tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post3822783785066733390..comments2024-03-27T05:23:48.855-04:00Comments on Krugman-in-Wonderland: Krugman: The State Makes and Producers TakeWilliam L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-6501814877886004742019-12-25T06:42:43.769-05:002019-12-25T06:42:43.769-05:00Hey thanks, I really love reading your blog posts....Hey thanks, I really love reading your blog posts. You always write to-the-point yet informative blogs. Looking forward to more such blogs.<br /><a href="http://www.taxwell.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Tax return services in Barking</a>taxwellukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15096312228904894380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-92128167427715704242013-02-01T15:05:44.725-05:002013-02-01T15:05:44.725-05:00BARCLAYS
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We’re one of the largest financial services providers in the world, Also we engage in reAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-62567242009687625392013-01-31T15:39:44.039-05:002013-01-31T15:39:44.039-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471262196410404650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-79538957659663392912013-01-30T15:48:25.467-05:002013-01-30T15:48:25.467-05:00Now that Netflix has released a remake of House of...Now that Netflix has released a remake of House of Cards (thus the original will be seen more widely) we can just refer to Krugman as 'Daddy'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-75011551730713733492013-01-30T11:40:20.452-05:002013-01-30T11:40:20.452-05:00"The real issue to me is the worship of State..."The real issue to me is the worship of State power. Fox loves the armed forces, while the others love everything else -- including the armed forces. When have you seen any negative commentary on police-state tactics on any network? For that matter, when have you seen Krugman ever disagree with police-state tactics by government agencies? I think the guy is perfectly fine with the level of brutality we are seeing from state agents. And I think it is going to get a lot worse."<br /><br /><br />What's galling to me is the conspicuous silence from Krugman and much of the rest of the Left regarding Obama's interventionist foreign policy now that a Democrat occupies the White House. Just the other day, outgoing SoS Hillary Clinton stated openly how it was a necessity for us to meddle in the affairs of foreign nations. And nary a peep of concern from the Left in response to it. I suppose meddling, intervening, occupying, imperializing, etc. are all okay so long as you've got an articulate Commander-in-Chief with a gift-wrapped Nobel Peace Prize who can spin anything to make it sound like he's spreading goodwill and defending liberty abroad, but pissing away the lives of our precious men and women in the military and killing innocents abroad is absolutely NOT okay when it's an inarticulate knucklehead gunslinger-wannabe from Texax whose approach to foreign policy amounts to chanting "USA USA USA!!!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-30943994734565958112013-01-30T08:48:47.860-05:002013-01-30T08:48:47.860-05:00Dan, you have not read Krugman's columns and b...Dan, you have not read Krugman's columns and blog posts about people who might disagree with Darwinism or, say the Obama administration's line on global warming. His attacks are well beyond simple disagreement: he wants anyone with a different opinion to be utterly removed from society. Read the comments and their tone.<br /><br />Krugman no longer has a reputation as a guy who simply likes to debate. First, he doesn't debate, and when he does, as he did Ron Paul, his comments are laced with ad hominem. His post-debate comment, attributing "Ga, ga, goo, goo, inflation theft" to Ron Paul certainly was not something that I would consider to be within any bounds of decency.<br /><br />Krugman openly shows no respect to anyone who disagrees, and when he teams with Brad DeLong, then it gets even worse. Krugman has become a very nasty person, and I see no reason why I should bow down and scrape to him and DeLong. If you disagree, that is your prerogative.<br /><br />As for TV, we don't have TV in the house and I don't watch Fox or any of the other networks. Why bother? The networks are openly in the tank for one political party or the other. Believe me, the times when I watch Fox, it grates on me. I really don't like that network, but when I see MSNBC, it is the same thing.<br /><br />The real issue to me is the worship of State power. Fox loves the armed forces, while the others love everything else -- including the armed forces. When have you seen any negative commentary on police-state tactics on any network? For that matter, when have you seen Krugman ever disagree with police-state tactics by government agencies? I think the guy is perfectly fine with the level of brutality we are seeing from state agents. And I think it is going to get a lot worse.William L. