Paul Krugman - Ronald Reagan Was a Racist

Have you read the reviews on Krugman's new book yet? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004J8HXGS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=t...

If we have universal healthcare, it will empower people who are stuck in bad jobs that they only keep because they fear being uninsured. It would allow for more entrepreneurship. One of the main reasons that people work for big companies is to get a good health insurance package. There is a lot of creativity occurring in countries like Japan. A lot of what makes this possible is that there is a safety net if the worst case scenario happens.

The white southerners will probably never join the viewpoint of the rest of the country, but they are diminishing in importance. Southern white men are a smaller demographic than unmarried women. Why should they get such special treatment in politics. There are now more World of Warcraft players than there are farmers. The Democrats are not going to get the southern white votes for quite some time, and they have the ability to win without them. The problem isn't poor white trash, the problem is rich white trash.

Ronald Reagan has been reinvented as an icon of puritan conservatism, but the reality was quite different. His career was remarkably ugly. He was astonishingly mean spirited. When talking about Americans who went to bed hungry, he quipped that they were probably just on a diet.

His first speech was about States' Rights. His entire career was based on racism. He was a politician who mastered the ability to appeal to people's racism without ever saying the words. He even tried to eliminated social security, but the push back came to hard and fast. George W. Bush was a natural son of Ronald Reagan.

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[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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