[lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why."

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 09:23:05 PDT 2011


On 7/11/2011 11:58 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:


>
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Wojtek S wrote:
>
>> The second phenomenon is that welfare statism, which has
>> traditionally appealed to the working class, has been all but
>> abandoned by the left and became esposed by right win nationalist
>> parties, at least in EU.
>
> Could you give some examples of a European right wing party supporting
> some aspect of the welfare state more than it's corresponding left?

Marine Le Pen says she's against Sarkozy's proposal to lengthen the pension contribution period (i.e. increase the retirement age), whereas much of the PS supports the idea.

SA



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