• assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Every conservative government cuts funding for every provincial healthcare system and then acts like the idea is flawed after they kneecapped it by limiting nursing hiring, freezing/reducing funding, and doing the 400th reorg to “find efficiencies”. They shuttered 3 ERs in my city against the pleas of the College of Physicians and our ER wait times went up a couple hours overnight.

    Who could have guessed?

    I will vote Liberal, I will vote NDP, I will vote Green, I will never vote conservative.

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      6 days ago

      This is common and a literal conservative tactic called “starving the beast”. You strangle off funding to a thing you wanna cut, wait a couple months for the service to go to shit because they have to realign to compensate for having no money, and then go “wow look this sucks, better just kill it”.

      Reagan did it in the 80s.

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        6 days ago

        The “beast” in their narrative is “money going to poor people instead of me and my friends” lest you think any shred of what they do is defensible.