In this whole approach there seems to be this focus on a trickle-down theory--that if you reduce taxes and put all your money against the debt, then eventually we're going to have a better society. But you're ignoring the fact that the trickle-down theory doesn't always work. Aboriginal people aren't going to escape third-world conditions with your approach, and you've only mentioned them once in terms of that trickle-down approach. Families aren't going to provide for themselves if you're not going to do something meaningful in terms of child care. You've got more emphasis in this paper on bringing in cheap slave-labour foreign workers than in helping families deal with day care--
On November 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.