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Thanksgiving appetizer

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on November 21, 2007 at 6:51 pm

KruggieHere’s another thing to give thanks for this holiday season: NYT columnist Paul Krugman getting his rump handed to him on a silver platter regarding his flip flopping positions on Social Security, courtesy of Ruth Marcus in a column appropriately titled “Krugman versus Krugman.”

Donald Luskin follows up with more of a dissection of Krugman’s position on Social Security here, in an update.

Krugman also got smacked down recently over his (and fellow NYT columnist Bob Herbert’s) repeated claims that Ronald Reagan’s 1980 speech in Neshoba, Mississippi made Reagan a “racist.”

It’s not a good week to be a turkey, nor is it a good week to be Paul Krugman.

But I repeat myself.

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    1. Morgan K Freeberg says:
      November 21, 2007 at 10:14 pm

      I could take or leave Krugman, but I felt kind of sorry for Herbert. He’s kind of a one-trick pony.

      Spreading this canard about the Republican party, has been just about the only thing he’s had to sell.

    2. Great White Rat says:
      November 21, 2007 at 10:24 pm

      A Thanksgiving lesson from the Pilgrims: did you know that the Pilgrims tried a socialist economy for their first two years in America? Care to guess how that worked out?

      The governor of the colony, William Bradford, wrote of the experience:

      The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato’s and other ancients applauded by some of later times; and that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God. For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labor and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense. The strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice.

      So the communal farming idea was a disaster. Fortunately, they found a solution:

      All this while no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any. So they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery. At length, after much debate of things, the Governor (with the advice of the chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to themselves; in all other thing to go on in the general way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.

      Good old private enterprise. The ones who worked hardest reaped the rewards. Fortunately, they had no Krugmans or Hillarys around to play the class envy card.

    3. Great White Rat says:
      November 21, 2007 at 10:38 pm

      “Two hundred years ago, the Congress of the United States issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation stating it was the “indispensable duty of all nations” to offer both praise and supplication to God. Above all other nations of the world, America has been especially blessed and should give special thanks. We have bountiful harvests, abundant freedoms, and a strong, compassionate people.”

      “I have always believed that this anointed land was set apart in an uncommon way, that a divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love of faith and freedom. Our pioneers asked that He would work His will in our daily lives so America would be a land of morality, fairness, and freedom.”

      “Today, we have more to be thankful for than our Pilgrim mothers and fathers who huddled on the edge of the New World that first Thanksgiving could ever dream. We should be grateful not only for our blessings, but for the courage and strength of our ancestors, which enable us to enjoy the lives we do today.”

      “Let us reaffirm through prayers and actions our thankfulness for America’s bounty and heritage.”

      – President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 Thanksgiving proclamation

      Here’s wishing a happy Thanksgiving to ST and all my fellow commenters on this great blog – one more thing to be thankful for!

    4. 2Hotel9 says:
      November 22, 2007 at 8:37 am

      Krug has definitely stuck his —- in it! What a moron.

      I clearly remember his screeds about how greedy Republicans had destroyed Socialist Security and how vitally important it was for ALL of us to pay massively higher taxes to fix it. Again, what a moron. It is an electronic world and people are, in fact, paying attention to what idiots in the media and politics are saying/doing. And remembering it.

      In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, “Lets get outa here, Magruda, they is way too smart for us!”

    5. TedintheShed says:
      November 22, 2007 at 1:31 pm

      Krugman is probably the most intelligent idiot I’ve ever seen. It seems ever since O’Reilly smacked him down, he’s been on a huge anti-conservative at all costs campaign.

    6. Mwalimu Daudi says:
      November 22, 2007 at 8:21 pm

      “Intelligent idiot” … isn’t that an oxymoron? Like “progressive patriot” or “liberal intellectual”?

    7. PCD says:
      November 23, 2007 at 4:54 pm

      6, MD, more like Idiot Columnist.

      Honestly, any paper that carries Krugman other than in the funny pages to laugh at is a rag that isn’t fit to be catbox liner.

    8. Americaneocon says:
      November 23, 2007 at 6:40 pm

      Marcus gave Krugman a good roasting!