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>cutting social programs When has that ever happend?

• ralusek 8y ago
  You're down voted, but this is no joke. Social programs are very often hyper-pragmatic, overly specific bandaids that effectively pile on each other indefinitely. Cutting social programs essentially only reliably occurs at bankruptcy or collapse, it will almost never occur as the result of the democratic process. People do not run successful campaigns on the basis of displacing hundreds of San Francisco families, for example, regardless of whether or not those families are rightfully entitled to their housing or not. Once people have come to rely on something, it will upend their livelihood to remove it, and that is not something most people are comfortable voting for. If you've ever worked in a government job, you can compare the state of the bureaucracy now to previous versions of the texts, and see that they only ever grow and compound on themselves.
  • nfg 8y ago
    They’re being downvoted because social programs were cut as part of austerity measures in some European states.