Comments on: The Unbearable Lightness of Paul Krugman’s Thoughts http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DavidN http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-245212 DavidN Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:02:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-245212 What everyone here on Pajamas doesn't seem to understand is that we've already pretty much lost the debate. Protests against tax increases and overspent budgets have been characterized as racist, fascist, and extremist, and that's literally the end of the story. There's nothing else to be said. Jon Stewart ridicules the protesters because one of them has a poster with Obama wearing a Hitler mustache, and we're done. The middle 70% of American citizenry who aren't particularly politically active will stay as far away from us as possible. The teabaggers (sexual innuendo intended by the accusers, of course) are dead in the water, because they dare oppose the President's plan to save us from economic disaster. Obama's various threats (against the bankers, for instance--"I'm the one standing between you and the pitchforks") and distortions of the whole situation will go unreported, and the "stimulus" package will be distributed to various constituents and supporters based on how they voted or contributed, and no one will say a word. When anything goes wrong, the gullible public will be told that it's George W. Bush's fault. I don't even know why we're discussing this, it's over, we've lost, and perhaps permanently. If we're lucky there will be other elections, but I wonder if we'll ever have a Republican president again. What everyone here on Pajamas doesn’t seem to understand is that we’ve already pretty much lost the debate. Protests against tax increases and overspent budgets have been characterized as racist, fascist, and extremist, and that’s literally the end of the story. There’s nothing else to be said. Jon Stewart ridicules the protesters because one of them has a poster with Obama wearing a Hitler mustache, and we’re done. The middle 70% of American citizenry who aren’t particularly politically active will stay as far away from us as possible. The teabaggers (sexual innuendo intended by the accusers, of course) are dead in the water, because they dare oppose the President’s plan to save us from economic disaster. Obama’s various threats (against the bankers, for instance–”I’m the one standing between you and the pitchforks”) and distortions of the whole situation will go unreported, and the “stimulus” package will be distributed to various constituents and supporters based on how they voted or contributed, and no one will say a word. When anything goes wrong, the gullible public will be told that it’s George W. Bush’s fault. I don’t even know why we’re discussing this, it’s over, we’ve lost, and perhaps permanently. If we’re lucky there will be other elections, but I wonder if we’ll ever have a Republican president again.

]]> By: sherlock http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-244812 sherlock Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:00:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-244812 "Mr. Krugman is a genius as an economist but a schmuck as a pundit." In the same way that Messrs Carter and Arafat were geniuses at making peace? I can't be the only one who has noticed that Nobels have become a joke. “Mr. Krugman is a genius as an economist but a schmuck as a pundit.”

In the same way that Messrs Carter and Arafat were geniuses at making peace? I can’t be the only one who has noticed that Nobels have become a joke.

]]> By: ITF http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-244674 ITF Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:38:17 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-244674 “The teabaggers are being used by a bunch of GOP lobbyists.” Sounds like an expert. Been spending a lot of time on your back, have you? Pastor, you were there for the '60's protests? WowCoolMan. Isn't it coolman how LSD expands the consiousness so you can see the real truth? Steve Forbes is an alien who took over FNC after landing at Area 51. Bankrolled the whole teaparty thing from his Star Chamber. I got my check from him yesterday, delivered personally by Will Smith in a 1962 business suit. The spooky thing is, as you know, Forbes uses his mind-control rays to make Progressives say really stupid things in public. You better tighten that tinfoil before you become more of a racist. Do it for the children. Peace love and cosmic granola. WowCoolMan! “The teabaggers are being used by a bunch of GOP lobbyists.”

Sounds like an expert. Been spending a lot of time on your back, have you?

Pastor, you were there for the ’60′s protests? WowCoolMan. Isn’t it coolman how LSD expands the consiousness so you can see the real truth? Steve Forbes is an alien who took over FNC after landing at Area 51. Bankrolled the whole teaparty thing from his Star Chamber. I got my check from him yesterday, delivered personally by Will Smith in a 1962 business suit. The spooky thing is, as you know, Forbes uses his mind-control rays to make Progressives say really stupid things in public. You better tighten that tinfoil before you become more of a racist. Do it for the children. Peace love and cosmic granola. WowCoolMan!

]]> By: whyyeseyec http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-244431 whyyeseyec Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:28:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-244431 Hey Shadow #8, does your argument also apply to the Tea Party CNN reporter that called the demonstrators `anti-government, Fox News loving, not-for-family viewing chattle? Hey Shadow #8, does your argument also apply to the Tea Party CNN reporter that called the demonstrators `anti-government, Fox News loving, not-for-family viewing chattle?

]]> By: The Historian http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-244246 The Historian Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:50:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-244246 THE MIND OF A LIBERAL IS MUSH They cannot grasp simple human nature. http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/liberals-have-no-common-sense.html THE MIND OF A LIBERAL IS MUSH
They cannot grasp simple human nature.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/liberals-have-no-common-sense.html

]]> By: peterike http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-243804 peterike Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:47:04 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-243804 Pastor of Muppets @44. It shouldn't anymore, yet still it amazes me how someone like the Pastor can write a lenghty spiel in which every single word is a piece of received Leftist fantasizing. Wow. How do you even tie your shoes when you're so detached from reality? And Pastor, you might want to check on the organizations that were behind your beloved 60s movements, not to mention the anti-Iraq protests. Funded? Organized? Oh not at all!! What a hopeless tool you are. Pastor of Muppets @44.

