Do they owe us a living?

Paul Krugman bidrar med en analogi om budgetbluffen Paul Ryan - bland det mest slående om den moderna högerpolitiken jag har hört:

[...] think of Medicare as a footbridge that is deteriorating and will eventually become unsafe. You could propose structural repairs to fix its faults; Ryan doesn’t do that. Instead, he proposes knocking the bridge down and replacing it with trampolines, in the hope that pedestrians can bounce across the stream. And the Post declares that he deserves credit for pointing out that the bridge is falling down, and proposing a solution. Um, we knew that the bridge was in bad shape — and his solution is a fraud.