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King Krugman Cross With German ‘Know-Nothing’

Democrats, Economy, Europe, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Political Economy, Republicans

Or as I dubbed the scolded Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück: “The German who’s really an Austrian … economist.”

Reports Spiegel Online:

“Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has blasted Germany’s Peer Steinbrück for his resistance to economic stimulus spending. Now the ‘boneheaded,’ ‘know-nothing’ finance minister has sent Krugman an invitation to come to Berlin to discuss their differences.”

“Krugman has repeatedly emphasized his belief that deficit spending is among the few bulwarks against a reprise of the Great Depression and he hasn’t shied from pillorying those with a cooler attitude towards stimulus.”

Steinbrück has been among his favorite targets. Krugman has blasted Steinbrück, who took office hoping to balance the German budget and together with Chancellor Angela Merkel has withheld his support for further European or national stimulus packages, for his “know-nothing diatribes” and ” boneheadedness.” Krugman’s most painful insult of all may have been his suggestion that the criticisms of “crass Keynesianism” offered by Steinbrück, a member of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party, most closely resemble the thinking of America’s Republican Party.

Why the invite? Where’s Steinbrück’s Tutonic spirit? And what arrogance Krugman evinces. Even if his “crass Keynesianism” was correct, which it isn’t (neither is Keynesiansim merely “crass”; it’s criminal)–what about respecting the sovereignty of strangers? In their misguided arrogance, Dems and Republicans are of a piece.

What’s more, neither foolish faction has grasped that America is no longer a super power, able to lord it over the rest.

King Krugman Cross With German 'Know-Nothing'

Democrats, Europe, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Political Economy, Republicans

Or as I dubbed the scolded Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück: “The German who’s really an Austrian … economist.”

Reports Spiegel Online:

“Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has blasted Germany’s Peer Steinbrück for his resistance to economic stimulus spending. Now the ‘boneheaded,’ ‘know-nothing’ finance minister has sent Krugman an invitation to come to Berlin to discuss their differences.”

“Krugman has repeatedly emphasized his belief that deficit spending is among the few bulwarks against a reprise of the Great Depression and he hasn’t shied from pillorying those with a cooler attitude towards stimulus.”

Steinbrück has been among his favorite targets. Krugman has blasted Steinbrück, who took office hoping to balance the German budget and together with Chancellor Angela Merkel has withheld his support for further European or national stimulus packages, for his “know-nothing diatribes” and ” boneheadedness.” Krugman’s most painful insult of all may have been his suggestion that the criticisms of “crass Keynesianism” offered by Steinbrück, a member of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party, most closely resemble the thinking of America’s Republican Party.

Why the invite? Where’s Steinbrück’s Tutonic spirit? And what arrogance Krugman evinces. Even if his “crass Keynesianism” was correct, which it isn’t (neither is Keynesiansim merely “crass”; it’s criminal)–what about respecting the sovereignty of strangers? In their misguided arrogance, Dems and Republicans are of a piece.

What’s more, neither foolish faction has grasped that America is no longer a super power, able to lord it over the rest.

Updated: Missouri Police State: Beware Of People Like … Me

Constitution, Federalism, Founding Fathers, Individual Rights, libertarianism, Liberty, Natural Law, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Republicans, Ron Paul, Taxation, Terrorism, The State

The following is an excerpt from my new WND.com column, “Missouri Police State: Beware Of People Like … Me”:

“A secret Missouri State police report, entitled ‘The Modern Militia Movement,’ and dated February 20, 2009, is warning about subversives like … me. Apparently, this scribe has all the attributes of a militia member, and then some.

One of the incriminating telltale signs the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) is on the look out for are Ron Paul stickers.

I have one on my car. It reads: ‘Don’t blame me, I supported Ron Paul.’

The MIAC has cultivated an ensnaring network of snitches and spies, ‘consisting of local, state and federal agencies, as well as the public sector and private entities.’ Its malign manifesto alerts to other ‘paraphernalia’ associated with the patriot movement: Flags.

Guilty again. …

Dare to inveigh against the malignant and metastasizing Federal Frankenstein, or about states’ and individual rights, and, you’re militia material.

Again; that’s my motto, week-in and week-out on WND.com. If the Constitution and the natural law mean anything at all, then, almost everything the Federal government busies itself with is either unconstitutional, immoral, violative, or all three. I say that a lot. And I leave a pixelated trail behind. …”

Read the complete column, “Missouri Police State: Beware Of People Like … Me,” now on WND.com

Update (March 27): Thanks, Judge Robert. That’s what I needed to hear; that I’ll have a (pro bono) defense. (Grin) One problem: You are probably also on the Missouri Police State’s Most Wanted list.

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A Republican Warns … Two Years Late

America, Debt, Economy, EU, Europe, Republicans, Socialism

Since the crowning of Obama, Republicans have begun to cultivate a convenient awareness of the weight of the federal debt on the American economy.

Penned in February of 2007, my “Inflation 101 For Women Pundits And Other Tyrants” put the burden Dubya’s “national debt of $9 trillion” had placed on “America’s $12.98-trillion economy” in perspective:

As the American national debt stands, we would not be admitted into the company of socialists: The European Union. The EU expects member nations to hold debt below 60 percent of GDP.

Two years later, in March 26, 2009, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) claims the same, and makes headlines in The Hill.

A little late, don’t you think?! (Where do you go for the truth years ahead?)