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Krugman Applies Protosimian Logic to Health Care. Big Government and Higher Taxes! Of Course!

Krugman Applies Protosimian Logic to Health Care. Big Government and Higher Taxes! Of Course!

 

Abstract: Krugman of the New York Times tautologically restrokes the eternal quest for more government and higher taxes. This pedestrian-level screed warps normal logic, as usual, and offers us the startling and unknown fact that our healthcare system works only because for our government. The usual propagandistic levers are duly pushed in the proper turn-of-the-crank sausage machine processes with the mindless but ever predictable nostrum that we need bigger government and higher taxes. Thus, this article is hopelessly redundant, mired in lies and propaganda, subservient to politicians and may safely be ignored.

 

 

The construction of propaganda pieces[1][2][3][4] and other variants of disinformation are designed to sway the reader with some guarantee of money, justice or, more appropriately: the ill-gotten money or hides of evil doers and capitalists.  Tax increases, particularly of the infective and punitive type, always appeal to the mentally unwashed and cognitively disnimble that swarm to their government for welfare, drugs and excuses for losers. Such fabrications of reality soon begin with some worthless anecdote [or a legendary frog story[5]] 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 assaults.  This type of connection then cements in their diminutive neuronal sets 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. Bacterial infections work like this.

 

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, [6] squeezes off another propagandistic offalette[7] sanctioning the enduring 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,[8] allows the good doctor to puff up some balloons and float them off into the sky for the victims to gawk at and marvel at the profundity. The cancerous topic is, or course, healthcare.

 

Predictably, it begins with some anecdote:

 

 At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program — but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, “wasn’t having any of it.””[9]-- Health Care Realities By Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009    [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

 

This opening is an example of misdirection and is frequently used to state the conclusion upfront so that the tautological and gratuitous circular logical stream that follows amplifies thus sanctioning this premise. This is one of the middle-grade examples of what the NYT can operate as a slick propaganda machine.[10] They have been cleverer.

 

At this juncture, we must wonder where the error in logic or syntax exists in the comment. We know that our government is a failure and packed with self-serving criminals such as Senator Chrissy Dodd (D-CT) and Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) who took bribes for their support of “Friends of Angelo (FOA) loans.” You might recall those are the special mortgages that former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo”[11][12][13] created for this bribers and saved our good senators a lot of money. Gee, were they on the committee that regulated or had oversight on the mortgage industry? We don’t want to be too cynical so somebody look this up and e-mail me if I am wrong.

 

The correct interpretation of the comment lies in a rejection of the embedded protosimian bias from our author today. The salient fact is that the government does have its infected hands upon our healthcare system and it is going broke both fiscally and intellectually. This selection of a comment from an angry taxpayer thus prompts the writer to soar into the upper reaches for ethereal responses as to why our wonderful government should not control more of our lives and take more and more of our wealth:

 

It’s a funny story — but it… yadda yadda yadda[14]-- the government is already deeply involved, even in private insurance.

 

And that government involvement is the only reason our system works at all.”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

 

What?????????

 

This preposterous comment attempts to implant the spurious notion that such things are ONLY possible with the egalitarian, guiding hand of the government pushing the levers.  Why not extend this twisted logic so as to assure us that our vaulted Social Security system-- now broke[15]--‘works’ well due to the diligence of our government. Perhaps we can praise the government for our illegal alien problems, the failure of Amtrak[16] to make a profit[17] in four decades or the successful rehabilitation of criminals? The national debt discussion is reserved for another time.

 

Aren’t these government programs? Why don’t they work? Does this phony leftist precept need more amplification?

 

The key thing you need to know about health care is that it depends crucially on insurance.”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

 

Here we go! More government??!! Could  we have predicted this?? Is this sausage-machine journalism?

 

Yet private markets for health insurance, left to their own devices, work very badly:…yadda yadda”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

 

Bingo! This theme roils back like malaria.

 

Today, Medicare — which is, by the way, one of those “single payer” systems conservatives love to demonize — covers everyone 65 and older. And surveys show that Medicare recipients are much more satisfied with their coverage than Americans with private insurance.”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

 

I have Medicare and it stinks like dog crap. The agencies I have to deal with are stuffed with slothful and cognitively-deficient protozombies[18] who shuffle paper work around and make stupid mistakes. The system does not pay doctors enough so many reject this horror. I am forced to pay into this crap barrel of twisted logic, stale theories and dysfunctional regulations. The system is broke thanks to our government. Get real. Privatize Medicare.

 

So here’s the bottom line: if you currently have decent health insurance, thank the government. ”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

 

That just went over the top.  Maybe I can thank my car for working well by praising Amtrak. Maybe I can be proud of my dead bolts that protect me from criminals who were ‘rehabilitated’ by our government. I just checked my bottom and it suddenly reminds me of our government.

 

Krugman is a Tax Zombie. Krugman is only defiant on one issue in economics and that is his ongoing crusade against the existence of Tax-cut Zombies.[19]  He is always in favor of higher taxes. Pick a topic and Krugman will advise that we tax it.[20] Tax cuts do NOT spur growth in the economy.

 

Restating the current malignant tax case with some truth-base editing:”And that government involvement is the only reason our system fails at everything.”—rycK in today’s blog.

 

We elect criminals[21], drunks[22] and sons of drunks [like the drunken cop car crasher Patrick Kennedy[23][24],], dopers, parasites, loonies[25], perverts, EcoNazis[26], incompetents[27] and losers and they beseech soiled rags like the NYT to pulverize the facts and disseminate protosimian screeds like today’s submission from Paul Krugman to justify their sorry existence and encourage us to pay more taxes for their welfare and perverted desires.

