Krugman on Countdown

His description of Paulson's proposal: "All your decisions are belong to me." Never knew d00d was such an Intertubes pop culture aficionado. -- hrh

Did he really say that? That's classic! Good for him.

9/22/08

Simply put "let these creeps take it in the teeth".

The economy is going to crash well so what. For most of us in the real world that happened some time ago. What are they saying the outcome will be--people lose their homes, unemployment rates up, da da da... they are a bunch of crap and how does our giving them a all of our grandchildrens' money borrowed from the Chinese change any of that.

Let's go a month and see what really goes on. Last month george the idiot said "the fundamentals are strong" and I am willing to take him at his word being the honorable man that he is. Let's see if the sky falls or not. If it does or starts to well then lets give 900 billion to the public and not to the pigs. Money won't keep them from hell and so why waste it.

Finally, admit that we haven't been up to the task and take our beating. The good news is that it has gotten bad enough that the people who caused it and called us whiners are going to get theirs. I say let them have it. I can't wait to see them eat dog food. We’ll see how they vote on immigration when they are raking leaves for a living.

Put george and dick in jail and nail up their gang. We are done with them. Bring the boys home and apologize. At last, have we no shame.

Conrad C. Elledge

Either Ed Morrisey has suddenly discovered a devotion to Constitutional principles (which seems unlikely!) or he's channelling Ron Paul.

Anyway, it's good to read.

It sez:

"nobody actually has any idea of [the hacker's] identity, let alone their political leanings (if any). The available evidence strongly suggests the hacker is loosely part of an assorted band of Internet pranksters "

Not funny, Mr G.

I'm starting to agree with both of you. The last few days I thought it might be okay provided there was oversight and taxpayer ownership. But more and more I'm starting to wonder if we really have to do something as fast as every market analyst and politican is saying. I keep hearing how doing nothing will ultimately hurt the little guy, but a)hasn't the little guy been taking it up the ass in this economy the last few years anyway, and b) doesn't that argument sound a bit like the old "if you don't support the war, you don't support our troops" one. My own suspicion is that this is ALL about the fatcats, greedy and incompetent executives, and gambling speculators. Let them take their lumps like the rest of us. No one's bailing me out of my mortgage. No one had my back when corporate downsized.

I say join the crowd.

What will the debates look like?

I do not mean that silly rating of candidates on minor issues as if they were competing for an acting job. (oh, wait!)

What will Obama say about the economy? That other fellow?

What will Obama say, if anything, about saving money by not keeping American troops overseas?

Will anyone mention the role of the fed in creating inflation and economic bubbles? Or offer a different reason even? Anything on the cause of these mad economic busts or why the Dollar is worth so much less than just when I got married? (try to buy a week's groceries for two on twenty dollars today!)

Will we keep spending a fortune spying on American citizens? Besides being morally wrong and against the constitution, it just plain ain't worth the money spent. (unless you are building a dictatorship)

We live in times that has issues of real substance, "big issues" as they might say in Texas --- will these issues make it to the debates?

I mean, how many times do I have to listen to the minor sideline issues every four years. Can we hear that there is some real difference in the two camps? Is there any real difference?

The neocons and blowtards are hypocrites. Thanks for letting us know Glenn. Many of us come to your site during commercial breaks for Limbaugh, so it's nice you point out that his crowd may not be entirely honest. Not like there are any real stories to cover.

Would you please go update all your past posts, now that most of the vomit from your mind has been demonstrated to be inaccurate?

Kthxbye.

He stands by actual principles that are excessively applicable to the way things are going.

I know all about his principles, and no doubt he's the real deal, not a phony about them, but I still think that his extremism is dangerous. It isn't his principles so much that concern me, it's what he believes. Yes, he's right about some things. Sometimes he sounds like Noam Chomsky but I have this suspicion that it's Ayn Rand he's been studying, and she was a crackpot. Greed on Wall Street was not the problem, a lack of government oversight was, coupled with the restructuring of capital markets over the past thirty years to favor the religion of the free marketers. It's the philosophy guiding the system that was the problem not the behavior of the money lenders. Given the philosophy that created the environment, the behavior was entirely predictable. As Gore Vidal has pointed out, you don't need a government program to teach people how to be selfish and greedy, that's a given. You need a government program (incentives, tax breaks, policies, rules, whatever) to encourage people to cooperate with each other to build a bridge, keep the roads paved and not exploit their neighbors. Or to not so distort the economy through fear and greed that everyone suffers.

In the world according to Ron Paul, I don't see how you avoid ending up with 12th century feudalism.

People invest so much emotional energy in the mere presence of discernible "principles" that it borders on fetishism and idolatry. I'm not sure what they mean by it sometimes. Sometimes I think they have "principles" confused with "belief".