Posted on 17 November 2007. Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Paul Krugman, Social Security, Urban Myths
Yesterday, I riffed on the issue I had with Barack Obama’s comments about Social Security and, generally, about the impulse of too many Democrats to buy the framework that there is some "crisis" in Social Security. Today, Paul Krugman picks up the case (I would say that Krugman was copying my post but really […]
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Posted on 16 November 2007. Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Social Security, Urban Myths
I gagged on this during the infamous Tim Russert interview with Barack Obama but shrugged my shoulders in despair. But, I shouldn’t have. When Barack Obama repeated the Republican/Wall Street line about the crisis in Social Security, he was dead wrong. And he and other Democrats have got to stop mouthing this frame. Here […]
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