Thank you Paul Krugman!

How much to I appreciate Paul Krugman? His photo is on my monitor desktop. All his work should be, "required reading at the Academy" as my Captain likes to say. Today's column once again addresses some issues I've been writing about. I'm sure he reads my blog to stay in touch with the mind of this Vulcan, so let me say again, "Thank you for your work." Drop me an email when you are lecturing at Star Fleet Academy, I'll treat you to some of my favorite Vulcan meals.


The Oblivious Right
By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 25, 2005

The story is very different for the great majority of Americans, who live off their wages, not dividends or capital gains, and aren't doing well at all. Over the past three years, wage and salary income grew less than in any other postwar recovery - less than a tenth as fast as profits. But wage-earning Americans aren't part of the base.

But Americans are feeling a sense of dread: they're worried about a weak job market, soaring health care costs, rising oil prices and a war that seems to have no end. And they're starting to notice that nobody in power is even trying to deal with these problems, because the people in charge are too busy catering to a base that has other priorities.