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Krugman of the NYT Plays the Stooge and Attacks Joe the Plumber

Krugman of the NYT Plays the Stooge and Attacks Joe the Plumber.

 The New York Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers [1]  has an all-embracing and convoluted history of apologizing for Communism, propping up losers, celebrating AIDS, practicing the wanton whoring of higher taxes for any implausible reasons, praising dictators and despots in their opinion columns and scrounging for new ways to reinvent Marxism. The Times has relentlessly praised a swarm of disgusting parasites who parade as ‘leaders’ in the world and issues ‘prizes’ in many fields for practicing far leftist politics. 

 Recently, Paul Krugman was disgraced, internationally, and openly castigated with the Mantle of Stooge Award [2]as defined by the Swedish Academy.[3] This Award [Cape de Prix de Larbin] is issued according to a strict monolithic adherence to leftist dogma and not according to any proximity to truth, achievement or insight. Ideology to a fault is a proper reason to splash the recipients with this phony glory in the eyes of the far left. He joins an  august group that includes such wonderful people as: Rigoberta Menchú Tum [liar], [4][5]  Nelson Mandela [a convicted and confessed terrorist], Yasser Arafat,  Jimmy ‘The Peanut” Carter and  Al Gore EcoNazi[6] [The Minister of Truth]. Krugman fits nicely into this guild although many of his attributes are lacking some substance.

 This Swedish Academy is always besotted with a cornucopia of leftist political preferences as potential recipients for their phony prizes, but they seem to always single out a worthy candidate.[7] Krugman, the now very famous non-economist economist of the Times,  accepting his first  political command assignment as Laureatte,  rose to the occasion of his new unearned fame and fortune and demonstrated to the economically unwashed what fiscal soap and a good brush could  do to save us from the Next Great Depression.[8] This turned out be a predictable screed on deficit spending for all reasons.

 Today, our krugmaniacal one tackles the more difficult economic problem of Joe the Plumber and exploits this strange case in a novel essay on Advanced Tax Theory. His new research and conclusions are, or course, predetermined by Barney Frank [Backside Barney or”I think my bunny ought to be publicly financed”] who sounded the Tax Trumpet and recently called for more spending.[9] Krugman’s mission is well-defined and below we can study and wonder at his breathtaking economic arguments:

 Meanwhile we’ve got Mr. McCain making Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, a k a Joe the Plumber — who had confronted Barack Obama on the campaign trail, alleging that the Democratic candidate would raise his taxes — the centerpiece of his attack on Mr. Obama’s economic proposals.”[10]-- The Real Plumbers of Ohio by PAUL KRUGMAN OP-ED COLUMNIST Published: October 20, 2008 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

 If this is the ‘centerpiece’ of any economic proposal then our igNoble One has drifted off into the mystical dustbin of political chum chuckers and can be safely labeled as a phony and well-deserving of his title of Mantle of Stooge.[11] We can envision a dainty pink wreath of scented plastic flowers resting rakishly upon his furrowed brow as he pounds his keyboard and struggles to redact the first pages 10 to 50 of his soiled Econ 101 text with new innovations  on how to  justify more  hike taxes.

 He, firstly, soars off topic.

 “First of all, they [plumber eds] aren’t making a lot of money. You may recall that in one of the early Democratic debates Charles Gibson of ABC suggested that $200,000 a year was a middle-class income. Tell that to Ohio plumbers: according to the May 2007 occupational earnings report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average annual income of “plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters” in Ohio was $47,930

 This is way off topic.  But, he did do some exciting and novel research and discovered that Charles Gibson of ABC has stronger economic credentials than he does.  Obama, of course, has a higher tax number and Joe Biden echoes this with aplomb.  

 The question was: IF Joe buys a business and tries to rise above the unwashed slobs who shuffle and grovel in the union halls for the elegant opportunity to pay exorbitant union dues that fund Democrats then will his taxes be excessive?  Our igNoble Tax Hike Zombie, works out the non sequitur response on some hazy mirror image of what he fears about the capitalists. [12] The question, restated for information and possible redirection of his wandering neurons, is whether a person making $250,000 in gross proceeds would face unacceptable taxes. Can we think about the original query 0r must we watch Paul play three-handed puffy fluff with Barney and ‘Plugs’[13] in the political sandbox? His self-defined label as “…a lonely voice of truth in a sea of corruption”[14] might be properly rearranged to read:  a lonely voice of corruption drowning in a sea of truth.

 Let us see if he can pry hisself lose from this essay on personal destruction:

 “What about the claim, based on Joe the Plumber’s complaint, that ordinary working Americans would face higher taxes under Mr. Obama? Well, Mr. Obama proposes raising rates on only the top two income tax brackets — and the second-highest bracket for a head of household starts at an income, after deductions, of $182,400 a year.

