Newer PostOlder PostM O N D A Y , J U L Y 1 1 , 2 0 0 5God Bless The Onionby Michael in New York on 7/11/2005 11:48:00 AMPaul Krugman launches a preemptive strike on Bush's comingattempt to spin a massive $300 billion+ budget deficit as goodeconomic news.In doing so, he quotes a story printed in the satiricalpublication The Onion on January 18, 2001."We must squander our nation's hard-won budget surpluson tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent," themagazine's spoof had the president-elect declare. "And, onthe foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it."Scarily funny.</p><p> Or is that just scary? 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