If he’s so smart and why is he shooting off his mouth on camera like this?
Arrogance. People like this have to tell everyone how smart they are.
It is arrogance that justifies their agenda - “since all the dumb masses disapprove of what we’re doing, it proves its superiority”.
If he’s so smart and why is he shooting off his mouth on camera like this?
imho - because Gruber is the designated patsy for Obamacare.
Gruber was taking the fall because none of his projected savings were realized once Obamacare started to take effect. Gruber was too stupid to realize that he traded his career, his reputation, and MIT’s reputation for a few thousand dollars in consulting fees from HHS in order to provide lies about saving money for ordinary Americans that Obama could point to when Obama signed the bill.
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No doubt Gruber was fielding lots of questions from his economist colleagues on the topic of Obamacare economic viability, and he began to become frustrated at the questions since they brought into focus the large difference between expectations based on his projections and reality. So he needed a personal defense. Since his published economics research on Obamacare was in short inoperative, his response was projection. His new personal meme was to project the failure onto the stupidity of the American voting public and his justification in so many words was that the end justified the means. Regardless, he trashed whatever is left of his career because no one will ever be able to believe any research he produces, since no one from the time he started talking about the stupidity of the American public on forward would be able to tell if his research is accurate or intended to mislead for political reasons.
Gruber has torched his own economics work, his career, MIT’s reputation, and anyone else (such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER) who has hired him as a consultant in recent years. Also anyone who peer reviewed any of his recent publications that have been used to justify Obamacare. Gruber has become radioactive in his area of specialty, economics. It probably also goes or at least should go a long way towards tarnishing the economist profession. These guys have been used by politicians to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public for decades. If prominent and well -respected MIT economist Gruber was lying, where does it stop? Which other economists lied, and how long have they been lying for? Since economics is a peer review profession, start with who else was in the peer review boat with Gruber when it went down? Peer review publication committees have names. All of these peer review colleagues of Gruber are now (thanks to Gruber’s speak-o’s) either liars or stupid. Let the games begin.
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