[lbo-talk] More Times fearmongering

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Mar 30 15:36:03 PDT 2010


Unfortunately universityu faculty in Illinois are by no means as clear on it as are Doug and Max, and the tactic is working beautifully to create confusion.

Carrol

Alan Rudy wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > The whole strategy of doing a present value analysis of pension obligations
> > makes no sense to me, except as a scaremongering tactic. Governments are for
> > these purposes immortal, and have tremendous power to tax, and all that
> > matters is their ability to cover next year's obligations with next year's
> > revenues, ad infinitum. Is there any rational economic reason for this sort
> > of analysis except to promote an austerity program?
> >
> > Doug
>
> No, there is not. And, somehow, I think we're all pretty much in agreement
> on this... how vile.
> A
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