments on the article. If you ever need evidence that democrats hate Christians, there it is. The discussion in the comments has all the scientific rigor of a bathroom stall scrawl. It’s amazing how they think a citation can justify the basest form of vitriol. These folks are doubly dangerous because they justify their hatred with science. Sounds a lot like the Nazis. God help us if these folks ever come to power. If the Beast has a media organ, it’s Paul Krugman and the New York Times.
Point taken!
I work for a tissue bank, providing human tissue for transplant surgery. At a recent quarterly meeting, prompted by an impromptu Q&A session, our CEO stated, “The FDA is becoming impossible to work with” and listed three cases where the FDA is hampering or attempting to hamper us selling existing products or bringing new products to market. I don’t need the likes of Paul Krugman to tell me that all is well... we would expand these lines if we could, but we can’t because of the government.
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