On Thu, 9 May 2002, Max Sawicky wrote:
> there is no decline of the Welfare State.
-Well, yes, big biz has effectively hijacked the US welfare state, shunting -more and more money to itself while starving those parts of the government -which serve working people.
Most of the government at this point goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid-- hardly corporate giveaways if not structured for maximum egalitarianism overall. The just passed farm bill is a good example of corporate pork, but that is only $18 billion per year. A chunk of defense spending is corporate pork, although a lot are also jobs for many workers and one of the more egalitarian employers of different races.
So what line items in the budget do you consider the worst parts of the corporate welfare state?
-- Nathan Newman