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Summary: Everyone must read this book
Review: I don't understand that hatered from all those reviewers with one star. Do they not care about America and it's present political and financial situation?
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Summary: "Just say no" to Krugman's detractors - please read the book
Review: One of the reviewers further down this page sums it up perfectly: "..while the third of the nation that is close-minded and ideologically-blindered on the right may give the author short shrift, the other two thirds .... should take Krugman very seriously."Furthermore, I'd encourage you to keep on reading through ALL the reader reviews of this book - there's presently another 63 below this one - because you'll see just HOW close-minded (and hateful!) many of Krugman's detractors are. The idiotic 'reviews' from these people reinforce what huge trouble America is getting itself into.
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Summary: right wing reviewers offer same drivel
Review: its funny how all of the reviewers who came down against this book did so, not by substantively challenging any argument or claiming empirical flaws in krugman's analysis, but attacking it as part of some sort of left wing consipiracy. we hear the same drivel from right wing tv personalities like coulter, hannity , etc. for them, politics is about distracting people and not discussing matters of facts.
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Summary: Misinformation at it's best (worst?)
Review: Well, basically a tome of bitterness, lies, half-truths, and quite frankly, sickening partisan slop! I love it, Enron, Global Crossing, MCI/Worldcom, the dot-com fiasco...Slick Willie once again slides out of office just as the economy and the market bubble bursts (all set up during Clinton's watch), the US gets hit with 9/11, and this clown (Krugman) and all of his partners in hate (Franken, Moore, et al)try to pass the blame to Bush. Uh, boys and girls? Bush is cleaning up the mess wrought by Slick Willie and gang (his justice department, his state department, well, his administration). Move over boys, the real men and real women are back in charge.
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Summary: A careful outlining of a great tragedy
Review: This is a careful outlining of a great tragedy - how a country with an enormous surplus threw the money away and is now mired in debt. It is sobering reading. Christopher Catherwood, author of CHRISTIANS MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC RAGE (Zondervan, 2003)
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Summary: Krugman gives us the BIG PICTURE!
Review: Krugman doesn't miss the big picture - he gives us the big picture, all 100% honest truth. For those of you like me who love his column in the newspaper, this book is essential reading. Christmas is coming - buy a copy for all your friends and then some!
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Summary: Excellent - every voter should read this
Review: This is an excellent collection of columns the author wrote for the New York times. He is talking straight numbers and hard facts, and uncovers the consistent lying of the administration to justify everything they propose with phony numbers and made-to-fit arguments. The author is competent and courageous to offer such views and should be congratulated for his work. I have never been a fan of this administration, and having read this book didn't change anything about my views. To the contrary: Paul Krugman made so obvious the strategies used by the administration to push their extremist agenda, using peoples fear of terrorist attacks and the underperforming economy as means to his ends. It seems that it is fair to say that there would be more reason to impeach this president than there has ever been reason to impeach Clinton. Just one word for those who write very undifferentiated reviews of this book, using words like "terrorist loving scum", "hamas-buddies" and so on. Wake up! You are abused! Read this book with an open mind, and you will see why. There is nothing to win from supporting this president anymore. He is sending this fabulous country (of which I am not a citizen) down the tubes and does nothing to improve the economy or to stop terrorism. He is just telling you he does, and you believe it blindly. Dissent isn't treason, but blind consent is a crime.
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Summary: most annoying kid in the class writes a book
Review: Krugman's partisanship misses the Big Picture, that the bigger the government sector, the bigger the economic problems. He is the Three-Handed Economist who qualifies every statement so that later he can say "I told you so" no matter what happens. From a historical perstpective his analyses are extraordinarily ignorant. Krugman wins the debate with facile non-sequitors, but loses the election. We can be happy this guy isn't in office.
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Summary: Superb
Review: Krugman's analysis of the Bush administration is superb. He consistently backs his arguments with facts, and brings his book to us at the perfect time: it is excellent pre-election reading. Krugman does not tout a partisan viewpoint - he is simply analyzing facts that are already in the pubic domain, and comes to a very definite conclusion. This book is a convincing indictment of the Bush administration. If you aren't a fan of Bush, pick this book up, back your opinions with facts and supply yourself with ammunition. If you are a Bush sympathizer, pick up this book and refute Krugman's arguments. Go ahead -- I dare you to. I'd love to hear your reply. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up -- you won't be sorry.
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Summary: coherent chronology of the downfall
Review: The brilliant economist and NYTimes columnist has assembled a coherent collage of columns and essays that present a lucid and convincing argument that the Republican Party is on a fast track to dimantle government and "drown it in the bathtub," to use the words of Bush White House lobbyist Grover Norquist. The scary thing is how fast the unraveling is occurring; the hope is that Bush's plummetting approval ratings hint that America is waking up and saying "NO!" to the radical assault on the U.S. we all know and love.
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