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1. But she produces the material that earns the money so she should get the lion's share of revenue. 2. No, she has talent. 3. It doesn't matter if they're good at business, or nice. If they hit a ball or strum a harp and a billion people watch, then that's the earning power. They have a monopoly on what they do as individuals. We don't need to care about them, we do need to care about people who are systematically squeezed out of a living wage while the middlemen pick their pockets.

When consuming "many sources" did you cook them or a door dash delivery. They taste really good when added to some stewed logic flavored with a smidgens of demospice.

Don't worry about me, I just had my best year ever and I'm getting yet another raise in the next couple months. Of course I depend on people who can afford stuff and apparently half of Canadians are $200 away from not being able to cover an emergency. I'm not bitter I'm concerned.

The Trump administration separated families, and would not allow asylum seekers to claim asylum at the point of entry. They had to apply from Mexico. That is illegal. Any person who is at a port of entry and claims asylum must, by law, be admitted and to have their claim investigated and processed. That is not only international law, but US law, passed by Congress and up held by the SCOTUS. They cannot be removed until that process is complete.

The right’s heads exploded when minimum wage goes up by a few cents. So you’re in favour of the workers making more than CEOs? That’s what is happening in the scenario you describe. I would be happy with workers making 5% of what CEOs make.

And more importantly, income has outpaced inflation. It's not just that people have nominally higher wages, it's that they are meaningfully higher even after accounting for inflation, taxes, etc. Even the low mark in 2022 is higher than the pre-pandemic high mark (pre-pandemic stimulus and post pandemic stimulus, old normal vs new normal). By most things you can measure, the economy and the people living in it are better off than they were 4 years ago. But they apparently don't know it. 🤷‍♂️

Decades of data collection and analysis by thousands of scientists and you just blow it off because you don't want to hear it. Facts don't matter. Faulty according to who, your know nothing internet "experts"? I swear, the internet really is making a lot of people stupider.

And again you post no published data to backup your claims. Here, I’ll do it for you again, since you’re so FOS. From Social Security Administration: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html 2015 48,098.63 2016 48,642.15 2017 50,321.89 2018 52,145.80 2019 54,099.99 2020 55,628.60 2021 60,575.07 2022 63,795.13

First Sentence of First Post in this Thread says CIVIL FRAUD. Ex-President has had his NY businesses dissolved and will be fined somewhere between $100 million and $750 million. A fine on the higher end will end his business empire, as it should. I won’t write any more cause you aren’t reading anything here.

He tried to reverse the election results, pressured his VP to do so, called him a traitor when he wouldn't, and whipped his armed supporters into a frenzy until they started a riot on Capitol hill to "stop the steal".

LOL _ uses 'chuds' and then talks about how he'll be 'respectfully' discussing things I don't think you need to seperate into a different group - i think people can see you for what you are just fine as is 😮 But if you feel you need a safe space, sure.

I'm glad they're doing this because I can see a dictator-like scumbag like Joe Biden pouncing on opportunities to mistreat people who are directly under his authority. "More than 200 U.S. active duty and retired service members are vowing to hold senior military leaders in the Biden administration — "who broke the law" — accountable for establishing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The Pentagon made COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for service members in August 2021, and 8,000 service members were discharged for not taking it. "While implementing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military leaders broke the law, trampled on constitutional rights, denied informed consent, permitted unwilling medical experimentation and suppressed the free exercise of religion," read a letter from active duty service members and veterans sent Monday to senior military leaders. A copy of the letter, titled a Declaration of Accountability, was posted on X by Brad Miller, who describes himself as a former Army officer." https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/covid-vaccine-mandate-us-military-mark-milley/2024/01/01/id/1147837/

Well IMHO, whatever school that you went too, did they teach you anything at all other than about gender and pronouns by chance? Just wondering about that? Of course, we all know that when stuff gets hotter things will melt, as you like to point out. Are you trying to become another Einstein and try to impress other members here when it comes to stuff melting? Are you trying to appear to be a fart smeller? 🤣

The devil is in the details. They do not do a background check as we think of them. Their background check consists of checking your name against a list of known terrorists or terrorist associates and a criminal records check. That's it. Nobody is going to go interview your employers or friends and family. With five hundred thousand immigrants coming each year, not to mention over a hundred thousand refugee claimants we simply do not have time. Nor do we have time to check much on the million foreign students or the million plus foreign workers.

