Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Universal social programs Message-ID: <1298@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 10:03:05 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1298 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 Lines: 18 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 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff