tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post8620067000850471481..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Woke Is Reactionary: The Small Business Lending EditionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-4038097679351358072020-05-24T16:18:29.524-04:002020-05-24T16:18:29.524-04:00Want social progress then focus on those most in n...Want social progress then focus on those most in need and begin to redress the needs. That was what was essentially done in the New Deal and during the Great Society and the general and specific progress was remarkable. There is even now a social revolution going on in China in the elimination of poverty which will be accomplished this very year, but Western thinkers do not seem capable of understanding how generally profound the change in China will be from the focus on ending poverty.<br /><br />The war on poverty during the 1960s, although unfinished, brought us Medicare and profound changes in civil rights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-84602734895965932462020-05-24T12:11:21.292-04:002020-05-24T12:11:21.292-04:00The word "woke" is dismissive, and in th...The word "woke" is dismissive, and in this case dismissive of people who are especially beset and in need. Blacks and Latinos and Indians are especially beset now and policy should be directed at meeting their needs and that is just what progressive policy should now entail. Older men and women have been vulnerable. Single mothers have been vulnerable. Look to those most in need and avoid a policy description that is dismissive of tailored policy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-5621966855380912412020-05-24T01:17:32.495-04:002020-05-24T01:17:32.495-04:00You are right, Peter. But if we cannot get aa pro...You are right, Peter. But if we cannot get aa proper progressive program, might a woke program be better than nothing and do some mitigating?<br />rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.com