Maybe, but the market isn't always the best way to decide how things should be run.

They are taxed too and the people that pay to go to the games and buy the swag still willingly pay. "the top 20 per cent of income-earning households already pay more in total income taxes than the other 80 per cent do."" "https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/top-20-of-income-earners-fund-majority-of-ottawas-income-tax-revenue-report" Reminds me of a story I saw. About another person that seemed to think others have more than them. "A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said, "I wonder how many people could have been fed for the money that sports car cost? I replied I'm not sure; it fed a lot of families in Bowling Green, Kentucky who built it, it fed the people who make the tires, it fed the people who made the components that went into it, it fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires, it fed people in at Caterpillar who make the trucks that haul the copper ore. It fed the trucking people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer and fed the people working at the dealership and their families. BUT,... I have to admit, I guess I really don’t know how many people it fed. That is the difference between capitalism and the welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people’s pockets and give them dignity for their skills. When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self-worth. Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value. Socialism is having the government take your money against your will and give it to someone else for doing nothing." You are just bitter because you are a nobody and cannot move up the pay scale ladder LOL Boo Hoo, sucks to be you. Little people always whine about their lot in life LOL

The shareholders and company profits pay the CEO's.....as they do the workers too. I am pretty sure the CEO's pay lots of taxes. I think I remember reading about a "study shows the top 20 per cent of income-earning households already pay more in total income taxes than the other 80 per cent do." https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/top-20-of-income-earners-fund-majority-of-ottawas-income-tax-revenue-report I can never get over why people are so outraged what someone else makes...... normally without knowing what they doiand why or how they got there.

I was watching the news the other day, and there was this one big wind storm on the go that brought down parts of one of those huge gigantic windmills, that our politicians want to put up everywhere, where i saw the four windmill blades break off and go flying in all directions. Imagine if there was someone that happened to be beneath that windmill? Well, there goes a windmill that probably cost the taxpayer's a couple of hundred thousand dollars down the drain. And what happens if there is no wind to make those windmills spin? No electricity by chance? What a joke these windmills are. Globalist Trudeau is an ass, and he shows us all that he is an ass everyday. This buffoon needs to go before he does any more damage to Canada. Canada could be a very wealthy country today, if it were not for that Marxist buffoon in power running and ruining this once great nation. Can Canada survive and take another two more years of this clown? A bloody good question indeed. 🤗

I'd be happier but I'd still be taxing the snot out of the CEOs.

You obviously haven't learned anything in the past 20 years. Marc Marano is a political hack who used to work for Rush Limbaugh. He has no scientific background which obviously makes him an authority to a fool like you.

It's been a slogan of Likud's since 1977. “Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.”

Lying dozens of times on financial disclosures isn’t a political crime. Stealing hundreds of highly classified documents and deliberately concealing them from government subpoenas is not a political crime.

The industry minister is a dolt. As are all of Justin's cabinet. Yes, the grocery chains make money, that is what they are supposed to do for their shareholders. As they said though, it is their ancillary businesses that are making all the money. Shoppers, Joe Fresh, Valu mart, Zehrs, Jean Coutu, Brunet, Lawton Drugs , BoniChoix and on and on that are not grocery stores. Of course, Walmart and Costco sell much more than groceries too. Bottom line is that industry minister can crap on grocery stores but we, the people, are the ones buying form the subsidiaries of the chains and increasing their profits. Just another Trudeau tactic tryign to deflect his responsibility for poor economic policy.

Sorry kid - you need to learn to do math. the overall inflation has exceeded wage growth even if at the moment wages are growing slightly faster, and people know it. The problem with inflation is even when the rate goes down - the prices do not. So wage growth has NOT exceeded inflation at this point. And unless something changes it's sure not going to this year. Sorry - should have realized i'd have to do the math for you. And as i already posted the gdp issue is getting worse as well. So - by every reasonable measure people are worse off now then when biden came along. You can lie to yourself if you like and you and hodad can ignore the facts and have a litlte circle jerk over whatever cherry picked numbers get you exctied but at the end of the day as i've shown with NUMEROUS sources now by any reasonable measure the economy is not doing great and people kow it.

Your graph shows that wages are growing faster than inflation. You ought to learn how to read a graph.

It’s unfortunate that Donald Trump committed so many crimes. But he did. The guy was born filthy rich and believed that laws were for the little people, and they didn’t apply to him at all.

