[lbo-talk] European Welfare State

[Max Sawicky]

Welfare state coverage of social needs is usually incomplete, so there will
usually be inadequacies including horror stories that can be found. But it's
not good analysis to leave out where the money is going, and what good it
might be doing.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


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> On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
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> > So don't worry, dear Europhile liberals, if its any consolation, you can
> continue to comfort yourself that it's not "as bad" over here, and you can
> continue to push the bar downward so that even the worst attacks on the
> welfare state over here appear "moderate" by comparison.
>
> Chill, man. No one here wants to see your welfare state cut - the opposite,
> in fact. You keep railing about how we just don't get how bad things are in
> Deutschland, but it would be nice for a moment of you contemplated what life
> in the USA is like.
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