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But Paul Krugman’s educated-man-delusions of grandeur put the big reveal on the situation: It’s dire. It is heart-attack serious. We truly are witnessing the greatest country the world has ever beheld, thrashing around in agony, suffering a disease that is about to turn terminal. And the docs around the deathbed are quacks. We’re talking leeches, bloodletting, pigeons pecking at the feet stuff.

Time for a bumper sticker slogan. I make no claim to authoring the best one possible, or possessing the talents necessary for such a thing. I’m just offering something to the public domain. Something must be done. The public must be exposed to what is truly going on, and it has to be done in a language the public can understand. And the word that applies, that has seldom found the benefit of ink or voice, must be put in the slogan. It must, like all effective bumper sticker slogans, mix what is familiar with what is not yet familiar, and must be researched, with gusto, diligently, and in a great big hurry.

So here’s my humble offering:

You Keynesians are all the same, with your beady little eyes and flapping heads!

With heartfelt and profound apologies to Trey and Matt. Had to do it, guys. Word needs to get out, and we can’t depend on bad results to teach the lesson. The student has to have some humility in order for that to work, and it obviously isn’t there. The time has come to borrow some points from the Alinsky playbook (this one would be making use of Rule Twelve). We have to use what works.

The stakes are far too high to dick around with anything else, and too much damage has already been done.

Update: And here we go.

These people need to be ridiculed, to be lampooned. Their position is today — and it was exactly this position in the thirties! — “the reason our plan didn’t work is because you didn’t do it big enough.” The bucket of gasoline didn’t put the fire out, so go get a bigger bucket.

The concept of “Out of Control” has no more vivid an incarnation on this plane of reality; nor can it. Seriously.

Make fun of the Keynesians. Make fun of them as hard as you can. We know in that direction lies victory, for they themselves know they cannot afford to call themselves what they are. They cannot articulate their argument for what it is, and they cannot mention the name of their founder; either one would enable the common man of average intelligence to see through the smokescreen and the lies.

That Canadian-Ambassador dude looks kind of like Mr. Krugman, viewed in the right light, doesn’t he?

Update: For those who have greater belief in How the World Works than in me, you should be aware he’s on my side on this thing. In fact, he states the case much stronger than I ever did.

He’s right. Krugman’s record of being on the wrong side of things, is about as impressive as it can possibly be. Him and his Keynesian flying monkeys too.

“The bucket of gasoline didn’t put the fire out, so go get a bigger bucket.”

I think this is a *much* better bumper sticker. Best sentence I’ve read this week #1.
- AnonymousGuy | 07/04/2009 @ 17:37
This would be funnier if the people you’re lampooning could be counted on to know what the hell a “Keynesian” is.

It’s much too highbrow humor for most of them.
- cylarz | 07/05/2009 @ 02:13

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