It has nothing to do with what I do or don't want to hear. Nobody cannot hear all this panic and fear mongering. "AAAHHH! WE ALL GONNA DIIIEEE!" But can anyone prove it? Nope. Hell these government funded "scientists" can only muster a definite maybe. No...the bottom line to me is...if there is no proof of a crisis, then making an enemy of the global source of energy, is stooped as Hell. Frankly I think you climate cultists are ridiculous and need to be shut down.

This says nothing about the economy over time, so it says nothing about Biden’s performance either way. But the nations ranked above the U.S. have one of two characteristics: They’re either an oil export kingdom, or they’re a more socialist nation than the U.S. Since America cannot become an oil export kingdom, the other way to move up the rank is to become more socialist.

Biden has already cheated his way into the White House, so not sure which authoritarian dictator you're referring to.

Power gives you control, but only until the batteries die.

Did you see what they did to us during Covid? I think that reveals their true motives. They are not on our side. China screwed us when they reneged on their/Trudeau's proposal to develop the 'Cansino' vaccine. Result- Canada had to do an about-face and purchase from Pfizer and Moderna. This is long after they've taken major orders from other countries, pitting Canada on a waiting list. Canada had to borrow vaccine from a vaccine exchange bank set up by the WHO to provide vaccine to third world countries. Canada later donated vaccine to this third world fund. Canada also had to agree to purchase a much larger amount of vaccine than needed. Not to mention that China withheld PPE during the crisis. Canada purchases about 80-90% of our medication and ppe from China. There was a rumour that in the early days of the outbreak they communicated to Chinese citizens worldwide to buy PPE in their countries and ship them to China. Had enough? No? China’s Epic Dash for PPE Left the World Short on Masks (Bloomberg) United Front groups in Canada helped Beijing stockpile coronavirus safety supplies (Global News) etc.

The Devil is in the details. Let's get some details on what specifically is being said.

No, you simply don’t understand this situation at all. Yes, it is a civil fraud trial. You didn’t need to “mansplain” that, because I wrote that in the first sentence of the first post in the thread. Yes, he and his sons have been found GUILTY in this civil fraud trial. Technically, the term is “liable,” but he’s guilty. That much of the case is already done. The NY State Supreme Court hasn’t “signaled” anything. Here is the judicial order stating that Trump and sons are liable for fraud: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=tTcU_PLUS_uJJ8i5XjrCTSNk2eA==&system=prod I get that you read nonsense news, but all of the facts about this case are posted public record. You can download and read all the facts from the court’s website. Trump and his sons have already been found guilty of fraud, Trump waived his right to a jury (which he later declared was “unfair,” even though it was his choice), and in a week or two, Judge Engoron will issue his ruling which state the damages Trump needs to pay. And the damages will likely be well north of $100 million, possibly $500 to $750 million.

I think you mean 100 percent of the conservatives here It is not. Not even a little bit. In fact the opposite is true. Conservatives are far more likely to question. It was Harper who told the queen straigt up she had no ACTUAL power in canada any more and was a figure head. She didn't care for that but couldn't argue. It is ANTI-conservative to believe that loyalty to the crown is ANY kind of directive, never mind prime But that IS the kind of thing a left winger would claim about the right. Kinda proves the point. NOT a right wing person OR a conservative but like most on the left these days they prefer to lie about it rather than admit their own affiliation. Right Justins boy?

Sarcasm, well done. I am sorry your regiment did not make the effort or take the medal seriously. I feel that your leadership failed and did all your recipients wrong. If you felt no disrespect by not wearing the award and felt you did not earn it then that is a complete failure of the leadership to make it worthwhile. Too bad. Our leadership made awarding the medal to personnel as important as the annual PER that is used for promotion.

Poverty breeds crime. What are the poorest and thus most crime riddled areas in the GTA? And who lives there? Seems like a lot of refugees. If you don't speak English and are unskilled and poorly educated you and your family will likely be poor. Many immigrants can speak English and are educated and aren't poor and don't commit crime. My doctor is from Pakistan.

Really? You mean the "opportunity" when they had surveillance video purportedly showing OBL on a training field? There was NO ONE on the ground to "arrest" OBL. Duh And did Bush alert a massive intel search for OBL and agents they knew were working with him? Sure. ISIS was SO MUCH BETTER. 🤮

Look it is one of those entitled babies who don't want to hear anything they don't like.

