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Politicians and Government Programs: An analysis

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Many politicians think that increasing funding to government programs will improve the circumstances of the people the programs are meant to serve. What's an example of a government-run program where this kind of thinking has failed and why?

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The solution provides an insight into the manner by which politicians 'do their jobs' in terms of creating/supporting social development projects and the fault in their approaches that result to failure in terms of results and delivery.

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The question is asking for a situation when the government has given a social program money to benefit people and the program has failed to help anyone. If you are Canadian a good example would be our health care system. The government thinks it can just throw money at the health care program and this will make things better for people. But the money does not solve anything. The problems with the health care system are not just lack of ...

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