Paul Krugman is a %#@*& Idiot

Just in case you were wondering, I disagree with virtually everything that NY Times columnist Paul Krugman writes and says. I wouldn’t be surprised if Krugman believes that the sun revolves around the Earth and that our planet is actually flat, surrounded by an ocean full of sea monsters and other swimming dragons.

Just look at his latest editorial in today’s NY Times entitled “America Wants Security.”

“It was a carefully staged Norman Rockwell scene. The street was lined with American flags; a high school band played "God Bless America."

Then, under the watchful gaze of Wal-Mart's chief operating officer, Maryland's governor vetoed a bill that would have obliged large businesses to spend more on employee health care…

As I have asked many times before: “who owns businesses—the stockholders or the government?” Who the heck is the government to tell businesses how to pay their employees?”

And there is more…

“The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showed what the pollsters called an "angry electorate." By huge margins, voters think that politicians are paying too little attention to their concerns, especially health care, jobs and gas prices.”

Ok, I know that you might be getting tired of me asking, but I defy you to show me where in the US Constitution it says “…life, liberty, health care, high paying jobs, and $1.25 a gallon gasoline.”

Paul Krugman is a %#@*& Idiot. Did I say that already? Actually, he’s an ignorant partisan %#@*& Idiot.

Krugman keeps on blithering and arguing with himself on wages…

“At the state level, many, though by no means all, politicians are responding to those concerns. The push to raise the minimum wage is a useful political barometer: seven states have raised the minimum in just the last two years.

True, there are limits on what state governments can do: they fear that if they do too much for workers, they'll drive business and jobs away. I'd argue that the fear is often exaggerated. For example, Wal-Mart may avoid states that force it to provide health insurance, but given the hidden subsidies the company receives - one way or another, taxpayers end up paying a lot for uninsured workers - this may not be such a bad thing. Still, any major strengthening of the safety net will have to come at the federal level.”

As I’ve already said over and over again, you cannot expect to raise a family of four working in a minimum wage job. And Comrade Krugman is right, if states screw around and place unreasonable limitations on employers, the employers are forced to do things like move out of the offending state, or worse, ultimately go out of business.

I'd like to see the government and Comrad Krugman to try to force an empty building to pay a "living wage" to a workforce of uneducated, unmotivated union employees.

As I have endlessly written in Its Not My Job, Living Wages-Part II, Tax Cuts For Working Families, and Living Wages; the only organization that seems to be able to pay people more than they are worth is the government—and they do it by financing their folly on the back of the entrepreneurs and owners of profitable businesses in America.

Hey Mr. Paul Krugman, you say America’s “working families” want more security?

Yeah, and people in Hell want ice water too…