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Krugman Doesn't Understand Why "Darkness Is Spreading Over Part Of Our Society"
A rather surprising Op-Ed by none other than Paul Krugman, first posted in The New York Times,
Despair, American Style
A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are “down on America,” and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression. He had a point: With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered by health insurance hitting record highs, the doom-and-gloom predictions of his political enemies look ever more at odds with reality.
Yet there is a darkness spreading over part of our society. And we don’t really understand why.
There has been a lot of comment, and rightly so, over a new paper by the economists Angus Deaton (who just won a Nobel) and Anne Case, showing that mortality among middle-aged white Americans has been rising since 1999. This deterioration took place while death rates were falling steadily both in other countries and among other groups in our own nation.
Even more striking are the proximate causes of rising mortality. Basically, white Americans are, in increasing numbers, killing themselves, directly or indirectly. Suicide is way up, and so are deaths from drug poisoning and the chronic liver disease that excessive drinking can cause. We’ve seen this kind of thing in other times and places – for example, in the plunging life expectancy that afflicted Russia after the fall of Communism. But it’s a shock to see it, even in an attenuated form, in America.
Yet the Deaton-Case findings fit into a well-established pattern. There have been a number of studies showing that life expectancy for less-educated whites is falling across much of the nation. Rising suicides and overuse of opioids are known problems. And while popular culture may focus more on meth than on prescription painkillers or good old alcohol, it’s not really news that there’s a drug problem in the heartland.
But what’s causing this epidemic of self-destructive behavior?
If you believe the usual suspects on the right, it’s all the fault of liberals. Generous social programs, they insist, have created a culture of dependency and despair, while secular humanists have undermined traditional values. But (surprise!) this view is very much at odds with the evidence.
For one thing, rising mortality is a uniquely American phenomenon – yet America has both a much weaker welfare state and a much stronger role for traditional religion and values than any other advanced country. Sweden gives its poor far more aid than we do, and a majority of Swedish children are now born out of wedlock, yet Sweden’s middle-aged mortality rate is only half of white America’s.
You see a somewhat similar pattern across regions within the United States. Life expectancy is high and rising in the Northeast and California, where social benefits are highest and traditional values weakest. Meanwhile, low and stagnant or declining life expectancy is concentrated in the Bible Belt.
What about a materialist explanation? Is rising mortality a consequence of rising inequality and the hollowing out of the middle class?
Well, it’s not that simple. We are, after all, talking about the consequences of behavior, and culture clearly matters a great deal. Most notably, Hispanic Americans are considerably poorer than whites, but have much lower mortality. It’s probably worth noting, in this context, that international comparisons consistently find that Latin Americans have higher subjective well-being than you would expect, given their incomes.
So what is going on? In a recent interview Mr. Deaton suggested that middle-aged whites have “lost the narrative of their lives.” That is, their economic setbacks have hit hard because they expected better. Or to put it a bit differently, we’re looking at people who were raised to believe in the American Dream, and are coping badly with its failure to come true.
That sounds like a plausible hypothesis to me, but the truth is that we don’t really know why despair appears to be spreading across Middle America. But it clearly is, with troubling consequences for our society as a whole.
In particular, I know I’m not the only observer who sees a link between the despair reflected in those mortality numbers and the volatility of right-wing politics. Some people who feel left behind by the American story turn self-destructive; others turn on the elites they feel have betrayed them. No, deporting immigrants and wearing baseball caps bearing slogans won’t solve their problems, but neither will cutting taxes on capital gains. So you can understand why some voters have rallied around politicians who at least seem to feel their pain.
At this point you probably expect me to offer a solution. But while universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education, and so on would do a lot to help Americans in trouble, I’m not sure whether they’re enough to cure existential despair.
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[ZH: One can only assume Mr. Krugman's shocking honesty at the demise of The American Dream (and even more shockingly his - and his devout followers' - admission of an inability to fix it via fiscal and monetary policies) is a modest pitch for "stuff's bad and getting worse... but vote for the good guys and at least we can all get worst together, equally."]
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
Hey Paul, here's what you're looking for:
1) Debauch the currency with Keynesian Policies
2) Destroy People's Propensity to save, and mock the Concept of Delayed Gratification
3) Heavily Tax Productive Citizens
4) Subsidize Lazy, Shiftless Citizens
5) Destroy the Culture though Mass Illegal Immigration
6) Prosecute Average Citizens for Minor Crimes
7) Allow Wealthy, Well-Connected Theives to Escape Punishment
Any Questions?...
That......that's about it.
It all comes down to freedom.
The freer you are the longer you live. Period.
It would seem that Mr. Krugman has again proven he is educated far beyond his intelligence...
Poor mis-guided chap.
DaddyO
Pool Shark: +1
Keep knocking down the productive class, until they are no longer productive
Job Layoff List: http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
Eventually it will self correct. For inspiration there was Scotland, although it failed, now Catalonia.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/08/catalonia-parliament-to-vote-on-...
krugman's an Asshole
"Darkness Is Spreading Over Part Of Our Society"
That’s because the present is bleak and we face a dark future with know-nothing academic totalitarian collectivists like Krugman determining the destiny of society.
Our system incentivise people not to work, and it is part of the human condition to take the easiest path to survival. Without that trait we would hunt lions and bear instead of deer and rabbits and this 'hard road' path would threaten survival. But without some purpose people become depressed and there is a society starts a downward spiral.