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-68067321715766513672013-01-29T20:08:23.268-05:002013-01-29T20:08:23.268-05:00While I don't agree with Krugman's comment...While I don't agree with Krugman's comment about Republicans, at large, being "closed off" in their media viewing and intellectual info, I find your comment about Krugman to be beyond ad hominem and just farcical. <br /><br />Even if it were accurate that Krugman and his ilk think MSNBC is "moderate or mainstream" (which I doubt he does), the addition that they believe "anyone who does not hold their ... views ... has no right even to exist" is just ridiculous. Krugman may not be the most polite guy in his writing, but I never see him reject other economists on such grounds. He attempts to debate them - he disagrees and says why. <br /><br />Jumping back to Republicans momentarily - I would say that Krugman is pointing this out: to many Republicans today, anything that is not Fox News is "liberal trash," not just MSNBC but CNN, BBC, etc. And while there are certainly many liberals who enjoy MSNBC, I don't find many trashing every other media source that disagrees. Perhaps, you could argue, that's because many of the others are simply too closely aligned with MSNBC for there to be controversy. But I wouldn't see it that way. I hate MSNBC (and Fox), but thoroughly enjoy CNN most times. So, I think there is some argument to be made about the difference in acceptance of "intellectual bubbles." While liberals seem to reject Fox, conservatives seem to reject anything BUT Fox. Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-50752893724660606802013-01-29T13:42:11.437-05:002013-01-29T13:42:11.437-05:00Paul Krugman does Morning Joe
http://video.msnbc....Paul Krugman does Morning Joe<br /><br />http://video.msnbc.msn.com/morning-joe/50613650/#50613650<br /><br />Comment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-21253903538105812242013-01-28T21:21:50.033-05:002013-01-28T21:21:50.033-05:00"He was just repeating a view that has become..."He was just repeating a view that has become increasingly dominant inside the right-wing bubble, namely that a large and ever-growing proportion of Americans won’t take responsibility for their own lives and are mooching off the hard-working wealthy. Rising unemployment claims demonstrate laziness, not lack of jobs; rising disability claims represent malingering, not the real health problems of an aging work force."<br /><br />Yeah, that's right.Pulverized Conceptshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14860274211446159849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-71435663452191428772013-01-28T17:50:24.327-05:002013-01-28T17:50:24.327-05:00Bernanke on Oprah, "I've been Doping for ...Bernanke on Oprah, "I've been Doping for Years." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orh64vypKwU&feature=em-uploademailLarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471262196410404650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-86045129996245086322013-01-28T17:36:20.351-05:002013-01-28T17:36:20.351-05:00Reading the comments section of Krugman’s columns ...Reading the comments section of Krugman’s columns provides insight into the political mind of the masses. They can only see a two dimensional linear political spectrum. Republicans and Democrats. My side good, your side bad, no matter the issue. It’s a modern political equivalent of the Crips and Bloods gang mentality. No intellectual honesty on either side. No original thought. They react like Pavlov’s dogs to the treats each side throws out to them keeping them distracted from the main issue.<br /><br />Until there is an evolution of thought, the divide will become greater and eventually unsustainable. The question is whether the evolution of thought is voluntary and constructive or involuntary due to the laws of economics and unconstructive. The current state of affairs would indicate the latter. <br />Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-8546755251888810482013-01-28T16:43:28.310-05:002013-01-28T16:43:28.310-05:00Dennis,
Springsteen actually does practice what h...Dennis,<br /><br />Springsteen actually does practice what he preaches. He artificially lowers the prices of his shows way below the actual demand to see him, though, this only has the effect of enriching scalpers who haul in tons of preordered tickets with online bots and then resell them aftermarket at incredible markups. in the ballpark of paying 90 dollars for the original ticket and flipping it for around 600 dollars in a matter of minutes. So in the end he actually does give up some profit to stand by his convictions, however the end result of his posturing is that his fans still end up paying exorbitant prices to see him, only the profits flow elsewhere because ignorance can never overturn economic law. <br /><br />Also, krugman talking about intellectual bubbles?! hahahahahahahahaha. that made my day.ekeyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17413110869433997820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-33892444994775704522013-01-28T13:44:29.236-05:002013-01-28T13:44:29.236-05:00Many