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Originally posted by fintstone
Not my point, but I will field it anyways. This is where responsibility comes in...anyone who cannot afford children without government support should not have them.
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It may surprise you that I agree with you competely, at least in principle. The question though is what do we then do when someone w/ no $$ or education goes ahead and reproduces anyways? I don't have a brilliant answer for this one, but I agree wholeheartedly that govt. policies should promote self-sufficiency(sp?). This is one of those areas where I am more of a right-winger, I guess.
This actually brings me around to another point, which is the commonly heard complaint that govt. should "get/stay out of people's lives", and let capitalism ("market forces") handle all social engineering. There is a persistent wet dream among business people that if govt. slashed taxes, everyone would be just fine, social problems such as civil rights and serious environmental issues would be solved by Enron and Phillip Morris.
The problem is that govt. is
always involved in social engineering, even when they do nothing. "Doing nothing" in this case means letting the coal industry set their own emission standards. ("Voluntary compliance").
It's the same w/ healthcare, (let the pharm bigs determine policy), definitely all energy issues, etc... We need to decide what kind of playing field we want as a group, (that's where democracy or at least representative democracy comes in), otherwise we have a system where whomever has the most economic power, (gained through god-knows-what), controls all policy. And the standard of fairness will be, "whatever works out best for me/my people".