Paul "Elsworth Toohey" Krguman should know damn well that Keynesian policy enables Lord Blankfein (et. al.) to collects souls.
Cliff Notes says:
Toohey is a power-seeker. In various ways, he attempts to gain control over the lives of other men. At the personal level, he acquires a legion of followers who blindly obey his every command. Toohey deceives his victims by posturing as a humanitarian, but the code he preaches — that of self-sacrifice — is utterly destructive. Under the guise of offering spiritual guidance, Toohey convinces his followers to give up the things most important in their lives — their values. He tells them that virtue lies in selflessness, in the renunciation of personal desires, and that they must exist for the sake of others. He succeeds with a number of weak-willed individuals, who then surrender the things and persons most precious to them. But when a man gives up his values, he necessarily gives up that with which he formed them — his own thinking. His life is then empty, devoid of meaning and purpose, and he is incapable of internal direction. He needs external guidance. Toohey is never too busy to give them his full attention; he is always there to tell them what to do.
At the personal level, Toohey is a cult leader of a type such as Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Sun Myung Moon. He gains a private army of unquestioning followers, some of whom occupy positions of authority. He controls the souls of various government bureaucrats, of numerous Wynand employees and of millionaires like Hopton Stoddard and Mitchell Layton. It is through and by means of his victims that Toohey — like a virus — gains survival. Because he creates and contributes nothing, Toohey can exist only as a parasite. In this regard, he is the perfect antipode to Roark's creative genius.
But Toohey's power-seeking is not limited to his cult activities. He is the one character in the story who has political goals. Toohey seeks to establish a collectivist dictatorship in America. Because he is a Marxist intellectual preaching communism to the masses, he desires to control editorial policy of the Wynand papers. With The Banner as a platform, Toohey hopes to spread the ideas necessary to establish a totalitarian state in America.
Toohey knows that a Fascist or Communist state requires a citizenry willing to obey. He can establish a dictatorship only if the majority of individuals are willing to give up personal autonomy — to surrender their minds to a leader. The Roarks of the world will not do it. But the Keatings will — in exchange for approval. Toohey understands that Keating, in order to be liked, will yield his thinking and values to others. Just as Keating fawns over professors, employers, critics — anyone in authority — so he will toady to the political leaders. Toohey's conclusion is simple: his plan requires many Keatings and no Roarks. This is the two-pronged goal that he attempts to reach: destroy the independent thinkers like Roark, and, by convincing individuals to surrender their judgment and values, turn them into followers like Keating. A dictator requires a flock of sheep; he cannot hold power over a citizenry of independent men.
Toohey has a clear vision of his role in the collectivist state. He himself is not the brute of physical force who gains dominance by unleashing a reign of terror. His role, rather, is to be the intellectual advisor behind the throne. The brute will hold physical power over the masses, and Toohey will hold spiritual power over the brute. Toohey is a behind-the-scenes puppet master, who surreptitiously wields the real power — and this will be his place in the totalitarian state he seeks.
Imagine that not that many years ago, our forefathers overthrew the gummint over the price of some fucking tea.....How far we have fallen.
I thought awhile ago this was probably the case but things have worsened for whites
I expect to get much worse now, they won't fight, they will give up.
paul krugman can kiss my harry White goyim midwestern ass. FUCKING JOO FILTH.
When a football team can fire a university president the society is doomed.
"1) Debauch the currency with Keynesian Policies
2) Destroy People's Propensity to save, and mock the Concept of Delayed Gratification
3) Heavily Tax Productive Citizens
4) Subsidize Lazy, Shiftless Citizens
5) Destroy the Culture though Mass Illegal Immigration
6) Prosecute Average Citizens for Minor Crimes
7) Allow Wealthy, Well-Connected Theives to Escape Punishment
Any Questions?..."
15 comments after the above post, and no one mentions war? Does the fact that one's country is a War Mongering country involved with genocide affect those of us with a conscience? Do you think these endless wars may be affecting our economy, and the outlook of the common man?
Krugman was euthanized 9 months ago. What you see today is an advanced cyborg.
He and Cramer were cremated simultaneously.
it produces ugly little jews, but they're all different somehow? amazing
"With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered by health insurance hitting record highs, the doom-and-gloom predictions of his political enemies look ever more at odds with reality."
Reading his first paragraph says it all. Sounds eerily like 1984 Newspeak....
Krugman is confused because he ails from being "ever more at odds with reality", ever more towing the Oceania line.
Jobs are the worst seen since the 70s, but he says the jobs report accurately reflect improvement.
Healthcare Insurance amounts to nothing more then subsidizing licensed drug pushers, thus the increase in the insured has resulted in an increase in being over prescribed, not to mention suicide rates rising and big pharma reaping record profits. Yet, he says this as a positive development we should all be happy about.
Doom and gloom looks ever more likely as each day passes. Yet Krugman claims the dooms day predictions "look ever more at odds with reality."
I have to wonder what he writes, when in his corner, out of the telescreen's view?
Krugman has sold his soul to authoritarianism. Manipulating the minds of the masses is the current goal. When that fails, I doubt he'll be of much use to anyone.
Why do you think these media jews made Bruce Jenner a centerpiece.
Symbolism is important, they know this, the fucking kabbalist satanists.
