[lbo-talk] European Welfare State

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 20 13:10:18 PDT 2010


Somebody Somebody:


> Nice try, but that's not what's being debated. The question is German
> performance on economic inequality, poverty rates, and social spending
> indices versus the United States.

Nice try, but that's not what's being debated. The question is ideological illusions among U.S. liberals concerning a mythical German welfare state that has been subject to attack since the late-1970s and a neo-mercantilist policy of export-oriented growth resting upon a consistent policy of low domestic wages.



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