At Christmas we often think about who has been naughty and nice.  The emphasis this years was on the "naughty" list and was heavily loaded up with people who cheated on their wives which is of little concern to any of us except the wives and children of said malefactors. Instead the "naughty" list should be filled with the banksters,  the O'Liars, and weasels who have screwed up America's economy and system of government  by gambling with our money, starting needless wars, and governing with unrestrained hubris.   Instead we should be giving more weight to the  "nice" list  which should be filled with the whistleblowers and truth seekers who bravely swam against the main stream news current, one of whom was Paul Krugman.

Paul Krugman of the NY Times is an enjoyable guy to read.  While I may not always agree with him 100 percent, most of his writing is  quite eloquent.  That is,  he seems to put his finger on the conundrum of the moment while both illuminating it and then giving  very reasonable and relatively simple solutions to it.

On the top of Krugman's hopes for next year's "nice" list would be the entire Obama administration.  In his column "Barack Be Good", Krugman points out that President -elect Barack Obama says he wants to "make government cool again."  The way to make the government cool, says Krugman, is to first make sure it is good.  And the clues as to how to do that can be found in FDR's administration. Good

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