Posted by
rycK on Friday, May 02, 2008 8:46:09 AM
Krugman Denies the Denials Of The Party Of Denial: Raise Taxes No Mater What.
In an incoherent essay by our krugmaniacal non-economist from the lofty throne at the New York Times [1], we get, following the trend of this paper, an incoherent essay on Democrats buying into unknown positions taken by Republicans dating back to Ronald Reagan. Paul Krugman [2]is lost in his own fog in this screed as he stumbles around the theory of eternal mandates of tax hikes—the solution—that all left-liberals know is the path toward economic glory in the Soviet and Cuban modes. We can enjoy the fruits of Marxism if we only learn and recite the litany.
“During Barack Obama’s Sunday appearance on Fox News, the interviewer asked him for an example of “a hot-button issue where you would be willing to buck the Democratic Party line” and say that Republicans have the better idea. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes from the NYT.]
Mr. Obama’s answer was puzzling because he gave credit where it isn’t due — and thereby undermined what could be a very effective Democratic line of argument.”
So, Obambi is either a heretic or liar? No, the question was out of order. The Republics have done nothing good in the past that could be praised or adopted into an Obama Administration.
“In particular, Mr. Obama attributed to Republicans the idea that regulation can be flexible rather than a matter of “top-down command and control,” and in particular for the idea of controlling pollution with a system of tradable emission permits rather than rigid regulations.”
The notion that a leftist leader would not employ a categorical “top-down command and control” concept for any facet of our society, including the number of sheets of toilet paper, the amount of fat in a hamburger or how many illegal aliens can work in a San Francisco massage, parlor breaks with the Democratic tradition of a command economy. After all, they did such great jobs with The Great Society, War on Poverty, HUD, HHS, and AIDS and have really shown their economic credentials in the glorious Marxist experiments like California [3], New Jersey[4] and New York [5], all soon to default. The NYT recently had its credit rating placed down there somewhere the pigeon droppings as well. The celebrated reopening of the Bay Area bath houses really fixed the AIDS problem with applause.
Krugman gurgles and gropes far and wide in a futile attempt to contain his fury when he prints this:
“And that, surely, is the line the Democrats should be pushing in this election: Republicans have become the party of denial. If a problem can’t be solved with deregulation and tax cuts, they pretend it doesn’t exist.
Climate change is the obvious contemporary parallel with acid rain. But if the Democrats really want to pin the denialist[sic] label on John McCain, health care is the place to focus.”
The opposite notion of massive and intense regulation and tax hikes follows the mindless thesis of Krugman and the New York Times, both tributes to Walter Duranty and Lysenko.[6] It doesn’t matter what the program is if it will provide some basis for new tax hikes. [7] Thus, the quack science of Global Warming, EcoNazi Propaganda at its best, [8] has been transmutated to an essay on ‘climate change’ since the models were proven wrong in 2007 and the predictions went astray. The models are frequently phony. As we saw in the hilarious predicts given the leftist book The Limits to Growth[9] or the maudlin rants of mentally ill Rachel Carson.[10] No matter! Let us just say that ” up” is either up or “down” and both are equally bad when we read the thermometer. Change now means new taxes in the Obama theory. The endless quest for new reasons to be a Tax Hike Zombie [11]is part of the mantra of the NYT and its attendant lackeys if the paper can avoid bankruptcy.
Then he turns the rusty crank on healthcare. We saw what that looked like when the NYT darling Fidel Castro worked up his phony system.[12] Can’t we do better than Fidel and offer our healthcare limited to less than $230 per year as in Cuba? We pay an average of $430 per month now. What a savings! Let California go show us the way! I would vote for such a limit to contain costs and force Congress to participate in this. They could have magic elixirs, drums, feathers and homeopathic jars of scented fluids to spread around at low cost and fix this nagging problem at low cost. Splendor with the grass.
Krugman and his trusty stack of soiled and dog-eared clichés from the Lenin Era can always manage to produce the same answer to any and all economic questions:
Raise Taxes Raise Taxes Raise Taxes
We cannot find a case where our vaulted non economist has ever advocated a tax cut or a reduction in any government program except the military.
Tax and Spend Tax and Spend Tax and Spend
And, some can say that this guy is ‘logical’ or ‘ponders weighty matters for a solution’ or presents several sides to any economic question?
Certainly not. This form of tautological soothsaying is best presented in the form a looping tape with bells and sad songs from the Drug Era of the 60s. Cal Berkeley has certainly left its indelible mark on this guy.
rycK
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[1] The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.
[8] Can the Global Warming Zombies Admit they look like Fools Yet??
Posted by rycK on Thursday, February 28, 20084:49:57 PM
http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/02/28/can_the_global_warming_zombies_admit_they_look_like_fools_yet.thtml
Evidence of Global CoolingThursday, February 28, 2008. “Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets have released data showing that temperatures have dropped significantly over the last year. California meteorologist Anthony Watts says the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundredths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree. That is said to be a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. It is reportedly the single fastest temperature change ever recorded — up or down.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333328,00.html
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring.
[10]http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/7063dcde-b734-46bb-afa7-e2dbc26930fa
“… one of her[Carson] chapters reads like a Lillian Hellman play and was entitled: “A Fable for Tomorrow” that outlined how “life had been silenced” by the pesticide DDT. Or we could mention Margaret Mead’s crass political stunt[10] in the infamous and phony Coming of Age in Samoareplete with maudlin theater and ‘definitive’ research that was limited to an interview from a single couple. We must note that these two pieces of phony science are still celebrated by many so-called scientists in the best traditions of Lysenko. There is no science in these two examples, but science is implied and the correct political message is loudly touted. That is enough for a political crusade.
[11] The Tax-Cut Zombies By PAUL KRUGMAN Op-Ed Columnist Published: December 23, 2005. http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/opinion/23krugman.html?hp