Krugman Boils a Pot Boiler about Boiling Frogs. Another Propaganda Exercise Example. Tax Alert!

Abstract: Krugman plays crass word-association games with the tender minds of the intellectually malleable and attempts to scare us into giving up more of our wealth to phony scientists and greedy and corrupt politicians with a crass propaganda screed.   He mixes scary metaphors and blends them in with modern Lysenkoism that intimidates the timid and distracts the middle class from reality.  He spins frog stories into his propaganda piece--an incredible propaganda piece [read lie here] that includes the nostrum that: “congressional leadership understands the economic and environmental issues perfectly,” a comment so laughable that the frogs will honk all night in the swamps when they hear this gem. The Zombie March continues on with the tautological grunts and quest for more and more taxes. Tax, tax, tax. Krugman is a Tax Zombie.

The construction of propaganda pieces,[1][2][3][4] and other snippets of diligent biased political  written work that are designed to sway the reader, habitually begin with some worthless anecdote that rings a distant bell in the cobweb-clutter minds of those inattentive or cognitively disnimble souls who are easy targets for hokum and fluff.  This type of connection then cements in their small minds the present banality from the Times.  And, as usual, its success signals another round of essays on the splendor of big government and higher and higher taxes. Today for our amusement, our esteemed non-economist from the New York Times, who is known affectionately as Dr.  Paul Krugman of the Walter Duranty Papers [5] squeezes off another propagandistic dropping signaling the ongoing confiscation of more private loot. This theme, unvarying from our wonderful Mr. Nobel Laureatte, and rising like the will-o-the-wisp from the swamps dressed as our Expert from Afar,[6] allows the good doctor to puff up some balloons and float them off into the sky for the victims to gawk at. He spins tales of fear and disaster designed to pack the lace panties of even the toughest liberal.

Puffing hisself up in his little Ivy League chair, the good Krugman gives us yet another round-about-the-Pravda table prattle piece and entertains us with a tortuous logical expedition into the salient reasons why your greedy and incompetent government ought to take everything you have.

Idiotically, it begins:

“Is America on its way to becoming a boiled frog?”[7]--Boiling the Frog By Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 12, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

We know the rest of the story, so let’s get to the hook.

“I started thinking about boiled frogs recently as I watched the depressing state of debate over both economic and environmental policy.””-- Paul Krugman Published: July 12, 2009

I started to throw up. It so cartoonish to act like such a pedestrian boob and spittle the walls with this, but that is an important means, we must admit, to fleece suckers out of their wealth so the drug-crazed elites can spend it away on fluff. Unfortunately, it works.

Now, pay attention as I will attempt to flag the numerous clichés, hackneyed phrases and outright whines from this snippet:

“And right now, both the economic and the environmental frogs are sitting still while the water gets hotter. [Spare me the cliché]

Start with economics: last winter the economy was in acute crisis, with a replay of the Great Depression seeming all too possible. And there was a fairly strong policy response in the form of the Obama stimulus plan, even if that plan wasn’t as strong as some of us thought it should have been.

At this point, however, the acute crisis [Spare me] has given way to a much more insidious threat. [Spare me]  Most economic forecasters now expect gross domestic product to start growing soon, if it hasn’t already. But all the signs point to a “jobless recovery”: on average, forecasters surveyed by The Wall Street Journal believe that the unemployment rate will keep rising into next year, and that it will be as high at the end of 2010 as it is now. [Didn’t White House Chief Economist Christiana Romer[8] and other stooges predict a ‘turnaround by July, this month??]

Now, it’s bad enough to be jobless for a few weeks; it’s much worse being unemployed for months or years. Yet that’s exactly what will happen to millions of Americans if the average forecast is right — which means that many of the unemployed will lose their savings, their homes and more.

To head off this outcome — and remember, this isn’t what economic Cassandras are saying; it’s the forecasting consensus — we’d need to get another round of fiscal stimulus [Spare me] under way very soon. But neither Congress nor, alas, the Obama administration is showing any inclination to act. Now that the free fall is over, all sense of urgency seems to have vanished.”

This is so besotted with red flags, tales of horror, misbegotten plans, hallucinatory oratory and political lies that it is difficult to know where to begin to refute this blather. We all know where to end this: cut taxes and vote out the bums who believe this crap. The current ‘stimulus’ plan has produced nothing according to plan and now they want more? Spare me

Now, we shift to Lysenkoism[9] and the al gore scam:

“Put it this way: if the consensus of the economic experts is grim, the consensus of the climate experts is utterly terrifying. At this point, the central forecast of leading climate models — not the worst-case scenario but the most likely outcome — is utter catastrophe, a rise in temperatures that will totally disrupt life as we know it, if we continue along our present path. How to head off that catastrophe should be the dominant policy issue of our time.”

Why not double our taxes and save us? I can get a positive consensus on the climate change in any flop house with a   handy case of beer. This Global Warming screed is a Lysenko-style political farce[10] led by a communist criminal bribe taker, flunky, Marxist and EcoNazi. The whole point is taxation. Here, not up to date, Krugman fails to acknowledge that the earth’s temperature has been falling since 2001 thus making fools[11] out of the so-called computer models from the so-called scientists who swill deeply from the public trough. Didn’t we get a computer model that predicted 14 hurricanes after Katrina for two years in a row and got zero? How do we rate ‘science’ forecasts when we are shown 0 for 14 twice. What are the mathematical confidence limits on those stats here? We have witnessed a bunch of their prior phony predictions.[12] Their work is so much political dung, but they need the tax monies for ‘more research.’

Knowledge??:

“And let’s be clear: both the president and the party’s Congressional leadership understand the economic and environmental issues perfectly well. So if we can’t get action to head off disaster now, what would it take?

I don’t know the answer. And that’s why I keep thinking about boiling frogs.”

I know the answer: More taxes.

Keep on dreaming about boiling frogs and you might achieve something in your remaining years more valuable than the phony Nobel Prize you got for your crass partisan politics. To think that our politicians understand anything ‘perfectly well’ is an essay in madness in itself if you exclude the categories of greed, corruption, the unbridled quest for money and power and latent drug addiction. Our so-called ‘leaders’ have the inexact neuronal count of some creature about as smart as a frog and about as noisy. What they have to understand ‘perfectly well’ is that their futures are dependent upon telling more lies so they can grab more power and spend more money on themselves. Check out California for preview of what our current Congress is looking at.[13] The drug-crazed loony Marxist stooges in Sacramento are exactly what the left want. They love the idea of taking the economy to the brink and then raising taxes to ‘solve the problem.’ Obama is a failure to date and more taxes are needed to get something positive to report back to the dummies who voted this racist and tax maggot into office.

Krugman is a Tax Zombie. Krugman is only defiant on one issue in economics and that is the notion of Tax-cut Zombies. [14]  He is always in favor of higher taxes. Pick a topic and Krugman will advise that we tax it.[15]

rycK

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