The Krugman Blue Plate Special
Krugman teases his upcoming column with this:
... AND here's his column on the Republicans' "War on Logic": "A Republican report about the 'cost' of health care reform points to spending that would occur even if we didn’t have reform." ...
... Krugman debunks another right-wing myth/lie/excuse for cutting Social Security benefits: that "in the program’s early years, nobody could have imagined the increases in life expectancy that have actually occurred, so nobody could have imagined that we’d have as many beneficiaries relative to the number of people of working age." ...
... In his NYT Magazine article on the European economic crisis, which I am slogging through now (& which I also linked last week), Krugman mentions this episode of "Yes, Minister." If you get thru Krugman, give yourself a treat & watch the segment. It's not LOL funny, but remember it's British humor: