Posted on 09/11/2011 8:30:49 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
what goes around eventually comes around
My friend, you can take this statement to the bank. I have witnessed the truth to this many times in my life.
This reprehensible and vile fop could not contain his hateful opinion for even a few hours on a day of national mourning? Krugman will ride the S.S. NY Times straight to the bottom, flipping all of us the finger and pissing on Old Glory as he drowns. You’re a bum Krugman!
The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.
Krugman missed a true shameless exploitation of 9/11 that occurred almost ten years later when Obama shamelessly tried to claim far too much credit for the killing of OBL. And there are legitimate questions whether he deserves any credit at all.
You’re correct. He really couldn’t be more disgusting.
Krugman is a pile of crud masquerading as a human.
It’s actually good that he has exposed his pathetic case against conservatives, because it will be disassembled, defeated and jammed right back up his anal orifice.
Libs usually jump from argument to argument to avoid defeat on any one point.
It's you, Paul. You live in a delusion of your own making. This country was united after 9/11...so united the left was FORCED to agree to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you voted for it because the people demanded it, but you never believed. You never acted as Americans on 9/11... you shamefully posed as Americans and bided your time until you could start chipping away at the patriotism that made your skin crawl. You aren't Americans, you hate America, and everyone can see it.
I'm so angry that I'm having trouble finishing this post.
Paul Krugman Gives UpThis is an excerpt. More at the link.
By Fred Douglass
A marvelous thing happened over on Paul Krugman's blog at the New York Times last week. Krugman effectively conceded defeat on a range of economic debates. Who defeated him? People who posted comments on his New York Times blog. Mere commenters.
For those who do not know, Paul Krugman is one of the few who still claim that Keynesian progressivism is the answer to America's (and Europe's) problems, not their cause. He repeats that claim many times each month. Amid these repeated expressions of his "progressive" faith, he now also repeatedly expresses grim despair because his progressive policy prescriptions are being accepted less and less in the public square, even by the Obama administration.
Krugman is an academic. He has never run a company. He has never created a job. The closest contact he evidently ever had to "business" was as an adviser to Enron, where (in his own words) he was paid $50,000 to help build Enron's "image."
This, perhaps, explains the dozen or so points that Krugman makes over and over. Here are a few: Obama's stimulus was too small. Debt is good. Austerity is bad. Deflation is coming. Ken Rogoff, Greg Mankiw, Alberto Alesina (all at Harvard), and other serious economic scientists do not understand economics as well as he does. Those who do not agree with him are "mass delusional." And perhaps Krugman's favorite line: "I was right, of course."
Befitting his ideology, Krugman has only one policy to propose, regardless of topic: Transfer more resources from the discipline and dynamism of markets to the inefficiency and cronyism of government.
Government-run health care. Government-controlled banks. Government bailouts. High taxes. High spending. Krugman wants it all, just like in Europe (which, in 2008, he called "the comeback continent"). And Krugman has no problems denying economic science and current events to advocate it.
With the meltdown in Europe so obviously the consequence of too much Krugmanism and U.S. unemployment near 10% after a trillion dollars in stimulus, Krugman has attracted some criticism.
For example, Robert Barro, the distinguished Harvard economist, noted that Krugman "just says whatever is convenient for his political argument. He doesn't behave like an economist." The New York Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent observed that Paul Krugman has "the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults." James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal, after listing the falsities in Krugman's latest piece on climate last week, hazarded that perhaps "Krugman makes himself ridiculous merely to make our job easy."
But no matter how low Krugman's fallacious fruit hangs, Krugman has long been comfortable among the acolytes who frequently post on his blog. A representative post is: "Paul, you are a God-send for those of us who appreciate a superior intellect with common sense! Thanks for applying your brilliance." Or this: "Paul, dig deep dude. You are brilliant." It was hardly surprising that last January, Krugman declared, "I love my commenters."
No longer.
For just as Krugman was declaring his love for his blog commenters last January, people started posting serious rebuttals of Krugman's standard claims about economics. These commenters were not obviously Republican stooges. They were not obviously members of "the political class." They were not obvious ideologues.
Rather, the posters simply knew some economic science and how jobs are created and economies grow, perhaps because they were members of "the productive class." And they came prepared to support their rebuttals of Krugman's ideology and his singular policy prescription by facts and peer-reviewed economic science.
For six months, they made Krugman's blog one of the more informative and interesting places to hear economics debated. In part, this was because they gave Krugman a serious run. Their posts were long, near the 5,000-character limit set by the New York Times. They were reasoned. They were knowledgeable. They carried citations to economic science literature that one might expect in a Ph.D. dissertation.
And so their rebuttals were often decisive.
pk is really ticking off people today. Almost 100 comments on this thread. Linking for others to read more comments.
Well Krugman is employed at the right place. The nyt is an insane asylum.
I'd like to run into Krugman some day, to see if he can disable my comments, or maybe the other way around.
I’ve always tried to see the humanity within leftists, and give them the benefit of the doubt for good but misguided intentions.
But not any longer with this f***ing b***ard.
As an "economic expert" this reality is to him, of course, "unexpected".
Paul Krugman demonstrates clearly that he is a miserable, bitter man, and everything he believes in is not only wrong, his ideas applied by governments -- including currently ours -- have hurt a vast number of people. It's a good idea to not take him or his opinions seriously.
The “Years of Shame” also saw this blithering dishonest idiot Paul Krugman win the Nobel Prize for Economics in the same decade that the equally unaccomplished BArack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. When you’re a committed Partisan hack like Krugman you effortlessly interpret your basest and most self-serving motivations as being those of your political “enemies”-—Freud called this mechanism ‘projection’, and it exists in spades in our pathetic political realm, of which is it the main “coin”.
Listen to everything people like Krugman say as an indictment against THEMSELVES, a truth they can’t face about themselves, and consequently have to remove from themselves and place on others, in this case Bush and Giuliani.Krugman is really high-school level STUPID, but looking at it more closely, it’s more like rancid and intentional DISHONESTY.
It would not be possible.
A noble effort. After years of trying I can find no evidence of such motivation, only delusions of superiority or outright evil intent.
Now I prefer to see lead within leftists.
Because your are a coward Krugman. Yes, it is obvious.
It was a unifying event. People were unified in pronouncing a moral judgment on evil and then acting in accordance with that judgment and giving evil what it deserved. The people were also in agreement in the actions of the government to protect our natural rights from external threats. It was the libtards that are guilty of moral inversion and who started to condemn the just actions of the government as being wrong.
krugman is an ass and will always be an ass.
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