KRUGMAN: "Recovery Was NEVER The Point"

[freshwest]

20. Most excellent rant. I only differ with the first sentence. There was no failure:

He explains what I've thought all along, much better than I could. These people are not stupid. Neither was Bush. It was only his lack of guile that made people think that, as he was a poor actor.

If we pat ourselves on the back saying he made mistakes, we delude ourselves. When we claim that 'no one would do' this or that bad thing... We fail to grasp that what we think is bad, they see as a good and they think we are stupid for not understanding their game.

And the impoverishment of millions is a business model. The byproducts are not from mistakes. Not everyone suffers from depressions, wars and the collapse of governments. In fact, there is so much profit to be made by disasters, these things are pushed to happen when they could be avoided.

Obama is trying to prevent the winner take all game plan from succeeding, but holds few cards in a high stakes game. The GOP (Greedy Oligarchs Party) is calling his hand, and we are the chips on the table. Our outrage is justified, but we had better direct it at the right place or we will be used.

JMHO, though.