BdL on BE

[kelley]

At 11:04 AM 6/7/01 +0100, Max Sawicky wrote:
>Lloyd Bentsen used to say that focusing on children was the only way
>he thought progress could be made--that the idea of the frontier and
>the self-reliant individual was just too strong in America for there
>to be a durable majority coalition that worried about the single
>working poor.    Brad DeLong
>
>
>One data point:  when I introduced my idea about a
>mega-kiddie-credit to a group of progressives, who
>shall remain nameless, they said the problem with it
>was it had nothing for families without children.
>
>mbs

since i don't know why they are, i'll guess that this may only speak to the 
issue of who progressives think their constituency is. most pwogs i know, 
as another limited data point, are childless yuppies.

kelley