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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/

There is a hot book on Amazon called: "O CHINADA, The Manchurian Canadaian: Communist Patsy of Canada, CHANNELING CASTRO" O CHINADA, The Manchurian Canadaian: Communist Patsy of Canada, CHANNELING CASTRO eBook : Rosenberger, Richard Abram: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store "We are witnessing the globalist hostile takeover of Canada through Justin Trudeau. Following the World Economic Forum playbook, Marxist powers of this age have "penetrated" the Liberal Government of Canada by the Queen's Royal Assent. Foreign actors and interests currently control the Prime Minister, all under the guiding eye of the Monarchy. An autocoup has already dismissed our Constitution, mandated tyranny, holding many nations. Treaties are signed, but you were NOT at the table!" Is this for real or is this some kind of scam? I don't know. We do know the Trudeau government puts a lot of trust in what the U.N. says and parrots them on some things like Covid vaccinations, climate change and now the war between Israel and Hamas, and mass immigration into Canada. Canada already seems to be less of a sovereign country and more of some kind of property of the U.N. We know Canada also sends billions of dollars to other countries. Four billion to Iraq. And we know Canada is spending tens of billions of dollars on EV battery plants as part of their war on climate change and the U.N. has been banging the gavel about the war on climate change along with COP28. We need to ask why Trudeau and his minister Guilbeault need to using Canada on the war against climate change likely more fervently than any other country in the world. Why are we paying such a heavy price for this war on climate change? Maybe I will get the book on Kindle or get the paperback. It is hard to judge a book by its cover.

So this is across all parties and even among immigrants themselves. Virtually every group no matter how you break it down feels that immigration is too high. Again - justin has access to these numbers, i just don't get why he insists on racking immigration up even higher. https://dominionreview.ca/abacus-poll-shows-canadian-immigration-attitudes-hardening/ Majority of Canadians think federal immigration target is too high: Way too high (40%) Too high (27%) About right (23%) Too low (2%) Don’t know (7%) Majorities in all regions surveyed think immigration is too high: British Columbia (64%) Alberta (70%) Saskatchewan/Manitoba (67%) Ontario (70%) Québec (60%) Atlantic Canada (68%) Majority of both immigrants and native-born think immigration is too high: Born in Canada (68%) Born outside Canada (62%) All age groups, both sexes agree that immigration is too high: 18-29 (54%) 30-44 (64%) 45-59 (71%) 60+ (73%) Male (65%) Female (69%) Voters from all four major parties want lower immigration: Conservative (82%) Liberal (61%) NDP (63%) Bloc Québecois (80%) * The Abacus survey does not include the Green Party, but the Leger survey reported that 58% of Green voters think immigration is too high. A plurality of Canadians think too many immigrants are arriving in their community: “Does your community need more or less immigrants?” Less (47%) +6 since July About the same as now (38%) More (15%) This includes most immigrants themselves: “Does your community need more or less immigrants?” Born in Canada answering less (48%) Born outside of Canada answering less (44%) Growing concern over impact of immigration on daily life: The Abacus poll shows that many Canadians continue to believe that immigration is having a positive effect on the availability of workers, economic growth, and Canada’s ability to attract new business investment – although support is slipping on all of these measures since the last time Abacus asked respondents in July. Respondents were particularly concerned about the less abstract effects of immigration, in particularly its impact on their daily lives. “Do you think the number of immigrants coming to Canada is having a positive, neutral, or negative impact when it comes to…” Access to healthcare (Negative: 53% Neutral: 27% Positive: 14%) Crime and public safety (Negative: 39% Neutral: 41% Positive: 13%) Congestion and traffic (Negative: 51% Neutral: 33% Positive: 10%) The cost and availability of housing (Negative: 69% Neutral: 17% Positive: 8%)F And finally, an increasing number of Canadians think immigration is making Canada worse off: “Is immigration making Canada better or worse off?” Worse (43%) +7 since July Better (24%) -4 since July

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? 🤣

Figures. We're used to USA being a tad behind the civilized world when it comes to things involving issues concerning society. So if it happened while Biden was King Shit, he must have personally ordered it. The Pentagon and the Health department aren't able to make decisions on anything. Just as the fact someone didn't get vaxxed proves you were forced to get vaxxed. And the fact you didn't get vaxxed and lived proves the vax didn't work and was dangerous. Just as the fact the sheep Canadians who obeyed their dictator died at less than half the rate then the Land of the Brave proves nothing. The fact the sun rose every day of the entire Trump administration proves he is the Sun God. Put it on your baseball cap "Proud anti-vax Trump Worshipper' and convince yourself that everyone else steps away from you means they respect you so much.

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.

