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To: bentway who wrote (206245)	10/17/2006 2:39:26 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No, I have never said I supported Canadian Socialism. I think Canadians agree that we need a social net so that no one freezes and no one starves, and no one lacks medical care. I think one of the problems with our system, is that we do not allow any private medical care or insurance. Socialism to me doesn't work. More because of the size of the bureaucracies it creates and the inequities it creates than anything else. Our social programs are bankrupting our elderly and middle class, and we seem to have more and more single mother's who decide they should have children, and then decide they should stay home and look after them, and that the rest of society should pay their bills. I don't care if women decide to have children while they are single as long as they don't decide that they should be supported, as they have child after child, by the general public. One child perhaps but 4 or 5 children is just too many to expect the public purse to pay for. I think that the welfare system needs to be reformed almost as badly as the medical system.