maplesyrup Posted August 24, 2004 Author Report Posted August 24, 2004 Except for same-sex marriages! Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
playfullfellow Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Except for same-sex marriages! thought this was a post about the Olympics. Jealousy gets you nowhere MS Quote
RB Posted August 30, 2004 Report Posted August 30, 2004 Congratulations to all our athletes and welcome home. We are proud that you represented us. But what’s up with the “little blue cow” who was actually white, wondered if funding was also not available to put its color into perspective Quote
maplesyrup Posted August 30, 2004 Author Report Posted August 30, 2004 Our Canadian athletes are definitely to be congratulated however the blame for their poor showing can be laid squarely at the foot of the Greens and the Conservatives with their obsession to cutting taxes. :angry: Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
kimmy Posted August 30, 2004 Report Posted August 30, 2004 Our Canadian athletes are definitely to be congratulated however the blame for their poor showing can be laid squarely at the foot of the Greens and the Conservatives with their obsession to cutting taxes. :angry: I'm just wondering, do you ever stop and read your own messages? Of course. The Conservatives have not been in power since most of the Canadian team was in Elementary School. And the Green Party has never been in power. But they've had such a persuasive effect on Canadian politics that the Liberals, who've run this country for the past 11 years, had no say over funding the Olympic team. It was completely out of their control. Their hands were tied. I have a different thought. The Sponsorship program was supposed to build "brand recognition" for Canada, right? Maybe, what if, the money had been directed into Canada's Olympic athletes instead? In fact, what if just the portion that went to Quebec ad agencies had gone to athletes? "More than $100 million was paid to various communications agencies in the form of fees and commissions, Fraser found. In most cases the agencies did little more than hand over the cheques. " So, $100 million between 1996 and 2002 grifted to Quebec ad firms, that works out to roughly $16 million a year, which is as much as the government spends on funding athletes. They could have found the money to MORE THAN DOUBLE funding for Canada's Olympic team! They supposedly gave Jacques Villeneuve $10 million to wear a Canada logo on his chest... which is almost as much money as Canada's Olympic team gets in a year. The Liberals had the money. They decided how to spend it. Don't blame anybody else. -kimmy Quote (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Friendly forum facilitator! ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
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