Paul Krugman and "The Conscience of a Liberal"

I've seen Mr. Krugman on C-Span discussing his views and book. I think we are going to be seeing and hearing from a lot of educated, concerned folks like Mr. Krugman in the future, standing up against the liberal-bashing of the past few years. Robert Reich is another person that comes to mind.

It is amazing to me that people who bash the liberal agenda of supporting the middle class and the poor are so often members of just those groups. It is another example of the self-hating American that has been given such a powerful voice during the current administration's run, despite being a minority in the country. I am hoping that the ethics and morals of the liberal party will have a re-awakening in 2008 with the upcoming elections, and as more people in the country actually personally experience the results of the anti-liberal movement over the past few years in their own lives.

There are all sorts of ways of narrowing the gap between rich and poor. If the rich were rich because they had done more for others than the poor and were proportionately rewarded I would be opposed to narrowing that gap. If the rich are rich because they exploited other people and lied, cheated, and stole better than others I would suport narrowing the gap.

I fear that the latter reason for wealth is more nearly the accurate description. As the Bible says, "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven", and that implies that the rich have done things which would prevent their entry to heaven.

It needn't be that way, however. Please see my novel being posted on Gather a couple of chapters each day which explains how we can make it so that the rich truly deserve their relative wealth and how the suffering of the poor can be prevented.

The novel is titled "Invisible Hand" and is also at:

http://www.unc.edu/~mason/hand.html

free, complette, and without ads.

Julia, because MPR is not biased when will you have John Lott talk about his book "Freedomnonics"? Or maybe Thomas Sowell?

http://www.amazon.com/Freedomnomics-Market-Works-Half-Baked-Theories/dp/1596985062

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-2266130-4843939?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Thomas%20Sowell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell

Julia, has Keri ever had Thomas Sowell on the program? He would be great! He would add some well needed diversity to the MPR standard fare. He is an excellent speaker and has some great ideas on economics today.

You folks at MPR are so proud of how "unbiased" and "diverse" that you are, so why not Thomas Sowell?

Whoa. Hi Gary.

Off the top of my head, I'm don't think he's been on. Please suggest it as an idea for a future Midmorning show.

This discussion is what it is around the topic of Krugman and his book. If you want to poke holes in Krugman's approach, that's what it is here for, I'll read it.

Just a coincidence that Paul Wellstone also wrote a book with the same title? Or is there a relation between Wellstone and Krugman?

great article

I like the way you express your point of view