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People not councils will beat new housing rules
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Define affordability, I would contend the definition has to change across the millenia and for third and first world countries for your claims to make any sense. Thus throwing in the infant mortality rate in India is disingenuous. because it is not a like-for-like comparison. The reality is the human race thrived fine without a welfare state, if we had not had survival of the fittest and adaptation Homo sapiens would likely have gone the same way as other Homo species.
I think we've progressed from living in caves to such an extent that we would struggle were we to revert to that situation. Particularly with the population explosion such progress has enabled.0 -
And why do you need to have health insurance in order to have grown up healthy and well-fed? Perhaps Fire Fox went to university when there were still grants available, or perhaps (OMG) they didn't go to university at all, but made do with a state education.
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A state education that they didn't directly fund. Perhaps if they had to, it may prove more of a struggle.0 -
lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »I think we've progressed from living in caves to such an extent that we would struggle were we to revert to that situation. Particularly with the population explosion such progress has enabled.
Again define affordability.Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️0 -
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lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »The ability to fund within the limits of the resources available.
Fund what, exactly?Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️0 -
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