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April 16, 2014

Selfless Crusader Against Income Inequality to Heroically Accept $225,000 Per Year from State-Funded Organization to Occasionally Give a Few Quotes About the Scourge of Income Inequality
— Ace

$225,000 would be quite a rate of pay for a part-time job.

But this isn't even a part-time job. Former Enron shill Paul Krugman is now taking another "big money call" to promote the City University of New York's Luxembourg Income Study Center.

$225,000 for nine months of work.

What will Krugman to do to earn his $25,000 per month? Almost nothing at all. He's expected to "play a modest role in our public eventsÂ” and Â“contribute to the build-upÂ” to the school's new Â“inequality initiative.Â”

I assume "playing a modest role in our public events" is similar to Paris Hilton's modest role in public nightclub openings -- show up, eat a few shrimp hors de oevures, chin-chin a champagne fluter or two, go home for the night, watch 30 Rock reruns at 1:00 am.

He is not required to teach students or interact with them at all. He will be expected to appear at one (1) seminar at year's end.

Krugman wrote back: Â“I admit that I had to read it several times to be clear ... itÂ’s remarkably generous.Â”

Indeed. Remarkably "generous."

Or is it "generous"? Generosity is what comes out of your own wallet. But this cash bonanza doesn't come out of the pockets of the CUNY officials making this "generous" offer, of course; it comes out of students' hides.

Despite being lavishly subsidized by the state, CUNY has been escalating student tuitions from $4800 in 2011 to $6330 by 2015.

Â“I just canÂ’t afford that amount. ThatÂ’s the reason why I came here was because I can afford it. I heard itÂ’s a credible school. And now itÂ’s going up. IÂ’m thinking of finding another school to go to,Â” Davis told CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez.

Perhaps Krugman, the $25,000 Per Month Not-Even-Part-Time Man, can invite Mr. Sanchez to his single annual seminar and explain to him the evils of income inequality.

Posted by: Ace at 01:13 PM | Comments (243)
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1 Fuckin Koch brothers.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 16, 2014 01:15 PM (+lsX1)

2 He can be the troll mascot.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:15 PM (IXrOn)

3 Wouldn't that be Former Enron Financial Adviser Krugman?

Posted by: toby928© spray his musk on new threads at April 16, 2014 01:15 PM (QupBk)

4 He has to show up for that job? Chump.

Posted by: Moochelle Obama at April 16, 2014 01:15 PM (8ZskC)

5 If Liberals were spending THEIR money on this, I would be okay with it. Of course we know they NEVER do that when they can use OUR money.

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 01:16 PM (bb5+k)

6 Wouldn't that be Former Enron Financial Adviser Krugman?

Posted by: toby928Â© spray his musk on new threads at April 16, 2014 05:15 PM (QupBk)

Zactly.. don't miss a chance to use that that... EVER

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 16, 2014 01:16 PM (nTgAI)

7 4 He has to show up for that job? Chump. Posted by: Moochelle Obama at April 16, 2014 05:15 PM (8ZskC) How else can he collect blowjobs?

Posted by: Pug Form 4868 at April 16, 2014 01:17 PM (8c12T)

8 What will Krugman to do to earn his $25,000 per month? Almost nothing at all. He's expected to "play a modest role in our public eventsÂ” and Â“contribute to the build-upÂ” to the school's new Â“inequality initiative.Â”

Don't underestimate him. He's a billboard, and that means he'll be out in all kinds of weather, advertising the bien pensant principles of his paymasters.

Posted by: pep at April 16, 2014 01:17 PM (4nR9/)

9 This is what you get when you elect a commie mayor. What I don't understand is why anyone lives in NYC to begin with.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 16, 2014 01:17 PM (T2V/1)

10 Stupid Republicans, making it impossible for poor people to go to college...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, who does NOT speak for the Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General at April 16, 2014 01:17 PM (fwARV)

11 Krugman. Wasn't he in "The Odd Couple" ?

Posted by: Sphynx at April 16, 2014 01:17 PM (OZmbA)

12 "Income inequality damages the fabric of a cohesive society." That'll be $112,000 please. I'll take a check.

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Income Inequality Theorist at April 16, 2014 01:18 PM (8ZskC)

13 Income Equality: This is how it works bitches

Posted by: Paul "Enron" Krugman at April 16, 2014 01:18 PM (nTgAI)

14 The NY Taxpayer(shitheads) will be paying his salary to boot. Enjoy the diversity.

Posted by: Beyond Disgusted at April 16, 2014 01:18 PM (thLL8)

15 He's going to promote the hell out of that Luxembourg Income Study Center. Pretty soon it will be one of the most well known and respected Income Study Centers in the entire Northeast.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 16, 2014 01:18 PM (+lsX1)

16 "Income inequality is like a cancer that eats at the soul of our very togetheriness." That's $80k, but only because I used no puns.

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Income Inequality Theorist at April 16, 2014 01:19 PM (8ZskC)

17 That shit is for peasants

Posted by: Paul at April 16, 2014 01:19 PM (nTgAI)

18 He is not required to teach students or interact with them at all. He will be expected to appear at one (1) seminar at year's end. --- Who is he blowing to get this kind of deal?

Posted by: Andi Sullivan at April 16, 2014 01:19 PM (APuJ7)

19 You know what would turn the economy around? Lying about an impending alien invasion. Instant recovery!

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 16, 2014 01:19 PM (Aif/5)

20 9 This is what you get when you elect a commie mayor. What I don't understand is why anyone lives in NYC to begin with. Posted by: Vic at April 16, 2014 05:17 PM (T2V/1) That's easy. There's a lot of money floating around there, and a lot of stuff to do.

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 01:19 PM (bb5+k)

21 I'm sure the taxpayers of NYC are totally on board with this Keynesian economic success story.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at April 16, 2014 01:19 PM (PZ6/M)

Pixie is eating my comments eqaulity !

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 16, 2014 01:20 PM (nTgAI)

23 Krugman is like old-time pistachios. Red on the outside, and green on the inside. And covered in shit.

Posted by: pep at April 16, 2014 01:20 PM (4nR9/)

24 Look, it's not that hard. Do what we do, not what we say.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (ZPrif)

25 Pretty soon when you bump into some guy bragging about the Income Study Center he went to, you'll be able to say, "fuck that, I went to the Luxembourg Income Study Center." "Yeah, that Luxembourg Income Study Center."

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (+lsX1)

26 "Income inequality tends, all other factors being equal, to drive differentials (or "inequalities") in income levels." Pay me, bitch.

Posted by: Paul Krugman, The World's Most Well-Compensated Socialist Agitator at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (/FnUH)

27 Perhaps Krugman, the $25,000 Per Month Not-Even-Part-Time Con Man, Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (xorT2)

28 Wouldn't that be Former Enron Financial Adviser Krugman?

(I got nothing. I just wanted to see that phrase again.)

Posted by: HR at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (ZKzrr)

29 This is just taxpayer money laundering at its finest. Hard working people pay their taxes. Taxes go to subsidize leftie voter base institution*. Leftie voter base institution hires leftie "journalist" who has access to millions of readers/viewers. *e.g. On March 20 the University of California, Irvine, announced that Barack Obama will give the commence address to its class of 2014. University of California gave Obama $1,799,460 in 2008. http://tinyurl.com/oe5cngu Sausage making.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (IXrOn)

30 no but seriously guys hes probably going to do something with it thats going to stimulate the economy like buy some stocks today that he "thinks" will go up tomorrow...that will help people because income inequality...

