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10/18/07
10/18/07
NPR is an enabler for economoron Krugman
May I recommend to you an article I wrote for Human Events about a week ago after I heard an interview of New York Times pseudo-economist Paul Krugman:
NPR’s Siegel Helps Krugman Lie
Ross Kaminsky, HumanEvents.com, 10/11/07
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22787&page=1#c1
1 comment
# Mike R. 
on 10/18/07 at 10:31
on 10/18/07 at 10:31
Another good job pointing out the absurdity of the left and their twisted economic logic.
The problem is most people are so unsophisticated, spoiled and uneducated in this day and age that they are more easily persuaded by this sort irrational argument based on class envy and false notions of economic equality and fairness than by reality.
They are also so tremendously lacking in their sense of even recent economic history in this country that they embarrass themselves every time they talk about the subject.
In my middle class family, my grandparents went through the depression and died relatively wealthy but they still ate leftovers three days a week for as long as I knew them. My parents raised three children, drove two used cars until I was about ten and we had one color television until I was 16. They have retired quite well.
Today, almost any (modest) middle class family home is festooned with electronics in every room, they wouldn't consider eating last night's dinner again and it is highly doubtful they keep an automobile more than 3 years. Their children are enrolled in every conceivable sport, art, nature, and summer camp program imaginable and think nothing of asking for a $700 computer or $300 Ipod for Christmas at age 9.
That middle class has grown, or should I say exploded, since the 60's into the most powerful, broadly spread and spoiled economic juggernaut the world has ever seen.
We argue over providing "free" health care to the children of families making 400% and more above the poverty line as if our country needed to promote the growth of our population and support the breeding class to do so like the Russians.
And we are now headed down the long road of arguing for the bail-out of overspending homeowners who have been borrowing like 1920's era speculators, against their ballooning home prices to live like pashas.
All this as the inevitable, wrist to forehead "oh my', polling data tells us each day how worried this middle class is that their children, "for the first time in history", may not live a better life than they have.
The incredible thing to me is that with all of this wealth and luxury we seem to be headed for a form of disastrous American branded socialism, (even as the socialist nations are abandoning such schemes), certain to destroy this standard of living to which we have grown accustomed, because the left is convincing people that the government can better and more equitably provide for our needs and desires.
The negative comments to your post on the Human Events site demonstrate this frightening mindset quite nicely.
It is almost as if some national guilt over our success has infected the American conscience so deeply that nothing less than religious style mortification and penance will suffice.
The political/economic equivalent of flails are being offered by most candidates on both the right and left to the eager cries of the electorate.
Soon, I fear, we will all be marching through the proverbial streets beating ourselves and asking what we have done to cause the world to hate us and bring about their attacks, as we seek atonement for our success, dared hegemony and hubris.
Yich, these are indeed interesting times!!!
The problem is most people are so unsophisticated, spoiled and uneducated in this day and age that they are more easily persuaded by this sort irrational argument based on class envy and false notions of economic equality and fairness than by reality.
They are also so tremendously lacking in their sense of even recent economic history in this country that they embarrass themselves every time they talk about the subject.
In my middle class family, my grandparents went through the depression and died relatively wealthy but they still ate leftovers three days a week for as long as I knew them. My parents raised three children, drove two used cars until I was about ten and we had one color television until I was 16. They have retired quite well.
Today, almost any (modest) middle class family home is festooned with electronics in every room, they wouldn't consider eating last night's dinner again and it is highly doubtful they keep an automobile more than 3 years. Their children are enrolled in every conceivable sport, art, nature, and summer camp program imaginable and think nothing of asking for a $700 computer or $300 Ipod for Christmas at age 9.
That middle class has grown, or should I say exploded, since the 60's into the most powerful, broadly spread and spoiled economic juggernaut the world has ever seen.
We argue over providing "free" health care to the children of families making 400% and more above the poverty line as if our country needed to promote the growth of our population and support the breeding class to do so like the Russians.
And we are now headed down the long road of arguing for the bail-out of overspending homeowners who have been borrowing like 1920's era speculators, against their ballooning home prices to live like pashas.
All this as the inevitable, wrist to forehead "oh my', polling data tells us each day how worried this middle class is that their children, "for the first time in history", may not live a better life than they have.
The incredible thing to me is that with all of this wealth and luxury we seem to be headed for a form of disastrous American branded socialism, (even as the socialist nations are abandoning such schemes), certain to destroy this standard of living to which we have grown accustomed, because the left is convincing people that the government can better and more equitably provide for our needs and desires.
The negative comments to your post on the Human Events site demonstrate this frightening mindset quite nicely.
It is almost as if some national guilt over our success has infected the American conscience so deeply that nothing less than religious style mortification and penance will suffice.
The political/economic equivalent of flails are being offered by most candidates on both the right and left to the eager cries of the electorate.
Soon, I fear, we will all be marching through the proverbial streets beating ourselves and asking what we have done to cause the world to hate us and bring about their attacks, as we seek atonement for our success, dared hegemony and hubris.
Yich, these are indeed interesting times!!!
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