Where do you start with this lunacy? I hope he doesn't ever have to go to the south for an assignment without his shots, first. Wouldn't want him to catch any of those NASCAR diseases.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

“I believe in ..., supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty,” 

“I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law.” 

These are contradictory statements.  You cannot have civil liberties and democracy if you have "institutions" which "support" - read "enforce" limits on extreme wealth and poverty.

The only institution that can "regulate" wealth is the Free Market.  The Government's job is to see to it that the Free Market is not abused by crooks or usurped by politicians.

Anything else is tyranny, not democracy, and it will lead to the very extremes Krugman claims to be against: i.e. a very wealthy and very small ruling class elite, and a vast multitude of poor serfs.  Just ask the Russians or the Poles who suffered 70 years of "institutions that limit the extremes of wealth and poverty." 

I Blame "Liberals" for everything bad in the world.

Take that, Paulie!

Liberals are such putz heads when it comes to 289 pages of idiocy. So Southerners are to blame for Ronald Reagan seeing that keeping people one welfare enslaved them...........when Bob Byrd was using his KKK rope to keep them down on the bayou pickin taters en eatin dem tastey beans.

For reality, comrade Krugman should visit a city like Madison, MS or any of a number of southern towns now and behold something odd in the ole white south. People now see major electronics and communication firms with Indians, Blacks and Whites all working and getting along where the old welfare state kept all seperate, poor and unequal.

The greatest boom to the south has been economics finally pulling it out of the Civil War depression which lasted until Ronald Reagan. Not even FDR with his Mobile ship building did a thing for prosperity as blacks got jobs and when the war ended so did the jobs.

The real blame for all America's problems are liberals buying poor people's votes with other people's money. It infuriates those with money and it pisses off the poor having to take handouts and deal with all those idiot government workers who never understand what you are talking about and make you beg for pennies and help.

If Krugman had any brains, he would be blaming his robber barons bosses now allowing the Hispanic and Slav illegals into America because when these liberals in the 1960's told women to get into the work force it forced black men into poverty jobs or crime........the same attack is being thrust upon the black community today by Hispanics stealing jobs of good wages in construction etc...

Blacks have time and again been screwed over not from slavery, but from liberals destroying their ability to advance. Liberals have been the ones with their handouts which have devastated great black learning institutions by putting "Clarence Thomas in Harvard" and then laughing at his diploma so he tossed the thing away in disgust.

I hope someone sends this to your publisher Mr. Krugman and perhaps to you to shame you in how ignorant you are.

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It's failed every time it's been tried. A simple comparison of The USA's GNP and personal wealth versus that of the EU, India or wherever Socialism is in full-force proves that. Laissez-faire economics works because it the only economic system that reselmbles natural law where a person is free to do what's best for themselves and their family. Socialism takes that freedom away. Seriously, does anybody seriously believe that some government employee (or Paul Krugman) would know what's best for my family and me?

Back in the Fifties, the revolutionary comedian Lennie Bruce said: "If you want to see real prejudice, speak in a Southern accent." With lefties, it's still true.

Liberals don't want equal opportunities.  They want equal results.  They would have a better chance for those results in they weren't so stupid. 

Maybe Krugman should rephrase his lament that the expansion of the welfare state would be possible if it weren't for our "free elections"--not southern white men, who have as much right to vote as 18 year old kids and felons for Democrats.  (This is the same bunch that got upset with Ann Coulter talking about the way that women vote.) 

It's too bad that the people who know the answers to all of our problems never get elected.  Maybe they need to step out of Starbucks once in a while and face the real world.

(BTW, if you want to get a liberal mad, ask him how many illegal immigrants from the California fires that he has voluteeed to put up in his house.)

Southern white voters the cause of all economic ills? Hey, Krugman, what's next, blaming the Jews?

Does this talking rectum honestly believe that a marxist-socialist welfare state is the way to go? Have the people who buy into this stopped to think of the end result of such a philosophy? Here's a hint: Soviet Union. There won't be any gravy train, and very little gravy. Some government bureaucrat will tell you whether you will go to university or trade school. Some government bureaucrat will tell you what job you will have. Some government bureaucrat will tell a factory how much of which product it will produce. Productivity will vanish. The attitude of "As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work" will prevail with the result that very little will be produced, and that of a very shoddy quality. Some government bureaucrat will tell farmers (who, by the way will no longer own the land they farm) what to plant, and how much they can plant. Krugman can't be as stupid as he lets on, can he? Or, is he stupid enough to admit communism didn't work in Russia, "but we're smarter than they are, so it'll work here"?

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

These Socialist whackos like Krugman and of course Hillary just don't get it. People who have money have it for a reason: They know how to MAKE IT, SAVE IT, INVEST IT, and MAKE IT GROW. If the lunatic Krugman or Mrs. Bill Clinton, when she becomes (may God help us all) President could somehow wave a magic wand and instantly create equal distribution of wealth in this country, within 6 months the people who have all the money now would have it again, and those who expect the government to support them would be once again sittin' on the porch, broke after pissing all theirs away. These Un-American, Communist jackoffs, like Krugman, need to get the hell out of my country, and begin writing their nutjob columns from Cambodia or...oh, say, maybe another country where socialism works so well....like North Korea.

Seeing as how we're told all the time that whites are a minority group in the US and especially white conservative voters, I wonder how this group all of a sudden became so powerful as to irk Krugman?

Darth Dutch

"Krugman has been a columnist for The New York Times since 1999 and is an economics professor at Princeton University." 

Oh really, an economics proessor.

Um...

Well he is not a empirical economist nor is he a theoretical economist using mathematical models to explain himself.  He certainly isn't a micro-economist.

Let's see...

That would leave Social economics?

Um...

Krugman has been a twit for a long time, something the MSM can relate with as there are a lot of so-called 'expert' twits waxing eloquent on the virtues of poorly applied logic and impure derivation to conclusion thereto.

The issue with Marx and the failures of Communism and ultimately all forms of socialism is that these systems require totalitarian government oppression, thought control and harsh penalty for deviation to sustain the facade of an 'equal' society.

All pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others.

ACA

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Quoted from:  'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)

"“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions
that limit extremes of wealth and poverty,” Krugman wrote. “I believe
in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a
liberal and I’m proud of it.”"

Notice he didn't say he believes in the Constitution though. He makes it obvious every time he opens his mouth that he does not.

 Do Ted Rall and Krugman know they're white?

Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar. 

See,

If the north would have let the south secede, he would not have this issue.