Re: Re: Re: My looniness

[Brad De Long]

>I began by mentioning the need to control the rich.  Brad suggested, if I
>understood him correctly, that I might mean that I would like to see the
>poor remain poor to minimize the impact of the rich.


No. I said that one has to be very careful deploying that kind of 
argument because it does run the risk of sliding toward the position 
that the poor need to remain poor for ecological reasons--not that 
you had already slid to that position.