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I don't think so, the place to start is at home, teaching your children to value what they have and teach them to be responsible for their own purchases(you want it, work for it). It's funny how kids learn very quickly that money doesn't grow on trees and their desire for some items becomes less important when they have to account for paying for it. Too many parents get on guilt trips and feel they must buy their children's love or buy respect. Give them the basics, throw in some love and some time, and the kids will take care of the extras they want. Oh, big factor, get rid of the cable TV,for the good of both the parent and the child. mikedavid00 Stupid, stupid statement,it appears your ego is bigger than your credentials. If someone is living hand to mouth with average wages, the problem is with the individual, not the country. You want it all,and you want it now.And in the end you get the financial problems you deserve. Quit looking at the other guy and what he's got. Look at what you've got and what you have to offer. Can't get a better job or better pay? Quit bitchin' about everyone else being the problem, and find out why YOU don't make the grade.

That's the "I want it all, I deserve it all" attitude, that's putting people behind the debt-ball. If you choice to spent big to make yourself "happy", and are unprepared to manage your finances, then be prepared to eat Kraft dinner for the rest of your life. Yes, I expect people to be frugal with their money......especially if they don't have any. Sometimes NOW is too soon to spend to be "happy". Later might work better. These people aren't society's poor, they're people caught up in the me,now addiction. I bet you could go into the home of any of these people you call poor, and come up with a dozen ways they could save money based on the lifestyle they are trying to lead.

I seem to have missed the connection of Jean Lapierre Resignation and smoking pot. Maybe best revive one of the dozen or so threads on the subject of pot.

The issue to you is not debateable, but it's okay for Woman's groups to demand money from the state in order to advance their political agenda. If women want these agendas then it's time for them to provide the sole support for these agendas, and to cut the ties of being a ward of the state.

I understand drug and pot use causes people to be incoherent and ramble, is that true?

To start with,I would suggest you work on trying to get your first date.

mikedavid00, Taxes are the cause of not fixing your toilet? You're full of shit on that one, my friend. What you're not saying here is that personal debt load(using the credit card too much) has caused you to live beyond your means, not taxes. Shotty purchasing power? More like setting a priority of what you should be buying and what you really need. Self control is the answer. One thing immigrants can teach you is how to manage your money, they know the priorities for income they earn. You should learn from this. And still not have enough to fix the toilet. You, are not poor.......not even close.

You know what's it's like to have four wives?

Poverty Today-Toronto Star Minimum wage increase for 4.3% of the workforce will do nothing for fear, malnutrition, chronic bad health, loneliness, illiteracy and inadequate job skills. Time would be better spend finding solutions to these problems than forcing a minimum wage on employers that involve 4.3% of the work force.

IF that were true, how much of the TAXPAYER money was involved?

Which causes the other, does excessive Co2 cause gobal warming, or does global warming cause excessive Co2? Learn you facts, before you make judgements on the cause.

God doesn't vote. The thanks should go to politicians who know how to crunch numbers and how to use them to get votes.

How much of the funding going to women's groups actually makes it's way to these shelters and to the women who need the re-entry programs? How much of the funds are used for "administrative" purposed that give an income to women who run these programs and spend the funds to "talk" about the problems?

Afghan war gains support Anybody know the second verse to Kumbaya?

So while you call Harper a whore because he's trying to take Liberal votes from the GTA, the Liberal Whore, Dion, is in Alberta trying to steal votes from the conservatives. Turner quote: And I would add that Dion is no different by going to Alberta, where Liberals haven't seen any decent support for 40 years. Turner quote: So don't act surprised.

How dare Harper use a Liberal tactic, and do what the Liberals have done for so many years with ethnic minorities.

How Canadian Are YOU So much for multicultralism being a model of integration that brings Canadians together. And the answer is?.....

More like not getting value for money spent. Spending money year after year (37% sent to CBC from CTF) to develop programs that nobody watches, on top of the $1 billion it already gets, plus all the other funding from government agencies, CBC is just a money pit, a pot to piss away $$. It has yet to prove it's worth.

In the news today,sorry links on Canada.com locked. Calgary-based cable-TV executive Jim Shaw says he will no longer send his firm's contribution of about $56 million to Ottawa this year( $56 million is only what Shaw Communications sends), to support the Canadian Television Fund (CTF). His beef is that CBC gets 37% of this money and he is questioning why. Canadian Television Fund Shaw questions why money is placed into this organisation to develop television programs that no one watches, and is really pissed that CBC, who get 1 billion from the government for the same purpose, also gets 37% of the CTF money. His point is well taken.

Which part of the country didn't he destroy?

His father's money. Does this guy do any work for a living?

No, the headlines will be "Muslims in Uproar over Blasphemous Series" and there will be calls for the death to Nawaz, the woman who wrote it. A Mosque in a Christian Parish hall. Remember the cartoons? How about Salmon Rushdie? Muslims take their religion very seriously, no laughing matter here.

Secret? Not responding to questions about whether the report will be made public means "Secret". I thought not reponding to questions means not reponding to questions. Bad idea? B.C. Liberal MP Owen thinks it's a good idea. Great idea, start in March/07 and a finished draft report in May......of the same year.

I don't know about the mechanism either but from what happened here I have to wonder if global warming doesn't do it's own farting. This could be a dangerous development.....or not.

So it's okay by you for the CBC to have this kind of bumper stickers?