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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
I won't vote for that turkey either. A mike harris disciple. Run government like a business bullshittery.
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Harper tried to do the same thing and failed, miserably. One of the things he did in an attempt to transform government into a business entity was to require the payroll department start paying employees two weeks in arrears, just like the business world does.
In order to achieve that aim, the Phoenix pay system was implemented, although in fairness, it was the Liberals, not the Conservatives who gave the green light to letting the system go live. Anyone who has been paying close attention to the news over the last year or so knows what a disaster Phoenix has turned out to be.
Governments aren't designed to work like businesses do, as they are not (and should not be) profit-making institutions. Their job is to enact and enforce laws for the benefit of all citizens, provide for national defence and security, provide services for the benefit of citizens and generally manage the country's affairs.
There's faction within the neoconservative camp that thinks government is necessarily bad and wasteful and should be done away with posthaste, or drastically minimized in scale and scope. One reason why the members of this faction think this way is that governments usually prevent neoconservatives from running roughshod over others in their slavish quest for profits and power.