Posted by: sound awake at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (fKOqs)

31 Well, hey.. c'mon.. he's gotta bring his own stepstool so he can be tall enough to reach the microphone on those lecterns at his seminar.

He's got expenses!

Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at April 16, 2014 01:21 PM (Z7PrM)

32 "Students said they believe tuition should be free at CUNY, like it was in the past"

Out here in Commiefornia, it's entirely common at the public universities to have noisy student protests one day demanding lower tuition rates, and then have noisy student protests the very next day... against salary cuts for professors and staff.

Fuckin' arithmetic. How does it work?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 01:22 PM (noWW6)

33 explain to him the evils of income inequality.

I dunno boss, we provide all this valuable comedy for free.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at April 16, 2014 01:22 PM (DL2i+)

34 25 Pretty soon when you bump into some guy bragging about the Income Study Center he went to, you'll be able to say, "f*** that, I went to the Luxembourg Income Study Center." "Yeah, that Luxembourg Income Study Center."
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head

Take me now.

Posted by: Impressionable young coed at April 16, 2014 01:22 PM (4nR9/)

35 Luxembourg is such a fucked up country that you can hardly find a parking space. And they're lecturing us about running an economy?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 16, 2014 01:22 PM (8ZskC)

36 That paycheck made little Krugtron stand up and salute.

Posted by: Big Krugtron the Invincible at April 16, 2014 01:22 PM (Ze8oh)

37 You can still be rich and white in America. You just have to occasionally talk about how disgusting you think the rich and the white are. It's not that hard.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 16, 2014 01:22 PM (ZPrif)

38 I dunno boss, we provide all this valuable comedy for free. Touche.

Posted by: toby928© blurts at April 16, 2014 01:23 PM (QupBk)

39
Improving Economy:
Part time worker now make $225,000 no job lock.

Posted by: NYT, CBS , NBC, CNN Headline at April 16, 2014 01:23 PM (mETGQ)

40 Serious you guys, I'm all tapped out.

Posted by: Irony at April 16, 2014 01:23 PM (TOk1P)

41 31 Well, hey.. c'mon.. he's gotta bring his own stepstool so he can be tall enough to reach the microphone on those lecterns at his seminar.

He's got expenses!
Posted by: Chi-town Jerry

Cry me a river.

Posted by: Robert Reich at April 16, 2014 01:23 PM (4nR9/)

42 "Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts." -- Stalin

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:23 PM (9W+0f)

43 Who is he blowing to get this kind of deal?
..........
Whoever it is, at least he doesn't have to get on his knees.

Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at April 16, 2014 01:23 PM (Z7PrM)

44 ot but, that drudge headline WWIII is really creeping me out.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:24 PM (IXrOn)

45 25 Pretty soon when you bump into some guy bragging about the Income Study Center he went to, you'll be able to say, "fuck that, I went to the Luxembourg Income Study Center." "Yeah, that Luxembourg Income Study Center." --- When I hear that name, I think "Why the fuck did they name a school after a European micro-country smaller than urban Detroit"?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 16, 2014 01:24 PM (APuJ7)

46 "Inequality is to income what park benches are to a hobo." Thought-provoking metaphor: $115,000.

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Income Inequality Theorist at April 16, 2014 01:24 PM (8ZskC)

47 "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force." -- Marx

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:24 PM (9W+0f)

48 I'll write idiotic shit for half that...hell, less than half.

Posted by: BignJames at April 16, 2014 01:24 PM (HtUkt)

49 Quite the paradox.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:25 PM (9W+0f)

50 CUNY has some good negotiators on staff. You can tell by the way Krugman's hard on ripped through his pants as he was talking about their "remarkably generous offer." He isn't even aware that they were willing to go up to $400K! They just saved the taxpayers of New York $175K!

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 16, 2014 01:25 PM (+lsX1)

51 This is what you get when you elect a commie mayor. What I don't understand is why anyone lives in NYC to begin with. Posted by: Vic at April 16, 2014 05:17 PM (T2V/1) The very wealthy have enclaves.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:25 PM (IXrOn)

52 Twenty-five-thousandth!!!

Posted by: paul krugman at April 16, 2014 01:25 PM (hn5v5)

53 44 ot but, that drudge headline WWIII is really creeping me out. --- And a bunch of people referred to us as Chicken Little for claiming that the Crimean clusterfuck was our generation's version of the Munich Accords...

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 16, 2014 01:26 PM (APuJ7)

54
Luxembourg Income Study Center

LISÂ’ primary support comes from generous funding provided by the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research; additional sustaining funds come from contributing institutions in several countries.

United States
US National Science Foundation
City University of New York

Other supporting organizations:
...
THE WORLD BANK
IMF

Ah, so we're helping pay his salary and expenses. Good to know.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2014 01:26 PM (kdS6q)

55 9 This is what you get when you elect a commie mayor. What I don't understand is why anyone lives in NYC to begin with. Posted by: Vic at April 16, 2014 05:17 PM (T2V/1) To be close to Sefton, of course!

Posted by: Pug Form 4868 at April 16, 2014 01:26 PM (8c12T)

56 Lower-class people are excessively preoccupied by income inequality because Upper-class people keep nagging them about it, and because, marriage having been abolished, they are actually afraid that their wives will divorce them for someone much richer.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:27 PM (9W+0f)

57 Fuck'em all.

Posted by: Killerdog at April 16, 2014 01:27 PM (OIlFO)

58 So,they're going to pay $225,000 to someone who is butt of every joke in economics. Good call.

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2014 01:27 PM (88xKn)

59 Luxembourg... Frankfurt... Beware of groups named after euroweenie cities you have no desire to visit.

Posted by: Pug Form 4868 at April 16, 2014 01:28 PM (8c12T)

60 I know what it's like to make so little. This man needs a raise! --Rep. Jim Moran

Posted by: loneduck at April 16, 2014 01:28 PM (vbzmm)

61 I got a Nobel bitches!

Posted by: Krugster at April 16, 2014 01:28 PM (thLL8)

62 ♫ Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you lie ♬

Posted by: paul krugman at April 16, 2014 01:28 PM (hn5v5)

63 Out here in Commiefornia, it's entirely common at the public universities to have noisy student protests one day demanding lower tuition rates, and then have noisy student protests the very next day... against salary cuts for professors and staff. Fuckin' arithmetic. How does it work? Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 05:22 PM (noWW6) _______ If you just taxed the rich at 172%, then you could do both!!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 16, 2014 01:28 PM (0LHZx)

64 "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man half your income and you have social justice." That's $18,000, but only because I plagiarized the first half.

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Income Inequality Theorist at April 16, 2014 01:29 PM (8ZskC)

65 46 "Inequality is to income what park benches are to a hobo."

Thought-provoking metaphor: $115,000. Posted by: Paul Krugman, Income Inequality Theorist

Eat me, Paul.

