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Paul Krugman: Feeling No Pain

Posted on August 29, 2008

The first step in fixing problems is to acknowledge they exist:Feeling No Pain, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: My first reaction to Bill Clinton's convention speech was sheer professional jealousy: nobody, but nobody, has his ability to translate economic wonkery into plain, forceful English. ...My second reaction was that in Mr. Clinton's speech ... one heard the fundamental difference between the two parties. Democrats ... believe that working Americans are getting a raw deal; Republicans, despite occasional attempts to sound sympathetic, basically believe that people have nothing to...

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