[Nachum]

A billion here, a billion there...

[Arm_Bears]

By this statement, can I reasonably assume that Mr. Krugman will gladly give $1-billion from his personal funds to every person who approaches him and asks?

[a fool in paradise]

Meanwhile these same Marxists insist that if you make over $100,000 you are too rich.

[beethovenfan]

We’re talking as if a Nobel Prize in Economics was worth something.

[Hunton Peck]

"I wish I could come back
just to give that clown a
facepalm."

[saganite]

I saw that today. Unbelievable. Followed by an ad from the Obama campaign bragging about how his policies had saved a few billion because of a policy change.

[EGPWS]

A billion here, a billion there...

It's not that much money as long as it's somebody elses money.

[Gaffer]

Old man that I am, If I met this man personally, I’d throttle his coddled, intellectual, liberal-biased ass to the ground. Nothing more than a pair of old fists needed here.

[Tzimisce]

The People’s Economist. :)

[TigersEye]

One billion dollars in $100 dollar bills.

One trillion dollars in $100 dollar bills. Note the double stacked pallets.

[Popman]

Krugman is right ....in a way

A billion dollars is a rounding error to the mammoth federal government....

...and there lays the problem....