A (Hopefully Fake) Paul Krugman Laments The Lack Of Death And Destruction Following Today's Earthquake
We truly can only hope that this Google Plus account of Paul Krugman is merely a well-orchestrated parody, because if it is indeed that of the self-styled uber-Keynesian, the time for the public outrage, his economic beliefs aside, has arrived. In a blast post on Google's imitation of twitter and facebook, which should immediately result in the termination of the Nobel prize winning economist if it was indeed penned by him, this particular account of "Paul Krugman" writes: "People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage." Translation...well it's pretty obvious, but for those laboring under the aftermath of a full frontal lobotomy, the person who tweeted this essentially yearns for his voodoo economic religion to be validated following countless failures of Keynesianism (no, really, after this latest injection of Xx *illion dollars into the economy things will really be well), at the expense of death and destruction. Even more poignant translation: "Krugman" would like nothing more than to put an equal sign between the death of a human being and its proportional GDP replacement value. What next: Krugman lamenting that only certain races end up getting killed in conflict, those whose replacement potential is too low, demanding more death? Or that X number of deaths would have been more stimulative if it was really XXX? This is about as close as we will get to a Keynesian admitting that reparations for death and destruction are the only two special clauses under which fiscal stimulus does work. Which of course means that with idiots such as the poster of the above who actually thinks this, be it Krugman or some of his countless voodoo brethren, and with their proximity to the president, the only logical explanation is that a war is coming, and is being welcomed by all these s[h|c]am "economists", for whom human death and suffering is a fair tradeoff in preserving their tenure or modestly-paid, liberal publication blogging jobs. If this indeed Krugman's account, it is imperative that the NYT immediately terminate this pathologically deranged and homicidal psychopath. Institutionalization in a mentally insane ward may be a proper subsequent action.
Naturally, if this is indeed a fake accountholder, then the sarcastic spotlighting of the subject truly achieves its goal.
Incidentally, for those who have watched Michael Clayton recently, perhaps they can remind us what the New York State statute on 3rd party commitment is.
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how crazy is it, that we actually cant say for sure whether this is actually this sick fucks account
KRUGMAN = FUCKING DOUCHE
Here's my take on Krugman's vile reprehensible nonsense:
http://azizonomics.com/2011/08/24/krugman-calls-for-more-earthquake-damage/
The day is quickly approaching where Krugman will be seen naked, covered in feces, running around starting fires and shooting people in the streets, screaming "economic stimulus" over and over again in an orgy of destuction.
You got to love how his google page title, "conscience of a liberal."
Maybe Bernanke will go Full Retard and launch 'QEK'.
In this form of QE, Krugman (K) would direct a bombing campaign of 'transitory undesirables' and the reconstruction would be financed by a printing of cash that could only be matched by Keynes' ultimate wet dream.
*With all the excess cash going to make a 10 mile high paper mache statue of Krugman to ward off any intelligent beings.
Whether this is written by Krugman or not, that fetid pile of human waste should be dragged out into the streets of NYC and gang-raped by one hundred desperate sex offenders who have been cooped up in solitary for a year. Perhaps the damage done to Krugman's anus will stimulate a plastic surgery reconstruction mini-boom. He might want to have those man-tits lipoed at the same time.
I am Chumbawamba.
Indeed...maybe his health could be stimulated by a good skull-bashing. After all, think of all the healing he'll have to do. That's gotta be worth something.
Pretty soon (now?) the "Bearded Economist" will be a metaphor for a clueless moron in any profession whose theories and practices result in complete fail and their solution for fixing the situation is limited to heaping on yet more fail.
In fact, I just coined it. Bitches.
Example: "That dude is trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it. He's a regular Bearded Economist!"
Also, ref. Einstein re: definition of insanity.
I am Chumbawamba.
Bearded Economist by Chumbawamba is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Enjoy.
- Chumblez.
Hey chum, how is your credit rating doing? Didn't you default on all your credit cards and buy precious metals with them?
Why do you care about my credit rating?
Why should I care about my credit rating?
Are you still bothered by what your 4th grade nemeses think about you?
I am Chumbawamba.
I think it will be "Bearded PhD" personally. Something like:
Person 1: "He's really smart must be the beard."
Person 2: "And he's got a PhD!"
Person 1: "A real Bearded PhD!"
I wonder how many bearded economists it takes to change a light bulb.
Before or after they purposely smash it?
For the "stimulative effect", of course.
