Twice a week Paul Krugman writes a column in the NY Times about the issues of the day. He has won the Nobel Prize, is a columnist for one of the biggest newspapers in the country and is listened to by numerous politicians and policy makers. He has degrees from Yale, MIT and is a professor at Princeton. He is the author of numerous books and papers on a wide variety of economic topics both international and domestic. He purports to be the foremost expert on those topics as well.
Paul Krugman is smart. But Paul Krugman is wrong. Straight up WRONG. How could a guy so smart be so wrong you ask? Well, it’s my goal every week to tell you why. Normally I wouldn’t give two cents if some guy who writes for a paper is wrong, but in the past year or so the suggestions that Paul puts forward to “do” are really really bad. So bad that those “to do’s” are making my life and the lives of millions of Americans suck. I don’t need help in making my life suck Paul, so I’ve started KRUGMANISWRONG.COM
Whoa, “really really bad you say”? That’s some insightful commentary KRUGMANISWRONG guy. Where do you get off making such claims?
EASY! See, Paul has never really held a job other than being an author or an academic. He theorizes about the state of the world, strokes his beard and doesn’t have to be held accountable for any actual performance. When his theories don’t pan out, he can simply explain them away as not being properly implemented. He has never run a company or been directly responsible for people’s jobs. Like Dan Akroyd says in Ghostbusters “I’ve worked in the private sector, they expect results”. Well dear Dr. K has never worked in the private sector so he is unfamiliar with results.
Every column our fuzzy faced Nobel Prize winner writes, I will pick apart and simply add the things he left out, point out the misdirection he engages in and generally cut through the BS that IS his column.
I’m not going to bad mouth Paul or demonize him. I simply want to identify where his ideology is flawed and how he distorts his writing to fit that ideology. I want to inject intellectual honesty to our national debate.
My goal is to have you read his column, then check back here for not necessarily the opposite opinion, but to gain a greater understanding of HOW and WHY he frames his arguments the way he does. I want you to make up your own mind.
I love reading Paul’s column. It is the quintessential cliché of ivory tower, elitist policy making. Guys and gals who have never really worked or know ANYTHING about business or the real world wax philosophical about how the correct form of government would solve so many of life’s ills.
They’re wrong. Their philosophy is flawed from the outset. And unfortunately for the rest of us, they are not limiting their theories to academia anymore. They are implementing them into actual policy.
Fret not dear reader! Common sense is on the comeback and if you join me on this journey we will return our country to its rightful place as a beacon of liberty and prosperity!
