NSG

You're right. You've not seen that acronym before. At least, I hope not. It stands for No Social Goods. This last bit of a Samuelson obit (not the famous economist, or one related to him as far as I can find)

"I've routinely suggested shutting down Amtrak," he wrote, "not because I dislike trains (I don't) but because Amtrak is an excellent example of how the federal government has acquired so many nonessential functions."

Still, the trains kept running.

"I'm resigned to this," he wrote. "No one elected me to anything. In our system, the people rule, not the pundits; and that's how it should be."

Earlier in the report, he and others proclaim that he wasn't a Right Wingnut. But his words belie him.

The key j'accuse, from his own words

"I don't have an economics degree, and I think in some ways that's a strong point, because I'm always trying to explain things to myself, and if I can explain them to me, I think I could try to explain them to my readers," he said on the C-SPAN program Q&A in 2010. "I'm not trying to impress economists."

Of course, I suppose he'd be happy to have heart surgery from some guy who never went to medical school? When one explains something to one's self, what you get is the synthesis of what one actually knows. In his case, nothing.