I've been followintgthis descent of the irrelevant and archaic and finding of one person to focus frustration on and it's one of the more ugly bits fo prededation I've ever seen.
And you just highlighted some of the hi-lites. Your obsession is the personification of what you accuse. But we'll never settle that.
His view on the stimulus is, and was then, that it was grossly innadequate. Said that from the beginning and teh Fredman and Hayek types sadi that no, austerity is the only possible answer, He said the amount that was being offered up would do no more than back fill state and local govt. and hardly anything more. He felt it was a fraction of what would be needed to have much of an effect at all. That didn't happen to the degree he advised, as everybody knows, and isn't going to happen.
So in response to all of that, all that he's been doing lately is chronicling the continuing decline, with a focus on the Eurozone and responding to detractors who have become obsessed with the failuress of their policies and views and are looking for a pissing post and find him to be convenient becauseu he has the audacity to point those failings out.
Nobody has taken any of his advice. Obama, Gethner nor Bernake,,,,??,,, They haven't gone anywhere near where he'd suggest, yet are somehow credtied with having done so BECAUSE THINGS HAVEN"T GOTTEN BETTER IT MUST BE THAT THE GOVT AND THE FED ARE LISTENING TO THAT BLASTED KRUGMAN!!!!!!!... Which is bull crap because in following what they are doing it becomes obvious to anybody who would look at the record honsetly that they are still listenitng to the ever more failed and complict in decline supply siders.
