Krugman: The Truth Has A Well-Known, Well, You Know

[pampango]

Greg Sargent takes us to Paul Ryan’s latest speech, in which Ryan expresses outrage over what President Obama is saying: Just last week, the President told a crowd in North Carolina that Republicans are in favor of, quote, “dirtier air, dirtier water, and less people with health insurance.” Can you think of a pettier way to describe sincere disagreements between the two parties on regulation and health care?

Just for the record: why is this petty? Why is it anything but a literal description of GOP proposals to weaken environmental regulation and repeal the Affordable Care Act?

I mean, to the extent that the GOP has a coherent case on environmental regulation, it is that the economic payoff from weaker regulation would more than compensate for the dirtier air and water. Is anyone really claiming that less regulation won’t mean more pollution?

And Republicans have not proposed anything that would make up for the loss of the measures in the ACA that would lead to more people being insured. Let me also point out that whatever else you think of it, Romneycare — which is essentially the same as the ACA — clearly has sharply reduced the number of uninsured people in Massachusetts.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/the-truth-has-a-well-known-well-you-know/

[Kber]

1. The reader comments are LOL funny!

In a good way. :)

[phantom power]

2. The GOP has made hay for the last 30 years on magical thinking....

You can cut regulations forever without consequences!
You can cut taxes forever with no consequences!

It upsets them a great deal to hear anybody dare to point out that yes, there have been consequences. So they throw a big fit until people get intimidated or impatient, and back down.

The day when everybody stops backing down is the day we start to end the madness.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. It's even better "Cutting taxes actually INCREASES revenue!"

Everybody knows that.

[yurbud]

5. magical thinking for the listeners not speakers

they know it is a crock of shit because they can't just say, ''give the rich more money and let them do whatever the hell they want.''

[n2doc]

3. Ryan is a spoiled crybaby

How he got into office I don't understand. I guess he never has had to deal with legitimate criticism.