Dean Baker Provides The Facts Against David Brooks Economic Lies

Dean Baker provides a narrower critique of  David Brooks' defense of GOP extremism, which adds to my analysis of Brooks' arguments. Baker attacks the claim that Europe's social welfare policies are responsible for the crisis in Europe.  If that were true, the economic problems should be more prevalent in the Nordic countries, and in Germany, which have much stronger social welfare programs than those in Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal.  The opposite is true, but facts are not important to David Brooks.  He is a propagandist who repeats the big lies that are made by his political friends. The fact that David Brooks is given a platform to spread disinformation by the NYT, and by public broadcasting is one of our problems.