Paul Krugman repeats his Anti-Irish bigotry.

[Progressive Jones]

29. I've seen that my entire life. My Dad, and most of his relatives here, came from Ireland between

the 1920s and the mid 1960s. I've always been around someone from over there. You're spot on about the fan girls and fan boys.

Something you said made me laugh. Everybody's got a "relative from Cork". You'd think it's the only place in all of Ireland that people come from !

It didn't bother my Dad so much as some of the others. It kind of got on my Mom's nerves, too. However, my Dad didn't wear Ireland on his sleeve, and he let people know it. They were very poor over there, and he saw it as a place he left for a reason, and never looked back. He got here in 1949, and worked construction. Then he joined the US Army, and went to Korea. When he got out, he was granted citizenship. He didn't expect that. He joined the Army to "pay his dues" as he said.