Paul Krugman launches a preemptive strike on Bush's coming attempt to spin a massive $300 billion+ budget deficit as good economic news.
In doing so, he quotes a story printed in the satirical publication The Onion on January 18, 2001.
"We must squander our nation's hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent," the magazine's spoof had the president-elect declare. "And, on the foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it."Scarily funny. Or is that just scary?
