I call Paul Krugman “Fauxiconman” for obvious reasons (he’s a fake economist, more media creation than actual member of the profession, and he’s a con artist, though perhaps among the worst in history because he fools only those afflicted with Liberal fantasies of utopia — and how hard can that be?).
He wrote a sentence in a recent article critiquing the Republican response to the Manchurian’s State of the Union that made me literally laugh out loud, though he did not mean to be funny:
Although Apple is now America’s biggest corporation as measured by market value, it employs only 43,000 people in the United States, a tenth as many as General Motors employed when it was the largest American firm. <source>
That phrase: “…employs only 43,000 people…” really hit my funny bone. What a fool this man is. Forty three thousand people is a big number no matter how you look at it or what you compare it to.
But to compare it to General Motors circa 1960? News flash for Paul: the era of big manufacturing of cars in the USA is in long-term secular decline, no doubt aided and abetted by repeated union shakedowns of corporate treasuries over the decades, and to chase after it while ignoring other growth sectors is worse than stupid: it is cruel.
No surprises here.
Hahahaha! Great post. Liberals will never admit that Krugman’s far more an attention-seeking, “Can I be popular, too?” political kiss-ass than he is an economist.
Please send over to Ben Hoffman at http://drudgeretort.wordpress.com. I’d post myself but I made it a rule not to support anyone’s blog who calls either serving solders or veterans un-American.
Btw, my laughter comes from Krugman trying to compare Apple to 1960′s GM for no other reason than brownie points. I swear after he writes this stuff, he goes and sits at Obama’s doorstep wagging his tail waiting for a pat and a treat.
What a perfect image of Krugman as the lap dog of Obama — I think you are 100% right, for real.
Krugman has graduated from foil hats used to receive alien mind messages, to a complete foil suit. As you said the only people buying what he is pushing are those in the alien mind message club that have already been afflicted. However at this rate Reynolds (Reynolds Wrap) will be employing over 50,000 workers here in the states if Krugman has anything to say about it.
“…complete foil suit”, hilarious. Combine that with Vern’s image of Fauxiconman as a lap dog looking for a cookie from the Manchurian and you’ve got a crazy Photoshop opportunity.
Lol without a doubt…=)
And who better to take advantage of that photoshop opportunity but you, sir!
Thanks Vern, it’s in the queue