Posted by: pep, being straightforward at April 16, 2014 01:29 PM (4nR9/)

66 The Left takes care of their own.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2014 01:29 PM (IdOTf)

67 You could stack 225,000 dollar bills and it would be taller than Krugman. Maybe he could use the money as a soap box.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (IXrOn)

68 Hey, I'm not gonna apologize for liking nice stuff.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (ZPrif)

69 Oh, I see how you all are. willowed again

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (yz6yg)

70 A penny saved is a penny not fueling the throbbing machine that is the Obama Economy.

Posted by: Stuff Benjamin Franklin Said, Vol III at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (QupBk)

71 Scott Walker is freezing state tuition for two years. Just sayin'.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (oMKp3)

72 And bureaucrats and semibureaucrats keep transferring wealth from the Middle Class and Lower-class people to Upper-class people to keep nagging Lower-class people in order to expand the Bureaucracy and fuck the Middle Class.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (9W+0f)

73 I am enjoying reading the gawker commenters falling all over themselves trying to defend this.

Posted by: dan-O at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (D0bIN)

74 Springsteen said , "There's just winners and loser and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line." And I don't intend to.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 16, 2014 01:30 PM (XUKZU)

75 Krugman is like old-time pistachios. Red on the outside, and green on the inside. And covered in shit.
And they should be a salted.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (hn5v5)

76 It has a certain magnificence to it.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (9W+0f)

77
NSF Award Abstract #0960763

U.S. Participation in the Development of a Transnational Database: The Luxembourg Income Study, 2010-2014

Awarded Amount to Date: $607,500.00

*cha-ching!*

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (kdS6q)

Paul Krugman and Obama walk into a bar.

The bartender says, " I see you've brought your court jester with you"

Obama says, " That's not very nice to say about a distinguished economist"

The bartender says, " I was talking to Krugman"

Posted by: polynikes at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (m2CN7)

79 69 Oh, I see how you all are.

willowed again Posted by: Sean Bannion

Damn, he found us again.

Posted by: pep at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (4nR9/)

80 The other news of the day in higher edumacation is that Obama is preparing to dump six hundred million bucks into a new "job training" initiative via community colleges.

Training people for jobs at a time when Obama's policies have thrown a wet blanket over the job market. Genius. What could go wrong?

My previous favorite was hearing about a guy laid off from his construction job.

The original Obama "stimulus" package was originally meant to spend more money on infrastructure, to get guys like this back on the job, but wimmenz groups got antsy about the idea of all that cash going to "burly men", and so the bulk of the spending was redirected to soft social causes.

But the stimulus did pay for him to retrain for a "green job" installing solar panels. Except so many people were also trained for that job relative to the actual demand that he couldn't get hired. Saturated market. A waste of his time and of the money the feds borrowed to train him.

So then the feds paid to retrain him yet again. As an Obamacare "navigator".

Just another day in the USA-SSR. Comrades of the people's collective labor battalion! Fulfill retraining quotas energetically! Chairman O depends on you!

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (noWW6)

81 Live UFC fights on Fox Sports 1. Empty arena. Mid-week afternoon fights in Quebec. Quiet as a funeral home.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (ZPrif)

82 Alinsky, you magnificent bastard.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:31 PM (9W+0f)

83 47 "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force." -- Marx Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 05:24 PM (9W+0f) I'm not coming up with anything as a rebuttal to the concept. I would have to say it is seemingly correct.

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 01:32 PM (bb5+k)

84 Eh. Hillary probably makes more than $225,000 in 2-3 speeches.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2014 01:32 PM (IdOTf)

85 Damn, he found us again. Posted by: pep at April 16, 2014 05:31 PM (4nR9/) HeyÂ….at NoVAMoMeeÂ….don't drink the beer. Jus' sayin' Speaking of whichÂ….you haven't registered yet.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 01:32 PM (yz6yg)

86 21 I'm sure the taxpayers of NYC are totally on board with this Keynesian economic success story. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at April 16, 2014 05:19 PM (PZ6/M) _________ But you have to remember the people who pay taxes in NYC are evil rich (white) people. They don't count

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 16, 2014 01:33 PM (0LHZx)

87 Shut up and enjoy the welfare we give you!

Posted by: Your betters at April 16, 2014 01:33 PM (CTCNK)

88 >>The other news of the day in higher edumacation is that Obama is preparing to dump six hundred million bucks into a new "job training" initiative via community colleges What kind of jobs are they being trained for that on the job training isn't sufficient?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2014 01:33 PM (IdOTf)

89 And Caring about the poor is hard work. It simply wouldn't be fair not to reward Professional Carers with lots and lots of the filthy lucre.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:33 PM (9W+0f)

90 The other news of the day in higher edumacation is that Obama is preparing to dump six hundred million bucks into a new "job training" initiative via community colleges. Doesn't money for stuff like this have to be, you know, appropriated by Congress? Or is that Old School?

Posted by: toby928© at April 16, 2014 01:34 PM (QupBk)

91 And lots and lots of power.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:34 PM (9W+0f)

92 $225,000! What does that come out to per pound?

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 16, 2014 01:34 PM (XUKZU)

93 Global Warming >>>Climate Change

Income Inequality>>>>Remarkably Generous

Progress!

Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at April 16, 2014 01:34 PM (5ikDv)

94
NSF Award Abstract #1225596

Enhancing Social Science Data Infrastructure: Upgrade of Metadata Documenting Cross-National Microdata
Luxembourg Income Study

Awarded Amount to Date: $750,000.00

*cha-ching!*

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2014 01:34 PM (kdS6q)

95 You could stack 225,000 dollar bills and it would be taller than Krugman.

Maybe he could use the money as a soap box.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 05:30 PM (IXrOn)

OT but one of my favorite cliff clavin facts is a million dollar stack of $100 bills is just over three feet. A billion dollar stack would be taller than the Empire State Building.

Posted by: polynikes at April 16, 2014 01:34 PM (m2CN7)

96 Krugtron must have high maintenance costs.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 16, 2014 01:35 PM (HLprW)

97 The very wealthy have enclaves. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 05:25 PM (IXrOn) In the Manor of their predecessors. Neo Feudalism people.

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 01:35 PM (bb5+k)

98 Ever see a picture of his house?

And you won't, either.

This is the guy who put the "knee-cap" in "crow knee-cap italism."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 16, 2014 01:35 PM (xq1UY)

99 @32 CUNY used to be free because the standards were high and only the best and brightst could get in. Once the went to open enrollment and did away with standards CUNY effectively became high school part 2 for most enrollees undergraduates as remidial classes became the norm for freshmen students. If these knuckleheads want the tuiton to go down it either has to be more massively subsidized than it already is or you have to do away with open enrollment.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2014 01:36 PM (S8y+1)

100 85 Damn, he found us again.
Posted by: pep at April 16, 2014 05:31 PM (4nR9/)

HeyÂ….at NoVAMoMeeÂ….don't drink the beer.

Jus' sayin'

Speaking of whichÂ….you haven't registered yet.

Yeah, there may be a problem. My youngest is graduating HS, and we may have other obligations that night. I mean, I COULD blow it off, but there might be repercussions. We'll have to see.

