[lbo-talk] Outrageous Poverty and the Blue Dogs

[michael perelman]

OK, you all know about Paris Hilton's $325,000 doghouse.  Then the Wall 
Street Journal chimed in with an article by a British physician 
informing the American public that dogs get better health care than 
ordinary humans in the British medical system.  Thank God for those good 
U.S. insurance corporations that protect us from such a fate.  And thank 
God for warning us of the dangers of single payer.
Dalrymple, Theodore. 2009. "Man vs. Mutt." Wall Street Journal (8 August).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334282143887974.html#mod=todays_us_weekend_journal

Then Barbara Ehenreich published a brilliant piece showing how 
governments are criminalizing poverty -- yes, making it a crime to 
threaten society by sleeping on the street or some such violent act. 
Yet, dogs, are free to behave that way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09ehrenreich.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=barbara%20ehrenreich&st=cse

 From all this I have now learned that dogs have become the standard by 
which we must judge humanity.  When a workers complement bosses for 
treating them like dogs, we will understand.  Poor people should aspire 
to enjoy canine cuisine.

Makes you want to join the Blue Dogs.   Or might there be a better 
system for organizing society?  I don't have time to go any further.  I 
have to get back to reading Kapital.

-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929

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