Where is Palestine on the map, where does Netanyahu mention the state of Palestine in his speech? It doesn't exist. In the meantime... Netanyahu: ‘Only I can block a Palestinian state’ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231128-netanyahu-only-i-can-block-a-palestinian-state/

Who is "panicking"? If ANYTHING, not enough is being done, and that only drives UP the cost long term. You do know about carbon offsets don't you? The carbon emitted from those flights can be offset by other ACTIONS RIGHT NOW. I'm all for forcing the purchase of carbon offsets. If someone can afford a private jet, they can afford carbon offsets. How about YOU?

All good points, but the solutions are not simple. You need politicians (and a population) willing to embrace some short-term discomfort to make the changes necessary. When all we are getting from our leaders (from any side) are hot-takes and platitudes, and a willfully uninformed population that responds to nothing but outrage and grievances, thats the sort of leaders we get.

It’s about Trump suggesting there SHOULD be a civil war if he were removed from office. He wasn’t making a prediction, he was calling for insurrection. He established a pattern of insurrection and intimidation of witnesses, judges and prosecuted.

You have any evidence that immigrants are more violent than people born here? How about people from India? You seem to me like one of these people who arrive, Bible in hand, with answers already cooked up. You should learn to listen.

This was only a matter of time, with the looming housing crisis, and stress on the education, infrastructure, and health care. Not to mention many Canadians are being pushed out of the market, due to housing being not affordable. I am somewhat surprised that the numbers for BC are not higher. Quebec would finish lowest, since they are getting the lowest share of new Canadians (per-capita) Not surprising the Conservatives are more opposed to immigration, considering new Canadians tend to flock to large cities, and vote for the Liberals and NDP. These numbers will increase, only the immigrants become accustomed to life in this country. They are also more affected by increased immigration than traditional Canadians. When the full effect of the 2.3 million new Canadians that have arrived has been felt, the "Worse off" number is going to skyrocket.

That is because you live in a fantasy world.

Hmmmm.... Palestinian Authority Open to Gaza Role if U.S. Backs 2-State Solution Nov. 9, 2023 https://archive.ph/Hmpz4 Let me say that one more time Hmmmmm.... During a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a map that shows Israel stretching “from the river to the sea.”

No? How's Ukraine doing? How's Hunter? Is Trump in jail yet? Bye...

If the people who pretend to care so much about global warming were legit, their solution wouldn't be: "Stop burning Alberta coal right beside the mines - ship it 10,000 km to China to be burned there." There's nothing about our "Global warming" targets that doesn't benefit China. Buy their batteries, buy their solar panels and other green tech, sell our cheapest fuels to them at a discount, and make energy costs here skyrocket, while they use all the cheapest forms of energy available. And do we really believe in the purchase of these "carbon offsets"? Does Trudeau really pay enough money into a legitimate carbon offset company to make up for the fact that he flies his own sycophant mediatards around in a jumbo jet, or is that BS as well? Who owns these companies? A bunch of cronies? Celebrity global warming pimp: "Yeah, I fly a private jet and cruise in circles in a yacht - burning more fuel almost every day than you burn in your entire lifetime - but I pay for some tree-planting. If I didn't pay for those trees to be planted, we would eventually run out." Sure buddy, I totally believe you. Thanks for saving the planet.

Lets be very real here, the majority of Canadians don't really give a rats ass about climate change if they have to pay for it...If they were concern the streets would be full of protesters chirping about our present failure of a climate plan...which has not produced any real results in the last 8 years...we have not meet ANY of our signed to inter national climate change objectives, and we wonder why we as a nation have a shit inter national reputation....this government and it's leftist voters are all talk no action.... So lets stop the climate change bullsh*t talk, altogether, everyone already knows what is going to happen if we do nothing....But we are content in this nation to do just that, (well atleast it is better than the conservatives plan) is the lefts battle cry, (thats reassuring)......the left has failed to do anything of any value....and we are not sure what the right is going to do...But i am sure it will produce more results than the left has...

See what I mean about people who don't even know how to argue? (For the uneducated, "Argue" means rationally discuss a subject, not yell at each other. Mom & Dad weren't arguing they were verbally fighting) How did it affect Canada? because in my opinion it did What's it got to do with US Politics? - can't answer at all because it doesn't... it belongs in Canada/US relatioms Trump paraphrased Hitler in a public speech and when called out, doubled down and used them again - but what about Hunter Biden's laptop, Hillary's emails, it was about immigrants not Jews etc. Come on let's step it up around here