Smash all lightbulbs, that is the way to get that part of the economy growing.
"For the "stimulative effect", of course."
But, there very well could be up 20 deforestation jobs "saved or created" just to supply the paper for the Haz-Mat reports, per bulb.
Keynes, the ultimate eco-terrorist...lol.
Schnooooork, chortle.
wait a minute larry kudlow already played this card with the fuckurmomma earthquake, so krugman or not this sadly played card has already been layed on the table....
The comments section, bloated as usual, seems real. It would be an awfully elaborate hoax to build a site this intricate.
ManBernKrug - Half Man, Half Bearded Keynesian Psychpoaths!
stop the spam, jackass. if you want to promote your blog buy adwords for it.
:-)
he set about to craft a plan
'twas Keynesian and good
we'd all be given ray-guns
and a power-pack and hood
http://thepeakoilpoet.blogspot.com/2011/08/ode-to-paul-krugman.html
Now Now now!
YOU Enjoy yourself!
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/precursor-03-bottom-falling-out-still-still-and-a-gander/
;-)
Vivek
Who knew Paul Krugman was a meth head? Learn something every day!
face facts guys, socialists are delusional morons
they fail miserably in every country they bankrupt, yet still think they're onto a 'winner' of a formula in the next one they attempt to debilitate with ideological garbage
socialists have the memory of a goldfish (it's why they never learn anything) and the attention span of Barry Obummer (see his mind wander from the auto-cue every 40 seconds and begins to stutter)
the Norwegian Socialist Party (ie. Nobel Prize Committee) gave Barry the Nobel Peace Prize for being 4 days in office with no achievements to his name (Doh!). Obumma forgot he was receiving a Peace Prize by the time he hit the stage (Doh!) and gave a speech endorsing wars (Doh!). The enmassed socialist starry eyed rabbits forgot it was a Peace Prize (Doh!) and forgot Obummas speech was pro-war by the time it was delivered and clapped (Doh!)
I mean how f'ing crsytal clear does it need to be all socialists like Krugman in history are retarded and require mental help???
They suffer with the "If Onlies"
"If only the stimulus was bigger"
"If only the people were condifent"
"If only aliens attacked but didn't really attack we just told people there was an attack so we could make a fake economy even more fake by falsely stimulating it further which will create an even more temporary fix that fails faster and harder than the last one"
Sounds like Krugman is pushing the 'broken window fallacy' on a grand scale...
So, exactly where did Krugman study Keynesian Economics? Even Keynesians should know about the broken window fallacy by now...
He’s not being impersonated in this TV interview, in which he claims a false-flag alien invasion would be an economic stimulant: http://www.safehaven.com/article/22185/krugmans-new-extraterrestrial-eco...
There needs to be a new category of stupid, a category which embraces an almost clinical definition for a "stupid" so stupid that it borders dementia but without head trauma, structural disorder, etc. Maybe we could call it krugma, and the pear-shaped Krugman himself, Case Zero.
That said, I hope he gets another Nobel, I really do. After all, he's >still not George Bush!<
But I think this, uh, specimen of a TV interview provides a good angle on the old debate, "is-it-a-conspiracy or all-just-an-accident"...
It's both. People like Soros pull strings (ce qu'on ne voit pas). They work to produce the conditions that tilt influence in ways beneficial to their positions. People like Krugman are simply unwitting. They're kept around because they promote ideas that are useful; e.g., government financing = organic economic growth. Printing your allowance early this week = production. They're useful idiots and that's all. Let's call them krugmen.
A krugman promotes something that a village idiot would dismiss as patently idiotic, like the idea that a broken window is good for the economy. What happens next meets burden of proof: It gets a Nobel Prize, a job at the Gray Lady, book deals, its face (and what's up with Krugman's clueless expression? He always looks lost) on the cover of for-idiots magazines, etc.
It gets a food pellet, basically. The puppetmasters find it useful.
Now -- the next time the krugman is up on the dais, what does it do? It can re-examine its core tenets, take it all back, risk losing everything including its agent. Or it can continue spewing fallacy in the pursuit of more food pellets. It sticks with the proven path to pellet success, of course. That's what makes it a krugman.
So far so good. But krugmen are often so dimwitted that they don't know when to call. So they double-down -- the "logic," having worked thus far, gets taken a bit further, then a bit further, then...
Voila! The krugman finds itself on TV calling for a false-flag alien invasion.
