[lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a Debt Crisis

[Eric Beck]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
>
>> The U.S. welfare state was always tiny and is now tinier, not to
>> mention largely ineffective and highly regulative. Let it die, people.
>
> Are you dependent on Medicare, Social Security, or Food Stamps?

Well, I was trying to be a little provocative. I knew you'd bite ;-)

I was also objecting to the clucking of tongues, the (conservative)
attachment to some abstraction called the welfare state, and acting as
if things were already decided because the NYT/Wall Street declared
austerity was in order.