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Re: [Pen-l] The real welfare queens
- To: Progressive Economics <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The real welfare queens
- From: Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:47:31 -0800
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raghu wrote:
> Bloomberg has a detailed article on how private contractors routinely
> rip off the government for billions. Ironically, the budget-Nazis are
> not wrong about wasteful government spending; they are just being
> penny-wise and pound-foolish in obsessing about entitlements and
> earmarks...
it's more of a class matter. If "pork" helps people of the same class
as our legislators or their financial benefactors, then it's not pork.
If it helps poor and working people, or those fractions of capital
that are less powerful, then it's pork.
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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- Thread context:
- Re: [Pen-l] doubling global stimulus through SDRs (secret message for Obama entourage),
Gernot Koehler Thu 29 Jan 2009, 23:37 GMT
- [Pen-l] The real welfare queens,
raghu Thu 29 Jan 2009, 22:21 GMT
- [Pen-l] Re: pen-l Digest, Vol 343, Issue 1 The Return of Depression Economics reviewed by Ann Robertson,
Aroberts45 Thu 29 Jan 2009, 20:03 GMT
- [Pen-l] Soros: Obama must implement a radical and comprehensive set of policies,
Louis Proyect Thu 29 Jan 2009, 18:59 GMT
- [Pen-l] Obscene,
Louis Proyect Thu 29 Jan 2009, 16:48 GMT
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