 Now, didn’t Plugs promise us that nobody who made less than $250,000 would not pay even a nickel in more taxes? Was that a delusion? We read from ‘Plugs’:

"Read my lips," Biden [this is Plugs ed] said, using Bush's famous phrase while referring to a Barack Obama administration. "Nobody, nobody making less than $250,000 is going to see a penny of their taxes go up."[15]Biden in an incoherent rant at some county fairgrounds near the campus of Ohio University in Athens on Oct 15, 2008.

Gee, he did say that! Maybe, after giving Blowhard Joe[16]a possible backdoor exit opportunity, he was slyly employing a deceptive double negative where ‘nobody, nobody’ actually means everybody. That explanation fits well within the slender cognitive skill base  of this person.

He wanders back into reality with his caveat:

Maybe there are plumbers out there who earn that much, or who would end up suffering from Mr. Obama’s proposed modest increases in taxes on dividends and capital gains — …”

Now, why would a common union plumber invest in equities or CDs and incur ‘modest’ increases in such taxable misfortunes? Is an increase in capital gains of 25% or more a bit ‘modest’ in the sticky parlance of Afro-Leninist economics?  Is Samuel J. Wurzelbache interested in improving his life in the business ownership world? Is he suspicious and distrustful of such tax-whoring screeds that Obama spits out with sausage-machine precision? Anybody who has independent thoughts must distrust this racist parasite and bigot.

 HE sums up with:

I don’t want to suggest that everyone would be better off under the Obama tax plan.”

Does that argument extend downward to those who will pay higher prices because business is facing new and excessive tax increases? Are we mumbling from $250,000 to $182,400 a year and heading for $42,000 as the Obama tax plan shows??

Well, we must thank the Walter Duranty Papers [17]  for showcasing another simplistic Marxian propaganda piece that is stewed and spiced and festooned with the usual pedestrian- level Marxist fluff and other nonsense disguised as economics while actually being a personal attack on a middle class American. Such efforts may eventually bring some respectability to political spinsters and wanton tax whores.

The Nobel Prize selection of 2008 is truly a credit to the Swedish Academy and a boon to the New York Times.

rycK

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[1] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. 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.

[5] “[her lies]..was actually written by a French leftist, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, wife of Marxist Regis Debray, who provided the focostrategy for Che Guevara's failed effort to foment a guerrilla war in Bolivia in the 1960s. Debray's misguided theory got Guevara and an undetermined number of Bolivian peasants killed, and as we shall see is at the root of the tragedies that overwhelmed Menchú and her family.” http://www.salon.com/col/horo/1999/01/nc_11horo2.html

[6] Reason and Faith Assault the Phony EcoNazis and Their Lackeys.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:52 PM

http://www.townhall.com/MyBlog/CreatePost.aspx?ContentGuid=fc4e09df-99c8-4916-a215-4ef6c25d4ffd

 [7]Some economists questioned whether Krugman's politics may have somehow swayed the Swedish Academy. Its selections in the past have been viewed as politically motivated, and Krugman's selection came just weeks before a U.S. presidential election in which Bush's legacy is playing no small role.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101300369.html?hpid=sec-business

 [8]It’s now clear that rescuing the banks is just the beginning: the nonfinancial economy is also in desperate need of help.” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise stated.

[9] Backside Barney Announces More Taxes and Spending! What Else?

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/10/21/backside_barney_announces_more_taxes_and_spending!_what_else.thtml

 [10] The Real Plumbers of Ohio By PAUL KRUGMAN OP-ED COLUMNIST Published: October 20, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/opinion/20krugman.html?em

 [11]Some economists questioned whether Krugman's politics may have somehow swayed the Swedish Academy. Its selections in the past have been viewed as politically motivated, and Krugman's selection came just weeks before a U.S. presidential election in which Bush's legacy is playing no small role.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101300369.html?hpid=sec-business

 [12] 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

 [14]the Princeton professor recently described himself as “a lonely voice of truth in a sea of corruption.” http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2208841

[16] The Bumpless Bump from Joe Biden.  Down Go The Dems. http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/26/the_bumpless_bump_from_joe_biden_down_go_the_dems.thtml

Hot Dog Biden and Obama: Two Leftist Lawyers at the Helm? Go for it!

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/21/hot_dog_biden_and_obama_two_leftist_lawyers_at_the_helm_go_for_it!.thtml

Joe Biden Embarrasses Delaware and the Nation Again with his Fury and Nonsense.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/07/16/joe_biden_embarrasses_delaware_and_the_nation_again_with_his_fury_and_nonsense.thtml

 [17] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. 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. 

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