And what happens? Scandal? Remorse? A non-stop international laugh-track? Maybe a skewering by Jon Stewart? No, another food pellet. This stuff really works! The krugman still has its Nobel, maintains its job as a blogger. It had to start moderating the comments on its blog -- because ordinary readers were easily demolishing the krugman's every argument -- but no big deal. Those people probably voted for George W. Bush!
This krugman must be on to something. It calls for more stimulus, and retains its utility to the machine. What a surprise.
...
But to me, it feels like the propaganda is getting worse and worse -- to where it's almost self-parody.
I was in the bodega for 2 minutes last night, and Wolf Blitzer was on. I actually felt sorry for him, so obvious was the role he was playing and that it was a burden for him to maintain it. He didn't even seem to buy it himself, was just going through the motions. Global warming, blah blah blah... Statist propaganda, where's my check. Just make the producer happy. The producer has to make the manager happy. The manager makes the local affiliates and executives happy. The executives please the owner. The owners pull the strings and we have this puppet show.
We have Krugman and all these little krugmen running around, tempting a new definition of clinically stupid, maybe for the DSM-5-R.
Cuz it seems like we're at the point where minions just aren't comfortable with the same old agitprop, even as the prop has to go full bore to maintain the pretense. Even the slowest-witted are starting to say enough's enough: Give us better lies. Even Maxine Waters is asking questions.
And that's what a false-flag alien invasion is or would be, by Krugman's own admission in the interview: A better lie, maybe even the bestest of all possible lies. But we've known that broken windows don't stimulate economies since "Have you ever witnessed the anger of the shopkeeper."
It's freakish; it's Rodgers and Hammerstein on battery acid; it's clinically stupid.
...
Something's gotta give, and when we get to the point where even the original krugman acknowledges that staging an alien attack might not be such a bad idea, and Maxine Waters asks aloud why Obama's Magical Misery Tour didn't visit any black neighborhoods, and on and on -- one of two things will happen: a full reversal, or into the breach.
We don't have the salt for a full reversal.
FYI, Krugman never won a Nobel Prize. He won a Sveriges Riksbank prize.
FYI, it's The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/.
But seriously -- who cares?
You get the Least Interesting and Also Inaccurate Comment Award. Congratulations.
I don't have a clue who said it but it is a truism - "Socialism is great until you run out of other peoples money then your fucked"
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. "— Margaret Thatcher
"Subprime mortgage securitization is great until you run out of other peoples money then you're fucked"
Based upon his "alien invasion" thesis, one could easily postulate that he would agree with the premise regardless of whether the account is his.
It's perhaps the most striking example of how Keynesian economics is a spectacular failure. It's the office worker who believes that if they look busy with many menial tasks then they are being productive. But it's an illusion. True economic growth does not come from destroying our infrastructure or inflating the money supply, just as it doesn't come from the fraud of "consumer spending" that is a result of consumer borrowing. Economic growth comes from PRODUCTION, a concept Krugman truly does not understand.
We should pray for a 9.0 earthquake to hit Los Angeles. That would make Krugman jiz in his pants if that happened.
To him, a nuclear option is literal.
Who was it (Mises? Or was it Peter Schiff? No, it was Ronald McDonald) that mused if destroying things so that we could provide stimulus to rebuild was such a great idea, why don't we just go around and completely destroy a large city in the US at random every year so that we could have a reconstruction boom in that area of the country?
Makes sense to me. Let's start with D.C.
I am Chumbawamba.
Probably the same guy who asked why a public works canal was being dug with shovels rather than excavators. "Because we are creating jobs", was the reply. To which he responded: "Then why not have them use spoons?"
"Parable of the broken window"
" The parable of the broken window was introduced by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen) to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is actually not a net-benefit to society. The parable, also known as the broken window fallacy or glazier's fallacy, demonstrates how opportunity costs, as well as the law of unintended consequences, affect economic activity in ways that are "unseen" or ignored by some, such as advocates of Keynsian economic stimulus, who typically see those actions as beneficial to the economy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
This is what Keynesians ignore...
Nicely explained by Henry Hazlitt in "Economics in One Lesson." e.g.:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=economics+in+one+...
Krugman was hung over when the one lesson was offered; he missed that whole day.
- Ned
I have that book! Now, if I could just get it read.....so much to read, so little time...
First chapter gets ya' there. Then u b hooked ;-)
It is an easy read. Well worth the time to read. Assuming you're not a Bearded Economist!
