[lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 13 08:16:50 PDT 2008


----- Original Message ---- From: Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> Have you and Dennis just not read any newspapers for the last 15 years, or what?

[WS:]  Have government social spendings fall below 16% of GDP in the last 15 years? Have the average vacation time in Europe been reduced to less than 10 days? Have education and health care been privatized and made available only to those who can pay?

What????

I understand that these social protections do not compare to the conditions said to exist in a socialist heaven, but I am yet to see a socialist heaven and, as they say here, a bird in hand is better than two on a bush.

 Wojtek

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