Posted by: pep at April 16, 2014 01:36 PM (4nR9/)

101 The whole thing is a bit like Plato's Republic. Except that the Upper classes were supposed to be poor and own no personal possessions.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:36 PM (9W+0f)

102

I'm gonna by a pair of six inch platform shoes with that money then will see who's the shorty.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 16, 2014 01:36 PM (mETGQ)

103 Krugtron must have high maintenance costs. Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 16, 2014 05:35 PM (HLprW) the q-tips alone...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:36 PM (IXrOn)

104 97 Krugtron must have high maintenance costs. --- You have no idea. I have to keep him in cash and young boys.

Posted by: Lord Petyr Baelish at April 16, 2014 01:37 PM (APuJ7)

105 I dunno, this Krugman character sure is a short, greedy little venal son-of-a-bitch.

Posted by: Tyrion Lannister, Master of Coin at April 16, 2014 01:37 PM (/FnUH)

106 CUNY used to be free because the standards were high and only the best and brightst could get in. Once the went to open enrollment and did away with standards CUNY effectively became high school part 2 for most enrollees undergraduates as remidial classes became the norm for freshmen students. If these knuckleheads want the tuiton to go down it either has to be more massively subsidized than it already is or you have to do away with open enrollment. Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2014 05:36 PM (S8y+1) There was a time (not mine) where the Californian public universities were free, I think.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:37 PM (IXrOn)

107 But, new Scientific Research into Social Justice has determined that the Upper classes should be ridiculously rich.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:37 PM (9W+0f)

108 Syphilis is expensive to treat.

Posted by: Infidel at April 16, 2014 01:37 PM (Z1SI2)

109 Because Progress.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:38 PM (9W+0f)

110 It's good work if you can get it.

Posted by: Paul Klugmutt at April 16, 2014 01:38 PM (nEIMV)

111 And Altruism.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:38 PM (9W+0f)

112 And Merit.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:38 PM (9W+0f)

113 And Equality.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (9W+0f)

114 Is that just salary? Add 30% for benefits. A lecturer at a certain midwest university gets paid for about $8000 per course. And that's math, where you might learn something.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (T0NGe)

115 It should be some comfort to realize that students educated in this way will never find work

Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (zOTsN)

116 I think you could rent a seagull for a lot less and get similar results.

Posted by: bergerbilder at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (8MjqI)

117 $6330 a year is about average for a state school. Not sure where Mr Hazel will go that's cheaper.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (0LHZx)

118 The only think Krugman could do that might be worth that kind of money would be to demonstrate a log splitter on his own empty head.

Posted by: Fat Bastard Rino at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (xWW96)

119 Ace, you've got people sock puppeting active commenters on the last thread. If you have a rule against this, you might want to remind them.

Posted by: jwest at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (u2a4R)

120 My thoughts are correct so a little monetary acknowledgement is certainly in order.

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Income Inequality Theorist at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (8ZskC)

121 Live UFC fights on Fox Sports 1. Empty arena. Mid-week afternoon fights in Quebec. Quiet as a funeral home. Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 16, 2014 05:31 PM (ZPrif) I thought the top fighter was from Montreal. Odd it's empty.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (IXrOn)

122 @91 The "budget/CR" is an enabling act, this clown can pretty much do what he pleases. I'm pretty sure there was no statutory or legislative authorization when they moved 850 billion from medicare to obamacare.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2014 01:39 PM (S8y+1)

123 Someone needs to put a burr under the saddle of the student association and the adjunct faculty. Tuition going up and you're also still making nothing as an adjunct professor while Paul Krugman makes $225, 000 dollars to show up at one seminar on income inequality?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (XyM/Y)

124 Y'all should really look at the hate fest over at Mother Jones over Susana Martinez. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/governor-susana-martinez-new-mexico-2016 It looks like they found themselves another "white hispanic"

Posted by: Roy at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (wdHQo)

125 Doesn't that generous salary alone put him in he hated "1%"? Wasn't he one of Occupy Wall Street's defenders? And now he' going to generate a few quotes about the scourge of income equality. Sorta like hiring Oprah to opine on starvation.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (IdOTf)

126 118 $6330 a year is about average for a state school. Not sure where Mr Hazel will go that's cheaper. --- Community college. "Here's $10... I'mma get my learn on!"

Posted by: Chris Rock at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (APuJ7)

127 off greasy sock

Posted by: maddogg at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (xWW96)

128 That Hazel Sanchez is hot.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (9Bdcz)

129 MLS announces new team in Atlanta. The 23rd MLS team. MLS has boomed during the Great Recession. They've added at least one team almost every year. Owner is the Falcons owner, Arthur Blank. Team will share the new Falcons stadium being built. We'll see if it works. Key to MLS' success has been keeping player costs very, very low.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (ZPrif)

130 I have told my high school senior to avoid anything with "Studies" in it. there is no wisdom there, only debt and unemployment women studies gender studies environmental studies and so on

Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (zOTsN)

131 Shut up and enjoy the welfare we give you! White male, no kids. I don't qualify. So, not shutting up.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2014 01:40 PM (xorT2)

132 The only think Krugman could do that might be worth that kind of money would be to demonstrate a log splitter on his own empty head. Posted by: Fat Bastard Rino at April 16, 2014 05:39 PM (xWW96) Or put on tights and twirl ribbons.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:41 PM (IXrOn)

133 "Gee Your Honor I don't know how Paul Krugman's house burned to the ground."

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 16, 2014 01:41 PM (oFCZn)

134 I don't think that was really jwest.
Just sayin.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 16, 2014 01:43 PM (xq1UY)

135 Krugman is another Braying Jackass.
Much like Duh!1....

Posted by: backhoe at April 16, 2014 01:43 PM (ULH4o)

136 I'd toss in another fiver if Krugman would hold jwest's head in his mouth while doing the log splitter demo.

Posted by: maddogg at April 16, 2014 01:44 PM (xWW96)

137 I thought the top fighter was from Montreal. Odd it's empty. -- This is just the prelims. Main event is hours away. UFC events last many hours. Early start means many fans probably won't show up until after work.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 16, 2014 01:44 PM (ZPrif)

138 I don't understand why a study of 'income inequality' is necessary. The casebook has already been written. Hugo Chavez wrote it. His primary goal was to reduce 'income inequality', and he succeeded. The problem, as we all know, is that: Â“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.Â” - Winston Churchill Â“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.Â” ― Margaret Thatcher I rather doubt that Krugman would suggest Venezuela as an example..., precisely because it is emblematic of the consequences of compelled 'equality'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 16, 2014 01:44 PM (aDwsi)

139 You couldn't make this shit up if you had to.

Posted by: RokShox at April 16, 2014 01:44 PM (8MMMw)

140 "Gee Your Honor I don't know how Paul Krugman's house burned to the ground."

I wonder how hard it would be incite some true-believing eco-studies majors to strike a blow for Gaia.

Purely for entertainment purposes, of course.

