• Nagairius@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I feel like it’s a no win situation.

    Here in Canada, my coworker has needed back surgery since last year in September. He just got into a specialist for a consultation last week to get surgery scheduled. He’s been living for almost an entire year on light duty at work with back pain.

    I feel over the past 10 years our Government has mismanaged their financials and our healthcare and education systems have taken the beating for it. Public services are only as good as the people who are trusted to safeguard them.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty much, UK here and the NHS is also such a mismanaged joke at this point that private health insurance is looking a lot better for me. I’ve had a friend of mine whose dad succumbed to cancer because the NHS didn’t get to him soon enough before it went terminal and then they proceeded to blame him for not coming sooner. This was before the COVID pandemic but these stories only increased afterwards.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what happens when people vote the Conservatives in. They fuck up healthcare funding, and quality goes down the drain. Then the Liberals do fuck all to restore funding and fix it, and over time it just gets worse.

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        1 year ago

        And I’d argue that Conservatives are trying to balance the budget after the Liberals reckless spending habits. Though the older I get the more I start to believe that that is what they want. You and me fighting over left and right when they both are there just to serve their own needs.

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          I’d argue that Conservatives are trying to balance the budget after the Liberals reckless spending habits.

          Do you still believe this to be true? Conservatives consistently push for lower taxes and higher military spending. The taxes are the big part, taxes on the wealthy are drastically lower than they were a generation ago.

          Though the older I get the more I start to believe that that is what they want. You and me fighting over left and right when they both are there just to serve their own needs.

          You’ve been fighting over right and far right. Liberals are not leftist.

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          1 year ago

          They don’t balance the budget, they haven’t in decades. All they do now is enrich their donors and friends. If they really wanted to balance the budget they would raise taxes on the rich, not cut essential services.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like your coworker is getting healthcare.

      In America he’d just suffer for the rest of his life and then off himself when he was too old to handle the pain and still work.