Aug
14
2011
Paul Krugman From the Twilight Zone
Now we know why leftist New York Slimes propagandist Paul Krugman sounds crazy and looks crazy. He is crazy. Here he is extolling inflation and deliberate waste as he proposes that we rescue the economy by spending $zillions on preparations for an alien invasion:
In Krugman’s defense, mobilizing against Martians couldn’t possibly be more wasteful than another stimulus bill, or destroy our wealth faster than another round of quantitative easing.
The reason our economy is going over the edge into depression is that our liberal rulers actually believe this Keynesian lunacy — unless they only pretend to while they crash the economy on purpose in hopes of recreating the Democrat glory days of FDR’s administration.
On a tip from Shawn.
But if Aliens did invade, we would need some kind of defense measures in place.
OK, so Krugman isn’t actually suggesting Mars attacks.
That would, however, STILL be less insane than suggesting “employing” people to dig a ditch and fill it up again is somehow bolstering the economy.
NO DIPSTICKS, it’s confiscating money that’s actually been earned by productive people and throwing it away on gov’t “make work” nonsense. It kills an economy AND YOU KNOW IT.
GOD these people are loathsome.
TheDarkEricDraven says:
August 14, 2011 at 11:09 am
But if Aliens did invade, we would need some kind of defense measures in place.
OK, we’ll tie you to a real tall phone pole with a sign that has a big, red arrow and says “Take Him!”
What a self-absorbed nothing this guy is, really loves listening to himself talk too
Aliens, shmaliens! Krugman should be worried about this:
Matthew 26:63-65
King James Version (KJV)
63But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
64Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
65Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
And Keynesian-ism could hardly be more destructive than an alien invasion.
Why fight the Martians? We’ll need to beg them for a bailout when the dollar hyperinflates and the planet needs a bailout.
The truth:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576231010618488684.html
Sorry Earache, but your boy Bammy gonna gut the military if he gets a chance. And with the military gone, that leave the liberals next-worst enemy, militias. And since libs would disarm us all, that would result in the first line of defense being civil rights lawyers and activists. Maybe aliens that want nothing more than our resources can be reasoned with, oh wait they don’t speak any Terran language, don’t share any sort of desire for peaceful negotiation, and likely do not view us as worthy of negotiating with in the first place. Negotiating is done from a position of strength, or it is called begging. Likely a few outlaws will survive. Good bye cruel world.
In the end the world will have cockroaches, Chuck Norris, and Bruce Willis. Nothing else survives. I would have included liberals, but that would be redundant with cockroaches already mentioned.
What defense can we muster up against aliens? We’re unable to wrap up a victory against pirates in dirty nightshirts who live in caves.
There’s some on this board who couldn’t care less about defense against aliens. The only question in their minds is, “Will there be probings?”
They would probably just dissect us Gorgo.
Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman. Same as Yassir Fatrat and Brother Number One. It now comes free with a Happy Meal in D.C.
Really sickening how tyrants, murderers and communists garner respectability by sucking the integrity from hard science, one of the few best hopes for mankind.
Might as well call it the Nobel Order of Lenin. Apply this knowledge as a ten to the fifth power discount rate to Krugman’s analysis to get its worth.
Cant wait to see the NEW YORK SLIMES go bankrupt so they can closed down the building have it raized and buld a McDonlads or Burger King in its place
Did I hear him right? He wants to ACHIEVE inflation? Too late Paul. We have it, it hasn’t been “fast and furious” like operation gunrunner, but it’s there. And you think we need more? So, what he is saying is we need some artificial “crisis” to get out. Ha! Already have it Paul. You don’t pay attention much, do you?
The alien comment is no big deal. The big deal is the concept of spend, spend, spend!
Also, there is a difference between preparing for war economy and a war economy.
Doesn’t matter. We cannot defend ourselves against the aliens. Rendlesham Forest anyone?
If aliens exists, it seems to me that they do everything in their power NOT to be seen and that they are never confrontational.
People like Krugman are are not worried about the Muslims, the “social justice” blacks, the illegal aliens, or the union thugs. They’re worried that the aliens from Mars might cause us harm.
Krugman is just laying the groundwork for when Obama pushes the big red button on the BushCheneyHitlerBurton Alien-O-Matic Invasion Fleet Hologram Projector Satellite Network (the one with lasers that brought down the twin towers), the move we were assured Bush would use to fake a national emergency of such magnitude that he’d declare martial law and suspend habeas corpus and elections and lock all progressives into FEMA camps, cementing himself into the Oval Office as dictator for life, King George McChimpyBurton.
Remember all that? They SWORE it would happen.
Bush never did it, but Obama will. I believe that. Krugman’s just prepping us for it.
Get ready for the holo-probes.
I’m being asked what is 11 + 15, and I have to type in 26, but the Keynesian multiplier makes the real answer at least 45.
/sarc
Interesting. In Shakespeare’s play, the dying Henry IV advises his son Henry V to “busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels”. This is the economic version of that – hope for a war to pull Odumbo’s political ass out of the fire by 2012. Problem is, coming up politically are a lot of issues like the Supreme Court’s probable review of Obamacare and the Mexican gun-running fiasco. And then there is that pesky matter called high unemployment that has sunk every President who faced it.
They’re already here. Didn’t you see “Paul” or “Men in Black”? Sheesh.
Actually, when you think about it when they say, “Intelligent beings from outer space,” consider it from the aliens’ point of view. This planet just HAS to have a large ‘detour’ sign hanging out there beyond Pluto to keep ‘em from the space travel version of “The Hills Have Eyes”. *grin*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibwg0WmVSv0
The only aliens I believe in.