This might sound crazy. But Donald Trump might actually save this nation. Talk about wild. I'd have never guessed it in a million years.
Donald knows exactly what is happening in this country, he has his finger on the pulse of America.
Everything he says is soon revealed to be the absolute truth in a matter of days.
i checked out in 2004, i no longer pay taxes and am considering joining the in crowd and getting an ebt card so i can have filet and lobster at gibsons once a month on the suckers still foolishly supporting obama's system.
Dress to the nines, flash a wad, and prepare to be set-upon by a pack of the most viscious animals known to man: Gibson's is cougar-country, and gold-digger's by the tens-- happy hunting! (nice rack, btw)
Yes, they definitely are.
Continuous war has been undertaken to achieve what we have today: a numbness that the average person now experiences concerning all of the various wars. They are also not reported by the MSM in any detail. So, out of sight out of mind sadly.
If the sheep woke up to the fact that they live in an imperialist, oligarchical, police state, they may become restless. So far, Nope.
Do you have any evidence that people would care about the condition of their lives and the world around them so long as they were fed, warm, mostly comfortable and able to watch Dancing With Stars Monday through Saturday and football on Sunday?
Sure, some would care. But do you really think the majority would? How much more obvious do the marionette strings need to be?
Krugman should look in the mirror! It is because of loathsome morons like him trying to centrally plan all of our lives!
After 500 years, Western (i.e. Jewish) Imperialism consumed the whole planet and sucked up all the resources.
On top of that, there are simply not enough goyim slaves and technology servants to provide a lavish lifestyle to the Western Jews and their little brothers (i.e the local/aboriginal Jewish "elites") in colonies around the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism_%28Hobson%29
With 35 million super-rich reptiles owning 50% of the world's assets (including those mega-rich 200,000 owning 25%), Krugman knows what has happened to _them_ in the past, and that's why he's upset.
Just read on the Fall of the House of Bardi: http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2008/3539fall_wall_st.html
Without Fiat, wars would be too expensive.
Taxes would have to be so high they'd be pretty much certain to lead to revolt.
Did someone mention tea?
All wars produce massive debt, the banksters life-blood.
You're right about war. Or I wish you were. Truth is no one gives a shit about it in the USSA. It's easy to not give a fuck when it's always on someone else's territory. When it comes to America, it will be a different story. Suddenly people will give a very very large flying fuck about war. Look at the panic 9/11 engendered, people happily embraced the security state and the gutting of the constitution. When real war comes....people won't deal with it too well. But you might just find that the people who deal with it best are the ones who are the subject of this article....the downtrodden whites.
If the football team roster represented the racial mix of the school, it wouldn't have been a problem. You reap what you sow...
They be loosing skolaships soon.
Looks like you could use a scholarship too -- three grammatical errors in a five-word sentence.
"When a football team can fire a university president the society is doomed."
Only when the team is black and the president is white.
Modern American Thuggery.
Brought to you by Obama and Holder.
"When a football team can fire a university president the society is doomed."
When a football coach makes more than a university president, society is doomed.
Maybe the university shouldn't have depended on the football team to generate most of their revenue.
And I don't give a fuck about myself, but my poor kids. Hope I can look over them from the other side.
Before going in the shed with a rope everyone in that position should consider a one way trip to DC. Plenty of leftists there to take down with ya.
Just be polite and smile casual at every cop filter, but have your trunk filled with firepower. Those weasels in DC won't know what hit them.
Paul, listen carefully, when the people finally understand they've been conned they will rise up. Good luck and please stop with your wrong predictions.
aint no people rising up in America, too darn lazy apathetic and uninformed.
Rising up in a manner that harms our captors and advances freedom takes skill and planning, which there isn't any evidence exists in sufficient quantity.
Rising up to flip over your neighbors car, set the corner grocer on fire, rape your children's friends, beat the guy down the street or shout down / flash mob some televised event simply provides further content for the choreographers.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his nobel prize depends on his not understanding it.”
Krugman is just trolling here...nothing new...
The New World Order is under construction and Whitey is simply getting re-aquainted with Darwin in these nasty times.
I say to those that remain, If "we" can't wise up the trend is not our friend.
Put down the bottle, pipe and straw, turn off the tv,
communicate with your wife and kids......Get 'Amish'
I hate to say this but: "support your own kind"
the time is past when whitey had the luxury to hate everyone including their own kind...
Unfortunately, we need to start "sticking together".
The world after our world is an undifferentiated brown blob of borderless, cashless, cultureless, genderless, godless drones overseen by A.I. and the "Eye of Sauron'
See what you can do to monkeywrench that
One's kind is irrelevant; their sort matters a great deal.
Come on man, don't feed into the self division. Bring on the undifferentiated brown blob so long as they can think and care about their neighbors and surroundings.
So, you like him?
He is actually a cyborg. So.....
Beautiful quotes from the greatest political/philospohical thinker of the the last century, Ayn Rand.
To summarize Ayn's philosphy to those too lazy and intellecturally deficient to read the original source: (e.g. LTER)
"Man defines the meaning of his life through his work"
Ergo, Krugman, no work, no creativity, no imagination, no purpose, no meaning! Might as well become worm food and recycle those atoms.
And yet Krugman continues to live.
Well, at least your children can come out as homosexual or transgender in middle school now and the boys can use the girl’s bathroom.
Next step.. grade school..
It’s time for my morning drink.
