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From: gilles@alberta.uucp (Gilles Simon Dionne)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
Message-ID: <1989Aug13.202619.18724@alberta.uucp>
Date: 13 Aug 89 20:26:19 GMT
References: <6758@themepark.UUCP> <6761@ulysses.UUCP> <6763@cognos.UUCP> <2586@water.waterloo.edu> <3983@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: gilles@cavell.UUCP (Gilles Simon Dionne)
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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In article <3983@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Pop quiz question:
>	Which country, Canada or the US, spends a higher percentage
>	of its G.N.P. on social programs?
>	Canada?
>	BZZZZZZT.
>	Wrong.  It's the USA, although the last time I read it it was
>	something like 11.9% of Canada and 12.1% for the USA, not a huge
>	difference.   But they have a slightly higher GNP per capita, too.

  Actually, this is quite interesting. My perception of social services in
the U.S is that for the most part they are insufficient for the demand.
This agravating the problems caused by the "poor people"( such as crimes
like theft ).
  Since the economy of the U.S. is in better shape then ours, I don't see
why the situation there should be worse then here if they spend the same
amount of money( proportionally ). Is my perception of the state of social
services in the U.S wrong?( ie. they provide the same basic services ours
do :-) ) Is my perception of the state of the U.S economy wrong?( ie. they
can't afford to do more :-) ). Or,... are their services just inefficient 
and badly organized?

                            Gilles