Re: Race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-20 Thread HECHT
Bill Humphries writes: "One of the troubles with the current left critique of welfare is it requires the acceptance of the premise that Natural Law is a falacy. For instance, hard work does not reward the just materially when the current international labor market keeps bidding wages down. You'll

re: race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-20 Thread Doug Henwood
On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Blair Sandler wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote about today's WSJ article on the Christian > Coalition. > > "They want to become, says organizer Ralph Reed, a true rainbow > coalition. This means that the easy equivalences of right=racist > and multiculti=progressive must be ret

Re: Race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-19 Thread Bill Humphries
"In a previous message Doug Henwood writes:" > > US welfare politics just keeps getting more complex. Today's (7/19) Wall > Street Journal reports that a WSJ/NBC poll finds 53% of blacks and 58% of > white agreeing that "a declin in moral values is a major reason people > are on welfare." Does

re: race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-19 Thread Blair Sandler
Doug Henwood wrote about today's WSJ article on the Christian Coalition. "They want to become, says organizer Ralph Reed, a true rainbow coalition. This means that the easy equivalences of right=racist and multiculti=progressive must be rethought" But the article also notes that they're not

Race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-19 Thread Doug Henwood
US welfare politics just keeps getting more complex. Today's (7/19) Wall Street Journal reports that a WSJ/NBC poll finds 53% of blacks and 58% of white agreeing that "a declin in moral values is a major reason people are on welfare." Does that mean we have to retune the critique? Incidentally