"The moral is clear. Republicans don’t have a mandate to cut spending; they have a mandate to repeal the laws of arithmetic."
Uninformed electorate, unaccountable politicians. Paul Krugman tells it like it is.
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"But it’s important to know that farmers aren’t getting wealthy. When you see strawberries being sold for $1 a box, picture the kind of labor it takes to pick those strawberries and the kind of chemicals it takes to produce those kinds of strawberries without hand weeding."
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Paul Krugman profiled →
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In Newsweek. Not the best piece — a bit too fluffy — but that fluff does mean funny anecdotes, and who doesn’t love funny anecdotes?
