Wednesday, May 30, 2012

God forbid…

…that Paul Krugman is ever diagnosed with dementia. But if he is, how will we be able to tell the difference?

3 comments:

RebeccaH said...

"Hey, let's create a fictional attack by extraterrestrial aliens and that will being all humanity together forever, and we'll solve all our problems, because we drove off the fictional aliens."

Is that the gist?

Paco said...

Krugman's big problem - surprising (or maybe not) in an economist - is that he thinks a dollar spent by the government on anything, however pointless, is more useful than a dollar spent (or - God forbid! - saved) in the private sector.

JeffS said...

Two points here.

First, any alien invasion (even a hypothetical one) will involve hostilities, which means shooting, which requires prodigious quantities of firearms and ammo, and lefties loathe boom sticks, and all things associated with them. So it's a bust from a lack of support from his side of the aisle.

Second, in an earlier post, I noted that there's nothing wrong in using hooch to speed up the synapses. But there's a trick to that, and one that Krugman has yet to master: you need to know when to stop drinking.