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Originally Posted by darklord700
I'm not saying we should just drop OAS at this moment. But if the idea of OAS isn't such a good one and OAS crippling our country's finance, then maybe we should think about dropping it in the future.
The problem is that Canada being a welfare state, once you started handing out cash to people, it's hard to take it back.
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And what do you replace it with?
You were so quick to point to out that there are countries without OAS type systems (oddly you didn't actually point any out), and yet you seem to be having a hell of a time coming up with an answer to the question of what social programs they utilize to avoid the disastrous result of having a largely destitute senior population.