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22/03/18

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Originally posted by pierogi ↑

Yes, good to not be yelled at.

As a general proposition, do you believe we, as a society, should be dialling back the social supports or extending them? I ask because your language, with terminology like handouts, leads me to skew you to the former. If I say handouts to business it would obviously skew me to the left.

Your comment, "is for the citizenry to all have access to the opportunities Capitalism offers, rather than just being subject to the handouts Governments are willing or able to make." is essentially a catch-all statement which could be interpreted either way depending which way you lean. Hockey could have said same during his infamous Age of Entitlement speech just as a warrior of the Left could. There is no harm in just being subject to social welfare just as I feel there was no harm in you being allowed subsidised housing and free education. (god knows why you feel the need to place 'free' in quotation marks. Did you pay for it or not?)

The issue isn't the availability of social supports, its the glaring lack of opportunity for those who need both genuine practical help and financial assistance. Modern political regimes, both left and (very much) right, have chosen to ignore the ugly lower class at the behest of the financially empowered elite. Excepting the nurturing by some of bigoted values which ensures a bountiful harvest from the neglected come election time. Increasingly, we reap the rewards of this neglect in our cities. If the past 20 yrs has taught us anything, the way to solve it isn't more neglect and penalty but a return to what worked prior to 1996.

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I don't have the answers. It's complex. I think it's worth asking the questions though.
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