Why did Paul Krugman get it so wrong?https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.johnhc ... format=ampBlackvegetable » 29 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Forgive them, Paul, for they are so **** g'ddammned stupid....The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse”
In any case, the Grace commission’s failure taught everyone serious about the budget, liberal or conservative, an important lesson: Anyone who proposes saving lots of taxpayer money by eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse” should be ignored, because the very use of the phrase shows that they have no idea what they’re talking about.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudulence-of-waste-fraud-and?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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