Krugman: If You Don't Know Multiple People Who Are Suffering, You're Maybe a Member of the Romney Cl

[kpete]

“If you don’t know multiple people who are suffering, then you must be living in a very rarefied environment,” he said in a brief address to the Netroots Nation conference. “You must be maybe a member of the Romney clan, or something.”

Krugman is out with a new book, “End This Depression Now!”, and he told the progressive gathering that the country’s economic problems are solvable.

“None of this has to be happening. We didn’t have a plague of locusts, we were not hit by a tsunami, there wasn’t some act of God that created this terrible situation. It was acts of man.”

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Krugman concluded that Americans are living under the tyranny of “very serious people” — people like Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, he said. “Solving this depression is not fundamentally an economic problem, it’s a political problem.”

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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/krugman-if-you-dont-know-multiple-people-w

[SGMRTDARMY]

1. Unfortunately

I know way too many people who are suffering because of the BushCo years. Anyone who would even entertain the thought of voting for Rmoney, is IMHO, voting for the destruction of this country.

[lark]

2. Also unfortunately

many people in America do not think for themselves. they just listen to the overwhelmingly Repug ads and believe them to be truth. There are more of them than progressive ads. In America, we have a terrible long history of believing "might makes right". Sad to see the demise of America happen before my eyes. I never would have thought this could occur, but we've been through the looking glass ever since the SCOTUS annointed GW in violation of the constitution and nothing was done to stop it.

If Romney wins, OMG, we are so fucked.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. "told the progressive gathering" - They'll listen. What about those who want to be something other

than liberals or progressives and won't?

[Rittermeister]

4. Everyone around me is suffering - and not just the poor.

My mother, a sole-practitioner real estate attorney, watched her business drop off the face of the earth in '07 and ended up pretty heavily in debt, which she is just now getting out of. Yet she's planning to vote Republican

[jwirr]

5. Someone needs to tell the leaders of the gop that this is not Argentina and we are not going to

but up with austerity unless they want it to end like Argentina did. Disaster capitalism is not going to work in this country. Unless we fail to act as Paul Krugman tell us.

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. K&R. Would appreciate some more detail in the book. n/t