tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post5945359406771706692..comments2023-10-30T06:04:10.708-04:00Comments on eye-on-washington: What is Progressive Liberalism?muralsignshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07892531198621839798noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post-82585679255049632832010-09-30T08:51:41.210-04:002010-09-30T08:51:41.210-04:00Hello Spectre,
You have every right to despise Pa...Hello Spectre,<br /><br />You have every right to despise Paul Krugman, yet I see your anger as hypocritical.<br /><br />You have referenced Paul Craig Roberts, who was a key figure in the Reagan administration and their supply-side, trickle down economic programs that were the beginnings of our current economic tsunami. Now, PCR has changed his views and speaks about our economic problems related to the Federal Reserve, mega banks, bailouts and trickle down all being factors to our current down fall.<br /><br />Also, even David Stockman, the designer of trickle down economics has come forward saying that it did not work. He, too, is speaking out against mega banks, bailouts, and the damage being done to the working class and our overall economy.<br /><br />You don't rail against these two who were actually in government affecting policy which was damaging to working people. Do you give them a pass for seeing the light?<br /><br />Yet, in spite of Krugman's previous error in economic judgement, he has come forward since then speaking out against the damage being done to the working class, and the excess supports given to the mega banks and the corporate elite.<br /><br />But, you don't give him a pass. I guess it is because Stockman and PCR are Republican conservatives, but Krugman is a liberal. <br /><br />Therefore, it appears you are really supportive of the Republican's conservative members, but biased against liberal Democrats who DO support the needs of working class Americans.<br /><br />jerrymuralsignshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07892531198621839798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post-26155665810887284912010-09-29T11:07:15.692-04:002010-09-29T11:07:15.692-04:00A Congressman was seated next to a little girl on ...A Congressman was seated next to a little girl on an airplane, so he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."<br /><br /><br />The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"<br /><br /><br />"Oh, I don't know," said the congressman. "How about global warming, universal health care, or stimulus packages?" And he smiled smugly.<br /><br /><br />"OK," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"<br /><br /><br />The legislator, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."<br /><br /><br />To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss global warming, universal health care, or the economy when you don't know shit?" And she went back to reading her book.SPECTRE of Deflationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post-89862988135974607102010-09-29T10:09:55.264-04:002010-09-29T10:09:55.264-04:00Someone else doesn't like the weasel any more ...Someone else doesn't like the weasel any more than myself. This person also understands that Krugman would start a BIG WAR in order to pull Amerika out of the cess pool these assholes created with their complete bullshit policy decisions in the first place. How did your call for a housing bubble work out Paul? Why <br /><br /><br /><b>I Despise Krugman</b> <br /><br /><br />Recently, I wrote a take-down of Paul Krugman. <br /><br /> <br /><b>I pointed out how, in some of his recent posts, Krugman was distorting facts in order to score points for his policy prescriptions. I showed how he was pulling sleight-of-hand with the numbers, so as to play on readers’ misconceptions, and thereby make his rather foolish policy prescriptions sound reasonable. <br /> <br />In short, I showed how unreasonable his policy prescriptions really were, capping my read on him as follows: A man who would never tell the truth, when a lie would serve him just as well.</b> <br /> <br />But as I wrote my rebuttal to Krugman’s recent posts, I was surprised to feel a blazing anger towards the man—not towards his policies, or even towards his less-than-honest attempts to fudge facts in order to score points—<br /> <br />—I found that I despised Krugman: With a passion. <br /> <br /><br />A policy disagreement is not enough to get me to despise anyone. I’ve had plenty of big disagreements with plenty of people, including close friends—I never allow intellectual disagreements to come between me and my friends, or even to color my feelings towards my opponents. I’m just not built that way: Ideas, for me, are toys to play with, not flags of opposing enemies. <br /> <br />However, though I have fewer disagreements with Krugman than with some of my close friends, I still despise Krugman—still with a passion. <br /> <br />As you’ve probably noticed, I’m pretty analytical. If I were being eaten alive by a shark, I’d probably stop screaming for a bit and say, “My, that’s interesting: The shark closes his eyes and rolls them up into his skull, as he thrashes my body to death—isn’t that fascinating?”<br /> <br />My visceral reaction to Krugman is something I couldn’t explain, until I got a fan letter about my takedown of him. The fan letter was very kind, but innocuous—I replied off-handedly and very quickly, so quickly that it was almost automatic writing. <br />(SNIP)<br /><br />http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-i-hate-krugman.html#moreSPECTRE of Deflationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post-3073169470231647802010-09-28T19:54:10.888-04:002010-09-28T19:54:10.888-04:00There you go again Spectre, unleashing your anger ...There you go again Spectre, unleashing your anger without restraint. I have to ask, what progressive liberals are in support of warrantless wiretapping being expanded further into the Internet, and elsewhere? Which progressive liberals believe in assassinations of citizens? <br /><br />As I recall, LilboyBush and the conservatives supported his unprecedented pursuit into fascism with their support of his decision to go forward with warrantless wiretapping, domestic spying, rendition, torture, assassination, the process of arresting those who he considered to be enemy NON-combatants, etc.