Paul Krugman¹ wants a big, fat Nanny State, with everyone sucking at her teats. Nobody will have a care in the world. It will be a world without responsibility, insecurity, or worry. I don't want that world. Do you? I want a world in which individuals can rise or fall on their merits, a world in which success is possible, but also failure, a world in which fear of destitution motivates people to work hard, be creative, exercise self-control, and be frugal. I want a world in which being poor is shameful, because it is shameful. You have to work very hard in this land of opportunity to be poor. Paul Krugman wants to take the shame out of being poor. If you take the shame out of something, you get more of it. He wants people to think that others are responsible for their predicament. He wants to destroy the concepts of merit, desert, and personal responsibility. He wants a no-fault society. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
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¹"Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults" (Daniel Okrent, "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did," The New York Times, 22 May 2005).
