Paul Krugman's E.Coli Conservatives

According to Paul Krugman, (MIT PH.D., IQ 182, NY Times op-ed columnist, famous tenured Princeton economist, left wing air head) one might call Milton Friedman an "E. coli conservative" because he was against the kind of Federal gov't regulation and inspection that might help prevent E.-coli from finding its way into our food supply. To Krugman, the argument seems foolproof since E. coli is very bad, and all caring, intelligent people are against E. coli.

Oddly, Krugman is loved on both sides of the political spectrum. Democrats love him because he proves that someone highly educated with a generally stratospheric IQ can still be a Democrat. Republicans love him because he proves that their philosophy isn't the tiniest bit vulnerable to someone with a stratospheric Democratic IQ, and perhaps because his high IQ coupled with a dumb philosophy encourages the delusion that their IQ is 182 too.

The utter simplicity of the Krugman argument, which is essentially the exact argument the Democrats make for massive socialist intervention in all areas in our economy , country, and lives, proves that left wingers just can't think about political philosophy, despite having an extraordinary ability to seem normal in most other areas. It is as if God played a trick and said, "I'm going to create a class of people who are so absolutely and perfectly normal in 6982 areas so that everyone will think they are in fact normal in 6983 areas, but little will they know that in one absolutely critical area (gov't) I'm going to make them completely stupid. This will be hugely deceptive and fun since it will make it nearly impossible for anyone to really believe that they are completely mistaken in that one tiny but critical area".

To be fair to Krugman, while he was not capable of explaining the Republican position on E. coli inspectors, he at least did not say that it was because the Republican Party is beholden to greedy big business which would hate to throw away whole crops just because a little deadly poison might have found its way to their customers. In fact, he even devoted 5 words to the allusion that self policing may have something to do with the Republican philosophy. The implication of the 5 words, however, was that any fool will surely realize that self policing by greedy, incompetent, harried, businessmen and women won't work while soviet policing by caring, fixed salary, bureaucrats with plenty of time, will.

Actually, it would be nice if the gov't took care of E. coli and everything else for us wouldn't it: food, air, water, cars, planes,