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12 minutes ago, dialamah said:
Your attempt to insult me isn't what I was referring to. And anyone who still thinks women belong at home IS old, no matter their age in years.
Who said that? I pointed out the economic FACT that doubling the workforce lowers the value of labour. I said nothing about what should or should not have happened. You simply read things into other people's words born out of your own ideological fervour.
12 minutes ago, dialamah said:Then why are so many well educated young people taking shit jobs?
Maybe because their educational choices sucked? Or maybe because of such high immigration! Do you know that two thirds of Canadian software engineering grads leave the country because of low ages here - low wages caused by the floods of immigrants and temporary workers the government brings in.
12 minutes ago, dialamah said:That trickle down idea didn't pan out. Corps too often take their wealth and offshore it, while doing almost nothing to improve the lot of their staff - unless forced to.
There are taxation rules which could be implemented around such things but the government has never tried.
12 minutes ago, dialamah said:Which, in your mind is virtually all immigrants.
It's a lot of them. You yourself brought up the topic of immigrants in fast food places. why are they there? Why would we bring in immigrants to do shit jobs? Because Canadians won't do them because the wages are low because companies don't have to pay more because YOU and people like you insist on flooding the country with immigrants!
Don't blame the corporations for low wages. You're the one at fault. You and others who support mass immigration. When I was younger I was a security guard. We signed up with a union to improve wages. You know what the company did? It locked us all out and brought in a bunch of immigrants to do the work. Your immigration views are enthusiastically shared by the big corporations which want to pay low ages. Grats on having such great morality.
12 minutes ago, dialamah said:Which reminds me - you denigrated and insulted a poster who was much more expert in immigration than you could ever hope to be me merely because that poster provided real data and info that disproved your claims.
Name? Was it by any chance the immigration lawyer whose job and profits depend on high immigration? Or was it merely someone who agreed with you and thus instantly became a 'poster who knows more'.
12 minutes ago, dialamah said:Anyway, I'm already tired of you.
I've been tired of you since you arrived. Eager to see you and your whiny ignorance depart.
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On 10/13/2021 at 12:03 PM, Infidel Dog said:
Where was all this righteous concern for workers of the service industry when they were losing their jobs to lockdowns.
And that was all of them not just a scattered few examples of bad behaviour.
They were getting more under CERB than they were making on their jobs.
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On 10/13/2021 at 9:19 AM, EastCanada90 said:
so whats everyones opinion on the vaccine passports.. and reports of workers especially in dining/food industry being abused by customers when asked for vaccine proof.. ?
do you feel sorry for the workers being abused? or are you supporting with the people who tell them off for asking?
They people who scream at low level workers because of this need to be arrested, dragged out to rural farms and made to pick apples or something for a few weeks or months until they learn there are more important things than their bullshit conspiracy theories.
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9 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:
Do you think a Tory O’Toole would not have been in favour of Northern Gateway, as opposed to the CPC O’Toole?
A proper conservative would have had multiple pipelines built to the coast by now. Not to mention LNG terminals. Australia has multiple LNG terminals. They're sure enjoying the huge increase in international natural gas prices! Making a fortune! Meanwhile, Canada can't even get one built.
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5 hours ago, dialamah said:
1. You get so het up about things.
Nope. When people are reasonable and polite so am I. You are rarely either.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:Anyway, capitalism is failing millions of people who got the education and are looking for better jobs, but can't find them.
Is it? Or are they failing? Capitalism always has winners and losers. Just because you get an education it doesn't mean it's the right education. Choices you make freely impact how successful you will be in life.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:Capitalism also ensures that the rarer things have more value attached to them: consequently, higher paying jobs are less common and harder to get than low-paying jobs.
Of course. The rarer your skillset the more income you can command. That's how Capitalism works.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:If everyone currently working at McDonalds got themselves an "education" to better themselves, there wouldn't be enough of those "better" jobs for them all, and a shit-ton of retail and fast food joints would be desperate for employees.
The way it works is most of the people in those jobs are young. I had the same crap jobs when I was young. You're supposed to learn from them and progress upward. As you do, more younger people move in behind to take those jobs you left behind.
