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Paul Krugman: No, We Can’t? Or Won’t?

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So let s summarize: The economy isn t fixing itself. Nor are there real obstacles to government action: both the bond vigilantes and structural unemployment exist only in the imaginations of pundits. And if stimulus seems to have failed, it s because it was never actually tried.

Listening to what supposedly serious people say about the economy, you d think the problem was "no, we can t. But the reality is "no, we won t. And every pundit who reinforces that destructive passivity is part of the problem.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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