<br /><br />Then, it were the Regressives of the Republican party, which I have now renamed "GOAT P"--Grand Ole American Taliban Party, or GOAT Pers!<br /><br />Today we have moderate and conservative Democrats--Dem Rats-- and Republican GOAT Pers furthering this invasion of our privacy--unlawful search and seizure because of fear of terrorism. Yet, just today we heard about a domestic terrorist with an assault rifle wielding and shooting on a campus in Texas before he killed himself. I guess he was missed by our snoop n' seizure spies. They must have missed his Facebook account.<br /><br />What we have today is the neoliberal agenda brought to us by Grover Norquist's Project for a New American Century, embraced by the GOAT Pers and Dem Rats.<br /><br />Homeland Security contractors need more corporate welfare dollars, therefore, they press our representatives to step further into fascism so these poor contractors can have something to do.<br /><br />jerrymuralsignshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07892531198621839798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post-60788409996601408392010-09-28T11:53:00.921-04:002010-09-28T11:53:00.921-04:00There is a war on, but it's not in Poppy-stan....There is a war on, but it's not in Poppy-stan. It's right here in Amerika where the PC crowd,including progressive liberals, want to protect us from ourselves while spying on us 24/7, and of course it's presented in a way that the sheeple will tolerate as they steal our rights in the open. I had Obama correct from the get go, and I will mention it here because it was argued that, to begin with, he was better than sliced bread. How does the rotten loaf of bread look now? Remember the Red Jacketed Youth in the commercials? How about him calling for a civilian military force to rival the US Armed Forces? Remember those things that seemed so innocent when he took office? State Assasination of Amerikan Citizens is now a State Secret, and Obama is a corporatist. Bullshit, as this view is not what I got when he won the election. Now we, you really, want to change the meaning of what was said before the want to be dictator showed his true colors. No, I remember well the hopes that were thrown around here when the Dems won the right to dictate to Amerika what we will tolerate. The Presidency, the House and the Senate have been and are theirs to do with as they will. We aren't gonna confuse anyone with they aren't really Demoncrats because they really are Demoncrats just like I thought and said over the last couple years. People that want to confuse use shades of grey to keep from ever being wrong. <br /><br />The War On The U.S. Constitution<br /><br /><br />http://thetruthwins.com/archives/the-war-on-the-u-s-constitutionSPECTRE of Deflationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post-55312396066478500352010-09-24T15:36:20.308-04:002010-09-24T15:36:20.308-04:00To say that Paul Krugman caused the housing bubble...To say that Paul Krugman caused the housing bubble in a very extreme point of view. Under the Bush administration, was Alan Greenspan along with Ben Bernanke, both Federal Reserve bots. Greenspan, the very person who controlled the monetary policy, and Hank Paulson, the Troll at the Treasury handling fiscal policy, along with his Boss-LilBoy Bush, were in charge of the economy.<br /><br />Anyone on the outside were only critics and commentators.<br /><br />Krugman had as much to do with controlling interest rates and monetizing the currency flows as I was!!!<br /><br />As I recall LilBoy declared to America that his administration was the "Ownership Society" whereby Americans at the lower levels of the income ladder would be able to buy homes. COME AND GET IT!!<br /><br />I really get tired of factual misrepresentations. Paul Krugman had as much clout in the most rightwing administration in my lifetime, as I had!!!<br /><br />Krugman opened his mouth and pushed out a neoliberal Reagan/Bush opinion, but he had no authority to promote and execute the Bush agenda of bubbling the housing prices.<br /><br />It was through Greenspan's low interest rates, and rating agencies ignoring the level of quality of mortgages issued, along with the bankstas and mortgage lenders ignoring the "ability to pay" buyers, along with ballooning mortgage rates, and the securitization of the mortgages with no "skin in the game" that caused the bubble. <br /><br />It had nothing to do with the words of Krugman.<br /><br />The exaggeration, the propagandizing facts is exactly what the media does to exploit the issues.jerry, of eye on washingtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775739590567135420.post-88574445386177174042010-09-24T14:17:08.938-04:002010-09-24T14:17:08.938-04:00Krugman Did Cause the Housing Bubble
http://blog....Krugman Did Cause the Housing Bubble<br /><br />http://blog.mises.org/10153/krugman-did-cause-the-housing-bubble/<br /><br /><br /><br />Is Paul Krugman About To Call On Bernanke To Create A Brand New Housing Bubble?<br /><br /><br /><br />Last summer there was a bit of a spitball fight when some critics of Paul Krugman dredged up an old 2002 column of his in which he seemed to call for another housing bubble. Here's what he said: <br /><br /><b>"The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance.To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment.</b> And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."<br /><br />Paul Krugman defended himself arguing that he wasn't calling for a new housing bubble, but rather assessing up what the Fed was trying to do. STILL, given the disastrous effects of the post-NASDAQ housing bubble, the whole thing looks bad.<br />(SNIP)<br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/is-paul-krugman-about-to-call-on-bernanke-to-create-a-brand-new-housing-bubble-2010-7#ixzz10TKbflrMSPECTRE of Deflationnoreply@blogger.com