And I couldn't care less if there are fewer fast food places.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:It's not your money; it's everybody's money, inasmuch as the government represents everybody.
I'm okay with the government taking my money for necessary expenditures. Not enthusiastic, but okay. What i resent is the government taking my money and wasting it, which it does all too much of. And that includes inserting too much socialism into the system because the losers in the game of Capitalism don't have as nice a house as I do.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:3. Plenty of conservatives don't begrudge taxes or social programs; my impression is that you are one of the few.
Not many of them started out poor, were poor for decades, and now send off 25k to the government every quarter. And I don't resent social programs when used to keep people from starving or freezing. I don't resent health care - only its incompetence. I resent the idea people deserve my money because they don't have a nice house and good cable and nice clothes and a cell phone otherwise.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:Of course, helping others is a 'moral' issue; the means is what is at issue. I support corporations and businesses paying workers more, so that 1. government doesn't have to;
Yeah, yeah, of course you do. The problem with that is the higher the taxes are on corporations and businesses the less profits they make the fewer people they hire. Your way only leads to higher unemployment and more misery, not less. People need to help themselves, not get handouts.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:2. people don't have to live on poverty wages;
Right. They can improve their skills and find better jobs.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:3. more taxes can go to government.
So they can hire more public servants, and meanwhile business is driven away, foreign investment dries up because there are more profitable countries to invest in, and unemployment rises. Nice job!
5 hours ago, dialamah said:You support ... well, I guess it's that everybody get educated to obtain jobs that aren't there while corporations continue to get government handouts while paying their workers shit wages.
Nice try. I'm just as much opposed to corporate welfare, except in certain, limited cases due to foreign subsidies. though even there I'd rather see tariffs on imports. Your typical leftist disdain for business and their profits results in more poverty, not less.
5 hours ago, dialamah said:4. Many do, including the immigrants you love to hate and denigrate for sharing houses and taking all the low-paying jobs.
I don't denigrate immigrants. I denigrate those who bring them here when they don't have the necessary skills to support themselves. Why would I support bringing in people who will never have good enough jobs to pay taxes? They'll just add to the leaches whose health care I have to pay for. We have too many of those already.
And by the way, if we weren't bringing in all those immigrants to take low paying jobs guess what would happen? They'd have to raise wages! This is the insanity of the Left. Fighting desperately to achieve the results they say they're fighting against. You claim you're opposed to poverty level wages but zealously support polices which keep those wages low!
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24 minutes ago, blackbird said:
Canada actually has a Chinese-Canadian Senator who fights for Communist China and tries to pressure the Senate and government.
Not surprising given who appointed him. Trudeau and his party are very big fans of China.
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8 minutes ago, dialamah said:
So someone looking for work gets work at a wage that won't pay for food and shelter, including, and you are mad they get a break on taxes
Don't ascribe your emotionalism to me. I'm merely stating a logical and economic fact. Capitalism works on the incentives people have to improve themselves by gaining more skills and looking for better jobs. It was certainly motive for me to not settle for the crap jobs I had when I was young and to keep plugging away, keep trying to improve myself, keep looking for better paying jobs.
8 minutes ago, dialamah said:But that's exactly what your uncompromising and compassionless rhetoric supports
I love how you're so 'compassionate' with other people's money. The Left always does this. It pretends its own views are the moral ones and the ones made by the right are cruel and immoral. Bullshit. You want to give people enough money so they 'settle' for that, robbing them of the motivation to improve themselves, robbing society of a labour force which is continually improving itself and increasing its production, putting a heavy burden on wage earners and companies. Lower wage jobs might not pay enough for a good living but you're not going to starve on them unless you're a moron or have too many expensive vices. Take the bus and share an apartment like I did.
8 minutes ago, dialamah said:Wow, you are old aren't you!
I'm merely stating an economic fact, you old crone. Though I understand how facts outage the Left.
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13 hours ago, blackbird said:
China has been building it's Belt and Road massive warehouse/headquarters in Surrey, B.C. China is paving its 'belt and road' to British Columbia - Asia Pacific | Business in Vancouver (biv.com) Liberal Premier Christy Clark signed an MOU in 2016 which really helped China move ahead on this.