Posted by: HR at April 16, 2014 01:44 PM (ZKzrr)

141 And how can I get away with this?
Because I'm Krugman, dammit!! KRUGMAN!!! Remember the name! Krugman!

Posted by: tu3031 at April 16, 2014 01:44 PM (nsQhi)

142 "132 Shut up and enjoy the welfare we give you! White male, no kids. I don't qualify. So, not shutting up. Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2014 05:40 PM (xorT2)" Incentive structures have consequences.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:45 PM (9W+0f)

143 If a 23 year old job applicant shows up at your door sporting a shiny new bachelors degree in "Income Inequality", do you: A. Lie. Politely tell him the position has been filled, move on to the next applicant. B. Fall over laughing while suggesting his skills are barely suited for the Burger King across the street. C. Invite your coworkers to watch as you throttle him with a rubber hose until he responds to the question "What the fuck were you thinking?".

Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 16, 2014 01:45 PM (SY2Kh)

144 Sounds like krugman would be very happy to have a bunch of his windows broken.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 16, 2014 01:45 PM (poYX1)

145 Feds Destroyed Water Lines, Fences, Water Tanks, Killed Two Prized Bulls During Bundy Ranch StandoffÂ… weaselzippers surreal world violent administration towards its own

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:45 PM (IXrOn)

146 Feds Destroyed Water Lines, Fences, Water Tanks, Killed Two Prized Bulls During Bundy Ranch StandoffÃ¯Â¿Â½ --- Did the Bundy family have dogs? The snipers probably got them, too.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 16, 2014 01:47 PM (APuJ7)

147 "146 Sounds like krugman would be very happy to have a bunch of his windows broken. Posted by: Buzzion at April 16, 2014 05:45 PM (poYX1)" Let's not be fallacious.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:47 PM (9W+0f)

148 Lets see.... a full load of classes is 15 credits... or semester hours... which is approx. one hour of classroom time per week, per semester hour.. Semesters are 14-16 weeks long...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2014 01:47 PM (84gbM)

149 >>>> new Obama "job training" nonsense

"Doesn't money for stuff like this have to be, you know, appropriated by Congress? Or is that Old School?"

The budgets for the individual federal departments are so bloated now that there's plenty of money within each department for what is basically slush-fund spending. That's where it's coming from in this case: Department of Labor.

Congress could shut all this crap down with a flat insistence on passing only strictly allocated departmental spending based on specific intra-departmental spending, with the pools of unallocated slush fund cash stripped away, to ensure accountability.

Then again, there are a LOT of things that Congress COULD do, all of which would require them to actually look up from the trough once in a while.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 01:48 PM (noWW6)

150 "147 Feds Destroyed Water Lines, Fences, Water Tanks, Killed Two Prized Bulls During Bundy Ranch StandoffÂ… weaselzippers surreal world violent administration towards its own Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 05:45 PM (IXrOn)" Kulaks are Enemies of the People.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:49 PM (9W+0f)

151 Hey, DailyKos has an article about income inequality at the top of the page now too! They're bitching about CEO's salaries compared to the hourly wage peons.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 16, 2014 01:49 PM (AC0lD)

152 130 MLS has boomed during the Great Open Borders Era. Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 16, 2014 05:40 PM (ZPrif) -------------------- FIFY

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (dfYL9)

153 "140 I don't understand why a study of 'income inequality' is necessary. The casebook has already been written. Hugo Chavez wrote it. His primary goal was to reduce 'income inequality', and he succeeded. The problem, as we all know, is that: Â“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.Â” - Winston Churchill Â“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.Â” ― Margaret Thatcher I rather doubt that Krugman would suggest Venezuela as an example..., precisely because it is emblematic of the consequences of compelled 'equality'. Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 16, 2014 05:44 PM (aDwsi)" Chavez bravely fought the Law of Supply and Demand. Here Bobby Fuller explains how that worked out with the Bolivarian Amazon brigade dancing enthusiastically in the background. http://youtu.be/OgtQj8O92eI

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (PD6iL)

154 GMAFB. You couldn't get $225k out of Krugman if you sold off all of his organs on the black market.

And tomorrow, hundreds of young skulls full of mush, and never destined to hold anything more, will attend classes and be pumped full of the evils of America, the patriarchy, old white men, and capitalism.

Posted by: B at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (6iEQd)

155 "148 Feds Destroyed Water Lines, Fences, Water Tanks, Killed Two Prized Bulls During Bundy Ranch StandoffÃ¯Â¿Â½ --- Did the Bundy family have dogs? The snipers probably got them, too. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 16, 2014 05:47 PM (APuJ7)" 'Delicious justice.' -- Obama

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (9W+0f)

156 Then again, there are a LOT of things that Congress COULD do, all of which would require them to actually look up from the trough once in a while. Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 05:48 PM (noWW6) Well said.

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (bb5+k)

157 "violent administration towards its own"

Its own?

The Bundys are surely not that.

Remember what Eric Holder said about running the Department of Justice, for the benefit of what he called "my people", in those exact words. He surely wasn't talking about the American people as a whole when he said that.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (noWW6)

158 if we complain about the lawlessness, self-dealing, and violence of the administration the media will say we are crazy revolutionaries!!! ooohhhh noooooooossssss!!!!!!

Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (zOTsN)

159 alkjdfaldnlanba[fbnaoi[aÂ…. GreatÂ…I read back over the posts I missed earlier today. Now I've had a stroke.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 01:50 PM (GEICT)

160 Congress could shut all this crap down with a flat insistence on passing only strictly allocated departmental spending based on specific intra-departmental spending, with the pools of unallocated slush fund cash stripped away, to ensure accountability. Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 05:48 PM (noWW6) Congress gives each Federal agency a ceiling up to which they can move money around inside their existing authorization without Congressional approval. Beyond that, they have to go back to the well. This boondoggle is within the cap so, technically, Congress gave them the money AND the authority. Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 01:51 PM (yz6yg)

161 GreatÂ…I read back over the posts I missed earlier today. Now I've had a stroke. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 05:50 PM (GEICT) How will we be able to tell the difference?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 01:51 PM (yz6yg)

162 Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 16, 2014 05:45 PM (SY2Kh)

D. Let him intern unpaid for several months so he'll get a great reference on his resume.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 16, 2014 01:51 PM (AC0lD)

163 From the description, if he was getting $25K for the entire nine months, it would be far too much.

Why do I feel like our country is just the staging ground for a wager between the two brothers in 'Trading Places,' over what level of outrage is needed before people react in a meaningful way?

Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 01:52 PM (bPxS6)

164

Winston Churchill already had a response to the stupid income inequality protest.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Posted by: polynikes at April 16, 2014 01:52 PM (m2CN7)

165 Hey, D-Lamp, glad you're here. Quick off topic question. You said, if memory serves, that you are trying to get off grid. And that you have a couple of natural gas powered vehicles now.

Do you have your own natural gas source? I have heard of a few people with that setup and I am green-eyed with jealousy.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 01:52 PM (noWW6)

166 if we complain about the lawlessness, self-dealing, and violence of the administration the media will say we are crazy revolutionaries!!! ------------- Hehe.

Posted by: Paul Bergen at April 16, 2014 01:52 PM (Aif/5)

167 How will we be able to tell the difference? Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2014 05:51 PM (yz6yg) Less swearing, fewer posted bewbs.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 01:52 PM (GEICT)

168 wow, didn't know abortions were tax deductible saw that over at weaselzippers, too

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 01:53 PM (IXrOn)

169 Less swearing, fewer posted bewbs. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 05:52 PM (GEICT) Fewer bewbs???? GET THIS MAN TO SURGERY!!! STAT!!!!

