{"id":890,"date":"2009-09-27T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2009-09-27T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T15:54:39","slug":"krugman-goes-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/890\/krugman-goes-postal\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman Goes Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something distinctly undignified when a Nobel Prize-winning economist goes postal, but then no one has accused Paul Krugman of dignity in some time.<\/p>\n<p>In one of his harangues on behalf of the Waxman-Markey bill (you know, otherwise known as cap-and-tax) to supposedly prevent some future tropical creature\u2019s diet from including boiled people, Krugman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/25\/opinion\/25krugman.html?_r=3\" target=\"_blank\">makes the argument<\/a> that in 2020 the bill would cost the average family \u201croughly the cost of a postage stamp a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krugman did not originate the line, around a while now, one of those analogies invariably conjured up by elitists to explain to us plain folks in plain language why we can afford to fund this or that government program.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to this one, we would never stoop so low as to ask what the Postal Service, yet another already bankrupt government service, will do when all those average families, who really must live within their budgets, have to sacrifice just that one postage stamp a day (and that\u2019s if you accept Krugman\u2019s and the government\u2019s math).\u00a0 Do Nobel Prize-winning economists ever address the idea that resources which are not infinite cannot be infinitely taken?<\/p>\n<p>No, we want to be positive by urging President Obama to begin selling ObamaCare by saying it\u2019s only going to cost every senior citizen just two-and-a-half Depends diapers a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something distinctly undignified when a Nobel Prize-winning economist goes postal, but then no one has accused Paul Krugman of dignity in some time. In one of his harangues on behalf of the Waxman-Markey bill (you know, otherwise known as cap-and-tax) to supposedly prevent some future tropical creature\u2019s diet from including boiled people, Krugman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,195,196,71,194],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-taxes","tag-waxman-markey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}