Krugman says that if he could make economic policy by fiat, he would start by rehiring all the public sector employees who were laid off in the past four years. "Normally state and local employment grows with population," he notes. "Instead it has shrunk by 600,000 over this period. So if we were to simply rehire those fired schoolteachers — go back to the kind of employment that we should've had on a normal track at the state and local level — right there we could add well over a million jobs. And before you know it, we'd be back to something that felt a lot more like prosperity."There are perhaps a dozen entries in this blog that make these same kind of points from many different perspectives. The Republican Party has played a cynical game of stalling and preventing good economic policy toward the selfish end of blaming a Democratic Presidency so that they can gain power and end the social contract between the government and the people. Paul Ryan is an emblem of this cynicism.
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That's very well put.
The Republicans have stated explicitly and without shame that their goal was to make Obama a one term president. The implication was that they would go to any lengths and to harm the American people in any way to reach that goal. And they have done what they promised and make the government non-functional since Obama came into office.
They hope that the American people are stupid enough to blame Obama for this.
I don't think that any one major party has ever expressed such anti-American sentiment.
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