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A Gut Punch to the Middle{Kooky Krugman ALERT)
NYT ^ | Mayday plus 1,2005 | Paul krugman (an economist)

Posted on 05/02/2005 11:11:06 AM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE

By now, every journalist should know that you have to carefully check out any scheme coming from the White House. You can't just accept the administration's version of what it's doing. Remember, these are the people who named a big giveaway to logging interests "Healthy Forests."

Sure enough, a close look at President Bush's proposal for "progressive price indexing" of Social Security puts the lie to claims that it's a plan to increase benefits for the poor and cut them for the wealthy. In fact, it's a plan to slash middle-class benefits; the wealthy would barely feel a thing.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badbookkeeping; idiotorial; notaneconomist; pyramidscheme; socialinsecurity; theoldgreylady; tisapityshesawhore
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Same Old Same Old from a card carrying member of the "Upper West Side We Know What's Best For You Society".
1 posted on 05/02/2005 11:11:09 AM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

This guy's one of the biggest turds in the stopped-up toilet of American Leftism.


2 posted on 05/02/2005 11:13:36 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Paul Krugman long ago ceased to be anything resembling an economist.
3 posted on 05/02/2005 11:14:36 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
How does this clown have any credibility whatsoever? He may just be the biggest demagogue out there when it comes to economic policy.

You know you're full of crap when your article gets debunked at 8:50 AM, a mere 2 hours after most people pick up their stupid newspaper. Check this out:

http://www.socialsecuritychoice.org/archives/2005/05/lies_upon_lies.php

4 posted on 05/02/2005 11:15:01 AM PDT by SunnyD1182
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
...these are the people who named a big giveaway to logging interests "Healthy Forests."

I'm not up on this policy but it is healthy to prune a forest. Is a healthy to let a lawn get overgrown and go to seed or should it be cut regularly?

Or (back to the forest) should we let wildfires rage for months instead?

5 posted on 05/02/2005 11:15:01 AM PDT by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: facedown

Oh did I forget to turn on my sarcasm button? LOL


6 posted on 05/02/2005 11:15:25 AM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE (Fight Crime: Shoot Back)
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Useful idiots like Krugman exemplify all that is most wrong with the political left and the "main stream" media. Just barely useful as birdcage liner.

As long as creatures like him continue to populate what is considered "news" papers nowadays, the MSM's readership and illusion of "integrity" will only continue to decline.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

7 posted on 05/02/2005 11:18:02 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
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To: SunnyD1182

Thanks for the post. Its a must read. As usual PK plays loose with the facts and mostly purely distorts. This guy is a FRAUD who ought to be called to task.


8 posted on 05/02/2005 11:18:03 AM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE (Fight Crime: Shoot Back)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Krugman is good only in the guise of a backwards economist. Just as his predictions of stagflation and diminished expectations for the mid to late 1990's were precisely backwards, so too are all of his political and economic theories.

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9 posted on 05/02/2005 11:18:34 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
This guy may have a nervous breakdown before President Bush leaves office.

Krugman is the ultimate Dummie left wing liberal.

10 posted on 05/02/2005 11:24:25 AM PDT by jveritas (The Left cannot win a national election ever again.)
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In fact, it's a plan to slash middle-class benefits; the wealthy would barely feel a thing

He's is on the money with this. Those of us that make between 50-90k would get slammed. I'm retiring in ten years; I'm just not going to go for it...

FIRE AWAY!!

Mike

11 posted on 05/02/2005 11:29:05 AM PDT by MichaelP
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I guess all those fires in California last year were a figment of our imagination.

But then, the left would rather see the entire state go up in flames than allow a single tree to be used for homes, furniture, or any other purpose.

12 posted on 05/02/2005 11:38:38 AM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
By now, every journalist should know that you have to carefully check out any scheme coming from the White House.

By now, everyone with more than two brain cells knows you should ignore Krugman.

13 posted on 05/02/2005 11:41:31 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

A totally off-topic observation..but on this Sunday's Chris Mathews show..Mo Dowdie was on , and she was wearing "fishnets"


14 posted on 05/02/2005 11:46:11 AM PDT by ken5050 (The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
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To: MichaelP

support your position


15 posted on 05/02/2005 12:01:08 PM PDT by Mr. K
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Krugman never lets facts get in his way...Jerk.


16 posted on 05/02/2005 12:44:14 PM PDT by Big Digger (I)
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It seems that Krugman is so obsessed by the notion of living in a world of depression, disappointment and diminished expectations that he should commence immediately to disassociate himself from the New York Times and the mainstream media, and the world will be an immensely more cheerful, sensible and hopeful place. That seems to be the common personality disorder of readers and writers of the New York Times and mainstream media. They need to find more healthful outlets for their neurotic obsessions.


17 posted on 05/02/2005 12:44:40 PM PDT by MikeHu
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Isn't Paul Krugman the one who's been claiming a total economic meltdown for America since 12:01AM, January 20th, 2000?

How's that prediction working out for ya, Pauly?

18 posted on 05/02/2005 12:48:04 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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Based on my yard, cutting selected trees down on a regular basis is vital...


20 posted on 05/02/2005 12:49:47 PM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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