RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 6, 2017 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2017 at 3:02 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 6, 2017 at 2:36 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(March 6, 2017 at 12:24 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: They've operated on the principle of totally faking it since 1994. The irony is the first part of bush administration, including the faking of Iraqi WMD intelligence, and the calamitous invasion of Iraq, actually represent the most grounded and least make belief period in the entire post 1994 Republican Party history.
Goes back further, about Reagan, he was described as "sleep walking through the 20th century" and I heartily concur. His frequent confusion of motion picture scenes with actual reality was disturbing. And some facts simply would not stay in his mind no matter how often he was corrected.
In regards to Iran contra (one of many scandals in that era) it was said about Reagan, "What did he know, when did he know it, and did he know he knew it?" And unfortunately, that was not a snarky dig at him and his dunce like acumen, it was simply a resigned acknowledgment of his sadly limited cognitive skills.
Reagan might not have had all his marbles, but to make it a principle to rule by sabotaging the basis of minimally adaquate governance, that came later.
(March 6, 2017 at 2:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I still like the idea of the smallest possible government. The thing is, as Min points out, that the smallest feasible government nowadays is unimaginably larger than the founders could envision at all.
There's two sorts of people who don't heed the passage of time: fools, and the dead.
That depends on how many caveats you put on the word "possible". The smallest possible government is no government by Uncaveated definition of possible.
