Alta4ever

Cite?

WHY? Who wants people voting who don't care what they are voting about, only voting to either stay out of jail, or to miss a fine. I'd rather have poeple voting who care and make the effort to vote because they want their voice heard, not poeple voting because they have to and not informing themselves before hand.

The arms race started with the British and one ship the Dreanought. From there it snow balled and set the stage for the for the Great War. Then Wilson fumbled the "league of nations" and the terms of peace with Germany,but the world took note of his legacy Wartime socialism. The next incarnation of this was facism in Italy and it spread. These two events paved the way for the Rise of Hitler and the the Second World War. Although the lead up was not an arms race as it had been with the Dreadnought, while Western powers were limiting miltary sizes, creating navy quotes and sizes. Germany built a military in secret. We fought and won, through a policy of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the weight of mass production. At the end of the Second World war we again started another arms race in chemical, biological (german legacy), and the one that most knew of the atomic race. Not wanting to face another blood war where these weapons were used, the west started the containment policies, and continued the enemy of my enemy philosophy. Which led to the the interventionism and the lead up to what we are seeing for terrorism today. Now I know a hunder years of war policies summed up in paragraph is very vague but I'd rather not write a book in a thread about chinook helecopters. Now while these decisions that where made that brought us to this point were not perfect but these decisions where much better then some of the alternatives proposed through the cold war. If you don't beleive me look up Curtis Lemay and Baiting the Bear. All we can do is look to history to show us the way, and in the last 100 years we have payed for those lessons. Appeasment doesn't work economic sanctions don't work.

The country doesn't need to be armed ot the teeth, it needs to be prepaired.

Almost destroyed? He (Jean C) completely destoryed it, and then through into a fight it was unprepaired for.

To prtect him from the crack pots like WA.

I helped elect a PM. What makes you think I am a republican, what post has led you to this?

Do you have personal insight into this?

Do you not get it its not about policies its about crack pots, something I am being to beleive you are. What is this about hitler? There was no allusion. I was just pointing out to you that you can't hide from public sight and run a country be visible on the world stage or command the respect of nation if you can't even show your face. 300,000 wouldn't even buy the man power to protect you, let alone the aircraft, aircrew, motorcades and ect required to go one over seas meeting or Canadian function. Just being the leader of a nation makes the PM a target not policies, or how much power they were given under the statute of Westminster. The PM no matter which party should have all the protection they need. This is not a waste of money they should have the security of well being to carry out the job we elected them to do. The PM deserves this special treatment because we elected them to this position. BTW packing heat isn't going to stop someone hidden and determined. It would all be over before you even new what had happened. Don't be foolish. Just these few posts you have made in this thread have taken away what little crediblity I thought you had, I am begining to see you as nothing but a troll.

Really you are going to hold up in a bunker? Makes sense you really seem to have no idea when it comes to anything so why should this be any different.

So what if it was you and your family, not that you'll ever get elected if you repeat in public what you post here.

So are the leftists going to come to the defense of a Liberal leader, or will they see like most taxpayers.

That depends on the point of the higher education, if you are taking a BA, your probably wasting you money. Most of my friends who left with the BA went back to the same low pay restraunt job they left to go to university.

Is that so, I guess you should do some research into China then.

You did a heck of job explaining the market.

I missed most of this but if you are refering to rate increases bettween 2001 and 2003, thye happened because the insurance companies were not collecting enough premiums to cover the claims that were beign paid out, they were using profits from investment revenue to cover the underwriting loss. When the markets tanked at the end of the dot com bubble and they insurance companies and re-insurance companies were dealing with heavy losses due to natural disasters ( like the BC forest fires) they went into a hard market and had to make up the loss of income from the markets and cover the underwriting losses. So they had to raise rates, if the insurance companies do not stay profitiable government regulators stop them from writing business. This has had nothing to do with the banks, and FYI there is another hard market looming, they typically run close to five year cycles. So expect to see another hard market that will last a year or so, you rates will go up, and you like everyone else will hate it.

Do you really think that this guy didn't go to kindergraden and learn how to co-operate? That this needs to be re-taught? Tax them more if they commit more crime? How do you get blood from a stone, if they are invovled in organized crime, they don't pay income tax, and what incentive is raising taxes for them to go out and get a real job once they have gotten out of jail? How do you make resitution for taking someones life, you can't. Leave criminals unprotected in the public? So are you an anarchist or what, do we really need a bunch of vigilantism will this really make our streets safer? I just can't beleive you would post something so, so....never mind. I can't believe I have wasted the time responding to it. There is no easy answer to the crime in our country but we do need an overhaul of the criminal justice system we now find the system seems to protect those who commit the crime more then the victims of the crime this needs to stop, and we need to find the balance between punishment and rehablition ( although right now it seems not many of the rehablitiation programs work).

We know that true communisim (as defined by Karl Marx) was n't reached by any state they all get stuck in the dictitorial phase of the transfer, although a couple of countries have gotten close. Most states who have tried to get to communisim get stuck at extreme socialism due to the inablity of the human condition, to get past certain inherent traits.

I really hope it doesn't go through.

What ever did we do before nuclear power? Out here we have done just fine without it. IF Ontario would upgrade its coal fired plants and add some other types of power generation they wouldn't have to build nuclear either. It is the worst of all choices.

So is it worth the risk? There are alternatives, clean coal, natural gas, garbage gassification to name a few. Nuclear power is not the answer it is suppose to be, it may not put more carboninto the atmosphere but it does leave other waste products that are far more damaging to the enviornment and impossible to clean up.

I see it a little different, money and organized crime.

In fact it is even one of the least effeceint ways to produce electricity.

Really why not a mention of the nuclear waste and how long it has to be stored in a sealed tomb?

Really where is the electricity going to come from? Solar powers is not a viable alterative and never will be, Nuclear? Yep just we need a waste product that has a 1000 year half life seaping into the ground water. Great alternatives.