Paul Krugman - Ronald Reagan Was a Racist

[fleischpudding]

And Keynes was an anti-semite, how does Krugman feel about that?

[jezmundberserker]

Krugman: Nobel Price in Economy, never killed anyone. Reagan: B-movie actor, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands (mostly in Central American wars started by the CIA). If I had to choose who to have a conversation with, I'd go with Krugman.

[Bullettube]

I remember Ronald Regan when he was president, in fact unlike many people, I remember him from way back in the 60's and then as Governor of California. He had charm and a folksy way of speaking no doubt about it. But he was very much a WASP, he made jokes about people who were Italian, Polish and Jewish and yes he also made nasty jokes about people of color. He was trying to be a comedian, maybe like Don Rickles?  Racist? I don't know, but what I do know is that he was wrong, very wrong.

[derivativesarecool]

@Bullettube How was he a wasp? He went to Eureka College with a meager endowment of $16 million. When I think of wasp, I think of Ivy-League educated and elitist. Reagan was none of those. He may have been an insider, but wasp, no.

[bigqueue]

Quite a pompus ass....

[js1976woo]

... The point of Reagan's "Time for Choosing" speech was this:

"We will keep in mind and remember that Barry Goldwater has faith in us. He has faith that you and I have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions and determine our own destiny."

It seems Paul on the other hand thinks that we are all dolts (of all races) that can't live w/o the federal gov't.

[js1976woo]

Also, he says that it was wrong of Reagan to "play the race card" during elections without actually using racial terms. Whatever, genius. I suppose it is better these days where candidates like Carter, Jackson, and Obama actually use the words? Or when you have in addition, Bush, McCain and others pandering to speakers of a certain language/"race"?

Krugman is a racist himself if he thinks that the blacks are unable to help themselves. That is true racism. (con't)

[js1976woo]

This is what I get from his statment about the WQ... Krugman says that Reagan complains about a "Welfare Queen" of unknown race and says that white supremacists of the time were correct in assuming that she was not white. So Krugman is putting Reagan in a position where he cannot say anything bad about welfare programs, right? Otherwise he is a racist somehow. Why didn't Krug go after the low hanging fruit and call him a sexist since he ACTUALLY says that she is a woman?

[Redeye1524]

Don't know how to argue or form a logical argument, just call somebody racist.

MAN, WE NEED TO GIVE THIS GUY ANOTHER NOBEL PRIZE

[WingThaiJ]

Krugman is a Pencil Pusher economist who is either a liar or is as stupid as JRogers claims.He wants tax on financial transactions claimg conservatives tout how great what Singapore & HK R doing who use this tax.He fails to reveal:SP:NO taxes on capital gains(&Krugman demands Congress raise capital gains taxes);Corp income rate flat 17%;income tax rates R substantially lower than U.S.;In (Hong Kong) HK, corp&individual, are substantially lower than U.S;HK has no tax on capital gains

[survivalofone]

Attacking dead politicians, how clever of you.

[TithonusSyndrome]

Oh look, anti-scientific cranks reciting pro-slavery, pro-corporate privilege, pro-revisionist talking points from their tribal masters who can do no wrong. That's what this always comes down to, at the end of the day; not facts vs misinformation, but Us vs Them, Our Tribe vs Their Tribe.

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

None of the presidents ever believed in anti-racism, it is only an ideology promoted by the medias to make the system´s social engineering more acceptable.

[shamgar001]

You know how you can tell that you're opponent has run out of intellectual arguments?

They call you racist.

[jbt4673]

@shamgar001

Race is a central theme in America

[odinswald]

@shamgar001 So true.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@shamgar001

You know, it's only a fallacy when it's used to justify a position. It's perfectly logical to do it with other purposes: like showing what's true and what's not about the individual in question. The subtlety of the judging what is fallacious relies on some criterion like this one and many people fall in the trap of just plugging the name when they see what looks like one...

You're falling in that kind of trap as your ironic critic proves us.

[tomc52758]

Comrade Krugman what is your five year plan?

[vechorik]

The Debt Ceiling under President Reagan was raised eighteen times to a total of $1.85 trillion (See Table 7.3). This is less than the $3 trillion-plus already raised under President Obama! Raising the Ceiling 18 times during the eight Reagan years meant a Ceiling battle every 5.3 months (on average), with an average rise of only $102 billion per increase. So… does Obama really want to get the Reagan Treatment?

[TheEthanwashere]

Nice. recommendation: next time try to get better recording quality.

[libertyforever76]

That "diet" story is an outright lie. Reagan said "a democrat is a person who can't look at a fat man standing next to a thin man without assuming he got that way by stealing from the thin man."

[NoRegretsForOurYouth]

@libertyforever76

Here's the correct quote from The Speech:

"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one."

I like yours better, more biting. But a lie.

The "diet" part comes next: "We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet."

Did you lie on purpose or are you just a fool?

[msturg80]

@NoRegretsForOurYouth

Way to dig for the wrong quote.

"We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet."

--Ronald Reagan, TV speech, October 27, 1964

[NoRegretsForOurYouth]

@msturg80 What are you talking about? He said the "diet story" was a lie, it wasn't as you apparently well know. and he misquoted "A Time For Choosing" and I corrected him. I don't think I made an error.

[bette1122]

WHAT? Get this guy a strait jacket