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Maxprop wrote:
Regardless, social programs are social programs, despite whose they are.
You're right--I don't understand the first thing about your social programs,
except that they probably not unlike our own, costing taxpayers huge sums of
money. Our own constitution makes no provision for taking money from one
individual and giving it to another in the form of cash, medical care,
subsidies of various natures, and so on, ad nauseum. But we do it anyway.
So do you and most of the other countries in the First World. And it has
very little to do with compassion or need. It has to do with garnering
votes at election time. You even hinted at that in your original post.

Sheesh... welfare has nothing to do with compassion or need, emergency
rooms have no interest in healing people, there should not be a safety
net for the disabled and elderly. What a humanitarian! Why you're just
like your heros Bu**** and Chumpy.

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