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 01:53 PM (yz6yg)

170 39 Improving Economy: Part time worker now make $225,000 no job lock. Posted by: NYT, CBS , NBC, CNN Headline at April 16, 2014 05:23 PM (mETGQ) *throws up hands in utter disgust* Even Orwell couldn't write this shit at his most cynical.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at April 16, 2014 01:54 PM (L5jLO)

171 150 Lets see.... a full load of classes is 15 credits... or semester hours... which is approx. one hour of classroom time per week, per semester hour.. Semesters are 14-16 weeks long... So.... 15 x 15 = 225.... hours of instruction... 2 Semesters per year.... $6300 per year PLUS whatever else the State funds... $14 per hour... per student of classtime... Average student load.... 30?... or $420 per hour of instruction... Dam.... I needs to start a College...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2014 01:54 PM (84gbM)

172 "Hey, DailyKos has an article about income inequality at the top of the page now too! They're bitching about CEO's salaries compared to the hourly wage peons."

Markos Moulitsas, the Kos of Daily Kos, has a sideline business now in running sports blogs. SBNation.

Wonder whether the ordinary Joes and Janes there make what the CEO makes. Somehow, I doubt it. But it would be fun to present the numbers and watch Kossack heads explode.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 01:54 PM (noWW6)

173 "159 "violent administration towards its own" Its own? The Bundys are surely not that. Remember what Eric Holder said about running the Department of Justice, for the benefit of what he called "my people", in those exact words. He surely wasn't talking about the American people as a whole when he said that. Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 05:50 PM (noWW6)" No way. Only Europeans can be "racist."

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:55 PM (9W+0f)

174 Dam.... I needs to start a College... Posted by: Romeo13 Moron Studies

Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 01:55 PM (zOTsN)

175 See, this is the kind of academic gig I'm looking into for the next phase of my career. I'm negotiating an endowment to add a chair at SUNY, in the Department of Squirtology. I've floated a proposal to the Clinton Foundation to study mitigation strategies for negative public perceptions of the close associates of Presidential candidates. Preliminary evaluation of the problem suggests renumeration as a strategy.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at April 16, 2014 01:55 PM (RuVJe)

176 Check for yur johnson. I be missing mine. Posted by: Wu-Tang Clan Member at April 16, 2014 05:54 PM (oGrEy) I saw that story earlier. What the actual fuck? How mentally ill do you have to be to cut off your own dick and jump off a balcony??? *snaps fingers* I've got it now. I know what happened. Damn those pot brownies.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 16, 2014 01:56 PM (GEICT)

177 Remember what Eric Holder said about running the Department of Justice, for the benefit of what he called "my people", in those exact words. He surely wasn't talking about the American people as a whole when he said that.

Posted by: torquewrench

You don't want to got here buddy.

Posted by: E. Holder, Chin optional at April 16, 2014 01:56 PM (4nR9/)

178 Moron Studies Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 05:55 PM (zOTsN) Meh. Anything with "Studies" in its title is intellectual cotton candy. I want a PhD in Industrial Moronology.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 01:56 PM (yz6yg)

179 I really don't like income inequality either.

Posted by: Ben Affleck @ a million $ poker game I won't report on my taxes at April 16, 2014 01:56 PM (Aif/5)

180 Get ready for Hillary/Michelle 16, VAjar will keep Hillary in the servants quarters with her lips sucking on a still and Biden will be tied in the corner to prevent him from writing a book.

Posted by: Madamex at April 16, 2014 01:57 PM (vaWdD)

181 ot but, that drudge headline WWIII is really creeping me out. It's like we're living in a new Tom Clancy novel that doesn't end well for us.

Posted by: Line. Sand. at April 16, 2014 01:58 PM (thLL8)

182 suggested curriculum for Moron Studies? The Feminism of Kate Upton Guns and Ammo 101 Beewwbbsss for Beginners Fapping for Credit Puppehs and Kittehs

Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 01:58 PM (zOTsN)

183 Do the students at have to draw the picture of Krugman on the matchbook for the Luxembourg Income Study Center to qualify for entrance ?

Posted by: tu3031 at April 16, 2014 01:58 PM (nsQhi)

184 Fapping for Credit

Posted by: thunderb

How many credits for independent study?

Posted by: pep at April 16, 2014 01:59 PM (4nR9/)

185 "165 From the description, if he was getting $25K for the entire nine months, it would be far too much. Why do I feel like our country is just the staging ground for a wager between the two brothers in 'Trading Places,' over what level of outrage is needed before people react in a meaningful way? Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2014 05:52 PM (bPxS6)" It's more like something out of Job.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 01:59 PM (9W+0f)

186 Income inequality isn't that bad. If trailer trash had more money they'd just buy even tackier shit. So what if Walmart, Applebee's and the Dollar Store get less money? Good riddance.

Posted by: Progtard 2000 at April 16, 2014 01:59 PM (ZPrif)

187 How mentally ill do you have to be to cut off your own dick and jump off a balcony??? *snaps fingers* I've got it now. I know what happened. Damn those pot brownies. Never take the brown acid. Never.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2014 01:59 PM (xorT2)

188 183 --- Not a chance Michelle will run. She's a high maintenance woman who wants MONEY. She can still be a celebrity and political speaker-agitator---- while rolling in the long green.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 16, 2014 02:00 PM (dfYL9)

189 Posted by: thunderb How many credits for independent study? Posted by: pep you will have to provide some kind of proof of completion. Professor Weiner has a guide

Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 02:00 PM (zOTsN)

190 Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 05:54 PM (noWW6)

Especially if the explosions were literal and not figurative.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 16, 2014 02:00 PM (AC0lD)

191 Generosity is what comes out of your own wallet.

Yes. We progressives like to refer to it as "involuntary charity", rather that "confiscatory taxation". It has a much softer ring to it.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 16, 2014 02:00 PM (Dwehj)

192 Selfless crusader hahahahahahaha oh that's a good one. But then again isn't the whole lefty meme based on that??

Posted by: Regular Guy at April 16, 2014 02:01 PM (N3Al8)

193 holy shit http://tinyurl.com/nm69l83 a bloomberg gun control ad kids playing hide and seek - guns goes off

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 02:01 PM (IXrOn)

194 Being given an extravagant salary with little or no duties is known as "being put on the shelf." Companies do that with employees who have been loyal, but are no longer productive. I wonder if Princeton had a hand in this, as a way to get Krugman off of their payroll...?

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I amn't at April 16, 2014 02:02 PM (rz0yi)

195 Do you have your own natural gas source? I have heard of a few people with that setup and I am green-eyed with jealousy. Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 05:52 PM (noWW6) No. I buy gas from the local Gas company. It costs me about 82 cents per gallon. (1 Gallon = 120 cubic feet of gas @ atmospheric pressure.) But I know of various fields in my area, and I even know some of the people who own them. I suspect that if things go really south, I can move my equipment and set up a fueling system on one of these fields. I know some men who get their own gas right out of their very own wellheads, but I am not yet one of them. One of them told me his fuel cost was $0.05 / gallon. Of course he is wealthy.

