Krugman, Did You Just Argue Against People Exercising Basic Liberty?

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by Smitty

. . .polling suggests that support for [Scottish] independence has surged over the past few months, largely because pro-independence campaigners have managed to reduce the “fear factor” — that is, concern about the economic risks of going it alone. At this point the outcome looks like a tossup.

Well, I have a message for the Scots: Be afraid, be very afraid. The risks of going it alone are huge.

Irrespective of the rational arguments that are to be made, Krugman you’re arguing against the advice of a man who’s boots you’re unfit to polish:

Never take counsel of your fears.

Had I a vote in Alba, I’d straight up vote for independence. Not because of the probability of anything in your cheap parade of horribles coming to pass, Krugman, but just because I can’t think of anything good ever occurring in history through heeding the advice of a craven little pecksniff such as yourself. Yours is the advice that the Orwellian hell of the day is preferable to possible greatness, if the slack-jawed academics can just succeed in dragging enough people into their gloomy swamp.

Fall off the planet, Krugman. The litmus test for any policy decision anywhere ought to be: is it increasing individual liberty and opportunity? If the answer is ‘yes’, then go for it, say I.

Where one could argue against Scottish independence is if the leaders are just planning to sell out to Brussels. However, I should think Krugman would be getting out his best pom-poms to cheerlead such a debacle. Is there a stupid idea under the sun that Krugman has not embraced?

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  2. Could I vote in Scotland, I’d vote to remain one of Her Majesty’s loyal subjects. However, not being a Scot, I can’t really know how they’d feel about that; were I a Scot, my entire life and my experiences would be different.

    Nevertheless, you make a credible argument: if the esteemed Dr Krugman has recommended something, one should always do the opposite.

  5. As for what The New York Times’ celebrated Nobel laureate argued, why he was arguing that the Scots need to remain fully beholden to the welfare teat, that they needed the United Kingdom as a lifeline of support for the next time they foul up. He was saying, in effect, that because an independent Scotland which still shared the Pound Sterling couldn’t just print itself out of a crisis, a la Zimbabwe, it would be stuck having to take horrible, horrible austerity measures and do something really radical like live within its means.

  6. “Is there a stupid idea under the sun that Krugman has not embraced?”
    This is a rhetorical question, isn’t it?

  7. of course the Party stooge Krugman is arguing against the common people exercising basic liberties. to scum like Krugman, the plebs have no liberty. they are serfs to be ruled by commie Ph.Ds and community organizers like Krugman and his commie pals.

  8. My Albertan friend tells me BC is just like Oregon and Washington. Libs on the coast, conservatives in the interior.

  12. There are two opinions in England about the Scots vote: Good Riddance they want to leave, and They shouldn’t break up the United Kingdom.

    And the SNP is a bunch of lefties anyhow.

  14. Actually I suspect Krugman fears that without Scotland the rest of the UK will finally be able to drop-kick socialism; Labour has withdrawn increasingly north over the years, while the rUK has been drifting Thatcherward.

  15. The problem appears to be, Smitty, not that the Scots will incorporate Krugtron 2000’s advice. It’s the fact that they want independence to become a full-operational Socialist DethStore.

    I’m a bit lost with my fellow conservatives on this point; some seem to think that Scotland is going to become a small-governance utopia.

    It’s not. It will become Greece of the North.

  17. as long as scotland is n the EU they will NIT be “independent”. and the euro is NOT as good as the pound. what scots need is more devolution, not “Independence”.

  18. Rob Roy and William Wallace are long dead. If the UK sheds itself of half an island full of Scots Labour dole proles, the remainder of the country will skew sharply right…

  19. Sadly, these days, yes. Once again Ireland’s biggest export is its unemployables. The Irish President has demanded Obama amnesty over 50,000 Irish illegals and Paul Ryan supports it.

  23. I favor Scottish independence for two reasons. One, it will throw the Scots fully onto their own resources. They want a cradle to grave welfare state, then they pay for it. Second, it will mean no more Labour governments in the rest of the UK for at least the next two decades.

  24. Except that the Scots will probably (unless they’re far stupider than the historical record suggests) keep the pound. As stupid as the Euro was in conception, it would be idiocy of Krugmanesque proportions to adopt it now.

  25. They’ll need plenty of the water of life to endure the idiocy they will impose on themselves. If the vote is yes, then in the not too distant future an exodus will begin.

  27. Ireland claims to have invented whiskey, but Scotland now
    manufactures more of it. Perhaps the old joke “God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world” can now be applied to Scotland and its future as an independent state.

  33. What makes you think that my darling bride (of 35 years, three months and 20 days) isn’t a green-eyed redhead herself?

    OK, OK, she’s brunette, with hazel eyes.

  38. Isn’t it the DUTY of our moral and intellectual superiors to enlighten us? Isn’t Krugman OBLIGATED to be Krugman?

    Don’t we all feel just a little bit more secure knowing he is out there thinking on our behalf?

    I rest easier during these long autumn nights just knowing The Krugman is watching over us…

  39. How much Scotch would you need to choke down 454 grams of Haggis? And how much does 454 grams costs in €uros?

  40. “While one who sings with his tongue on fire
    Gargles in the rat race choir
    Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
    Cares not to come up any higher
    But rather get you down in the hole
    That he’s in”

    Bob Dylan

  41. My beautiful Barbara was a ginger with hazel eyes … age injects silver amongst the red and dims the brightness of her eyes but my hearts memory of her is always of intense, vibrant hair and flashing eyes. The heart remembers and holds dear the past perfection.

  43. Remember a great truth of life: real redheads come in only two types, absolutely gorgeous or butt-ugly. There is no middle ground in this.

  45. That joke begs the question of why God created the Irish in the first place.

    Anyway, I far prefer single malt Scotch to Bushmill’s or Jameson’s, tasty as the latter two are. And they do mix better than any single malt.

  47. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because Paul Krugman stands ready to do thinking on their behalf.”

    George Orwell.

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