Op-Ed Columnist
Free to Lose (click here)
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: November 12, 2009
Consider, for a moment, a tale of two countries. Both have suffered a severe recession and lost jobs as a result — but not on the same scale. In Country A, employment has fallen more than 5 percent, and the unemployment rate has more than doubled. In Country B, employment has fallen only half a percent, and unemployment is only slightly higher than it was before the crisis....
Bob Herbert has been an Op-Ed Columnist through some of the most difficult political times of our day. He has been steadfast and when the chips were down in 2004, he, Krugman and Michael Moore (From "Slacker Uprising, "There is no crying in politics.") refused to 'give up the ship,' no matter how bleak the future of the USA was appearing to many of us.
Why Bob Herbert isn't celebrated for his strong views, especially in Civil Rights is yet for me to understand.
Just in the last two day, these gentlemen have written stark Op-Eds that I believe President Obama and his advisors should be paying attention to as well as the 'economic numbers' in front of them. If the people that need their attention the most, including the attention of Vice President Biden, aren't getting that attention there is little benevolence being directed to the economy, so much as simply 'profits to Wall Street.'
Op-Ed Columnist
A Recovery for Some (click title to entry - thank you)
By BOB HERBERT
Published: November 13, 2009
President Obama’s strongest supporters during the presidential campaign were the young, the black and the poor — and they are among those who are being hammered unmercifully in this long and cruel economic downturn that the financial elites are telling us is over....