Being able to quote the Bible isn't the same thing as being able to understand its message. You're a thoughtless demagogue, preaching nothing but accusation, fire and brimstone. Yes, because the Bible isn't a substitute for independent intelligent thought. There are lots of smart, educated and charitable Christians out there, whether they be Anglican, Catholics or any of the other denominations. You, on the other hand, have decided that being Godly or even Christian is exclusive to people who share your uninformed opinions, in which case you're not really worshipping God at all. You're just worshipping yourself and your own opinions. 🙄

Your comprehension level is the embarrassment. It's like you were born and raised in a left-wing indoctrination camp. Did you know that trees can't hear you, even when you weep excessively like a snot-nosed 4 year old?

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

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

Trump slowed immigration with his abhorrent policy of separating children from their parents at the border, and Biden refuses to STOOP THAT LOW. There are still thousands of children who were separated from their parents at the border and we've been unable to reunite them due to non-existent record keeping under the Trump admin. You're welcome.

Human will do just fine as to whatever happens with the climate. By the time it gets to where the climate experts and scientists say it will get to in a hundred years, you and me will be long gone and forgotten. Stop allowing the MSM to scare you half to death all the time. The MSM is well known for it's exaggeration. Go have a coffee or beer and relax. Every winter, the Arctic ice freezes over and the ice replaces the open waters with more ice like it does every year. If some sea ice is less then what it use to be, it's no big deal to me. There is a place called Rocky Point in a city called Port Moody, BC where the sea water level has hardly risen at all. If it has, no one is talking about it yet. The Arctic ice will always be around no matter what. Maybe a bit smaller in size, but will still be there. Relax and chill out. 😇

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.

Mea culpa. But I still don't think I was wrong, nor do I think that I gave the post too little attention.

Don't you think you have that backward--like literally, objectively backward? Trump is constantly lavishing praise on Putin, Xi and other autocrats. And Trump and the MAGA crowd here are pretty clear they'd give Ukraine to Putin in a heartbeat. And both Putin and Xi would love a second Trump term. Hell, Putin, at least, will try to help Trump secure a win, as he tried in the last two election cycles. Biden, on the other hand, has been doing anything but genuflecting. Between support for Ukraine and the semiconductor restrictions (among other policies) he's causing actual problems for both, in a way that advances US interests in both short and long term. Your math doesn't math.

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

I've started a dozen+ threads here in the last month ALL of which are supported by cites from different news sources in the OP. Thanks for admitting you're too stupid to understand what those cites mean about my news sources. LMAO

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?

Make America great again by electing an authoritarian dictator?

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.

None of that justified invading Iraq.

My definition of progressive: Entitled lazy babies who want everything now and want those with more money to pay for their BS. A group that doesn't know the difference between boys and girls and wants to force everyone to buy in into their trans ideology through laws and cancelling people. That are always for those they deem as oppressed no matter their circumstances or belief systems. Examples gay people being pro-Palestinians even though they would kill anyone in that group on sight and are against the Israelis who have legalized gay marriage. Being pro-trans while throwing another "oppressed group", women under the bus and forcing them to accept males pretending to be women in their private spaces and to compete directly against them even though they still have all the parts that makes someone male. A group that insists the US taxpayer pay for their student loans that they were aware of the terms and took the loan anyway because they learned quick that a gender studies degree wasn't going to get you a 6 figure job or any decent job. A group that will violently riot at the drop of a hat simply because someone they don't like are speaking at a university or a black criminal is shot resisting arrest with little to no repercussions. Yet when the other side has a riot they deem it an unforgivable insurrection and are hunted down like dogs and kept in jail without trial for years. Progressives are heads of Universities that bans speech that doesn't conform to liberal ideology but needs context before banning speech calling for genocide.

Fixed for accuracy.

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.

What the...... My irony meter just blew up!

The leader of the Sikh temple was assassinated recently in Surrey, BC. Yesterday, shots were fired into the home of the Hindu temple leader's son in Surrey, B.C. We can guess where this is coming from. Canada should not be bringing immigrants to Canada that bring their struggles and conflicts to Canada. Extremists are among them.

That is because you live in a fantasy world.

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.

You don't know that do you? if you do then perhaps a source..... PP has talked about carbon capture more than a few times, in the recent media a maritime company has made some major break throughs in this field, now turn carbon in to a solid , that topped with SMR's, i think there is a good chance of beating any of the liberals climate change plans.... But don't tell me that the liberal plans has produce any results becasue that is just bullshit....what it has done is satisfied the lefts personal minimum requirements for climate change...and if that is the case the standards was not that high in the first place, so meeting that or exceeding it should be easy....I know if it is a conservative plan it sucks before giving it a chance...in this case the liberals have had 8 years and still no results....it is not about the conservatives not believing in climate change it is about trying something new as the old liberal plan is not working, something that has been said even by liberal voters here....right just you don't like it when it comes from a conservative.

and again we hear the crying of a loon far off in a quicksand bog of his own making; a shrill and nauseating boat boat of strident clacking and honking geese , making no sound worth hearing.