{"id":8740,"date":"2011-02-22T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T05:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2011-02-22T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:37:10","slug":"further-proof-that-paul-krugman-is-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8740\/further-proof-that-paul-krugman-is-unstable\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Proof that Paul Krugman is Unstable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s iteration of the inimitable (thank God) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/21\/opinion\/21krugman.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Krugman&#8217;s column<\/a> in the New York Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; what\u2019s happening in Wisconsin isn\u2019t about the state budget, despite Mr. Walker\u2019s pretense that he\u2019s just trying to be fiscally responsible. It is, instead, about power. What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin \u2014 and eventually, America \u2014 less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is what makes it to print, one wonders what function it is exactly that Dr. Krugman&#8217;s &#8216;editor&#8217; serves. The Grey Lady is on life support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s iteration of the inimitable (thank God) Dr. Krugman&#8217;s column in the New York Times: &#8230; what\u2019s happening in Wisconsin isn\u2019t about the state budget, despite Mr. Walker\u2019s pretense that he\u2019s just trying to be fiscally responsible. It is, instead, about power. What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2419,974,251,206,2420,2417,2412,419,1500,2418],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-labor-unions","tag-new-york-times","tag-paul-krugman","tag-public-employees","tag-public-sector-unions","tag-scott-walker","tag-unions","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-labor-dispute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8743,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}