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To: re3 who wrote (86358)	6/4/2002 7:53:37 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116932

They just handed the deficit to the provinces. Namely Ontario. Not so much their home province. They do what the Servile Service Mandarins tell them they can get away with, starting from the economic prejudices that flow from their desire to aid the oppressed electorate, who will aid them in maintaining their political vision, as it oppresses the majority, who are told their trouble stem from the last administration. Has the federal government reduced taxes? Have they reduced government by 10%? 20%? 30%? 1%? Why are hospitals costs 65% administration? (This is a provincial problem for the most part, but medicare is federal.) Why do they refuse eminent doctors - since 1966! - the right to run their own patient clinics/hospitals, when they are a fraction of the cost of hospitals? (Who started hospitals in the first place? It wasn't city hall.) The reason is that the government clings to its prejudice that it knows how to run enterprise for the greater good, because its greater sense of responsibility, better resources and lofty vision and that people who do things well, do not. In this the government is like a blindman in a strange neighbourhood, telling the passersby to follow him, as he knows the way better than they. There is a law that government departments grow to the size of their greatest inefficiency and then their whole task becomes inescapably to justify their budgets and maintain their employment levels. To cut the monster to the bone, and quench its all consuming breath of fire, a government must swiiftly move once elected to unilaterally and without hesitation, reduce the civil service to a skeleton staff. It can always be rebuilt in time where absolutely necessary. Often it will be found, it is not. EC<:-}