[Peace-discuss] the politics of greed

[Ricky Baldwin]

Definitely, definitely.  I do think we should keep in
mind how it *got* that way, too -- decades of street
fighting and strikes and general agitation and
painstaking organizing.  

Even in the sixties, poverty was still deep in some
pockets (no pun intended), as Michael Harrington
famously documented.  The welfare rights movement and
other efforts did have a good effect, but obviously
never got to complete the job before the backlash.  

The point is that grinding inequality has actually
been the rule, the relative gains of the fifties and
sixties being the exception.  A goal of the Reagan
Revolution was to put the rabble back in our place, a
process that Bush I, Clinton and now Bush II have
continued (as you all know).  And without serious
resistance they will succeed.

Just a talking point, I guess.  Glad to see the
column.

Ricky

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> (Sorry for the premature dispatch of the previous
> message.) 
>  
> This is an important column.  When I graduated from
> college, a
> US citizen with a BA degree could presume that he
> could marry,
> have a child, acquire a car and a house -- on a
> single salary.
> As Krugman points out, that changed in the '70s. 
> Now a
> couple with BA degrees can barely afford an
> apartment on two
> salaries -- and rarely a house, car, or kid.  And
> this massive
> transition has largely gone unremarked.  --CGE
> 
> 
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:12:56 -0500
> >From: <ppatton at uiuc.edu>  
> >Subject: [Peace-discuss] the politics of greed  
> >To: Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> >
> >Losing Our Country
> >by Paul Krugman
> > 
> >Baby boomers like me grew up in a relatively equal
> society... 
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