Answering Krugman

Paul Krugman is smearing the Right again in his column from 1/14/11, carefully dropping nuggets of narrative into his prose. In addition to building upon and relying upon stereotypes (which, by the way, are inaccurate), he throws out the old liberal chestnut about society's "winners".

In his article, he says "...one in which society’s winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net..." as if accumulating wealth in this country is based upon random chance. If that were the case, his arguments might have some merit. (or not - remember, this is Krugman we're talking about)

Sadly, Krugman is echoing the view of a lot of the Left. Not themselves, of course; they worked hard for what they've earned. But others must have come into their wealth through luck, good fortune, or just pure whimsy.

Because Lady Luck has supposedly smiled upon them, they should be happy to be able to have part of their money taken from them at implied gunpoint, and a portion of it handed out to the so-called poor -- after Government takes it's slice, of course.

He then goes on to impugn the morality of those on the right, who would dare to insist that what they have earned should be theirs to keep, or donate as they see fit, without being coerced or threatened.

This is a case of projection on the part of the Left, believing that, as a country, we would allow people to starve in the street. Krugman is projecting his own Leftism onto others. The Conservatives he claims are immoral are proven to be far more generous in their giving to charities than Liberals, not requiring force to be applied to help others.

He then proceeds to mangle and malign history, claiming this is all a recent development, that at one time the Republicans accepted and supported the Welfare state, and were even willing to expand it.

My question to Mr Krugman would be "Why do you view roping more people into a system that breeds hopelessness and despair to be a more moral path?" Of course, it isn't, but it would greatly expand the rolls of "locked in" Democrat voters.