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Originally posted by lurkette
Liberalism wants to provide an economic safety net for families and provide basic services, particularly for children.
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Usually at the sacrifice of other children, whose parents could do a better job of providing for them, if they were left with more of their paycheck. "Safety nets" sometimes become a substitute for responsiblity.
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Originally posted by lurkette
...including the radical redistribution of wealth up the ladder and the incredible shrinking middle class, have been extraordinarily harmful to the abilities of most families to have one parent stay at home.
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Again the paycheck plays a role with taxation becoming not redistribution of wealth, but redistribution of poverty.
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Originally posted by lurkette
I would argue that both models have flaws, and we see that in the swing of the political and social pendulum: the 50s were repressive so we got the excesses of freedom of the 60s and 70s, which were followed by a reaction in the 80s and 90s toward a more stable and traditional model, and I'd be willing to bet we find some kind of equilibrium soon. We're trying to get there - look at the increasing homegeneity across the political spectrum. Sure, there are outliers, but I think we're working more and more toward a happy medium.
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I couldn't agree with your assesment here more. Excess is always waste- even in politics.