popular musicians and Hollywood actors/actres...Many popular musicians and Hollywood actors/actresses would fall into the same category of the politically connected entrepreneur. I read a recent article in Rolling Stone in which Bruce Springsteen groused about income inequality in the United States. I have a suggestion for him and his ilk: practice what your preach. Give away all of your money until you are left with something approaching a lower middle class salary, and then live accordingly. There's a lot to be gained with leading by example, but these limousine Liberals expect others to do as they say, not as they do.Dennisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-45284825163266155392013-01-28T13:14:26.360-05:002013-01-28T13:14:26.360-05:00I have become convinced this is a new era in polit...I have become convinced this is a new era in political separation, or call it what you will. The fact that so much of communication today is electronic and faceless is not good. Not much good is coming of it. Not much thought is going into it.<br /><br />GOP State Income Tax Proposal Is “Reverse Robin Hoodism”: Paul Krugman | Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance<br /><br />"According to Krugman, middle and lower income people, not the rich, are already paying the highest marginal tax rates in the country. Furthermore, the higher sales tax would not beget benefits such as stronger safety nets or universal health care, programs that would be used by the majority of those states' residents.<br /><br />In Kansas for example, popular social programs have already been slashed. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has allowed private insurers to take over the state’s Medicaid system; he cut back the state’s welfare rolls and wants to reform state employees’ pensions in addition to merging government agencies. Brownback's office is reportedly eying more areas for consolidation.<br /><br />Krugman says the Republican plan to hike state sales tax could be modeled after the European nation Scandinavia, a country with very high sales tax rates and a “less progressive tax system” than the U.S. The revenue generated by the high taxes are used to provide Scandinavian citizens with a “very good social safety net” and more financial security, according to Krugman."<br /><br />..a supposedly serious journalist writes in an interview with Krugman about a nation of Scandinavia. Krugman mentions Scandinavia, but the journalist is so ill-prepared that the mention becomes an actual nation. And Krugman is not called on the lack of truth in the marginal tax rate comment I also included..not important, I suppose.<br /><br />Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-42530737777378149932013-01-28T12:43:53.056-05:002013-01-28T12:43:53.056-05:00Because our society now is so hopelessly politiciz...Because our society now is so hopelessly politicized, we will see even more of this kind of stuff. Much of the separation is not class or race but political.William L. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-25336622165943520052013-01-28T12:42:18.087-05:002013-01-28T12:42:18.087-05:00For that matter, we have the famous alleged quote ...For that matter, we have the famous alleged quote from New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael after Nixon beat McGovern in a landslide:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael<br /><br />Here is a larger version of that story:<br /><br />Kael has often been quoted as having said, in the wake of Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election that she "couldn't believe Nixon had won", since no one she knew had voted for him.[45] The quote is sometimes cited by conservatives (such as Bernard Goldberg, in his book Bias), as an example of cluelessness and insularity among the liberal elite. There are variations as to the exact wording, the speaker (it has variously been attributed to other liberal female writers, including Katharine Graham, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion), and the timing (in addition to Nixon's victory, it has been claimed to have been uttered after Ronald Reagan's re-election in 1984.)<br /><br />The story most likely originated in a December 28, 1972 New York Times article on a lecture Kael gave at the Modern Language Association, in which the newspaper quoted her as saying, "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."William L. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-44744388837363293812013-01-28T11:44:24.588-05:002013-01-28T11:44:24.588-05:00In the movie Runaway Bride newspaper columnist Ike...In the movie <i>Runaway Bride</i> newspaper columnist Ike Graham is only an hour away from his deadline with no column. He is walking the streets of New York looking for an idea. He sees a woman getting out of a limo and asks her, "What do you think of people who don't ride in limos?" She responds, "I don't know anyone like that."<br /><br />That about says it all.Tom E. Snyderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13425789987903796346noreply@blogger.com