{"id":1182,"date":"2011-06-19T16:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2011-06-23T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:34:55","slug":"on-medicare-krugman-fools-and-bigger-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/on-medicare-krugman-fools-and-bigger-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"On Medicare, Krugman, Fools, and Bigger Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/06\/19\/on-medicare-krugman-fools-and-bigger-fools\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/files\/2011\/06\/300px-Paul_Krugman-press_conference_Dec_07th%2C_2008-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When reading Paul Krugman\u2019s latest New York Times column, \u201c<a title=\"&quot;Medicare Saves Money&quot;, Paul Krugman, New York Times, 6\/12\/2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/13\/opinion\/13krugman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Medicare Saves Money<\/a>\u201c,  it\u2019s hard to fathom who the bigger fool is \u2013 Krugman, his employer, or  the readers that keep supporting this junk. \u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s also hard to fathom a  more complete demonstration of faulty reasoning. \u00a0All this from a Nobel  Prize winner no less, <em>and<\/em> one calling out someone else\u2019s  supposedly bad idea, an idea according to Krugman \u201cthat\u2019s so bad, so  wrongheaded, that you\u2019re almost grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Krugman, I\u2019m grateful to you.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/06\/19\/on-medicare-krugman-fools-and-bigger-fools\/\">Forbes Opinions&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reading Paul Krugman\u2019s latest New York Times column, \u201cMedicare Saves Money\u201c, it\u2019s hard to fathom who the bigger fool is \u2013 Krugman, his employer, or the readers that keep supporting this junk. \u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s also hard to fathom a more complete demonstration of faulty reasoning. \u00a0All this from a Nobel Prize winner no less, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}