Joel
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 17, 2010, at 11:59 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> I just wish he'd spend less time telling us that we are ignorant, and more time describing what is going on.
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> True. And it'd be nice if he showed some understanding of why Americans might find Europe, or a fantasy of Europe, appealing. For all the nastiness of German neoliberalism, there's still less inequality & poverty there than here. From the Luxembourg income study data for 2004 (with poverty based on the <50% of the median standard):
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> poverty gini
> Germany 8.5% 0.278
> US 17.3% 0.372
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> So their poverty rate is less than half ours. That's not nothing.
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> Doug
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