Monday, August 3, 2009

Paul Krugman from this morning's NY Times: "Rewarding Bad Actors"

Here's the last 'graph:

Neither the administration, nor our political system in general, is ready to face up to the fact that we’ve become a society in which the big bucks go to bad actors, a society that lavishly rewards those who make us poorer.

Here's a link to the piece....

PS Thanks, Anonymous! Gulp....

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bu, Bu, But...free markets! Socialism Bad!! If you tax me I'll go Galt on you.

We have been gamed for so long now. I know folks that truly believe that the rich are responsible for all of the jobs that are created, and if we tax them, well, we'll be just like France.

'cest la vie.

B. Wally

Anonymous said...

Paul Krugman is the author, not Thomas Friedman.

Anonymous said...

Confusing Friedman with Krugman is kind of like confusing Frankenstein with Einstein--they share the same last syllable.