The greediest whores in any country are its politicians. Wonder how much she was paid.
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1 hour ago, dialamah said:
I guess if we hadn't been primed to think we deserve cheap goods and services, corporations and businesses could pay their staff good wages and people wouldn't have poverty level income, requiring that they pay no income tax to (barely) get by.
Primed to believe the world owes you a living. Primed to believe other people should be forced to give their money to you so you can have more.
I'm not in favour of allowing people to freeze or starve to death in the dark. But I don't owe you a good living. If you don't have any skills, education, drive or initiative you SHOULD be barely getting by.
As for exporting our manufacturing base, I'm not a historian but I don't recall life before we started doing that was so much greater or that there was a generally higher standard of living. The biggest influence on wages over the past fifty years has been women essentially doubling the workforce without any real rise in demand for goods and services.
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27 minutes ago, RedDog said:
I’m now openly and directly telling Chinese yelling in Mandarin on public transit to speak English. Stand them down.
Dude, that's dumb. Just because some of them, esp more recent immigrants from the mainland are stooges for China doesn't mean they all are.
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Doesn't mean you pay anything. Lots of people earn low wages and get everything that's taken off their cheque back at tax time. Others pay a little but get far more back, esp those getting untaxable child benefit cheques.
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So now we have a group calling itself the Chinese-Canadian Conservative Association calling on the party to change its views on China, who they clearly regard as a fine, upstanding world citizen to be admired not criticized. I had fairly soft thoughts on the loyalty of a lot of Chinese Canadians even prior to the newest bullying of Canada Choina has engaged in. But their actions obeying China in who to vote for, and the number of Chinese-so-called-Canadians coming out in support of China are rapidly hardening my views into saying outright that we should accept no further immigrants from China and should be investigating a lot of these public spokespeople to see just how close their contacts are with the Chinese Communist Party.
At a surprising news conference for local press recently, spokesman Joe Li — a regional councillor north of Toronto and three-time former Tory candidate — said the two Michaels were detained after “Canada started the war,” that China had a right to fly its planes into Taiwan’s air-defence zone and Canada should not publicly criticize Beijing’s human-rights abuses.
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5 hours ago, EastCanada90 said:
and i work also so that includes me
I doubt that. It sounds like you're among the 40% or more of Canadians who is a net drain on the treasury - who wind up paying no income tax.
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On 10/11/2021 at 12:44 PM, Queenmandy85 said:
Argus, I have the impression you are just concerned about transsexuals. Does this mean you are okay with cross dressers, drag Kings and drag queens? Is you concern confined to m2f or do you also have concerns with f2m?
My concern is primarily with children whose oh-so-fashionable idiot parents seize on momentary thoughts by the child that they might be the other gender and rather than dismiss it start encouraging it. The great majority of boys who act more feminine and girls who act masculine turn out to be gay, not transgender. Gender dysphoria is a rare thing.
My concern is also with women who see their private places intruded upon by perverts and wackos who are either pretending to be women or are just mentally ill. I'm willing to bet that 99.8% of people who are legitimately experiencing gender dysphoria wouldn't dream of going into a shower or locker room of the opposite sex and taking their clothes off. Not unless they've been surgically altered. This kind of thing is being pushed by frenzied progressive activists who see it as a political/ideological struggle and are basically sociopaths with no human empathy. Idiotic liberal/left governments eager to demonstrate how progressive they are have gone along with the activists with no thought whatever to consequences.
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How frustrating is it to hear about natural gas prices skyrocketing, shortages in Europe, other countries like Australia and the US and Russia making a fortune, and us still without any ability to export. The only LNG export terminal we even have under construction is years away from completion. This is bad planning by both government and industry.
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On 10/11/2021 at 7:45 PM, EastCanada90 said:
lol like i said before the government owes me whatever i say
The government has no money. Whatever it gives you it has to take from people who worked for it.
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An interesting piece on the trans issue. Though it focuses on Dave Chapelle's new show it contains some startling information I didn't know about. For example:
Across the West, people are being fired, targeted, prosecuted, even jailed, for stating biological facts. Children are being medicated with off-label drugs — “puberty blockers” — that can permanently sterilize them, arrest their neurological and mental development, and deprive them of the ability as adults to experience an orgasm.