It shouldn’t anymore, yet still it amazes me how someone like the Pastor can write a lenghty spiel in which every single word is a piece of received Leftist fantasizing. Wow. How do you even tie your shoes when you’re so detached from reality?

And Pastor, you might want to check on the organizations that were behind your beloved 60s movements, not to mention the anti-Iraq protests. Funded? Organized? Oh not at all!!

What a hopeless tool you are.

]]> By: nosinin http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-243165 nosinin Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:50:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-243165 to #44 Puppet Master: Interesting that Paul Krugman doesn't agree with Obamas economic (melt down) plan: 4/2/09 And that, in a broad sense, is what’s wrong with TARPish rescue schemes. They try to fix the banks by driving up the price of a whole asset class. Most of those assets are NOT held by the probably insolvent banks. So it’s a diffuse, inefficient way of tackling the problem — a taxpayer subsidy to basically anyone holding toxic waste legacy assets, rather than a direct infusion of funds where needed. Contrast it with what the FDIC does when it moves in: it doesn’t shower money on banks in general, hoping that this will solve the problem; it seizes banks that are in trouble, and recapitalizes them. To justify the scheme as announced, you have to either assume that the toxic assets are wildly underpriced, or take as a given extreme political and legal constraints preventing you from doing anything close to the right thing. And about those legal constraints: it’s funny how GM is being treated as a ward of the state, even though it hasn’t formally declared bankruptcy, in a way that AIG — which is 80% government-owned! — is not. Yet he STILL maintains the party hoo ha! Liberals definitely refuse to be swayed by facts. The tea parties were AMAZING!! Not partisan and NOT funded by taxpayer dollars (unless you consider money spent by the attendees) unlike the ACORN and MoveOn Scam. to #44 Puppet Master: Interesting that Paul Krugman doesn’t agree with Obamas economic (melt down) plan:

4/2/09

And that, in a broad sense, is what’s wrong with TARPish rescue schemes. They try to fix the banks by driving up the price of a whole asset class. Most of those assets are NOT held by the probably insolvent banks. So it’s a diffuse, inefficient way of tackling the problem — a taxpayer subsidy to basically anyone holding toxic waste legacy assets, rather than a direct infusion of funds where needed. Contrast it with what the FDIC does when it moves in: it doesn’t shower money on banks in general, hoping that this will solve the problem; it seizes banks that are in trouble, and recapitalizes them.

To justify the scheme as announced, you have to either assume that the toxic assets are wildly underpriced, or take as a given extreme political and legal constraints preventing you from doing anything close to the right thing.

And about those legal constraints: it’s funny how GM is being treated as a ward of the state, even though it hasn’t formally declared bankruptcy, in a way that AIG — which is 80% government-owned! — is not.

Yet he STILL maintains the party hoo ha! Liberals definitely refuse to be swayed by facts. The tea parties were AMAZING!! Not partisan and NOT funded by taxpayer dollars (unless you consider money spent by the attendees) unlike the ACORN and MoveOn Scam.

]]> By: Eowyn2 http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-243153 Eowyn2 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:37:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-243153 I attended the local TEA party along with about 200 others. There were no screaming lunatics. It was held after work hours so people would not have to take off time from work. The people I talked to were not there to protest "taxes" so much as the spending of those taxes. They were of mixed income and races. FOX news did not attend. Neither did CNN. The local news came, interviewed one or two people and left I saw no signs pertaining to Obama hatred. Nothing at all about religion. No book burning. Nothing untoward except people tired of paying taxes and watching it disappear in a black hole. Regarding the new Fed Withholding charts: when do we see the new Fed Income tax rate charts? What good is that extra 20 bucks a month now if I have to pay it all back on 4/15/10? I attended the local TEA party along with about 200 others. There were no screaming lunatics. It was held after work hours so people would not have to take off time from work. The people I talked to were not there to protest “taxes” so much as the spending of those taxes. They were of mixed income and races. FOX news did not attend. Neither did CNN. The local news came, interviewed one or two people and left

I saw no signs pertaining to Obama hatred. Nothing at all about religion. No book burning. Nothing untoward except people tired of paying taxes and watching it disappear in a black hole.

Regarding the new Fed Withholding charts: when do we see the new Fed Income tax rate charts? What good is that extra 20 bucks a month now if I have to pay it all back on 4/15/10?

]]> By: David Steinberg http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-243130 David Steinberg Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:19:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-243130 Chrisd: You putting on the uniform in Vietnam says it better than any writer could. Chrisd:

You putting on the uniform in Vietnam says it better than any writer could.

]]> By: EconDan http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-of-paul-krugmans-thoughts/#comment-243042 EconDan Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:40:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53233#comment-243042 First, the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel that Krugman won is NOT a "Nobel Prize." It is a seperate award from the Bank of Sweden. It is a legitimate award and Krugman was a deserving winner. Which leads to my next point... Please stop saying that "Krugman is a brilliant economist, therefore what he says about tax policy, energy policy, etc. is determinative." Krugman specialized in international trade and finance. My podiatrist might be a brilliant doctor, but I don't want him performing brain surgery on me. Sure, better him than my plumber, but you get my point. First, the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel that Krugman won is NOT a “Nobel Prize.” It is a seperate award from the Bank of Sweden. It is a legitimate award and Krugman was a deserving winner. Which leads to my next point…

Please stop saying that “Krugman is a brilliant economist, therefore what he says about tax policy, energy policy, etc. is determinative.” Krugman specialized in international trade and finance. My podiatrist might be a brilliant doctor, but I don’t want him performing brain surgery on me. Sure, better him than my plumber, but you get my point.

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