Krugman on Paul Ryan's budget reboot speech:

Excerpted at Brad DeLong's blog. Of interest is this line from Ryan:

“the budget debate has degenerated into a game of green-eyeshade arithmetic”

That's rich, coming from a guy who tried to pull one over with happy words, as shown in the diagram below.

posted by Quiddity at 5/17/2011 09:25:00 AM

Three cheers for a diagram!!! It's the old uggabugga back from the grave!!!!!

By  PseudoNoise, at 5/17/2011 11:35 AM  

Yup. Thanks for the comment. I'll see if I can do more of this going forward.

By  Quiddity, at 5/17/2011 1:24 PM  

What's the point of a revenue-neutral plan when the government is bleeding red ink like a stuck pig?

By  Anonymous, at 5/17/2011 5:14 PM  

Yes! I thought I was seeing things...Is that really an uggabugga diagram??? I had to study it to make sure. Appears to be. Welcome back, Diagram!

By  lea-p, at 5/19/2011 8:35 AM  

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