Thursday 20 October 2011

Unhealthy contradiction on the right

The righteous right has been telling us for some time that smaller government is right-sized government. 

"It's our land... Back off", they cry.  "Kill the Wheat Board monopoly",  they bellow.  "Cut civil servant like useless inspectors (of water and food)", they call out from the grave yards.  "Let the private sector delivery healthcare", they yell from every rooftop.

So why then do they blame the Ontario Liberal government for not watching over a private health clinic and the way they deliver care... a situation created by the cost cutting Ontario Conservative government ten years ago. 

If the government inspected every private clinic to try to catch the bozo actions of the recent one in Ottawa, they would have to hire more inspectors and park them in each and every clinic to watch over the workers.  Random inspections would not have caught what happened there.

So what do you want?  More problems or lesser people?  The private sector is not the panacea that the right builds it up as.

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