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

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Feb 17 15:18:13 PST 2010


SA wrote:
>
> 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 ;-)
> >
>
> You don't really give off much of an air seriousness with this stuff. Do
> you want to let the welfare state die, or are you just being
> provocative? Should attempts to kill off the welfare state be opposed,
> or does it not make enough of a difference to care? You seem to want to
> take a let-it-die position without actually taking responsibility for
> that position. Is this what passes for radical chic these days?

Opposed with what? E*ric can have his fun precisely because, without a real left, talking about opposing the attack on the welfare state is as empty as Eric's chatter.

How do scattered leftists become even the core of a possible organized left? Right now, that is rather more important than the question of what a left, if it existed, should or shouldn't do.

Carrol
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> SA
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