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Paul Krugman Slaps Down Heated GOP Senator Over Social Security ‘Facts’ On This Week (Mediaite)

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took issue with Republican Senator Ron Johnson on ABC’s This Week over his declaration of Social Security being fiscally unsound and Obamacare creating . Krugman, in his traditional snarky style, said that Johnson’s facts were “non-facts.”

The Nobel Prize winner listened intently as Johnson quarreled with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz over tax increases that are part of Obamacare and Social Security. Neither Wasserman-Schultz or Johnson could agree on whether there are tax increases in Obamacare or not prompting Krugman to jump in nothing that their disagreement on facts is part of the problem.

“Let’s start with the facts but there we’ve just run aground right there. We cannot agree,” said Krguman.

Krugman and Johnson proceeded to go back and forth on the state of the Social Security trust fund and whether or not it actually exists.

“It’s important to realize the facts that are being brought out are, in fact, non-facts and how do we go from there?” said Krugman.

“They’re absolute facts,” roared Johnson.

At the end of their dust-up Washington Post columnist George Will quoted the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynhian, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts.”