http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/krugman-free-to-die.html?_r=1
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Free to Die
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 15, 2011
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The second is that very few of those who die from lack of medical care look like Mr. Blitzer’s hypothetical individual who could and should have bought insurance. In reality, most uninsured Americans either have low incomes and cannot afford insurance, or are rejected by insurers because they have chronic conditions.
So would people on the right be willing to let those who are uninsured through no fault of their own die from lack of care? The answer, based on recent history, is a resounding “Yeah!”
Think, in particular, of the children.
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http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.com/2011/09/krugman-and-new-moralizing.html
Krugman-in-Wonderland
Analysis and criticism of America’s most prominent public intellectual and champion of Keynesian economics. I am part of the Austrian School of Economics, and I critique Krugman’s writings from that perspective.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Krugman and the New Moralizing
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According to Krugman, ONLY the Welfare State can ensure the moral outcomes; anything else is immoral, and those who object to any aspect of the Welfare State are immoral monsters who just want to see others suffer and starve. Am I exaggerating? Read the column and you will see what I mean.
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Upon reflection, it seems to me that:
(1) The Welfare / Warfare State fueled by the Federal Reserve Bank’s printing press and controlled by all the “BIG” groups (i.e., the military industrial complex, Wall Street, the trial lawyers, Big Unions, Big Banks, Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Gooferment, …) impoverishes everyone. The elite rich have the capability and resources to ride the storm that the poor, old, and middle class don’t.
(2) American’s are the most generous people on the planet. Even with inflation and high taxes, they continue to support charities. Why would that change when more wealth is retained by those who create it?
(3) The Gooferment is excluding all private efforts and transferring that control to bureaucrats. How can that be good?
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