The Fire

[KrustyKidd]

HELP ME! i'M TOO DUMB AND CHEAP TO HAVE PROPER INSURANCE COVERAGE!

The Laurins have insurance, but it won't cover the cost of what was destroyed in the blaze.

Anyone who wants more information on how to help the Laurins can call 938-9700, ext. 23.

Get on it right away you! Although the Laurins could afford to have the standard contents coverage (($60,00 at a premium of $20 a month) they chose not to. Please help them for their rufusal to accept reality.

Anybody that has proper coverage, take heed; You are a sap. The world will bail you out if the time comes.

[Cameron]

What's the political aspect?

[Pellaken]

I was told, for care insurance here in NB, that to ensure my 1997 ford escort, me (a drivers ed student) would need to hay $8,000 a year.

insrance is not always affordable.

so now I dont even own my own car, since I am an "occasional driver" of my grandfather's 1997 ford escort. still costing me abour $2,000

[Hugo]

Cameron,

If KK will forgive me, I think the political aspect lies in the fact that this sort of attitude seems to be an increasing part of Canadian and, to a lesser extent, American society.

Examples:

1) Canadian government runs up massive debts, simply assuming that future generations will pay it off "somehow".

2) Provinces hit with Mad Cow and SARS appeal to the feds to cover all of their losses, not expecting that they might have to deal with their own problems, and it not occurring to them that all the money the feds give them is going to come from them anyway - with a little skimmed off for federal employees and new private jets, of course.

3) Bombardier goes whining to the government that it needs more money or it'll have to start making jets overseas (why don't you take measures to make yourself more efficient and develop improved designs that will sell better - or something).

4) Air Canada suffers big losses and also goes whining to the government that it needs more money to help it out (once again, instead of taking measures to cut costs and become a more efficient and lean operation, just expect the taxpayer to cover your mistakes).

5) The poor sap that Jean Chretien sold his cruddy hotel to goes back whining to Chretien that he needs more money, and Chretien proceeds to lean on investment bank managers, hold up court cases for cash contributions from the defendants, etc (allegedly).

6) Despite the fact that homosexuals are 1000 times more likely to get AIDS (CDC Atlanta), they refuse on the whole to stop their extremely promiscuous behaviour and disdain for safe sex (fact: almost 1/3 of American gay men have more than 1000 lifetime sexual partners, compared to an average of 8 for the country as a whole). Instead, they demand ever-increasing sums of money to search for a cure, when the "cure" is quite simple: use protection, and stop sleeping with so many people.

7) The "welfare trap", namely, once you are on welfare it is actually pretty difficult to get back into work, home ownership and so on again. I know people on welfare and many of them are deterred from working again because they would lose their house (welfare extracts "reparations" once you start working again), or just be worse off financially.

And so on. This is what an increasingly left-leaning government and society gives you: diminishing personal responsibility and accountability, because a dominating and powerful state advertises that it will catch you if you fall, therefore no real need to try too hard at balancing on your own, eh?

[Moderate Centrist]

"fact: almost 1/3 of American gay men have more than 1000 lifetime sexual partners, compared to an average of 8 for the country as a whole). "

Hugo

Could we have a source on this please?

[Hugo]

No, you can't. Not another time. I've given it countless times before and I'm tired of copy-and-pasting it for lazy people. Do a search on this forum. It takes all of ten seconds. Perhaps if you did some legwork on your own you might find the truth of a few matters.

[Moderate Centrist]

It is your responsibility to site your sources for any claims you make. I believe I've stated this on numerous occasions . The burden always lays with the claimant so I don't believe my request is "lazy" or unreasonable.

I was able to find the following:

"data from the US suggest that young men in same-sex relationships are at substantial risk. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), 50% of all AIDS cases reported in the US in 1999 among males 13 to 24 years of age involved men who have sex with men"

Source: http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/l12/l12chap2.shtml

Could not find info on number of sexual partners yet.

[Hugo]

It is lazy and unreasonable. I have given a source for that exact fact several times, and so has Neal Ford, and you have acknowledged that in the past. It's my responsibility to provide a source once. After that, it's your responsibility to remember.

[KrustyKidd]

Thank you Hugo for explaining in my absense. It is the individual in society that is not being held responsible for their own actions. From the base it moves upwards to the Government itself.

I was told, for care insurance here in NB, that to ensure my 1997 ford escort, me (a drivers ed student) would need to hay $8,000 a year.

Pellikin, I am not talking about car insurance, rather basic everyday $20 - $30 a month personal coverage for socks, underwear and toasters. In ordrer to put grampa's rubber on the road,you must have this insurance. It would seem that some people need to provide proof of personal insurance so that they can be permitted to leave mom's basement and move in together. Before you tell me that 20 bucks is beyond reach for some, try applying for a part time gig at Micky D's. Three hours a week will provide enough for a month's insurance. Surely this is not beyond people's means or ability? If it is, then there is no hope for us or them.