[lbo-talk] Political Cartography: The Welfare State

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>At 5:04 PM -0500 21/11/04, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Does the term "a welfare state" really sound better to Americans 
>>than the term "a socialist state"? The idea of a welfare state 
>>gives them -- both on the left and right -- a depressing image of a 
>>client-case worker relationship in which the client feels 
>>tyrannized and the case worker feels overworked: e.g.,
>
>Only people who have never lived at the pointy end of the welfare 
>state could ever imagine "Whaddwe want? A WELFARE STATE!" as a 
>rallying cry to the masses.
>
>Loved "WELFARE QUEAN", where do you find these gems?
>
>Bill Bartlett
>Bracknell Tas

The citation is included here: "Welfare Quean": 
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/12/welfare-quean.html>.
-- 
Yoshie

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<http://www.proud-of-britain.org.uk/>