PAUL KRUGMAN: The Years of Shame

The New York Times ^ | September 11, 2011 | Paul Krugman

[SomeCallMeTim]

September 11, 2011, 8:41 am The Years of Shame ... The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it. I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.

[sneakypete211]

This filth is the foulest piece of excrement, animal or human, that was ever foisted on the American Public

[Zarro]

Yeah, I noticed that he disabled comments, too. What a coward. He said “...for obvious reasons”. Yes, because he is obviously deranged.

[Vintage Freeper]

Calling Krugman a Democrat or a liberal is neither honest nor accurate. Liberals, Democrats, and Krugman are socialists. Socialism is the economic equivalent of cancer. It is clearly unconstitutional and there is no logical or moral benefit when honestly evaluated.

The only beneficiaries of socialism are power-seekers, those who seek to rule others.

Before anyone rushes to challenge these statements, here are a few relevant quotes from reliable experts handed down through the ages:

Reliable Experts on Socialism

Plutarch, 46-120 AD:
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony,1621: Socialism came to America with the Mayflower in 1620. After a winter of starvation under the philosophy of share and share alike, the pilgrims resorted to capitalism with each colonist benefiting from the fruits of their own labor in order to promote a more bountiful harvest before facing their next winter. The First Thanksgiving can, and should be viewed as a celebration of the triumph of capitalism over socialism.

Benjamin Franklin, July 4, 1776:
"A republic if you can keep it....When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

John Adams, most influential member of the Continental Congress, Second President:
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Thomas Jefferson, Third President:
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them [around the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, Fourth President, 1792:
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

Congressman Davy Crockett, Alamo hero, 1830 in the House of Representatives:
"Mr. Speaker, I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, as any man in this House. But we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to so appropriate a dollar of the public money."

Frederick Bastiat, The Law 1850:
"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder."

Franklin Pierce, 14th President 1854:
"[I must question] the constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those … who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."

Grover Cleveland, 22nd President 1887:
"I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit."

Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt 1930:
"As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely, people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject (prohibition), but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere."

Mark Twain:
"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise."

Ludwig von Mises, Economist, 1931
"Capitalism has raised the standard of life among the masses to a level which our ancestors could not have imagined. Interventionism and efforts to introduce Socialism have been working now for some decades to shatter the foundations of the world economic system. We stand on the brink of a precipice which threatens to engulf our civilization. Whether civilized humanity will perish forever or whether the catastrophe will be averted at the eleventh hour and the only possible way of salvation retraced—by which we mean the rebuilding of a society based on the unreserved recognition of private property in the means of production—is a question which concerns the generation destined to act in the coming decades, for it is the ideas behind their actions that will decide it....Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.... If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to conquer Socialism...."

Frederick von Hayek, 1974 Nobel Laureate in Economics:
"When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself."

Lenin:
"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."

Nikita Khrushchev:
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."

    Every time the socialism experiment is retried, the justification for repeating it is always the same. The only reason socialism failed before was because of defective leadership. The theory is always the same, with the right leadership and administration, socialism will work this time. Repeating the same experiment, each time expecting a different outcome, is irrational. Five thousand years of history and four hundred years to compare with capitalism should be enough.

    Lest there be any doubt, it is worth repeating: there is no rational, moral or ethical basis for socialism, there is no economic basis for socialism, and there is no Constitutional basis for socialism. Socialism is the economic and societal equivalent of cancer. Professional politicians are the only cause, the sole means of spread and the only beneficiaries.

Krugman may be the easiest target to tar and feather, but Freepers and Americans need to begin recognizing that Democrats are socialists. And socialism is anti-freedom and therefore anti-American. Allowing these people to hide behind the terminology of "liberal" allows them to conceal or hide the fact that Democrats are lying to everybody, themselves included, when they claim to believe in freedom and they are lying when they claim to be freedom-loving Americans. The reality could not be further from the truth.

[Vasilli22]

bfl

[Magnatron]

Subdued? What???

I think we spend too much time wallowing in it.

Now before you flame me, hear my side. I had a meeting scheduled at the World Trade Center on that morning. Through slow paperwork, we had to postpone our meeting until later that afternoon. Not more than fifteen minutes after I hung up the phone from rescheduling the meeting, the first plane hit. I never heard from my client again.