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 02:02 PM (bb5+k)

196 "172 39 Improving Economy: Part time worker now make $225,000 no job lock. Posted by: NYT, CBS , NBC, CNN Headline at April 16, 2014 05:23 PM (mETGQ) *throws up hands in utter disgust* Even Orwell couldn't write this shit at his most cynical. Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at April 16, 2014 05:54 PM (L5jLO)" Thought crime.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 02:02 PM (9W+0f)

197 Moron Studies Posted by: thunderb at April 16, 2014 05:55 PM (zOTsN) I used to teach Microsoft Network Engineering classes.... even wrote some curriculum for Microsoft for a couple custom classes... They were all College Accredited classes.... but I could not get those Credits... as I was teaching... The only way to get them was to challenge the class, through a College.... but then I would still have to pay them tuition to challenge the class... The curriculum I taught in 8 weeks (8 hours a day)... was taught in College in 2 YEARS... Add in that technology credits are now only good for 10 years???? to get a degree??? And you have the reason I have never finished by bachelors...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2014 02:03 PM (84gbM)

198

I do not know why Krugman and his ilk think that making noises about the evils of income inequality will spare them the guillotine when the poor folks take over.

Because that's the only reason they make those noises. (If they were truly concerned with the condition of poor folks, they would do what Mother Teresa did - or maybe what Bill Gates does - and actually help the poor).

Posted by: stuiec at April 16, 2014 02:03 PM (eetvJ)

199 "Hey, DailyKos has an article about income inequality at the top of the
page now too!"

One of the other things to be sourly recalled about Daily Kos is that they have a shit list of things to be officially disapproved of by the Kossacks.

Among those being the classic American stand-alone single-family suburban home. White picket fence and yard and all that.

Such homes result in Sprawl and in Burning Fossil Fuels, and since they allow people to move away from urban social dysfunction and violent crime, they are Implicitly Rayciss.

Fast forward to Markos Moulitsas, flush with Daily Kos ad money, buying himself... a classic American stand-alone single-family suburban home. And none of his regulars giving him any shit about this deviation from orthodoxy.

Because, as usual, the left don't really believe any of the things they hector the rest of us about, and have no intention of living their own lives that way either. They intend to impose those rules on _you_, not their own persons.

Note that if you actually dare on lefty blogs to point out this sort of thing, you'll be promptly banned for "making personal attacks". Merely noting someone's absolutely glaring hypocrisy apparently qualifies in their eyes as a personal attack.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 02:03 PM (noWW6)

200 184 ot but, that drudge headline WWIII is really creeping me out. It's like we're living in a new Tom Clancy novel that doesn't end well for us. Posted by: Line. Sand. at April 16, 2014 05:58 PM (thLL

_____________ Drudge is being Drudge.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 16, 2014 02:04 PM (0LHZx)

201 "But I know of various fields in my area, and I even know some of the people who own them. I suspect that if things go really south, I can move my equipment and set up a fueling system on one of these fields."

That's the kind of setup I covet. But, as you say, plenty of dosh required.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 02:05 PM (noWW6)

202 Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 06:03 PM (noWW6) ________ Whatever you do, don't mention that Al Gore's house is 14,000 sq ft.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 16, 2014 02:06 PM (0LHZx)

203 An-n-n-nd here's the reason we can't stop the Left- It just flat out pays too well. You don't have to be smart, skilled, successful in your endeavors- just kiss the right asses and parrot the right lines and you're rolling in the green. Ugh - well I was a sucker trying to better myself and be a useful member of society instead of becoming a brown-nosing, lying scum-bucket.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2014 02:07 PM (0cMkb)

204 I've forgotten more about free market economic than that rube will ever know... ...and he's the one making the big bucks for a not-even-part-time gig. What a fucked up world we live in. And what I could do with that money, like get caught up on my bills.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 16, 2014 02:07 PM (0HooB)

205 "186 Do the students at have to draw the picture of Krugman on the matchbook for the Luxembourg Income Study Center to qualify for entrance ? Posted by: tu3031 at April 16, 2014 05:58 PM (nsQhi)" Marx. Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 16, 2014 02:07 PM (9W+0f)

206 Behold this fully functional babble station!

Posted by: Darth Krugman at April 16, 2014 02:07 PM (MMC8r)

207 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers

Fundamental. Change.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 16, 2014 02:07 PM (Dwehj)

208 It costs a lot to be Paul Krugman.

He pays his beard wrangler $650 a month. And it costs 80 bucks every time he has his knuckles waxed.

Posted by: Hepcat at April 16, 2014 02:07 PM (Q4mug)

209 Drudge Headline: 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers http://tinyurl.com/jwcxa7c All is well. All is well. This is sustainable. *beats head against wall*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at April 16, 2014 02:08 PM (L5jLO)

210 Paul Krugman, giving cat owners a bad name since the early 80's.

Posted by: Seems legit at April 16, 2014 02:09 PM (Q6g1g)

211 It's time for a debt buy in. Next dem President will be sure to seize all those private pensions and ensure it's "invested" in the right pockets.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 16, 2014 02:09 PM (d8fTM)

212 We have reached the point, after this long day of manual hose siphoning, to turn to Stitcher and get a Classic Rock undertone playing in the background.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2014 02:10 PM (ZshNr)

213 Takers 148, Makers 86. It was a hell of a game!

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 16, 2014 02:11 PM (Dwehj)

214 Have to go. Have kids to pick up and then feed. For what it's worth, the CHEAPEST ive seen for converting a vehicle to natural gas is ~ $1,200.00 You can get conversion kits off of E-bay for around $500.00 and a new fuel tank (not included in the conversion kit) runs around $700.00 for around a ten gallon tank new. Of course you can buy used or expired tanks (yes, the tanks have a do not use after this date label on them) for @ $200.00. I will note the E-Bay kits are not EPA certified, so I wouldn't try this anywhere where you need to get inspected for this. (Such as in Kalifornia.) EPA certified conversions cost around $12,000.00 or so, but i've been noticing the prices are dropping somewhat for the last few years. I will also note that in my state you are supposed to be certified to install CNG equipment on a vehicle. As of yet, I have not yet obtained this certification (mostly about NFPA 52 Gaseous fuel systems) but I intend to do so, but as of yet I have done no installations in vehicles. All four of my CNG powered vehicles are factory. http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/?mode=code&code=52

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 02:12 PM (bb5+k)

215 40 Serious you guys, I'm all tapped out. Posted by: Irony at April 16, 2014 05:23 PM (TOk1P) *beep beep of life support machines*

Posted by: Grampa Irony at April 16, 2014 02:13 PM (L5jLO)

216 Man, I'm jealous. I have to spend all day kissing my wife's billionaire ass to maintain my upscale lifestyle, and this palooka gets it thrown right into his lap.

Plus, he eats all the poppyseed bagels at the coffee station before I can even get a sniff of one. I'm feeling a column on inequality coming on hard, bay-by!