Heard a blurb on the radio this morning about a 6 year old switching teams and the teacher got fired for making a stink about it.
pods
That deal is two faggots in Houston with an adopted 6 year old girl who they are trying to turn into a boy.
They truly need to be disappeared.
JHFC.. HTF can this be happening?
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/11/06/christian-daycare-worker-fired-refusing-call-little-girl-boy/
Krugman, don't feel bad -- you're only killing white people. And we all know only niggers, spics and trannies matter.
If I had kids I'd tell them they can now self identify as anything that gives them an advatage in life. When applying for school, jobs, free shit, etc... make sure you call yourself black, female, gay and trans gender. It doesn't matter what's real -- only what you FEEL.
If you can't beat em, join em. Watch money fall out of the sky into your lap.
Yeah his children can. Our children will still be attacked and ridiculed for being white.
The dark shadow of obama has fallen over the land.
you and your good buddy weiser.
i would have loved to have used the girls' bathroom in middle school. they got very pissed at a mere glance inside.
the more homosexuals or transgenders the sooner the earth's human population starts to decline. may not need as many fukushimas, north pacific plastic vortices, gulf oil well blowouts, wars over gas pipelines, african genocides, and on and on and on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGI1jG2g7-I
Very wise commentary, Captain Debtcrash. For anyone that opts for the "easiest path to survival", it would be wise to read Man's Search For Meaning beforehand. For as the head ape warned Charlton Heston in the movie Planet of the Apes: "If you venture past the Forbidden Zone, you might not like what you find." http://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X
Job growth. LOL. Krugman is a delusional cheerleader for central planning. He is clearly immune to cognitive dissonance, and wouldn't know moral hazard if it bit him where he was molested as a child.
muppets, brace yourselves for more "happiness research" fiat propaganda
When the lights go out and a man is left alone with his thoughts, he is forced to confront the summation of the facts around him that his life is not as good as yesterday, and tomorrow will be worse.
Wages are not rising, and there is no good way to make up for this.
The average trip to the grocery store buys less food for the money spent, and every single person is there along the way to nickel and dime your life away.
So, when a man is alone with the thoughts of a long, slow demise, he tends to become uncomfortable.
This is nurtured by turning on the TV, or hearing the radio (everything is awesome!), or listening to some extrovert at work who just got back from a ski trip. Of course, that trip was paid for by tomorrow's wages on a credit card.
A rage monster begins to grow inside of man because of these things. That monster can be controlled, usually by limiting the amount of time that can be spent actually thinking. Enter escapism (created false reality of social media), drugs, booze, and extroverted behavior (paid for by debt). Anything to quiet the rage monster.
This is where we are today. Where somewhere inside every man, there are the words of the rage monster that acknowledge of the truth.
That today is not as good as yesterday, and tomorrow will be worse.
pods
Everything is awesome!
You're welcome,
Barry Hussein Obama
Damn Pods, that really sums it all up. I truly worry for my kids as I can't even imagine what the world they have to live in looks like.
"When the lights go out and a man is left alone with his thoughts,..."
Not having any cash sucks...no two ways about it. That said, if your life is concentrated on the purely financial, your chances of being miserable are going to be high. Jealous because your co-worker went skiing? You can counter that emotion by going camping for a night or two out in the woods. Gather yourself up some firewood. Use a hand ax. Build your shelter. Cook a few meals over an open fire. Boil some water and make your own coffee or tea. Do some exploring. Look at the night sky and learn some basic astronomy. Gain some experience doing something. It doesn´t have to be expensive. Pissed about food prices? How about learning to grow some of your own. Try it. You may fail at first, but you´ll learn...and acquire a skill that makes you a bit more independant from the world your living in.
Exposing yourself to new things, acquiring new skills; it´s the key. Learning simple shit, believe it or not, goes a long way to reestablishing self pride. Learn how to sharpen a knife properly. Bake your own bread. Excercise a bit. Rediscover BOOKS.
The tee vee, and the internet, and the smart phone kills drive and is easily abused.
You need to write a book..."Being homeless and loving it".
No man...there can be no love associated with being homeless. It is the absolute effing worst situation I can imagine and I thank God I never had a circumstance which led to being forced onto the streets. I´d sell a kidney before putting myself through that.
Exactly.
What's more, growing your own food, baking bread, canning, camp fires, home brewing, and maybe even having chickens is hip and your friends will be envious.
+1 for mentioning astronomy. Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and possibly Mercury are visible in the early morning in north america.
Absolutely right on. It is not just about the learning or doing, it's about the amazing way you feel when you take back the power others have stolen from you--or you've handed over--and become more and more independent.
It is almost a spiritual sense, the way humankind was intended to live but has forgotten. It's like clearing your head with a huge whiff of peppermint...burns like hell but you can really breathe again.
TPTB better hope large numbers of people aren't forced into doing more of these things. They will soon learn how utterly unnecessary the rat race/keeping up with the Jones' really is. And when that which you once thought painful but necessary becomes no longer necessary, you are left with just a pain. And humans are well adapted to find ways to eliminate the painful.
DEFY THEM.
Yes, yes and yes again. It's real people, you can actually feel decent again by doing these things. I started about 4 years ago with a piddly little 2' x 2' raised bed box with some truly pathetic tomato plants in it; but I got tomatoes out of them and it was revelation. I had actually walked out into my back yard and walked back in with food; it blew my mind.
