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    Krugman speaks the truth about the GOP and Trump!

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/o...er=rss&emc=rss

    As I said, however, this isn’t a column about Trump. It is, instead, about the people who are enabling his betrayal of America: the inner circle of officials and media personalities who are willing to back him up whatever he says or does, and the wider set of politicians — basically the entire Republican delegation in Congress — who have the power and constitutional obligation to stop what he’s doing, but won’t lift a finger in America’s defense.

    It’s important to understand that the fight Trump is picking with our allies isn’t about any real conflict of interest — because they are not, in fact, doing the things he accuses them of doing. No, Canada and Europe aren’t imposing “massive tariffs” on U.S. goods: A vast majority of U.S. exports enter Canada tariff-free, and the average European tariff is only 3 percent. These are simple facts, not disputable issues.

    So Trump is justifying his attempt to destroy the Western alliance by accusing our allies of misdeeds that exist only in his imagination....

    But that’s Trump, a man whose presidency has been marked by around seven false statements per day in office. .....

    Why are Republican politicians unwilling to discharge their constitutional responsibilities? Relatively few of them, one suspects, actually want a trade war, let alone a breakup of the Western alliance. And many of them, one also suspects, are well aware that a de facto foreign agent sits in the Oval Office. But they are immobilized by a combination of venality and cowardice....

    What all this tells us is that the problem facing America runs much deeper than Trump’s personal awfulness. One of our two major parties appears to be hopelessly, irredeemably corrupt.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/o...er=rss&emc=rss

    As I said, however, this isn’t a column about Trump. It is, instead, about the people who are enabling his betrayal of America: the inner circle of officials and media personalities who are willing to back him up whatever he says or does, and the wider set of politicians — basically the entire Republican delegation in Congress — who have the power and constitutional obligation to stop what he’s doing, but won’t lift a finger in America’s defense.

    It’s important to understand that the fight Trump is picking with our allies isn’t about any real conflict of interest — because they are not, in fact, doing the things he accuses them of doing. No, Canada and Europe aren’t imposing “massive tariffs” on U.S. goods: A vast majority of U.S. exports enter Canada tariff-free, and the average European tariff is only 3 percent. These are simple facts, not disputable issues.

    So Trump is justifying his attempt to destroy the Western alliance by accusing our allies of misdeeds that exist only in his imagination....

    But that’s Trump, a man whose presidency has been marked by around seven false statements per day in office. .....

    Why are Republican politicians unwilling to discharge their constitutional responsibilities? Relatively few of them, one suspects, actually want a trade war, let alone a breakup of the Western alliance. And many of them, one also suspects, are well aware that a de facto foreign agent sits in the Oval Office. But they are immobilized by a combination of venality and cowardice....

    What all this tells us is that the problem facing America runs much deeper than Trump’s personal awfulness. One of our two major parties appears to be hopelessly, irredeemably corrupt.


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    Krugman is a hack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Krugman is a hack.
    No, he is a Nobel Prize winning economist!

    Lets see your prize?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    No, he is a Nobel Prize winning economist!

    Lets see your prize?

    Obama didn't do sh$t for his Nobel, so what's your point?
    “Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured…but not everyone must prove they are a citizen. And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.”



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    Geez if you are going to post someone scribing a hate piece of the GOP please dont make it krugman, the guy is never right. Hes a doomsayer whos tales of woe never come true.
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    "Krugman speaks the truth about the GOP and Trump!"

    "As I said, however, this isn’t a column about Trump....the fight Trump is picking...So Trump...But that’s Trump...Trump’s personal awfulness"


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    Krugman: "No, Canada and Europe aren’t imposing “massive tariffs” on U.S. goods"

    "Under the current system, U.S. imports above quota levels are subject to high tariffs (e.g., 245 percent for cheese, 298 percent for butter)" @ https://www.export.gov/article?id=Canada-Import-Tariffs

    Krugman: "...accusing our allies of misdeeds that exist only in his imagination...."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    No, he is a Nobel Prize winning economist!

    Lets see your prize?

    Yes. Read the stuff about his work that got him a noble. It is boring and it has nothing to do with politics.

    Krugman has turned himself into a clown-hack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    No, he is a Nobel Prize winning economist! Lets see your prize?
    Obama got a Nobel, that means nothing to me.
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