Monday, November 29, 2010

KFTC: Right Wingers

Bernanke and his colleagues were clearly caught by surprise, but the budget expert Stan Collender predicted it all. Back in August, he warned Mr. Bernanke that “with Republican policy makers seeing economic hardship as the path to election glory,” they would be “opposed to any actions taken by the Federal Reserve that would make the economy better.” In short, their real fear is not that Fed actions will be harmful, it is that they might succeed.


GOP, please continue engaging in intercourse with said gallus domesticus. I fucking hate you clones.

11 comments:

  1. Yo Boogers, hate to break it to ya, but I wouldn't get my economic news/views from Krugman if he were the last journalist inside the Beltway. I would make one of those neat highlighted link thingys if I could but I guess this will have to suffice: http://mises.org/daily/3691

    If the Fed succeeds it is for the short term. In the long term they will do nothing better than destroy our currency and everything that goes with it.

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  2. Clearly, I'm in over my head. I don't like math or world government, but I will place an ideological salt shaker next to Krugman's column. The idea of a hard line party stance in this time of congressional stalemate makes me want to beat up a hooker with stray cats rescued from a shelter.


    (id est, "It pisses me off.")

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  3. I won a puck signed by Alex Semin at a Movember event tonight in a raffle. He scored a hat trick at the game I was at on Friday. Movember giveth.

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  4. Starting tomorrow, unemployment benefits for 2 million more jobless Americans are going to begin to expire, meaning that these benefits will end during the holiday season. Republicans are opposed to extending them because, of course, doing so would increase the deficit. Yes, extending Bush tax cuts to higher-income brackets would do that, too, on a far grander scale, and it's up to Obama and the Democrats to drive that point home and make sure the voters know about it.

    Thoughts, jackals? Wazzle, when are you returning to the mainland to hibernate? I want to get awesome at your cabin and watch you walk on fiery logs.

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  5. Uhhh, signed puck, Alex who? MoVember overeth.

    Yeah fuck unemployment benefits for real. Agreed. And definitely fuck tax cuts!! For the rich or poor. Fuck'em. Actually fuck taxes all around, 'cept maybe sales tax.

    Might drive home for Xmas. Five day drive, Six/seven day stay. Five day drive back. $1500 in gas. Whew! Still thinking about it.

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  6. Dude you live in Canada eh and you don't know the leading goal scorer in the NHL. Huh?

    Long drive huh? Bet that long drive takes place on roads. Paid for by taxes. KFTTB(Keep Fucking That Tea Bag)...

    I haven't seen you in what five years? I want in on this xmas hang out.

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  7. "I wouldn't get my economic news/views from Krugman if he were the last journalist inside the Beltway."

    Yes, why get your economic views from Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University? I much prefer to get my economic opinions from Benjamin Lee, "doctoral candidate at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University".

    Because, after all, my Krugman doesn't agree with my pre-conceived notions!

    P.S. Why not save $500-1,000 and several days and take a plane?

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  8. Yes! A intellectual sparring between Head and billhicksmostfunny. The Den hasn't been this tense since I treaded on Rusty T. Bone. How about a nice story of obese, fucking retarded displays of human ignorance to ease that tension? Just easin' the tension, baby!

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  9. SS---Heard the name Semin, but don't even know what team he plays for, honest. I stopped watching the NHL when Langway retired. And yeah I drive on roads and if they weren't there I'd drive on the dirt, or not at all. X-mas hangout is on the calendar.

    Head---Okay so Mr.Krugman has a fancy diploma and some award people refer to as the "Nobel Prize". Well then he MUST have a deeper understanding than the rest of us do about complex relationships such as those between supply and demand.

    PS About the plane ride: It would save several days but it most definitely would not save any money. In fact driving will actually save anywhere from $1400-2000. Oh and the body scanners, and the TSA run amok, no thanks.

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  10. Wop wop wop wahhhhhhhhhh.......... ... .....

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  11. Wow, where the hell do you live? I once flew to Anchorage and back and it sure as hell didn't cost $2900-3500.

    "Okay so Mr.Krugman has a fancy diploma and some award people refer to as the "Nobel Prize". Well then he MUST have a deeper understanding than the rest of us do about complex relationships such as those between supply and demand."

    See, I would tend to write this as: "Dr. Krugman has devoted his life to studying the complex relationships between supply and demand and throughout his career has been recognized by other people studying the topic as being unusually talented at understanding that relationship, so much so that they ultimately decided to award him with the highest honor in the field (i.e. the some award people refer to as the 'Nobel Prize'). In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we should probably believe that he has a deeper understanding of those relationships those of us who do not spend night and day thinking about them."

    It's like if the secretaries of state for the past five Republican presidents all agreed with the current President and Secretary of State (both Democrats) that ratification of a major treaty with Russia is important and in the national interest. I would view that as persuasive evidence that ratification of said treaty is important and in the national interest.

    But I'm sure there are people out there - particularly those who place their trust with a political party who see political benefit in demogoguing the issue - who would say "Who cares what those people think? They're the same pointy-headed beltway elites who are always weighing in on foreign policy!" But I tend to view that kind of attitude as sort of trying to pick your own reality...

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