Then came an 8' x 8' plot where I grew tomatoes, squash and peas. This just seemed to go hand in hand with getting out of debt altogether - I realized I didn't need most of the crap I was buying - Credit cards were the first thing to go, then the home equity ripoff, finally sold the overpriced house crammed in cheek by jowl with a bunch of neighbors I couldn't stand.
Now its a much smaller house on an acre, 70% to being paid off, a 40' x 45' garden (wish me luck, this will be my first large scale garden) and a plan for having the house paid off within 5 years.
When I first started I thought it was hopeless, but its not. Get over your fears, and just do it.
Well said. Camping is extremely cheap 'entertainment'. It is not a passive activity as you can work towards things learning new skills.
Most of the stuff you need can be had cheaply at second-hand stores/sites and yard sales. And books are free as well.
The biggest problem with the Free Shit Army is not that they refuse to work, most work today is mindless nothingness in the creation of free shit anyway, it's that they continue to contribute to the system in other parasitic ways. If you want to 'not work', or you just find yourself in that situation, then get control of your life in other ways, ways that can oppose the bankster system.
What you are prescribing is becoming a space monkey. Once you become one, the ultimate goal is to blow up a bunch of empty buildings while the credits role and "Where is my mind?" is playing.
Have to agree with almost every word.
I do just about everything on your list.
Got back into archery after about a 40 year break, a few years back.
Started with a bow and arrows I bought, then started making arrows, then bows, strings and all the other bits and pieces required.
Great feeling to shoot home made arrows off a bow you made and see them hit the target!
Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.
Therapist:What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Therapist: Wow, that’s messed up!
Quoth Office Space!
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest menb who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas and waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate se we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raided on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off."
"For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born. "
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. "
"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer. "
"I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve. Let the chips fall where they may. "
"This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. "
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Pods - get one of these (or even earlier versions if possible).
http://expeditionmotorhome.com/wp-content/uploads/aussie__toyota_coaster_4x4_2.jpg
They may not be glamorous, but they are extremely durable (2 MILLION km durable), no "fancy electronics" - straightforward non-turbo diesel so very tolerant of "extended servicing intervals", and very amenable to "user servicing", i.e. no fanct special tools needed.
ALL parts available, and ALL major components easily (and VERY cheaply) available via a large number of Reconditioners.
When (not if) things go "tits up" a MOBILE and RELIABLE "home" might have big advantages over a fixed "bug-out" location.
Just saying . . . . . .
Gee, says Krugman. I've spent my career promoting the looting of the common man in ways he does not understand, so he blames himself and soaks his sins in the bottle.
Shocking. Shocking, I tell you.
I wish I could upvote you more than once.
You got it. This piece of shit Krugman is gloating.
Didn't see /s anywhere in the editorial.
Fricken Editors.
Krugman should ask Keith Alexander and friends.
They know everything. Right??
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and maybe "wearing baseball caps bearing slogans " is that first step
"Darkness is spreading over part of our society"
Uh huh....maybe there is a sickness sapping the vitality of this one time great nation; as this video documents chillingly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PZAzLTQlX8
Keep turning a blind eye to Ashton Carter / McCain / Nudelman / "Neocon of choice" poking the Russian bear, repeatedly, and hard. You may well wake up to the following
http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/blackout-over-nyc.jpg
There are 750,000 of "Russian Ancestry" living in the US of A, and remember this - http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304851104579359141941621778, the "perpetrators" of which are still at large. TWENTY SEVEN days before normal operations were restored, and the "damage" was from pretty modest weapons.
Now, consider if just a fraction of one percent of those of "Russian Ancestry" were to be in the pocket of the FSB, and consider they might be provided with just a FEW of these - http://media.farsnews.com/media/Uploaded/Files/Images/1394/08/10/13940810000449_PhotoI.jpg
It would take VERY little "Asymmetric Warfare" to REALLY damage the USA.
Not worried about Russians. More worried about DC and those fuckers.
Actually, the 25-54 y.o cohort is just aging. Of course they are dying faster now: The mean age is higher now, due to the boomer demographic curve. Duh. I guess you can't see it if you have a Rijksbank Nobel.
"Darkness Is Spreading Over Part Of Our Society"
Hence the term "Depression" for this sort of economic quality of life.
the word 'malaise' comes to mind ... I wonder who used that term before?
That is disparaging towards Assholes everywhere, good sir!
Hey Knucks,
Is it possible to be an asshole and an asshat at the same time?
A big part of this problem is that this is the 21st century and we are well into the "information age". Everybody is suffering from over-stimulation induced apathy. It's just that middle aged white males are generally turning out to be more susceptible to the ravages of this and are not responding well. It would seem their coping ability is somewhat less than that of other groups,,,orrr,,,they have been singled out for special treatment by TPTB. My personal opinion is that they are really trying to fight the good fight and maintain their dignity and they are losing badly. The FSA could give a shit, they are laying back with a nipple in their mouth. The riche are insulated and the bureaucrats, et. al. are protected as well. It's the primary breadwinners that are trying to fight the trend and getting their butts kicked. Not to worry, this will eventually spread as the FSA gets their rations cut and begin to rise up followed quickly by the subjects of this story...
KRUGMAN, YOU ARE AN ODIOUS LITTLE PRICK!!!