No need Chumba, the god's are playing HAARP's to the Devils Of DC's lute already.
Shake rattle and roll!
Vivek
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/precursor-03-bottom-falling-out-still-still-and-a-gander/
If we use miltary personnel and ordinance, it also gives us a chance to bring our troops home and keep them employed. I say it is a win-win. Wow, Krugman is a genius.
Of course, then you would have these kind of people all around you.
Come on Irene.
Not only that but it's almost a given a war is next up in the flawed agenda of the central planners to keep the illusion going-- what a sad and fucked up system we live in.
Tell me you can't hear Rick Perry insisting that Iran has WMDs.
How will we be able to tell when we are at war or not at war?
If Congress declares it, then it's a war. Otherwise, it's a Kinetic Military Action.
Undeclared wars used to be called "police actions" until the phrase "world's policeman" became a pejorative.
We've ALWAYS been at war... With Oceana, right? Um, right? Or was it Eurasia?... Or East asia. I can never remember.
Anyways, do your patirotic duty and fund it!
In regards to your comment, people should know that a series of "exercises" is going on in this country called VIBRANT RESPONSE 12. It coordinates local and state law enforcement, state guards, national guard, and the US MILITARY into a response force in the event of an "emergency" or "unrest". The last one was in August in southern Indiana (where I am from originally).
They are preparing for SOMETHING, folks.....and the number 12 on the end....what does THAT signify? Could it be that we will have some "emergency" in 2012, right before the elections? These exercises last roughly a week. Wow! That's a lot of "preparedness", no?
Google this: VIBRANT RESPONSE 12
(Also know that the FEMA has been buying and stockpiling MILLIONS of survival meals...)
But internment camps are good for the economy! They're already creating jobs:
Internment / Resettlement Specialist (31E)http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job-categories/...
The description is vague enough to plausibly deny that it is for detaining and resettling US citizens. However, notice that, while it is clear that the position will be directly interacting with the detainees (..."Provide counseling and guidance to individual prisoners"), there are no requirements or special training needs for foreign language or "cultural sensitivity" training or anything of the sort.
Scary.
Oh no, not more quelling! Every time I see the word "unrest", I know that quelling cannot be far behind.
Judging by his prior posts and his "friends" at the link Tyler provided, this is real.
NO its not crazy because after the Japan EQ all the fucks on CNBS said that it was a super bullish event!!!!! THAT ol fucker said more deaths equals more GDP!!!!!!!! SAME AS KRUGMAN!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW BLESS YOU TD!!!!!!!!!!
it appears to be genuine, since the original has been 'disappeared'.
http://ow.ly/i/gcYz/original
He had better jump on this if it isn't true.
Blatant example of the "Broken Window Fallacy".
Economics 101.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I honestly believe that Krugman is losing his marbles.
Who will be the first to file a petition in the New York court system, with an affidavit testifying that Krugman now poses an imminent threat to the welfare and/or safety of himself and/or others?
First, a staged, hostile extraterrestrial invasion of planet earth, ala War of the Worlds style, and now this, all in the spate of a week, from Krugman.
What will he say or do next?
We're worried about you, Paul. Leave the dark church of Keynesian Voodoo.
did he have any? i wonder..
,but i agree he's losing his mind ... well 3 years in so called recovery YET BIGGEST DEFICIT , RECORD UNDER/UNEPLOYEMNT, HOUSING IS FUCKED..
so basically scam aka goverment spending keeps on running..but i guess time is running out
alx
No....deep down, Krugman is simply a MALTHUSIAN! He and his ilk are definitely believers in population control and actual depopulation! They are evil and dangerous people.
Other notable Malthusians are: Kissinger, Robert Muller, Bill Gates, Oprah, Al Gore, Rockefeller, and the list goes on......
I'm not...I believe it's better to let them starve to death than to never have them at all. Viva la perpetual growth!!
I still don't understand the logic behind the argument that destroyed buildings and lives = prosperity. Sure you can increase GDP by increasing government spending but... how does having to do work replacing something you already owned increase your wealth? That would be like saying theft, another form of capital destruction, is good for economic growth.
its easy..
Krugman think money grows on trees, so it just matter of little physcial activity to get some money and throw on economy..
