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John Maynard Keynes had it all wrong because he was gay and childless says Harvard professor
dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 4, 2013

Posted on 05/04/2013 7:07:00 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

A Harvard professor took to the podium at a finance conference Friday and called major influencer of modern economics John Maynard Keynes wrong about his philosophies because he was gay and childless.

During a question and answer session in Carlsbad, California, well-known historian Niall Ferguson was asked how he felt about the theories of English economist John Maynard Keynes versus those of Edmund Burke.

What the prominent Obama critic said in response hushed the crowd of over 500.

According to Tom Kostigen, editor-at-large of Financial Advisor magazine, Ferguson made it clear that he believed Keynes was uninterested in the what was good for society, basically because of his sexual orientation.

‘Ferguson asked the audience how many children Keynes had,’ wrote Kostigen in Financial Advisor. ‘He explained that Keynes had none because he was a homosexual and was married to a ballerina, with whom he likely talked of "poetry" rather than procreated.’

Kostigen said many of the audience members took offense at the remark, but that Ferguson continued.

‘Ferguson, author of The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die,' wrote Kostigen, ‘says it's only logical that Keynes would take this selfish worldview because he was an "effete" member of society.’

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To: Tailgunner Joe

Professor Hans Herman Hoppe got in serious trouble with the guardians of political correctness at University of Nevada for suggesting that JMK’s theory might have had something to do with him being a homosexual. He ultimately won his battle with the University though.


21 posted on 05/04/2013 7:27:44 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well, I won’t deny that homosexuals usually have only what’s worse for society on their minds.


22 posted on 05/04/2013 7:28:44 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well, yes. This was obvious to me way back in the 1950s, when I was in college.

As the article says, Keynes’s best-known quote is: “In the long run we are all dead.” This was in response to the question, What will your economic policy do in the long run? Isn’t it very dangerous? Well, Keynes responded, “In the long run, we are all dead.”

Meaning, it doesn’t matter if the economy turns into a gigantic bubble down the line, and there is massive future hyperinflation, since we won’t be around to suffer the consequences anyway. So, who cares?

Obviously, that is the attitude of someone who doesn’t ever intend to have children, and could care less what happens to the next generation, after he is dead.

I.e., a homosexual.


23 posted on 05/04/2013 7:29:04 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; All

And I am betting this author agrees with Keynes on globalism, free trade, the Int’l Monetary Fund....as Keynes was the implementor of the modern version of these things born at the Breton Woods conference. Would that make the author gay, diverse, or unsure of his sexuality?


24 posted on 05/04/2013 7:29:06 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Never apologize, Niall.


25 posted on 05/04/2013 7:30:13 PM PDT by Third Person (Welcome to Gaymerica.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Wasn't Keynes one of the Bloomsbury Set?

A whole bunch of them were gay and many of those that weren't were sexually deviant in other ways.

26 posted on 05/04/2013 7:31:36 PM PDT by what's up
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To: fhayek

I agree. Someone should have asked Ferguson whether being rich and famous like him makes a person not care about the plight of poor unemployed people. Because an awful lot of liberals have kids and gays or otherwise childless I have known can be religious and conservative.


27 posted on 05/04/2013 7:34:03 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Accent pillows? EVERYONE knows what THOSE are...!!!

(face reddens with sudden giggling)

28 posted on 05/04/2013 7:40:48 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Tailgunner Joe

He’d have done better to mention that single heterosexual people have this problem too. At least the ones I know do. They couldn’t care less about what the debt & deficits are going to do to future generations. As long as they get theirs, to them it’s all good.


29 posted on 05/04/2013 7:43:08 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: JRandomFreeper

Well said!


30 posted on 05/04/2013 7:47:23 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Yes, but don’t plan on them listening. Homos are masters of circular reasoning as are all leftists. When nothing exists outside that prism, your comment is obviously the result of homophobia and society’s determination to discount the opinion of the 45% of the population that is Homosexual.

See what I did there? You see the same circular reasoning every day with the MSM.


31 posted on 05/04/2013 7:47:48 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Tailgunner Joe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes#Allegations_of_racism
Keynes was a proponent of eugenics. He served as Director of the British Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944. As late as 1946, shortly before his death, Keynes declared eugenics to be “the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists.”[136]


32 posted on 05/04/2013 7:50:55 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

While not a fan of JMK, I feel obligated to point out to the folks in government that they should have finished his book. Yes, his policy calls for the government to stimulate the economy by issuing debt to get the velocity of money moving.

However, that part they forgot to read was when revenues started coming in, you are supposed to pay down the debt so that you had the ability to be stimulative again, when the cycle changed.

Seems like part I is fun. Part II is not. So our government just blew it off.


33 posted on 05/04/2013 7:53:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: Deathtomarxists
A person with no skin in the game

*quiet giggling*

34 posted on 05/04/2013 7:59:38 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Fantasywriter

Single heterosexual people selfish and liberal? That is a gross and incorrect generalization.


35 posted on 05/04/2013 8:01:23 PM PDT by SisterK (you catch 'em, He'll clean 'em)
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To: Vermont Lt

Part 2 never happens because Part 1 never works. If it did, then Obama’s stimulus should have worked. It didn’t.


36 posted on 05/04/2013 8:02:25 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
E. Michael Jones was writing 25 years ago that Keynes launched "homosexual economics". I thought at the time "Wha...?" but since then, I have seen that it makes sense. If you have no future generation to think of, if you have no stake in the future of society even to the extent of one more generation, is all you're playing for is Gratification Now, yeah, keep borrowing, keep spending, get the govt. to keep priming the pump.

Who the hell cares if in the long run it all goes crash? "In the long run, we're all dead." -- J.M. Keynes. Homosexual economics.

37 posted on 05/04/2013 8:08:12 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("He will come on that Day to judge the living and the dead, and the earth by fire.")
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To: Norm Lenhart
People must understand one proven truth. Homos put everything they think, say, do, believe, whatever through the prism of their homosexuality. Everything.

People don't understand because people operate under the illusion that all people are basically good. They don't grasp what original sin means.

38 posted on 05/04/2013 8:11:33 PM PDT by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Keynes was against large structural deficits because he believed they chilled rather than stimulated the economy.
Does that mean Obama is more gay or childless, just liberal or whatever ?


39 posted on 05/04/2013 8:11:47 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: BenLurkin

Men are more than brains attached to bodies. The argument can be made against clergymen who are no less monk than bachelor.


40 posted on 05/04/2013 8:12:06 PM PDT by RobbyS
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