;-D
Absolutely. It's the white middle class (As he put it, not me) that's being pinched paying for all the shit that he thinks is so good and finding that some people getting the Free Shit have it better than those like themselves paying for the Free Shit, all the while knowing that their MSM and Government partners are lying through their teeth at them and couldn't give a rats ass about their well being .... As a matter of fact, are realizing they're the patsys in the Free Shit game and having their liberties suspended in the process.
And he wonders why>
It's because he's a Cadillac Communist.
All looks great from his perspective.
No empathy for the little guys, 100% immersed in fairy tales and illusions
White males have been singled out by the jews that are running the cultural marxisim.
They want to isolate the white male by turning his daughters, mother and wife against him.
I have said this for a long time, this is the end result.
I don't know how they are taking this, its so depraved, so ruthless.
Enter micro aggression and Hillary.
Back in 95, I was pushing through college. I gave up all self-respect, went on welfare and food stamps after terminating myself from managing $5 billion in sheet metal workers health care, pension, supplemental retirement and other associated funds. (Had agreements from ALL national and local funds to allow us to collect their money and distribute it back because a bit of software I wrote was so uch better than what was availablle at the time, they all got their money the same day it was received.)
Anyway, we're on food stamps and there was direct pressure by the State of California to get me out of the house. My wife was told that she would receive something like three times the benefits if she got me out of the house. I was going to college with a triple load or more, and working for a guy, part time, steam cleaning carpets. I started my own business hanging wall paper and doing bookkeeping. We reported, honestly, what I earned and what I did.
Welfare demanded to know what I did for practically every second of the day. I had forms to fill out explaining every hour of my day, when I worked for the guy, when I worked for myself, how many hours were spent studying...it got to the point that filling out the fucking forms was almost equal to the amount of work I did. Every dollar earned was reported, and out benefits were reduced dollar for dollar. Each time, my wife was told that if I was out of the house she'd have full benefits and complete health care coverage.
We'd go into the welfare office with a literal stack of paper a foot high, documenting every moment of my previous month. And the bitch (ten or fifteen years younger than me) behind the counter would disqualify days because the paper for that day wasn't signed or dated or something else. Then I see that the bitch behind the counter was a co-student at the same college I was in, we took the same classes, joined the same fraternity, and had to endure social occasions.
That pressure became so great that she finally told me to get the fuck out. And we spent about six months separated while I continued to struggle through school on grants, a measly scholarship (Thank you Orville Reddenbacker, honestly, thank you. Your older white guy scholarship fit me perfectly and I didn't let you down) and some very small student loans. I don't want to remember what my living conditions were, but I got to take a shower at the college about once a week.
The end result was that the state basically ended any sort of employment I had during that period. If I worked, it fucked with my family even though I wasn't there. The state didn't want me in college, they wanted me working to remove my income from me to offset what they were giving my family.
On graduation, my wife and I reconciled. I got a job at, for us, was four times what I'd ever made per year previously. Then the state came calling, demanding that I reimburse them for every dime paid to my wife while I wasn't in the home. Got that paid, then they came demanding to be paid for the duplicate welfare checks that we never cashed.
Fuck welfare, food stamps and all the rest. If we ever again devolve into that morass of evil I'll kill myself, right after I kill her. I will never allow the state into my life again, ever.
Why insult the assholes. They are not responsible for Krugman....
Correction: he is the KING of ASSHOLES.
My guess is that would make Obama the QUEEN of ASSHOLES.
... and he's a moron ... a well edumicated moron ...
Respectfully, no, he's an anti-American c#unt. One of our fence posts is smarter than Paulie. Or, is he just trying too hard to 'fit in'?
Follow his money....
One cold night, krugman's cat will kill him in his sleep...
Alternatively;
The blinders are off. The 2008 meltdown proved America is broke, and the current financial system will fail. This is truly the "one." Everyone knows everything they have is worthless.
Dotcom really screwed older, hell, even younger, less educated whites. The farthest they're will to go into technology is staring at an iPhone, if that. Under educated whites over fifty hate that shit, yet it's constantly pushed as "the future" and "must have" and they're being left behind.
Demographics. 10k older whites retire a day into a zero interest rate nightmare. Might as well off myself so the kids can get what little I have. It's better than getting an iPhone.
I'm going to start the Save The White Man Fund. I am going to call it the Condor Global Initiative. I want to help get White people the help they need getting off of the prescription drugs and alcohol they abuse. Why do they abuse these things that ultimately confuse Mr. Krugman? Well, when you have been the target of MSM and political attacks about being a bitter gun and bible clinging white middle class racist that goes to work to bust his ass and pay taxes, also fight day in and day out to keep your kids on the straight and narrow instead of giving up and taking "social Benefits" (not that they would qualify anyway), this can take it's tole on a White person. They need help.
The MSM has waged a war on the White Man for generations. Commercials, movies, TV, magazines all target the White Man, and whether she realizes it or not, also the White Woman.
Mugging Americans: ObamaCare’s Jonathan Gruber And Norbert Schlei Of The 1965 Immigration Act
Mass Immigration Eats Through The Melting Pot
March 04, 2004
Review of 'The Culture of Critique'
You care about your own people Condor?
You a racist or something???
I guess am. But definitely not self proclaimed.
@Shocker,
Best news there...MonSatan closing three R & D facilities.
There is a God.
I asked him to put me out of my misery yesterday and kill me. God did not.
