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From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Universal social programs
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 10:03:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 10:03:05 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 22:02:53 EST
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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I can't understand all this furor about the universality of social programs.
People seem to be getting more in an uproar about this issue than about
abortion, capital punishment and nuclear disarmament, but I don't see what
the big deal is.  It seems a waste for the government to take money from
my right pocket and then put some of it back into my left pocket, especially
since some of it gets burned on the way to administer the program.

I also can't understand the NDP and the Liberals, protectors of the poor and
the average Canadian, are campaigning so adamantly to protect the rich when the
rich probably don't care anyway.  The money can be used to benefit the poor
and average, or to reduce the deficit which would benefit everybody.  Sometimes
I think the opposition parties can be replaced by a machine that automatically
disagrees with everything the governing party says, no matter how good an idea
it is, and there would be no change at all in our parliamentary proceedings.
-- 
Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto  (416) 635-2073
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