[Richard Axtell]

I used to wonder if there was something logical or valid behind liberal-left economic ideas. I no longer wonder at all.
There isn't. What there is is nothing more than rationalization of emotional moralizing, and ignorance of the unintended consequences of bad policy. Try to talk to a liberal about this, and you will find yourself wanting to talk to any nearby tree, as it would be more responsive to logic and factual evidence. May Galbraith's philosophy pass away with his physical passing, as we will all make more progress against the frustrating pointlessness of socialist thought.

[pawdoggie]

I used to like Galbraith's "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country", until I realized that in his ideology that was just another way of saying, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

"Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast with the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower."

Galbraith. What a fool. (Is it too soon after the man's death to say that?)

[SamAdams76]

Galbraith was a typical limousine liberal. He looked down his nose at people who actually worked for a living and scolded them for aspiring to nice homes (which he derided as "McMansions") and a little material comfort that he considered to be "selfish."

Yet he himself, one of the self-important "beautiful people" who went to Harvard, lived in a yuppie-mansion in Cambridge and maintained a summer home in oh-so-trendy Vermont. This despite never doing an honest days work in his life and never once getting dirt under his manicured fingernails.

The guy was a wuss, and a commie wuss at that.

During a visit to poverty-stricken India once (back in the 1950s), he condenscendingly stated that a society begins to produce "unnecessary" goods as it becomes wealthier, with corporations creating artificial demand for their products through advertising. In other words, he was saying that selfish Americans should be more like the poor of India, wading around in pools of filth and wearing rags and living in hovels. Of course, "beautiful people" like himself, being the "Harvard educated" self-important snobs that they are, should be treated "more deferentially."

Good riddance. But his legacy lives on in insufferable people like Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and Barbara Streisand.

[R.W.Ratikal]

John Kenneth Galbraith was a typical wealthy, dedicated Marxist. Galbraith was an intellectual who had a twisted mind. JKG rode in his Rolls Royce limo to give speeches against capitalism to dopey university students for large lecture fees. Galbraith never had an honest job in his entire life. He lived off the earnings of others.

Like all communists Galbraith did great harm to the nation. Galbraith was a major influence in bringing about what Nobel Prize Winning economist Milton Friedman said was the 50 percent socialization of America.

We are far better off now that he has finally gone to that great Kremlin Wall in the sky.

[piasa]

This economic dolt’s son is currently backstabbing Hamid Karzai for the Red President...