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- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Gnarly Gnarlington Friday Edition
- Why is Michael Moore a Socialist? It Rhymes with “Wreconimic Lupidity”
- If You Notice That Paul Krugman is Hesitant to Sit Down, Here’s Why
| Clearing the Browser Tabs – Gnarly Gnarlington Friday Edition Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:10 AM PST I may have a sickness. I can’t get enough of Charlie Sheen’s gonzo quotes. In barely a week, the guy has produced more taglines and quotable bits than the entirely of network television has done in a year. He may be on a rocket-sled to an epic-level breakdown but he’s going to do it in a way that we’ll all be talking about for a long time. So, yeah, I may have a sickness, but it’s okay. I’ll just cure it with my brain. Winning. And now, links!
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| Why is Michael Moore a Socialist? It Rhymes with “Wreconimic Lupidity” Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:01 PM PST
I don’t want to revisit the “what’s yours is mine, peasant” part of Moore’s quote, but a part that wasn’t included in the Real Clear Politics transcription. He won’t come off any more intelligently, but at least we can understand what would possess him to treat your bank account like the Give A Penny, Take A Penny bowl at his local Taco Bell. Here’s how he began his comments.
Yes, you read that correctly. According to Michael Moore, our economy can not grow, ever. Those GDP numbers we occasionally see — well the ones that don’t have minus signs in front of them that we used to see before Barack Obama took over — are illusory because there’s only so much money in this country and most of it is being hoarded away like copies of National Geographic in a crazy hermit’s walk-up apartment. Remember, folks, this is the same guy who filmed an entire documentary about Capitalism. You would think that he would have learned a little something on the subject, even accidentally, but no. Michael Moore’s brain held fast against the real world and he came out knowing no more about how our economy works than he did when he started. That wasn’t by accident, by the way. Moore remains an economic dullard on purpose, because if he admitted that our economy does grow, his entire worldview will suddenly look ridiculous. However, if you assume that wealth is finite, then socialism actually makes sense. Of course we’d want to make sure people weren’t hoarding the resources. Of course we’d want to make sure we spread it as evenly as we could. Of course we’d want to make sure that bloated gasbags don’t get so rich so rich they fairly dance when they talk about their wealth. If wealth is finite, then redistribution makes sense because that’s the only way poor people will ever get more of it. But we know our economy doesn’t work that way. It grows. We create wealth. Well, normally, when our government isn’t choking the life out of our businesses and incomes, we create wealth. Poor people can become rich, not by seizing money from those with more, but by creating desirable goods and services that increase their wealth. This isn’t magic, by the way, but something that happens with such regularity and predictability that we’ve actually built an entire branch of science around it. We can observe wealth creation every day and subject it to experiment (such as the Keynesians in the Obama administration have been performing for the past two years, much to our detriment). Those upticks in GDP are living, breathing proof that Michael Moore doesn’t know any more about capitalism than he does about making a watchable movie. Or perhaps he does and he just thinks he can play us all for fools.
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| If You Notice That Paul Krugman is Hesitant to Sit Down, Here’s Why Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:11 AM PST I linked to Iowahawk’s brilliant takedown of Paul Krugman in this morning’s CtBT post, but I want to give it a bit more attention because it is absolutely brilliant. Krugman tried to run out the growing progressive meme that Wisconsin students get a better education because their teachers have full collective bargaining. The problem with that meme is, as Iowahawk proves rather conclusively, it’s simply not true. You have to twist the facts, something Krugman does on a regular basis. Iowahawk is having none of that from the New York Times pet hack this week. Here’s how he begins.
The beating only gets worse from there — much worse. Krugman may not sit down easily for a couple weeks after a spanking like that. New bloggers, take instruction. If you want your blog to grow like a ragweed in an endless vat of Miracle Gro, you need to set that post, with that level of writing, wit, and research as the pole star toward which you sail with every single post you write. Will that be difficult? Oh, you betcha, but you didn’t think getting a bazillion hits a day was going to be easy, did you? CORRECTION: This was, of course Iowahawk’s piece, not Frank’s. That’s what I get for keeping too darned many tabs open. Speaking of Frank, by the way, this is a lovely piece of work. Thanks to several Twitter friends who noticed my mistake.
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