SilverFang01 Wrote:What I don't get, and I think I never will is the constant attack against social safety net programs, like SS, or Medicare, or what little was actually passed as health reform.It's a part of human nature - someone doesn't need something, so he thinks that nobody needs that thing, and thus it's a waste of resources to provide that thing. Social Security isn't needed in the affluent parts of the US, so people in those parts of the country wonder why money's being wasted on providing Social Security to the parts of the US that do need it. Genetically-modified crops aren't needed in Europe, so Europeans legislate against them while ignoring the famines in Africa that GMOs could prevent. Many Australians rarely have to deal with below-freezing temperatures, so they wonder why Canadians use so much energy to heat their homes in the winter. And so on...
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Rob Kelk
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