KBeta said:I have to agree with argexpat. Please attack the man's arguments and not his credentials. If a person has to be a professor of economics to express his opinion on the topic, then NONE OF US have the right to discuss it.
What if we got the opinion of a professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University who has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from MIT; who has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford; and at MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics? Are those credentials good enough for you?
Then you need to start reading just what Paul Krugman has to say about this so-called crisis. Let me give you a hint: He thinks it's a scam.
Inventing a Crisis-12.7.04
http://www.pkarchive.org/column/120704.html
Borrow, Speculate and Hope-12.10.04
http://www.pkarchive.org/column/121004.html
Buying Into Failure-12.17.04
http://www.pkarchive.org/column/121704.html
Stopping the Bum's Rush-1.4.05
http://www.pkarchive.org/column/010405.html
The Iceberg Cometh-1.11.05
http://www.pkarchive.org/column/011105.html
I don't wish to be disrespectful. I respect your right to subscribe to the opinions of any person you choose.
However, I have yet to read an article written by a socialist-lib-dem apologist that presented a fair and unbiased analysis of anything having to do with the Bush Administration.
Most of them are still fighting the results of the 2000 election and can't understand how the electorate could renew his lease on the White House for four more years.
They cannot accept the reality that so many of their former students, once exposed to the real world, have renounced the inculcations that were supposed to last for life.
Call me crass, call me cynical, call me anything you like. I don't mind. What I do mind is the constant drone of the Dems who offer nothing positive, yet criticize anything and everything proposed by the Administration.
If the Dems have a better way to fix the Social Security System about which they have been complaining forever, why haven't we heard about it? If the 'private account' scheme they oppose is dropped, will they shut up?
We all know they won't, will they?
By the way, either accidentally, or on purpose, you neglected to identify Paul Krugman as an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. Given the animosity the Times has shown the president since since he first began campaigning for office in 1998, what would anyone expect to find within its pages, except barbs and harpoons, in any piece concerning the Administration.
That's what Paul Krugman gets paid to write, isn't it?
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