On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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