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Because they treat school as a defacto baby-sitting service; it frees up mothers (or primary parenting fathers) to go back to work. That keeps people earning and off the dole, and it keeps profits and economies circulating. Then the government gets into less debt over social services.
Essentially, conservatives value financial prosperity over health, life and death. They don't mind a 1% death rate (or that many survivors of the disease have long-term health problems and sometimes disabilities and brain damage,) as long as the economy thrives.
Essentially, conservatives value financial prosperity over health, life and death. They don't mind a 1% death rate (or that many survivors of the disease have long-term health problems and sometimes disabilities and brain damage,) as long as the economy thrives.