Sep 9, 2009

Magia

Michael Barone sostiene que las propuestas de Obama se basan en fantasías (pensamiento mágico, en la jerga LA):

There is an element of convenient fantasy as well in Obama's health care statements to date. We are going to save money by spending money. We are going to solve our fiscal problems with a program that will increase the national debt by $1,000,000,000,000 over a decade. We are going to guarantee you can keep your current insurance with a bill that encourages your employer to stop offering it.

The list goes on. We are going to improve health care for seniors by cutting $500,000,000,000 from Medicare. We aren't going to insure illegal aliens, except that we won't have any verification provisions to see that they can't apply and get benefits.


Yo creo que tiene razón. Pero es importante hacer la salvedad de que ese tipo de propuestas son una fantasía para los que las vemos desde afuera. Para los que forman parte del culto progre, se trata de verdades grandes como una casa, que no necesitan mayores explicaciones ni justificativos racionales.

Los límites de la realidad – aquello de la escasez - son un invento de la derecha conservadora (del “neoliberalismo”, en el caso de LA) para frustrar las iniciativas de justicia social de la izquierda iluminada y solidaria.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.