Paul Krugman has little use for a show of hands

Greetings, Healthers. For those of you convinced those unruly mobs showing up at Congressional home district town halls to express their displeasure in full throat are mere pawns of Big Medical and the vast right-wing conspiracy, we give you one of your leaders, Paul Krugman. Because when Canadians can't even stand their own health care, it must be manufactured outrage.

Krugman, an NYT columnist, didn’t think porkulus was large enough. In fact, Krugman thinks we need another stimulus package because the first 3/4ths of trillion dollars ain’t getting the job done. It’s logic like this that would help explain the clip below and Krugman’s, a proponent of government-managed single-payer systems, grasp of facts-on-the-ground.



Notice how he phrased that question? Not, “how many of you are satisfied with your health care?”, which leaves some degree of wiggle room but “how many of you (Canadians) think you have a terrible health care system?” Even with that extreme black-and-white line of questioning, all the Canadians still raised their hands.

Yet, all that probably doesn’t matter to Krugman. Afterall, he’s Paul Krugman and those people that raised their hands just don’t know what’s good for them.