kelley wrote:
> my priority right now would be to make sure that CSE works. that would be,
> well, what i'm doing: writing an article about my experience in the
> nightmare of TANF so that ordinary lefty type gets a klew.
Whoa there. You ignore the whole of my argument in which I attempt to set a context for this question. Let me put it this way:
On the basis of the information *you* have provided, the proposal that we can help children and mothers by "making CSE work" is as totally unrealistic as would be a proposal for socialism now. You have fallen into the academic trap (an honorable trap as academic traps go, but a trap nevertheless) in believing that one need merely state the truth and all will be well.
Who is going to make sure CSE works? Why hasn't anyone done it already. If the powers-that-be were even minimally sincere in their rhetoric of responsibility this would be an accomplished fact already. Why hasn't it happened?
Why has TANF happened but CSE languishes? On what basis do you think that merely exhibiting the rightness of making CSE work will contribute to making it work?
You would think I was insane were I to write a 10k expose of the suffering of the Brazilian people under imperialism and conclude by with the following:
What should we do?
We should stop imperialism.
But this is exactly the post you have written.
The whole ruling class offensive for the last 25 years has had at its core the rhetoric of responsibility. And yet "they" have not carried through on that rhetoric in perhaps the one area where it might have made sense. Clearly they are not about to just because you write stinging articles.
Carrol