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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Elroy who wrote (154326)1/14/2011 12:59:02 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 542129
 
Welcome to VFC, Elroy.

I see you are in favor of a smaller state. Does that mean you wish to cut federal funding from local schools, making them worse; cut the police forces at the local level, which also get some federal funding; and so on?

And cut transportation funds so we can have more pot marked highways and weak bridges?

Just asking.

I am, of course, on the opposite side of this argument. I consider education far more important than lawyering for social reproduction. More dollars for education. Police protections are generally more important than the money made from hedge fund dodges so I would take from the one to provide for the other. And I find it more important that the snow is cleared from the streets, the garbage collected, etc. than that Goldman Sachs gets paid 100% on the dollar for its AIG caper.

And in order to get better people to do these things (makes for better services), I would make certain they have good pensions (contribution based rather than benefit based) and good health care.

So, what say?
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