{"id":1151,"date":"2008-03-20T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T03:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/if-i-were-him-id-just-be-saying-told-you-so-all-day-long\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T22:47:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T02:47:58","slug":"if-i-were-him-id-just-be-saying-told-you-so-all-day-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/if-i-were-him-id-just-be-saying-told-you-so-all-day-long\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Were Him, I’d Just Be Saying “Told You So” All Day Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just for fun, let’s look at what Paul Krugman<\/a> wrote five years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Snippet one, concerning the U.S. finances:<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, consider this: we need $400 billion a year of foreign investment to cover our trade deficit, or the dollar will plunge and our surging budget deficit will become much harder to finance — and there are already signs that the flow of foreign investment is drying up, just when it seems that America may be about to fight a whole series of wars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Snippet two, concerning domestic policy:<\/p>\n

So now the administration knows that it can make unsubstantiated claims, without paying a price when those claims prove false, and that saber rattling gains it votes and silences opposition. Maybe it will honorably refuse to act on this dangerous knowledge. But I can’t help worrying that in domestic politics, as in foreign policy, this war will turn out to have been the shape of things to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

’nuff said.<\/p>\n

Reading Krugman from 5 years ago is actually more useful than reading all the “five years later” articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just for fun, let’s look at what Paul Krugman wrote five years ago. Snippet one, concerning the U.S. finances: Meanwhile, consider this: we need $400 billion a year of foreign investment to cover our trade deficit, or the dollar will plunge and our surging budget deficit will become much harder to finance — and there are already signs that the… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[39,225,240,133,241],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","category-political","tag-bush","tag-economy","tag-iraq","tag-politics","tag-war","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-iz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}