[IP] more on What Is Happening in America? DO NOT READ IF THESE VIEWS ANNOY YOU.

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> From: Christian Huitema <huitema@windows.microsoft.com>
>
> Dave, this is not a perspective from outside the US. "Vorwarts" is the 
> official magazine of the German Social-Democratic party, but this piece 
> was written by Eliot Weinberger, an American writer living in NYC.  It shows
> right from the opening statement that the majority of modern governments 
> "institute incremental changes to the status quo". Many in Europe will 
> contend that the European Union is in fact a radical change. Others will
> observe that the government of Jacques Chirac, for example, is busy with a 
> reform program that rolls back pension rights, reduces the number of state 
> employees, reduces taxes, and generally shares a lot with the exercices 
> conducted by Mr. Reagan & Ms. Thatcher. In fact, the rolling back of the 
> welfare state is happening in quite a large number of European countries. 
> The author has an idealized view of Europe, a view from New York City. 
> This paper is not European, but rather squarely "made in America".

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