Posted by: Tom Friedman at April 16, 2014 02:13 PM (DLu2s)

217 Palate cleanser.
http://is.gd/oonQVa

Posted by: HR at April 16, 2014 02:14 PM (ZKzrr)

218 @206 naturalfake "...instead of becoming a brown-nosing, lying scum-bucket." Plenty of that in the private sector, but at some point working your way into management you will have to perform. Unless your dad is on the Board, well then there will be a corner office somewhere with "VP of ..." on the door and no expectations or responsibilities. Usually a pay off owed to some one with pull.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 16, 2014 02:14 PM (d8fTM)

219 *beep beep of life support machines* Posted by: Grampa Irony at April 16, 2014 06:13 PM (L5jLO) He's dead, Jim

Posted by: Bones McCoy [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 02:14 PM (yz6yg)

220

but, that drudge headline WWIII is really creeping me out.

It's like we're living in a new Tom Clancy novel that doesn't end well for us.

Posted by: Line. Sand. at April 16, 2014 05:58 PM (thLL

Not exactly the idea I had in mind for the 100th anniversary.

Posted by: The Guns Of August at April 16, 2014 02:14 PM (mETGQ)

221 He's dead, Jim Grab his communicator, I'll get his wallet.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 16, 2014 02:15 PM (0HooB)

222 Someone get SCOAMF an early tee time.
http://is.gd/9UvuyU

Posted by: HR at April 16, 2014 02:15 PM (ZKzrr)

223 Drudge is being Drudge. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 16, 2014 06:04 PM (0LHZx) Not really. The Ukraine/Russia clash is one of my husband's files right now. He got up early, because his bb was going off. I asked him what was up, he said it's getting worse. It's really bad out there. Of course, if we just let Russia take Ukraine, /shrug. Nothing is really happening.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 02:15 PM (IXrOn)

224 Fapping for Credit I already have a doctorate in fapping.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 16, 2014 02:15 PM (oFCZn)

225 Palate cleanser. http://is.gd/oonQVa Posted by: HR at April 16, 2014 06:14 PM (ZKzrr) al franken's latest boob props

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 16, 2014 02:16 PM (IXrOn)

226 First one I got was 101.1 Classic Rock out of Greenville, SC. AoSHQ with coordinated soundtrack, think of the possibilities...

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2014 02:16 PM (ZshNr)

227 I already have a doctorate in fapping. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 16, 2014 06:15 PM (oFCZn) I got mine at the Sorbonne. In an afternoon. Because French chicks.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 16, 2014 02:17 PM (yz6yg)

228 @220 Tom Friedman Look what I had to sleep with to get my billion scratch. And it ain't all ketchup and freedom fries if you know what I mean.

Posted by: John Kerry at April 16, 2014 02:17 PM (d8fTM)

229

See the rewards that go to those who sing the praises of Obama. Witness the punishments meted out to those who don't.

I can't believe we're seeing this kind of thing on American soil. It's shameful.

Posted by: troyriser at April 16, 2014 02:18 PM (2jF2B)

230 That's the kind of setup I covet. But, as you say, plenty of dosh required. Posted by: torquewrench at April 16, 2014 06:05 PM (noWW6) I've been scouring Craigs list for good deals on CNG equipment. I managed to buy an excellent Bauer CNG compressor for an incredibly reasonable price.($1,400.00.) I paid $20,000.00 for my (Used) Ingersoll-Rand Bowgen compressor system and storage. That is the one I'm currently using, but it is my intent to set up several others in surrounding communities. I currently own four CNG compressors, but the other two are small units, only fit for a single user. The Bauer and the Ingersoll Rand are high quality commercial units. You can use a scuba compressor for this purpose, and indeed, one wealthy man who gets his own fuel from his own wells tells me that he uses an old "Davy" military surplus scuba compressor to pump up his tanks. That's all I can mention at the moment. Gotta go.

Posted by: D-Lamp at April 16, 2014 02:19 PM (bb5+k)

231 Hey, I attended the Sorebone for a semester! Do I know you?

Posted by: Sandra Flook at April 16, 2014 02:20 PM (Dwehj)

232 233 See the rewards that go to those who sing the praises of Obama. Witness the punishments meted out to those who don't. I can't believe we're seeing this kind of thing on American soil. It's shameful. Posted by: troyriser at April 16, 2014 06:18 PM (2jF2B) I was sure that imposing fascism would straighten things out. Guess the Prime Directive is the only way.

Posted by: Professor John Guild at April 16, 2014 02:21 PM (L5jLO)

233 Why can't I fap to Kate Upton videos and make that much money? My overall contribution to society is about the same as K-Rug's.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 16, 2014 02:21 PM (0HooB)

234 My own experiment with equaility in the 70's ended with sore feet from the 4" platform shoes.

Posted by: bergerbilder at April 16, 2014 02:21 PM (8MjqI)

235 I just checked the Bureau of Labor's "Occupational Outlook Handbook," and Midget Pinko-Fluffer isn't even listed. Hmm...

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 16, 2014 02:24 PM (eAJwE)

236 naturally the New York Times won't allow Krugman to use his column to talk about income inequality because of journalistic ethics.

Posted by: X at April 16, 2014 02:32 PM (KHo8t)

237 seriouly though $225k is pretty cheap to buy some column inches on the NYTimes editorial page over the next year. I congratulate CUNY on their shrewd investment.

Posted by: X at April 16, 2014 02:35 PM (KHo8t)

238 $225,000. Kinda expensive for a whore, isn't it?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 16, 2014 03:04 PM (PMGbu)

239 Slightly OT: I visited Luxembourg 25 years ago. It was a boring place. All the hot chicks were Dutch (which was a GOOD thing) and the city was beautiful but dull.

Posted by: puddleglum at April 16, 2014 03:29 PM (15w2J)

240 81 Live UFC fights on Fox Sports 1. Empty arena. Mid-week afternoon fights in Quebec. Quiet as a funeral home.

Posted by: Costanza Defense

Montreal Canadians play tonight. Round 1 of the NHL Playoffs.

Posted by: puddleglum at April 16, 2014 03:34 PM (15w2J)

241 Blow Obama in the NYT, get $225,00 File for Conservative 501c3=get FINED/OSHA'D/BATF'D IRS'D for $225,000 Per JWF Actually, weÂ’re being generous by noting the amount as what they gave combined. Mayor Big (DeBlowJob) Bird accounted for all of that (5k). The City Council speaker gave zero, zip, nada to charity. I gave more to charity than the fucking MAYOR of NYC! The next prick who talks about income ineq, da poor (tm-Dems), social investments, hell the simple rule of LAW (GM/Chrysler bondholders)....I swear I'll bunch the asshole right in the face. From now on, I'll decide what I think is legal. We are all equal in this country, nobody is above the law, so fuck it! This country is heading for a red reset button. My red button is firearm mounted! (The previous rant is not to be construed as advocating violence toward any individual. 52% of the Gen Pop, yes!)

Posted by: hutch1200 at April 16, 2014 04:11 PM (Kdd08)

242 http://tinyurl.com/Donks-donate-Nada

Posted by: hutch1200 at April 16, 2014 04:13 PM (Kdd08)

243 Oh! I keep reading that Krugman is doing this... and the irony completely escaped me until now. Income inequality, thy name is Krugman. Wow, if that isn't hypocrisy, then what is?

Posted by: petunia at April 16, 2014 04:47 PM (DAcBA)

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