BdL on BE

[Brad DeLong]

>Not invisible, just largely irrelevant.  I'm about one chapter into the
>book, and for all of the lovely things the government does for the working
>poor, their life still sucks.  Why should they thank the government for a
>lousy life, just because it could be worse?

I didn't say they should thank the government, I said that we should 
defend (and extend) the things the government does rather than 
embrace Ehrenreich's alternative--join in the attack on the crappy 
government, let the Republicans dominate national politics, and spend 
time on "squats, cooperatives of various kinds, community currency 
projects..."

Brad DeLong