I didn’t know the latter until I read the account by two leading transgender surgeons in medical treatment of children with gender dysphoria on Bari Weiss’s substack. These doctors are not marginal to the field. They are: “Dr. Marci Bowers, a world-renowned vaginoplasty specialist who operated on reality-television star Jazz Jennings; and Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist at the University of California San Francisco’s Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic.”
They explain that when you halt puberty in a natal boy with a penis, and then switch the kid to female hormones, the genitals remain like a child’s, never develop the sensitivity of adolescence and there is therefore not enough penile material to invert into a created vagina. Surgeons sometimes have to take parts of the colon to patch it together.
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dave-chappelle-is-right-isnt-he-b23
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6 hours ago, cougar said:
The oil that you want to produce is not for you or me. It is supposed to be shipped to China,
Who will ship us money in return so we can pay for your health care.
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8 hours ago, Army Guy said:
I think that is exactly what this country needs a couple of weeks with out any fossil fuels... magic is going to keep us warm during the winter, and And if cool in the summer.... next we will be banning wood as fuel as it emits carbon, bad for the climate...there is no reality for these guys...
Well, if we had news media and people would watch it they could see what has happened in Europe. They got rid of their coal fired power plants, and nuke plants, and then bowed for the cheering masses of left wing activists and went home.
Now they're out of power and desperately begging the Russians to sell them more natural gas at three times the price it was last year.
And don't think for a second Trudeau wouldn't do the same here in a second, if he could.
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3 hours ago, Cannucklehead said:
The public service recommended we, not Trudeau.
After much discussion with the PMO and minster the public service understood the recommendation they were required to make.
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43 minutes ago, Faramir said:
Not surprised. So much went wrong election night that the USA is little better than a banana republic.
Nonsense. It just has a lot of weirdos, freaks and loonies who want to subvert democracy and put a that deceased diaper-wearing scumbag Trump in the White House permanently.
Losers, and grifters, it makes them feel good to have a president so crass, dumb and unable to understand how to behave in public, much like them.
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18 minutes ago, Cannucklehead said:
Just as Scheer was announcing he’d step aside as soon as his replacement was chosen, it became public that party money had been used to pay for his children’s private school tuition.
And some didn't like that but it was legal, just like all the party money going for Trudeau's wardrobe and hair stylist.
18 minutes ago, Cannucklehead said:What I get from that article is the conservatives don't care if you steal from them, as long you win.
The article detailed a theft? I didn't read that. Are you at all interested in all that Chinese money that found it's way into Trudeau's foundation? I'm guessing probably not.
18 minutes ago, Cannucklehead said:gee I wonder if thats so they can steal from us?
The Liberals are the party you vote for to get that. That's a pretty persistent trait of the party at all levels, in fact.
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9 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
1. Socially, the 'left' has moved what the centre is significantly.
I'm not sure that the centre - as accepted by the mainstream media, academia and politicians is all that close to where ordinary Canadians think the centre ought to be.
9 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:2. Sort of but also remember that Preston Manning and Paul Martin (and more recently Quebec's CAQ) have scored popularity by being more austere with budgets.
The CAQ wins a lot of votes with its nationalism. The federal parties are ashamed at the very idea of nationalism. Certainly I've seen no hint from the Liberals or NDP, and O'Toole seems too timid, too afraid of causing offense to do more than halfheartedly suggest that the flags might be raised up again.
9 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:Even Trudeau, prior to 2019, was more prudent so I don't think Canadian voters are as in love with deficits as Americans are.
3. This will end ... hopefully soon and not badly.If inflation rises as some are calling for it's going to end quite badly indeed.
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1 hour ago, cougar said:
Blah, blah, blah. As I said I am tired of it.
Then why are you even here? Because if you don't want to hear what anyone says nobody cares what you say either.
If the Indians want the land back let them fight for it. We'll see who comes out on top - again.
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Conservative party leadersip (erin otoole)
in Federal Politics in Canada
Posted · Edited by Argus
On the coast. I don't care where as long as tankers can load there.