For the record, the love canal is, and always has been controlled by democrats. In fact, if you care to look, you will find that some of the most polluted places on earth are in socialist countries.
Would that be due to the fact that they were dependent upon government for their daily bread in the first place?
That is a product of the slow socialization of the country. When I was a child, and my father was a child, and his father was a child, medical care was affordable. The rise of socialistic type medicine where an entity takes care of all your needs is the responsibility of liberals, not conservatives. Any conservative could tell you that if you place the burden of paying all medical expenses on an entity, and the responsibility off of the individual, prices will go up.
Just for giggles, why don't you consider the ramifications, and answer this question? What do you think your auto insurance would cost if it had to pay for oil changes, and tune ups, and tire rotations, and car washes, and any and all maintenance? Just take a guess as to what would happen to the cost. Now apply the same logic to present medical costs. Liberalism Coyote, not conservativism.
Exactly what sort of social ill did that cause? If there is a social ill to be found in that suggestion, it would be the shutting down of the conversation entirely. What good comes from shutting down a conversation?
The mentally ill can be treated in jail. Criminals are criminals. Treatment in lieu of punishment doesn't work. Refer to recidivism rates when and where it has been tried.
You prefer to let career criminals continue to terrorize the citizenry?
You prefer to leave madmen in charge terrorizing not only their own citizens but their neighbors as well?
Deficit spending is a democrat (liberal) invention. The fact that it has gotten out of hand is nothing more than the predictions coming true of conservatives who objected to the practice when it was introduced.
The laws that criminalized homosexuality were written, largely, during times of democrat control.
Again, largely a product of democrat control.
A social ill how? I just heard on the news about a man here in NC who killed another man about 20 years ago. Shot him in the back at an ATM machine without a word for the $10 the man had just withdrawn. Was found guilty, and the jury recommended death. A judge said that death was too severe for the crime. He will be walking soon because of a series of liberal loopholes and grandfather clauses in the law. How do you explain that to the family of his next victim?
We don't have a safety net?
Over regulation costs jobs Coyote, and you know it. You have been really reaching for the duration of this little exercise and it comes as no surprise that the worst of the social ills are the result of liberal democrat policy, not conservativism.