Michael Perelman wrote:
Shocking that the movie hero needs to pick on the weakest most
vulnerable. Not just the disabled. Outreach for disadvantaged students.
Health care for the poor. Also, Berkeley's labor studies program. So
far, not one hit on the middle class or their betters.
That's no
Michael Perelman wrote:
Shocking that the movie hero needs to pick on the weakest most
vulnerable. Not just the disabled. Outreach for disadvantaged students.
Health care for the poor. Also, Berkeley's labor studies program. So
far, not one hit on the middle class or their betters.
Doug
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] threatened cut-backs for the disabled in California
Michael Perelman wrote:
Shocking that the movie hero needs to pick on the weakest most
vulnerable. Not just the disabled. Outreach
What these cuts are about is forcing the liberals to defend the weakest
-- which constituency Arnold doesn't really want to cut because it would
be bad politically. Arnold wants the liberals to spend time and money
protecting something he really can't destroy, so that they have to give
in to him
What these cuts are about is forcing the liberals to defend the weakest
-- which constituency Arnold doesn't really want to cut because it would
be bad politically. Arnold wants the liberals to spend time and money
protecting something he really can't destroy, so that they have to give
in to
Perhaps another way of looking at it is this: why lend money to build
gigantic prisons, when you could lend money to put people who are likely to
commit criminal activities into jobs, that generate new income and tax
revenue and thus help balance the budget ? I mean if you pauperise people so
that
Re: threatened cut-backs for the disabled in California
by Jurriaan Bendien
03 December 2003
Perhaps another way of looking at it is this: why lend money to build
gigantic prisons, when you could lend money to put people who are likely to
commit criminal activities into jobs, that generate new
Jurriaan wrote:
Perhaps another way of looking at it is this: why lend money to build
gigantic prisons, when you could lend money to put people who are likely to
commit criminal activities into jobs, that generate new income and tax
revenue and thus help balance the budget ?
As Business Week
. There has been a kind of
Keynesian effect.
See also Richard D. Vogel's piece in the Sept. 2003 edition of Monthly
Review http://www.monthlyreview.org/0903vogel.htm.
Seth Sandronsky
Re: threatened cut-backs for the disabled in California
by Jurriaan Bendien
03 December 2003
Perhaps
: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] threatened cut-backs for the disabled in California
Hi Jurriaan,
In 'Lockdown America,' Christian Parenti partly analyzes policing and
prison-building in California. There has been a kind of Keynesian effect.
See also Richard D. Vogel's
As Business Week editorialized sometime around 1947 (and I'm
paraphrasing a bit), government spending on the military reinforces
existing hierarchies, while social spending undermines them. Ditto
prisons.
Hi Doug, hope things are working out. I'm not against all hierarchy, you
know, the
Doug Henwood wrote:
Jurriaan wrote:
Perhaps another way of looking at it is this: why lend money to build
gigantic prisons, when you could lend money to put people who are likely to
commit criminal activities into jobs, that generate new income and tax
revenue and thus help balance the
[strangely, no mention is made concerning cut-backs of benefits for
those disabled by over-use of steroids.]
Plan to Limit Aid Alarms Advocates For Disabled in California
[By Alexa H. Bluth for the Sacramento Bee.]
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/7863657p-8803833c.html
Advocates
Hello All,
Quoting James Devine who forwards an article on disability cutbacks in
California by the lamentable Schwarzenegger:
[strangely, no mention is made concerning cut-backs of benefits for
those disabled by over-use of steroids.]
Doyle,
Just to keep it as clear as possible, putting disabled
Shocking that the movie hero needs to pick on the weakest most
vulnerable. Not just the disabled. Outreach for disadvantaged students.
Health care for the poor. Also, Berkeley's labor studies program. So
far, not one hit on the middle class or their betters.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics
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