Re: [Pen-l] Going Dutch

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 6, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Gil Skillman wrote:

> > C'mon folks. Is it because you've never been on the right that you
> > can't imagine an intelligent answer to this sort of claim? They're
> > different from welfare recipients because they're working hard and
> > increasing their earning potential, which will more than pay off
> > society's investment in them over the long term. Welfare recipients
> > are just a deadweight loss.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Not as easy as it looks, Doug.  Yes, they're working, but they're  
> still not paying the full cost of their education.  Either that's  
> welfare or the subsidy is in response to positive human capital  
> externalities and...oops, you've gone to another place that the  
> right, or at least the portion of the right that believes that  
> governments shouldn't "intervene" in market interactions, would  
> prefer not to go.

I didn't say I supported this argument. I said this is what a  
conservative might say. You don't have to argue the point with me.

By the way, friends who've taught in community colleges have told me  
that some of the most vicious critics of welfare recipients are  
upwardly mobile - or at least upwardly aspiring - members of the  
working class. And by no means all of them white. Again, I don't  
support this position. But it is a common position.

Doug
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