Is America on its way to becoming a boiled frog?Even the President of the United States doesn't seem to understand that real frogs jump out of boiling pots. Score one for Krugman.
I'm referring, of course, to the proverbial frog that, placed in a pot of cold water that is gradually heated, never realizes the danger it's in and is boiled alive. Real frogs will, in fact, jump out of the pot -- but never mind. The hypothetical boiled frog is a useful metaphor for a very real problem: the difficulty of responding to disasters that creep up on you a bit at a time.
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At least on boiled frogs:
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