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I think capitalism generally winds up digging the most where it finds the softest ground. You get some of the worst environmental policies and the worst industrial safety policies where the state of the labor movement and the public mind accepts it most readily. Public health always does better, even under that same state laws, in areas like northern Ohio where you have a labor movement with teeth and liberals in office than you have around here where they can keep the public discourse focused on putting the Ten Commandments on their lawns. If they do what they did at Love Canal, they have problems. If they do what they did at Fernald, they have people glowing in the dark bitching about gay marriage. What this observation means for the austerity measures is that they will probably make the cuts most viciously and deeply where people will accept them most readily. But we'll see.... ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
