Who Made Krugman the Expert? Cronies Did.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

....The irony is that today, in the United States, the government takeover of various industries, like healthcare and banking, --and its general activist approach-- uses the same kind of carrot and stick incentives employed in Russia to create the oligarchy that runs the state today…and stays out of politics.

Can anyone really deny that the softened tone at Fox News over the last two years has been due to the international regulatory pressures put on Rupert Murdoch and the Murdoch family? Can anyone really deny that guys like George Soros, Warren Buffett and George Kaiser, and thousands of nameless others, have benefited monetarily and personally from the administration of Barack Obama? Can anyone really deny that the laws were stretched if not broken in the GM bankruptcy in order to pay off the United Auto Workers at the expense of the taxpayers?

How does one spend $1 trillion on the stimulus that doesn’t create jobs?

How does one lose hundreds of billions dollars in the DOE energy program, and thereby drive almost the entire solar industry into bankruptcy?

The irony is that guys like Khodorkovsky were condemned in the US press for how they made their billions until they entered politics and denounced the regime.Our own oligarchy is applauded for how they keep their billions as long as they remain politically useful and prop up Obama’s regime publicly.

The Khodorkovsky case and Russia may seem extreme comparisons to what’s happening in the United States. But they serve as warning signs about the road we are on.

...there will be a lot of Putins, Obamas and Khodorkovsky’s in our future.

Here’s a hint for you that we are far down along that road.

The New Yorker, in its coverage of the Khodorkovsky saga, uses without irony testimony from a Stalinist show trial against poet Josef Brodksy:

Judge: And what is your profession?

Brodsky: Poet. Poet and translator.

Judge: And who told you that you were a poet? Who assigned you that rank?

Brodsky: No one. (Non-confrontationally.) Who assigned me to the human race?

Judge: And did you study for this?

Brodsky: For what?

Judge: To become a poet? Did you try to attend a school where they train [poets] . . . where they teach . . .

Brodsky: I don’t think it comes from education.

Judge: From what, then?

Brodsky: I think it’s . . . (at a loss) . . . from God.

Again, I say it is without irony that the New Yorker uses this excerpt.

Because isn’t it this line that the liberal oligarchy uses when conservatives question global warming, Paul Krugman, Obamacare or gay marriage?

“It’s the law, and they should just shut up,” they demand. “What degree do you have that qualifies you to talk about (education, healthcare, taxes, economics, civil rights, etc.)? they taunt triumphantly. “Who made you an expert on our ‘settled science?’” they sneer.

To this last, I like Brodsky’s answer best: “I think it’s . . . (at a loss) . . . from God.”

It’s not just a great answer to the question; it’s a great explanation of why progressives will never understand what conservatives are talking about.

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2013/12/23/media-misses-the-point-again-with-cronies-like-these-who-needs-friends-n1767352

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Delusion runs rampant this Christmas Eve. It's almost sad to see.

[Pooky 3,786]

Paul Krugman? The guy who said that a fake alien invasion would be good for the economy?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/paul-krugman-alien-invasion_n_1612973.html

[Peikko 1,575]

Comparing American politics to Russian politics is asinine. Enough said.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Yes. Thank you. Do come again.

[OriZ 3,157]

Krugman? An expert? LOL

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's a pretty lazy op-ed. Just throw out a strong of sound bites and somehow hope it makes a coherent whole. Garbage.