From: Bill Lear <[email protected]>
On Monday, August 8, 2011 at 10:58:36 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: > >On Aug 8, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >> I trust the judgment of Glen Ford. > >I admire Ford a lot, but really, Carrol, the TP isn't just a bunch of nativist >yahoos. A lot of them are amped-up libertarians who hate social spending. Take my brother, for example. He's livid that we have debt and is certain that we must cut it or suffer greatly. His arguments derive from "common sense": if we were a family, we'd have so much income, spend so much, and have so much debt, etc., and he thinks our current government/public balances are out of whack with this simple picture. Bill ^^^^^ CB: Doesn't mean a huge percentage of the followers of the TP other than your brother aren't motivated by white supremacy. The whole Reaganite narrative was "Government is too big... because of spending on Black welfare queens". Deficit hawkism is attack welfare spending by claiming the deficit is too high. Is your brother for raising taxes on the rich and cutting the military budget, the best ways to balance the budget ? If not.... _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
