Blog Post
September 11, 2003
“…there’s definitely an important faction in the Bush administration … that really wants us to go back to a situation where, if you are unlucky, and you don’t have enough to eat, or you can’t afford medical care, well, that’s just showing that you weren’t sufficiently provident. And then, for these people, there would be no social safety net whatsoever.”
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“It’s this funny thing: I lived this very comfortable life in a very placid college town, with nice people all around. And life is good. But some of us -– not just me, but a fair number of people, including my friends – we’ve looked at the news, and we sort of extrapolate the lines forward. And there’s this feeling of creeping dread.”
Buzzflash interviews Princeton University economics professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.