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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
The problem is, most rich people don't want to share significantly with those less fortunate or don't allocate the money wisely to the right organizations in the right ratio. If the gov't leaves it up to everyone to decide for themselves how much to share, a lot of people won't share and that means a lot of people with mental illnesses, physical illnesses, drug addicitons, kids from abusive homes, etc suffer.
I'm not calling every Conservative supporter selfish although I know many are. I'm calling the viewpoint about social policies a selfish one.
But of course the caveat is that our Conservatives are more liberal than in some countries.
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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Well if social programs are to be run somebody has to handle it. Either a non-profit organization or a gov't program. I think you find corruption and problems with any large entity be it gov't, corporations, non-profits, etc.
I think it a bit of a myth that gov't is the only form of large organization that experiences inefficiencies.
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Why does government subsidized daycare need to be a social program. To me that something that the private sector seems capable of handling. You make sound as though conservatives want to eliminate all social programs. I agree, some social programs need to be handled by the state, the NDP thinks most PROGRAMS should be handled by the state.