tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post6659341897547240458..comments2024-03-27T05:23:48.855-04:00Comments on Krugman-in-Wonderland: Krugman the Political OperativeWilliam L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-69632184522128451602012-11-09T22:08:08.317-05:002012-11-09T22:08:08.317-05:00Democrats believe in the effectiveness of governme...Democrats believe in the effectiveness of government. Because they believe it works they usually run it well, with some exceptions for individual incompetence.<br /><br />Republicans believe government is inherently ineffective and their disdain for government leads them to under-fund, under-staff and generally mismanage government whenever they are elected to govern.<br /><br />Hiring a Republican (or worse, a libertarian) to run government is like hiring an atheist to work as a missionary for a church. People who has such disdain for their job will fail 100% of the time.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-55528019939559232372012-11-09T13:33:24.768-05:002012-11-09T13:33:24.768-05:00In other words: JG’s party’s incompetence is accep...In other words: JG’s party’s incompetence is acceptable, but the other party’s is not.Sammnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-62852530575363470142012-11-09T11:47:54.834-05:002012-11-09T11:47:54.834-05:00Viking,
And your point is what? That some Democr...Viking,<br /><br />And your point is what? That some Democrats are as incompetent as most Republicans? <br /><br />There is a difference between one party having some incompetents in their midst and another party that embraces incompetence and ineffectiveness as its defining attribute.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-724898871924383732012-11-09T08:06:45.756-05:002012-11-09T08:06:45.756-05:00JG said:
"When people who hate government a...JG said:<br /><br /> "When people who hate government are put in charge of government they tend to do an awful job."<br /><br />"The state and local governments were incompetent and useless during Katrina."<br /><br />JG, I hate to tell you this, but the state and local governments in Louisiana and New Orleans were led by Democrats, hardly haters of government.Vikingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-92063606809446673962012-11-09T07:27:35.189-05:002012-11-09T07:27:35.189-05:00Scott D,
1. Katrina was not more severage than S...Scott D,<br /><br />1. Katrina was not more severage than Sandy. Katrina may have been a higher category storm but Sandy was far larger and impacted a large portion of the country. Katrina only covered 415 miles across its diameter, Sandy was over 1,000 miles in size. Sandy also hit the most densely populated part of America, along the I-95 corridor from DC-to-Philly-to-NYC-to-Boston, which had the potential for far more damage and fatalities than the Gulf Coast. This is hardly a false equivalency.<br /><br />2. The state and local governments were incompetent and useless during Katrina, which is why Krugman rightly blasted that quote from Romney about pushing disaster relief down to the states.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-7564225085592386232012-11-08T18:00:11.331-05:002012-11-08T18:00:11.331-05:00JG
1. Katrina was a much more severe disaster tha...JG<br /><br />1. Katrina was a much more severe disaster than Sandy, which Krugman fails to take into account. False equivalence.<br /><br />2. Krugman cites wordage from Romney and Allbaugh to the effect that disaster relief should be handled at the state and local level. This is not what happened with Katrina. FEMA muscled in and blocked local and private efforts. The rhetoric that Krugman cites is just that, rhetoric.Scott Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-62013753362453196522012-11-08T16:49:41.142-05:002012-11-08T16:49:41.142-05:00As usual, you've deliberately missed the point...As usual, you've deliberately missed the point of what Krugman was saying. The whole point of this article was to contrast the different responses to disaster relief when two different administrations were in charge of FEMA. A point that you completely side-step, as you usually do when you're smearing Krugman.<br /><br />SANDY - FEMA was headed by a professional in disaster response with experience as the state of Florida's disaster response team.<br /><br />KATRINA - FEMA was headed by a friend of the Bush family with no background in emergency management.<br /><br />RESULT - FEMA was caught flat-flooted by Katrina but was proactive in getting supplies to New York ahead of Sandy. Therefore, they didn't need to fill Yankee Stadium with refugees like they did with the Superdome.<br /><br />CONCLUSION - When people who hate government are put in charge of running government they tend to do an awful job.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276561747841568697.post-7881144280852629472012-11-05T21:46:11.817-05:002012-11-05T21:46:11.817-05:00Great detail on Katrina & sexual harassment tr...Great detail on Katrina & sexual harassment training. Did the feds prepare a New Orleans-specific type of anti-harassment prep?Jim Bovardhttp://www.jimbovard.comnoreply@blogger.com