WHAT ALL THOSE CLOWNS DONT SEE OR DONT WANT TO SEE IS OTHER SIDE OF LEDGER , so money spent need to be taken from somewhere ? so net-net taking money from individuals and giving to anothe ones is simply stupid
alx
Krugman is correct that it is a national tragedy that workforce participation is as low as it is & unemployment is over 20%. It is also an almost equal tragedy that of those employed, over 60%, after terrible commutes, are sitting behind desks for 50 hours a week getting fat while building bombs, working in finance, or othwise producing hardly anything of value working for or in some function complying with the government... while their children are in day care or some crappy public school that's worse than day care.
Might as well let Krugman fly the death star into the sun. The sooner the better. Let's lobby to get something out of it- like block grants for free wifi, local farming & decentralized energy. Most Americans will see value in that, unlike unnecessarily rebuilt Starbucks or whatever Obama's major contributors suggest.
I am TOTALLY for local farming! Much healthier, less corrupt! Death to Monsanto!
Pink Floyd 1968 Set the Controls For The Heart Of The Sunhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcd0sQLRHl4
It is ExActly like that!
His ilk believe there are untapped potential in humans that only horrendous tragedy can bring out, and they point to WW2, and that idiotic book "Greatest Generation" as validation. Since we got off relatively lightly in WW2, it looks golden to American historians.
But I think he should not be silenced. We Need his example, lest we forget what his kind are really about. Like we need Cuba, to show us where communism leads.
yes, WW2 was an elective war for us. There is 0% chance Germany would have ever invaded the USA and 0% the Japs would have either. Germany lacked the navy and Japan lacked the army.
The tide had already turned on the Germans after the destruction of 6th Army and they were defeated on the Eastern Front long before we entered the war. Yet we congratulate ourselves for winning WW2. Sure, we did defeat Japan but we did not win the war in Europe.
According to ancient tales; the Pheonix rises after the destruction by fire. This happens every 500 years. If this is true then US has over 260 years left.
sweet
Bang the Psychopath Bitchez!
Why doesn't Krugman just institute his own stimulus program by burning down the NYT building? Why wait for natural disasters when we can cause our own?
Every time I see Krugman, I think of Frank from Donnie Darko (the homicidal rabbit). Can we just replace all of his pictures with Frank? "Burn it to the ground" - Paul Krugman
That is not the destruction he is looking for. He wants you to suffer and sacrifice for the sake of the all-important GDP, not him and his.
Broken windows bitchez
Krugman is roving the streets, smashing every window he is able to, in what he believes is a heroic attempt to do his "small part" to stoke GDP.
Do not let Krugman near a nuclear power plant or public utility, for who knows what lengths he will to in order to prosecute his Machiavellian-Keynesian economic theory upon the world.
Damn that was funny.
Ha Ha Ha!!! Great image you just gave me! Krugman & Crowbar Inc. Walking downtown smashing windows with a crazy look on his face, one sleeve of his shirt torn off. "Hey man, what the hell are you doing?" I am spurring economic growth!! Yelling up at the sky, come and get me you alien bastards!!!
Sorry, just ran with it.
Your comment is being tweeted by ZH.
I do hope Krugman sees it.
LULZ.
Hey: You want a toe? I can get you a toe...
First they came for the lunatics . . .
and I was sient, because I was not a lunatic.
Then they came for the banksters..
And, again, I was silent, as I was not a bankster.
Then they came for the Keynsians, so again, I was silent.
And then they came to me . . . and said "Okay, we've cleaned up the place, safe to go out now. Carry on!"
And we lived Happily Ever After.
Love it! Very clever.....
Will you let us know when it is okay to come out? : )
Not at all hard-to-believe...
Maybe an impostor has been writing those Op-Ed articles all along.
Wouldn't surprise me if it really was his account. The guy is losing it. He's got a hard on for aliens and now destructive earthquakes. Something weird about a grown man "tweeting" don't you think?
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Maybe, in true Krugmanesque fashion, "they" could have Blackwater/Z/whatever-the-fuck-the-crime-family-calls-itself kill off all members of the house and senate, and blame it on space aliens: imagine the galactic stimulus spending that would occur to buy new stars for the show-business-for-ugly-people business, not to mention the rash of IPOs that Wall Street could conjur to preemptively protect America's non-negiotiable way of life. Bullish! Kill them all...they!
Fuck Paul Krugman.
The clown is just another Princeton asshat.
The best in the business is Gerald Celente.
http://www.geraldcelente.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1724
Say what you will.
But the little Italian motherfucker gets shit right.