Inflation triggers the only kind of race or competition where the poor (who cannot afford to plan far ahead) have an advantage over the rich (who have savings that can lose their purchasing power). In a sane economy anyway, money would try to mimic everything that really has a value by having a due date.
Money will generate massive returns if some publicist is hypocritical enough to sale the junk food of Tim Horton to hockey moms and dads like if it was charity.
In a world dominated by America, the term "undeserving" is typically used to condemn the healthy ("able-body") poor. By the way, there are 32 million Americans (10% of the population) who received food stamps in January (2009).
Christophe de Margerie, CEO of Total, was asked today if he was deserving his salary and his answer was that it was not for him to make a judgment about that.
The same billion dollars dedicated at pouring concrete and registering arms will be judge differently by men and women not only because the benefits is not evenly distributed among genders but also because the jobs created by the spending is not evenly distributed.
Someone genetic makeup has objectively a lot to do with this person ability to be successful. Beside, determination, training, and ambition have a lot to do also with a socialization that was beyond any individual's power to control.
If the first forms of life would have been eager like you to find new cures for their diseases, natural selection would have never produced any changes.
You won't be able to find a solution to this complex problem until you put more time thinking about what is it to be in the skin of policemen than in the skin of criminals.
Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police president Steven Chabot said Bill C-301 "would seriously compromise a system that is working to the betterment of personal, community and police officer safety."