Krugman: Republicans demand disaster when they're not listened to, because Atlas Shrugged

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21. 'From chaos comes great opportunity,' the saying goes. Like war, great fortunes are made from it.

I've been saying this all along, since Bush the Lesser got in office, when liberals scoffed:

'But he wouldn't do (pick the outrage) that, it'd ruin the country!'

That was Day One, and some guys lost their jobs immediately. at businesses that were starting. They said their bosses told them Bush was going to shift all the goods they planned to produce to China for cheap labor and no environmental rules and they wouldn't be able to compete.

It wasn't because they didn't want to continue in business. They had paid the start up costs, and thought Gore would win. But like most people with a stake in business, they meet and discuss things. They knew what the Republicans were going to do in January, 2001.

I have warned people that many evil things are done to large groups of people, like telling huge lies about the deficit and how social spending must be cut that will kill people, or taking away the right to vote or control the intimate aspects of life, they are not stupid at all.

There is a calculus they use, and they are depraved enogh to see the work and treasure of the millions of families or workers as nothing more than fuel for amassing their fortune. We were taught about the problems with 'social Darwinism' back in high school in the sixties and the reasons for the labor movement.

I wonder if students are learning these things now, as civics were said to be removed from public school by Nixon to ensure youth wouldn't know how to change the system legally. The GOP is full of lawyers who use every gambit against us. They do know the law.

They took over Congress and use their legal authority to steal all that people gave their lives to have and thwart their chances for improving their lives. They did get civic lessons, but use the system to serve themselves and not the people.