You do realize that this is Krugman admitting he sees you as no more than a hamster on a wheel. That his ideology is ready, willing and able to LIE about some made up fallacy (read broken window),that his policies will SAVE you (even if they must literally KILL you to do it) simply to spend, and raise taxes indefinitely.
Hmmm, the truth that we economically blew it is just too much for you little people. So we will simply tell you that you are all going to die from an alien invasion unless we can build this ray gun, powered by shards of glass from a trillion broken windows.
Its a good thing our leaders don’t lie to us, by telling us Armageddon is just around the corner, (cough, cough stimulus, tarp, cash for klunkers, debt ceiling).
People like Krugman are are not worried about the Muslims, the “social justice” blacks, the illegal aliens, or the union thugs. They’re worried that the aliens from Mars might cause us harm.
@ Jodie
It’s even worse than that. Krugman places zero value in any PRODUCTIVE work you may do. He could give a krap less about your initiative, your imagination, creativity, concern for quality, self achievement, your self interests, ect..
No, all he is after is your blood, sweat, and a few tears for a bonus. He would place you in line to walk the Khmer Rouge death march, pay you a thousand freshly printed dollars an hour, then take a bow as you push that wheelbarrow FULL of your daily earnings to the market, for a loaf of bread, then torture you for being “rich” (just for good measure).
God help this country if this menace is ever thrown in a position of power, to carry out his dirty deeds.
Two points:
1) Note that the “moderator” suggests that digging a ditch only to fill it back up is “productive work”.
2) Note how Krugman is acutally suggesting that it’s OK to lie and cause the expenditure of TRILLIONS for no good reason. (Listen to what he said carefully if you missed this.) I see someone already noticed this and perhaps explained it a bit more thoroughly.
Again I cringe to think that people who think like these two actually get to vote – no wonder our government is in the mess that it is!
Who is this idiot “gorgo” and why is he bothering to post here?
But if Aliens did invade, we would need some kind of defense measures in place.
TheDarkEricDraven
August 14, 2011 at 11:09 am
So what if the “aliens” strap on suicide belts and scream Allar Ak-bar ? Could we trade them 72 virgins for a shot at stimulating the economy ?
Dave,
All this math is like torture for this public skool gradgeate
Krudman represents the best in thought on the liberal economic platform.
(Looking for the bottom, liberal-socialists on the Nobel committee awarded Krud a Nobel prize for economics; same reason they gave BO and Yassir Arafat their prizes along with a box of donuts.)
Krud is less economically literate than a rat gathering scraps for a nest (they can actually count) and yet his Keynsian views are common amongst the left.
(That is, when the left can articulate a thought on economics. Its rare. You will notice that no trolls will engage anyone here in legitimate debate on the topic of economics. Taken with the 22T+ debt, its obviously not something they know anything about.)
Note that everyone in the clip was just fine with the economics of the Big Dig and citizens digging a ditch and filling it back up as long as we can collect taxes from the peasant worker.
I believe Pol Pot and Stalin had the same plan.
Liberals are truly wretched individuals. Nothing but nothing they believe in is good, right, honest or intelligent.
They are yesterday’s used garbage. And their women look like the coffee grounds.
And I understand now that there’s a movement afoot in liberaldom to burn all birth certificates in honor of their little Fragile-X messiah after he got his birthday wrong by 2 weeks.
Numbers is not their forte. Liberals would not be able to pass the new security questions on this site without a calculator, help from their drunken grandmothers and three tries.
Bob Roberts says:
August 14, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Who is this idiot “gorgo” and why is he bothering to post here?
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Problem?
There is not a more low-life lying scum bag in leftist politico-economic punditry than Krugman.
In the natural flow of a capitalist system, demand is always anticipated by those who supply it. Here is where creativity flourishes.
Krugman, like other Keynesian idiots, believes than an economy can be grown by creating demand. But when government starts looking around at what consumers want, it is always something that has already been created.
So government, in it’s predictable UN-creative way, says typewriters, that is what people want. That is what people NEED. But only typewriters that type in BOLD print, because two out of three government bureaucrats prefer BOLD print.
And so government subsidizes their production.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-11/business/29877330_1_battery-plant-battery-production-jay-carney
Except in this case it’s batteries for electric cars.
And demand is created by MANDATING 54.5 MPG by 2025.
How can Obama anticipate what demand will look like in 2025 ? He cannot. So he simply UN-creatively declares the car of 2025 will resemble today’s cars, and use 54.5 MPG of gasoline. He also decided unilaterally, that those cars will need batteries to help them go.
He then creates an (estimated) 150 jobs building these batteries he has declared WILL be in demand by 2025.
This costs taxpayers (the ones too stupid to know what they want)300 million in a subsidy giveaway today.
Now remember that the ultimate goal is to “create” jobs. (Krugman could care less what they actually do)
If Johnson Controls maximizes it’s production goals, and hires ALL 150 projected employees, the taxpayer will have paid approximately 2 million smackers PER JOB.
And this is for the opportunity to purchase the car OBAMA wants them to drive, in 2025.
This is why Krugman gazes at Communist China with his tongue hanging out.
goodbye and good ridence to the NEW YORK SLIMES
Krugman is likely suffering fromo AIDS related dimensia.
Deeper the bull…
What resources would you find on Earth that would be more accessible to an space-faring civilization than those elsewhere in the Solar system? The dwarf planet Ceres has more water in it than all of the oceans on Earth, with much less gravity. Saturn’s rings are there for the taking , as is the Oort Cloud.
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