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Losing Our Country (another Krugman bizarroma, he loses it)
NY Times ^ | June 10, 2005 | PAUL KRUGMAN

Posted on 06/09/2005 8:35:15 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 06/09/2005 8:35:15 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem; Admin Moderator

Should the headline be "Bizzarorama?


2 posted on 06/09/2005 8:36:19 PM PDT by Petronski (Veni Vidi Venti: I came, I saw, I drank a lottta coffee.)
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To: neverdem
Apparently Mr. Krugman never heard the names Rockefeller, Carnegie, Mellon, Ford, Crocker.....

Not only is he a very poor writer, he's an extremely poor student of history.

L

3 posted on 06/09/2005 8:41:25 PM PDT by Lurker (Remember the Beirut Bombing; 243 dead Marines. The House of Assad and Hezbollah did it..)
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To: neverdem
Baby boomers like me grew up in a relatively equal society. In the 1960's....

It must be all that LSD.

4 posted on 06/09/2005 8:41:27 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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To: concerned about politics

"Adjusted for inflation, the income of the median family doubled between 1947 and 1973."

Adjusted for inflation, the intelligence of Krugamanic is now 14 points below that of the guy making pencils at the sheltered workshop.


5 posted on 06/09/2005 8:47:46 PM PDT by George Stupidnopolis
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To: Petronski
Should the headline be "Bizzarorama?

No, it's a takeoff on medicalese, as in carcinoma, aka cancer. Sometimes an unusual, rare, bizarre diagnosis, are informally called a bizarroma by docs.

6 posted on 06/09/2005 8:49:27 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

That's why I ask. LOL


7 posted on 06/09/2005 8:51:34 PM PDT by Petronski (Veni Vidi Venti: I came, I saw, I drank a lottta coffee.)
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To: neverdem

When Krugman writes a loser of a column like this, does he increase or decrease the net number of people who agree with him? Or does he just like to give us indigestion??


8 posted on 06/09/2005 8:55:39 PM PDT by guitarist
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To: neverdem

fool


9 posted on 06/09/2005 8:57:42 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: neverdem
Why is this happening?

Bush's fault.
10 posted on 06/09/2005 9:00:07 PM PDT by stylin19a ( Social Security...neither social nor secure.)
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To: Lurker
...he's an extremely poor student of history.

Based on what he's written here, I'd say he is a drug-addled, narcoleptic, ignoramus who is lucky not to get confused, misdirected, and lost on his way to his local Barber Shop.

11 posted on 06/09/2005 9:00:23 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: neverdem

Soaking the rich won't move the numbers much Paul baby. Globalization is a harsh mistress.


12 posted on 06/09/2005 9:01:53 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: neverdem

If things are so bad, why doesn't he strap a couple of grenades to his body, walk into his rich boss's office and demand that his rich boss at the Times give him as much money as he is making. Then to show he's serious, pull a couple of pins. I'm sure life will be so much better for him on the other side.

Goodbye.


13 posted on 06/09/2005 9:02:25 PM PDT by MikeHu
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To: neverdem
progressive taxation

Two words that should always raise a red flag. According to liberals ("progressives"), a progressive tax is ok, but a flat tax is "regressive" because it affects lower-income people more, since they have less discretionary income to play with.

14 posted on 06/09/2005 9:02:35 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: guitarist

His raw numbers are correct, well would be correct if the CPI didn't overstate inflation.


15 posted on 06/09/2005 9:03:00 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: neverdem
Baby boomers like me grew up in a relatively equal society.

I guess, then, there was no reason for the "great society" or civil rights movement of the 60s?

16 posted on 06/09/2005 9:10:07 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines ("I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."--S. Townsley on Ithaca)
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To: neverdem

Good grief what a bunch of nonsense. Lets see I was born in 1959. I was the third of FOUR children. My mom was born in 1933 my Dad in 1930. The home I grew up in had no sewer not even a septic tank till a few years ago. There was no central heating or cooling. The only heat in the house was the oven stove. One bathroom, no shower, 3 bedrooms. Iron water from a well -----had to go to the laundry in town each Saturday to wash the clothes so everything would not be the color orange. Wore hand me downs some shipped all the way from cousins in Dallas TX once a year. Dad and Mom graduated high school. He grew a few cows and cut pulpwood. Mom finally went to college (without gov. help) when the youngest was 4. Then she taught school. Dad finally built 12 chicken houses over about 40 years of hard work(no government help)All four of his children graduated college(no government help) and one went to medical school. They actually paid for us younguns to be born and when we had to go to the doctor which was rarely. No Union, Govermnet handout helped my family and I thank God they didn't try or it could have been we would still be caught in the same place waiting on people like this nut in NY City to help us poor ignorant folks from Arkansas.


17 posted on 06/09/2005 9:10:23 PM PDT by therut
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To: neverdem

Not a word about immigration and offshoring? Things are getting worse, but he doesn't mention the real causees. I do agree with him on the bankruptcy legislation. But a flat tax would help this country in ways that Krugman doesn't begin to imagine.


18 posted on 06/09/2005 9:31:30 PM PDT by John Filson
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Because his rich boss is at Princeton University. He does his GIG for the Slimes for Pizza money.

Did you know that Princeton's endowment is large enough to educate the lowest of the lowest on the economic scale every year for the next 70 years WITHOUT collecting a dime in tuition. Krugman wouldn't even have to take a cut in pay.
Greed needs to be redefined.


19 posted on 06/09/2005 9:45:49 PM PDT by kylaka
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Then those poorly paid professors at Montclair State University should be coming to his office strapped with explosives to their bodies demanding he give up some of his pay until theirs are equal with his.

What's with these elitist liberals? All they can see are the rich getting more than they are but not the more they are getting than everybody else.

There're always these richly paid editors at our local newspapers appointing themselves as the spokesperson for the poor -- while not letting the poor speak for themselves because what would these poor people know?


20 posted on 06/09/2005 9:54:28 PM PDT by MikeHu
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