http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/opinion/29krugman.html?ex=1304395200&en=5418dde9be746a20&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-1103-L18
He ends it with “be afraid, be very afraid.” And we are the fear-mongers?
This is just generic pap for the masses. He’s reminding them they are right and the Republicans are wrong. Obama is a conciliatory moderate, but those big meany-head Republicans won’t listen to him, and will do the same big meany-head things they did in 1995.
He continues his meme that it is necessary for the government to do something to fix the economy, and that absent help, the economy will not recover. This has been a successful tactic for them. Republicans think ordinary people are quite able to make decisions on their own. It’s not that they are saying nothing should be done, but that a tyrannical government is not the right entity to be doing it.
Governments can’t and don’t run businesses. They provide needed public services that can’t be had any other way. Printing money to pay for things the people would be unwilling to pay for in open taxation is not one of those services. “Stimulating” the economy by taking our money and disbursing it arbitrarily and mainly to fellow-travelers is not one, either.
We want to be left alone. Don’t try to help us. Obama, go golfing. Pelosi, go find a better plastic surgeon. Reid, go burn up ants with a magnifying glass, or chase Vegas showgirls.
And Krugman, I think you should take up sailing. Buy yourself a big boat with the money you have made advocating economically ruinous policies, and spend the next two years sailing around the world, without a cell phone. You will see how much we needed you when you get back. It might be humbling for you, but frankly you need some humanizing. Not sure if you got the short man thing going on, but you would most bless the world by remaining silent.