My wife and I know 9 people who were killed - a few quite well. My wife has several students whose fathers were killed. We were very closely affected by this event.

But ten years on, I wonder if it might be time to put away the tears (but not the remembrance) and move on.

I heard an interesting comment by Chris Wallace the other day on the Imus show. He said to Imus, that we seem to spend a lot of time morning this event, and mentioned a 9-11 widow who said: “Every year since it’s like I have to have another funeral for my husband.”

9-11 affected us all greatly. It was an incredibly saddening event that deserved tears. But we can’t keep crying every year over it. We can be pissed, we can be resolute, we can be rightfully indignant, but if we continue to mourn so visibly every year - so many years after the event - we play right into the terrorists hands. They got a bargain in the deal. Not only were we emotionally devastated in 2001, but we continue to be emotionally devastated each and every year to follow.

I think it might be time to move on emotionally, and to begin to look at 9-11 with the same emotion we view Pearl Harbor today -

- Don’t forget, and make sure it doesn’t happen again, but put away the misery and stand strong.

[crusty old prospector]

Conscience of a Liberal=the dried-up dog turd on my back lawn. Even the flies and maggots have left.

[taildragger]

The question begs, will the NYT’s keep him aboard after the backlash they will get from his article. The pressures will be enormous IMHO against him via emails etc.My guess their is a newspaper in Iran or Havana that is justing waiting for Paul to grace their pages....

[RightWingConspirator]

This is the guy who was an advisor to Enron and helped them descend into bankruptcy. Now he is advising Zerobama in his efforts to bankrupt the USA. This disreputable POS didn’t deserve his Nobel any more than POtuS Zerobama deserved his.

[Repeal 16-17]

Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt 1930: "As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely, people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject (prohibition), but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere."

I'm stunned that FDR said that. Based on what he did during his Presidency, I question whether he believed any of the above.

[tarotsailor]

Sung to the tune of "If I Were a Rich Man", from Fiddler On the Roof...

If I were a Hit Man

Yaidel deedle daidle digguh digguh deedle daydle dum...

I'd wrap my fingers with Krugman's trachea

Until it came apart in my hands...

I...wouldn't have to try hard

Yaidel deedle daidle digguh digguh deedle daydle dum...

He'd come apart like chicken overdone

In the hands of a black belt two sixty pound man.

Then all the cops in town would come to arrest me...

They would ask me to come quietly

And advise me of my rights.

They'd say "The judge is on his way...

But there may be some delay...

His 'Krugman's Dead' party may last all freaking night..."

Yah dah dah dee day dah, dee day dah, dee dayy dahh...

And it doesn't make one bit of difference

If you think I'm right or wrong...

When he meets the Master of Lies down below...

If I were a hit man

Yaidel deedle daidle digguh digguh deedle daydle dum...

I'd turn Krugman's head so it looked down at his bum

Turn the bastard to a worm food man...

It wouldn't really be hard

Yaidel deedle daidle digguh digguh deedle daidle dum

It doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong

The devil knows Krugman will be along

Snap his bones to the rhythm of this song

If I were a patriot gone...po...stal...ma-ann!

Disclaimer: the above parody is creative expression utilized to vent hostility rather than express intention...thanks Mr. Lawyer I may need you again later. ;^)

[ozzymandus]

What a horrible little person. Even exploiting the 9/11 anniversary to attack his political enemies with his leftist anti-American drivel. What scum.

[cc2k]

Over 100 other comments about this article at the previous post here:

The Years of Shame (Giuliani, Bush Shamefully Cashed In on the Horror)[UNBELIEVABLE!!]

[usconservative]

Just got home from Church, a tasteful 9-11 memorial service and here I find this piece of garbage, written by a worthless piece of garbage.

There went my forgiving mood for the day....(sigh, Jesus help me..)

[Zeppo]

Libs usually jump from argument to argument to avoid defeat on any one point.

A very perceptive observation which explains much of the Liberal idiocy that is constantly being spewed by pseudo-intellectuals.

[Mears]

Don’t forget to add the lovely Rachel to your list.

[Repeal 16-17]

Next time, simply call him a POS.

[1scrappymom]

Krugerman is a liberal pos. I pray for his soul like all liberals, but I doubt this stupid, arrogant, antiAmerican will ever see the light. I would hate to be so miserable.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

fat tool