Still got work to do, seeds to plant and miles to go before you sleep. ;)
Who was it that said if you're still here, it's because you still have work to do.
Live it or live with it.
Good to know there are others out there doing a scientific test for the existence of god.
I'd ask you to e-mail me if you get a positive signal, but I doubt you would!
Hang Krugman
I wouldn't hang him. He is just a useful tool of the insane social engineering group. He needs to be taken from his ivory tower and installed in the heart of West Virginia coal country or Harlan County, KY to fend for himself. This would be like another doctorate degree for him to broaden his education.
I would like to see that as well. But he'd probably kill himself from lack of hand sanitzer.
Both of you are neither different, nor better, than Krugman.
You'd rather tear Krugman down rather than bring those in the poverty of West Virginia up.
Krugman's goal is to tear down the productive class. His insulting editorial...not just this one but most which he smugly writes...is evidential to that. (And if you do not see the underhanded sleight then you are blind.)
You are just too interested in tearing someone, anyone, apart.
And just like Krugman you DELUDE YOURSELF in order to believe yourself as somewhat superior.
LOSE YOUR ARROGANCE, CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE, AND WAKE THE FUCK UP.
There are persons in positions of power and influence, moneyed and otherwise, that conspire to destroy variouas segments of the society in order to achieve their financial and ideological goals.
It is indeed just and right to identify, condemn and oppose these interests.
It is also proper to identify, condemn and oppose their mercenaries and paid enforcers, their rote bureaucratic agenda lampreys, their allied but ideologically differentiable collaborators, their propagandists and shills, their faux educators and statistics/poll/data/book cookers and goal seekers, their nepotist homies and cronies and lackeys and children, their controlled opposition, etc...
Many people cannot be lifted up -or better: allowed to seek their own level without oppression or central planning/ideological management or cultural/religious indoctrination without removing these various barriers and gates and 'diversity' divestment initiatives and/or the various myriad monetary/political/judicial tax/regulation/expropriation regimes that are the mechanisms of much of these oppressions and divestments and expropriations.
Those interests are deeply entrenched and will not cede power over the lives of others and the vast wealth of natural resources of the great nations without desperate and decisive violence...
The sooner you and those like you grasp this and condone the necessary actions to remove the slave masters and those that cooperate with the slavers: then will change be possible.
Some number of oppressors will indeed have to be liquidated in order for the shackles and oppressions to cease and for merit and freedom to reign.
Sometimes it is just as wrong to return good for evil as to return evil for good.
--Sufi saying--
shiftforb,
step in a muddle puddle expect a muddy hem.
other sufi saying
Many people cannot be lifted up -or better: allowed to seek their own level without oppression or central planning/ideological management or cultural/religious indoctrination without removing these various barriers and gates and 'diversity' divestment initiatives and/or the various myriad monetary/political/judicial tax/regulation/expropriation regimes that are the mechanisms of much of these oppressions and divestments and expropriations.
Perhaps some. But the Rednecks of West Virginia have proven themselves to be amongst the finest people in the Nation with a strong work ethic.
The Obama Administration, in line with the Oil Companes, through using the "Coal is Dirty" meme, has shut down the main industry, Coal Mining, in West Virginia.
As a result the Jobs Market in Coal Mining evaporated. This of course, led to store closures, widespread unemployment, and widespread impoverishment.
If the financial oppression is removed then these industrious people may be able to look forward to a better and brighter future without having to depend upon Government Handouts and suffering the scourges of Depression with the consequential Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
They will lift themselves up when the oppression stops.
Thank you for your thoughtful and civil response.
And exactly where the hell did you see anything in their comments that says they want someone to be in poverty?
And just who the fuck are you, Tall Tom, to decide who needs to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from your notion of poverty into liberal utopian well-off land, because of course, working yourself to death for someone else to get rich is so much better than not having money for stuff and spending that time deeply involved in the lives of those you love is something to sneer at.
You did notice, you cretin, that you tore those guys apart, right you DELUDED FUCK?
Lose your own arrogance, change your attitude and shut the fuck up.
From lincolnsteffens' post...
He needs to be taken from his ivory tower and installed in the heart of West Virginia coal country or Harlan County, KY to fend for himself.
I did not tear anyone apart.
But now I will. You need to learn to fuckin' read...
I am pointing out a fact.
And I would have Krugman tried, convicted, and summarily executed for TREASON....fool.
He is no better than Tokyo Rose...spewing his insulting propaganda.
But dragging him down to West Virginia levels of poverty is not going to do any good, is it?
Instead why not bring those people out of it by removing them from the shaclkles of their enslavers and Financial Oppressors... like...THE FED??? How about that FUCKER, Obama, who shut down COAL PRODUCTION???
Oh..I am so sorry. You are NOT aware of the region, what their main industry was, and how Obama's adoption of that Algorean nonsense about Carbon Footprints has caused widespread POVERTY for these people.
Oh. You are FUCKING IGNORANT you bozo clown? I am so sorry that you have a 30 second attention span...
Of course we need to stop Krugman and the other propagandists in order to free them.
So fuck you. I am not changing my LIBERAL attitude. (Of course that is a Classical LIBERAL...one who celebrates Liberty over that of Oppression, jackass.)
And I have woken up..you deluded fuck.
(And after the right cross is thrown you may want to watch out for the uppercut. And as this is Street Fighting you may want to use your elbows to strike the blows. This is Fight Club, bitch.)