 

As the dog returns to its vomit, the NYT returns to tax whoring.

 

rycK

 

Comments: ryckki@gmail.com

 



[2] Propaganda Alert: The New York Times Axes the Right Questions and then Answers Them with the Left Answers.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/06/13/propaganda_alert_the_new_york_times_axes_the_right_questions_and_thenanswers_them_with_the_left_answers.thtml

 

 

[6] 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.

 

[7] A new word!

 

[8]  Read Winning Through Intimidation,  and other books by Robert J. Ringer for studies about the Tortoise and Expert from Afar and other theories. There is a new one I have not read: To Be or Not to Be Intimidated?: That Is the Question

by Robert J. Ringer

 

[9] Health Care Realities By Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist

Published: July 30, 2009  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31krugman.html  [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

 

[10] Propaganda Gem:  Krugman Distorts History as He Grubs for More Taxes.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/06/16/propaganda_gem__krugman_distorts_history_as_he_grubs_for_more_taxes.thtml

 

Propaganda Gem: Frank the Crank Clarifies Anger for the Women Voters and the Polls Show Obama Wins the Most Women!

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/06/15/propaganda_gem_frank_the_crank_clarifies_anger_for_the_women_voters_and_the_polls_show_obama_wins_the_most_women!.thtml

 

Propaganda Alert: The New York Times Axes the Right Questions and then Answers Them with the Left Answers.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/06/13/propaganda_alert_the_new_york_times_axes_the_right_questions_and_thenanswers_them_with_the_left_answers.thtml

 

Political Lessons from the Fairy Tales by the New York Times: Propaganda at Work.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/11/political_lessons_from_the_fairy_tales_by_the_new_york_times_propaganda_at_work.thtml

 

Propaganda Lesson: Economics and Recessions from The NYT: A Long [Sad] Story and Stern Tutorial on Tax Cuts.

Friday, February 08, 2008 10:16 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/2bea69e5-bb30-4923-9ed4-192199970c1a

 

Debunking the New York Time’s Mythical Debunking of the Reagan Myth, a New Lesson In Propaganda.

Monday, January 21, 2008 2:40 PM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/891a796e-1a05-4978-898d-6b537e47c718

 

Another Lesson in Propaganda, Lies and Sleaze From The New York Times.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:51 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/1a8b21b3-4d72-4558-bece-fce7920b4d13

 

Propaganda Lesson # 50,001 From The NYT: Krugman Advises Us About Personalities And Their Effects On Economics.

Monday, January 14, 2008 12:58 PM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/4183cd6c-8a51-4286-9fe8-c13c74fdf651

 

The New York Times Returns to Mindlessly Advocating Tax Hikes: Propaganda Lesson #50,001.

Monday, January 07, 2008 11:25 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/a9715023-f043-4d78-8e23-1cf0d1fd118a

 

More Lessons in Propaganda from the NYT: The Great Divide Phantasm.

Monday, December 31, 2007 11:44 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/d743c810-d793-4810-afd5-288fa3cb35cd

 

Arizona: A NYT Propaganda Lesson on the Abrogation of the Rule of Law for Illegal Aliens

Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:51 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/33b5a5af-d556-4b51-9a29-97934a13cc4e

 

The New York Times Gives Another Propaganda Lesson on Hillary

Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:43 PM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/a33cb63b-2c81-4747-be4d-99c54799f358

 

Propaganda Alert: New York Times calls for "Fair Tests?!"

Monday, November 26, 2007 3:44 PM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/32b0c232-e531-4f91-bd33-50d2cf604304

 

More Propaganda and Half Truths from the New York Times

Sunday, November 18, 2007 1:55 PM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/d51aca44-ba27-44a4-aed7-9afe7b9e36dc

 

 

[14] Skip this baloney

 

[17] “It lost $1.12 billion in the year ending Sept. 30, 2007, after losing $1.07 billion in 2006. Those losses were after Amtrak received about $1.3 billion in federal subsidies each year. The train service hasn’t turned a profit since its inception in 1970.  Yet some experts are saying that record ridership could make 2008 the first time Amtrak approaches a profit.” http://industry.bnet.com/travel/1000203/amtraks-wild-ride-could-get-bumpier/

 

[18] Apparent human beings who cannot be fired for poor work, sloth, tardiness, ignorance, inaccuracies or any other reason. This is a new word although it is also the name of a blogger.

 

[19] 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

 

[20] Krugman Explains EcoNazism in the Warmest Terms. Tax Tax Tax

http://ryckzrantz.blogtownhall.com/2009/05/01/krugman_explains_econazism_in_the_warmest_terms_tax_tax_tax.thtml

 

 

[23] http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/kennedy.accident/index.html. “WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday that he will enter a rehabilitation program after crashing his car on Capitol Hill a day earlier.  "I struggle every day with this disease, as do millions of Americans," Kennedy said. (Watch Kennedy detail his addiction problems -- 2:52) “Kennedy's father, Sen. Ted Kennedy, said Friday he has "enormous respect for the work Patrick has done."

"All of us in the family admire his courage in speaking publicly about very personal issues and fully support his decision to seek treatment," the Massachusetts Democrat said. "He has taken full responsibility for events that occurred."

 

[25]"Read my lips," Biden 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."[25]Biden[25] in an incoherent rant at some county fairgrounds near the campus of Ohio University in Athens on Oct 15, 2008.

 

[27] Like Maxine Waters. http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/06/26/why_not_nationalize_oil.html

http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/8458

 

[27] Waters Helped Bank Whose Stock She Once Owned. California Democrat Has Championed Minority-Owned OneUnited on Capitol Hill and Criticized Its Government Regulators http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123682571772404053.html

 

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