http://c4ss.org/content/934
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In a recent column in the New York Times, editorialist Paul Krugman lead off his piece titled “Averting the Worst,” with this quote:
“So it seems we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression after all. What saved us? The answer, basically, is Big Government.”
This is a little, to my mind, like saying that a man who shoots you in the back, paralyzes you for life, and then hands you a second-hand wheelchair so you can putt around is to be hailed as a savior.