Paul Krugman is very blunt in his Monday NY Times column. After getting in some digs at the Conservatives on the Supreme Court in last week's hearings on the Affordable Care Act, he calls what happened in the House as almost equally disturbing as a spectacle:
For on Thursday Republicans in the House of Representatives passed what was surely the most fraudulent budget in American history.
Read those words again:
surely the most fraudulent budget in American history
And if that is not blunt enough, Krugman really lays the hammer with his next paragraph:
And when I say fraudulent, I mean just that. The trouble with the budget devised by Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, isn’t just its almost inconceivably cruel priorities, the way it slashes taxes for corporations and the rich while drastically cutting food and medical aid to the needy. Even aside from all that, the Ryan budget purports to reduce the deficit — but the alleged deficit reduction depends on the completely unsupported assertion that trillions of dollars in revenue can be found by closing tax loopholes.
Why the "pink slime" reference? Because as bad as that product may be, as Krugman puts it
it nonetheless has nutritional value. Mr. Ryan’s empty promises don’t. You should think of those promises, instead, as a kind of throwback to the 19th century, when unregulated corporations bulked out their bread with plaster of paris and flavored their beer with sulfuric acid.
Enough.
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