"Judge not, lest ye be judged."
And Fuck Off, I might add.
Wow. That gave me some substantial food for thought and your argument is quite persuasive.
Sorry TT, but he needs to be taken apart--(i.e., quartered)--behind some woodshed in close proximity to one of my 'proximities'. Or, perhaps inside a structure with a partial moon carved on the door and then flushed.
I think that a hanging would suffice just fine...after he is tried and convicted for treason.
No. I am not into torture and the people of West Virginia just do not deserve him. They have suffered enough already, don't ya thunk?
I don't always agree with you Tall, but this time I do.
For some good info on how W Virginia got the way it is read Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco.
As for Krugman, this article is a slap in the face.
That would certainly brighten up my day.
Knowledge without wisdom. The ideas he supports are not new. They responsible for the democide of millions around the globe.
Yup, that seems to be it
It's all too easy to chalk it up to lack of intelligence, misguided good intentions, etc.
These fuckers know EXACTLY what they're peddling. Marxists come in two flavors: Useful Idiots, and Parasitic Sociopaths. The latter occupy the positions of power, influence and control.
First they came for the poor black children. (Treyvon Martin)
Then they came for the angry black man (Michael Brown)
Now they come for the white rancher.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article43654638.html
Wages for most have stagnated at 1970s levels while prices rise.
Consider the implications, Krugman.
No-one with a heart and brain likes to be a slave. Many who think (both heart and brain have 'brain' cells), feel something is wrong..and when we study our strawman/legal fiction, we realise we've been 'claimed' at birth by another legal fiction, the 'State'. Independence starts inside. Blatent Exterior Darkness is being spread too. Open flaunting of satanic imagery and ritualistic sacrifice, and a morbid sapping helplessness watching the fascist rollout the EndGame openly )1963-911-?) in real-time, and having few tools but faith to counter the range of weaponry the State is prepared to use against us. Culture Smashing and marginalising 'traditional values is also effective (eg. Men should now aspire to being 'Woman of the Year?). Good reading here:
https://kateofgaia.wordpress.com/
The Servant King Series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZGAlUT6RTi1s7Qo9ce3huEA_GNVNT0Xt
It's not that simple. How then do you explain Scandinavia where the very heart of Democratic Socialism beats. Round these parts I'm told they are less free.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
Oh you mean like the people promoting global warming?
the level of propaganda on global warning is so huge at the moment, for their stupid conference in France.
They just spamming it everywhere on media, even fired a reporter who tried to expose the fraud on main news channel in France ..
Follow the money trail of the Global Warming FRAUD back to Margaret Thatcher's attempt to crush the Coal Miners' Union. The timeline is so simple an academic could understand it.
Breaking: The White House Climate Czar has announced that global warming is responsible for the inadvertent launching of the missile over LA.
"With [bartender/waitress] job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of [Free Shit Army] Americans covered by health insurance hitting record highs, the doom-and-gloom predictions of his political enemies look ever more at odds with [my Bernie Sanders Skittles-shitting unicorn version of] reality."
FIFY, Krug baby. SMDH
No, bartender waitress jobs are specifically hired part time so they won't have to get paid bennies. Obamacare is creating part time jobs.
Please post this or anything else you ever want to say, no matter what, on every article at ZH
(love to see that avatar everywhere)
Precisely! Relevance is not relevant in this particular case...
Rawr.
It's all about incentivization. They know exactly what they are doing. Part time workers don't show up as unemployed, Obamacare is masking massive pharmaceutics price inflation, and you might also qualify for another loan if you're not unemployed - amazing. Just perfect, everything is awesome.
+1
Greatest. Avatar. Of. All. Time.
My vault boy is better than yours.
Hugs.
A simple rule: be skeptical of anything funded by politicians. That means NPR, global warming, dietary research, etc. The people working in those organizations were hired by political operative apointed by politicians or their operatives. They were hirded specifically because their understanding of the subject aligns with the politicians funding it.
The idea that you get honesty by publicly funding something (because it's free from corporate influence) is so laughable only an idiot would believe it.
These economists making policy really don't get it do they? Darkness is spreading through middlce class society because they've brought in a New Dark Age with their giveaway policies to the Super Rich and Well Connected!! Can't they understand that?
When 80 people hold more wealth than 3,600,000,000 people that's a f'ng statistic right out of the Dark Ages. Welcome to the Hell Hole of 6 A.D. where you had Lords and Masters that were able to rape and pillage with no recourse. Now let's discuss LIBOR, Rigging of the Gold Markets, RoboSigning, MF Global, Fannie Mae, illegal spying, QE Giveaways to the Banks, Synthetic Derivatives and the list goes on and on while No One ever goes to jail. This is the same as those Lords and Masters that raped and pillaged back 1500 years ago.
Who is Linda Green?
Wasn't she the ex-wife of John Galt?
Her signature is on my American Express Card.
Spot on, except for one thing. THEY GET IT, ALL RIGHT. This is all by design.
The wealth is just the physical manifestation. The real goal, as always, is power and control - the ultimate drug for psychopaths.
Psychopathy is genetic, inheritable, and incurable. The human race has a choice to make.
It's genetic? Please elaborate. I'm pretty sure I've never heard that before.
"It's the Jews stupid" - Hugh Rection
At least it's good for the... bankers.