Hey Chuck, I'm not afraid. I'm not that well versed on the constitution. I know the basics, but to come into the fray and argue for or against it, I'm not prepared. I will argue against ViRedds stance though, so you have an ally there. I believe the constitution needs to be modernized to work in this day and age. They didn't have a lot of the things we have when they laid out the law. Example: Credit cards. The basic premis of freedom is good, But the understanding of it may have changed. Like is it OK for the rich to steal from the poor? There may be need to put limits on certain freedoms.
I said most people Med. I know you are out there fighting a similar fight, I was simply stating that we do not gang up on people like the "others" do.
I make a thread about change and I get half a dozen flag waivers coming up on me to tell me my ideas are dumb and wrong and how i should stay in canada and the what-not. Its fucking lame. Like that lame-ass VTX who had the first post saying he would run against me and his campaign was to uphold the constitution.
How is this debate? You see I won't even talk to this tool because all he wants is for me to take time out and pick out every flaw WRITTEN in the constitution. But I don't need to. All i need to do is look around and I know that we need a change from that old dirty piece of paper.
People like Vi are so obsessed with making the economy better that they have lost true sight of what life means. they are so blinded by greed its pathetic.
Vi wants the economy to do well and for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer because in his job he takes a percentage of what the house sells for. So when the market is up houses sell for more thus making Vi take home more money. He is just pissed that he has to pay taxes on it. Little does he know that him paying taxes is the only way he is contributing to society. he should have to pay a lot of money. He went for greed instead of a REAL career that actually NEEDED to be done.
Jobs like health care, construction, education are the jobs that the employees or proprietor should not be taxed heavily because they are contributing to society with the work they do.
He doesnt care if poor people get poorer because most of them have to rent or live in government subsidized housing anyway. These people are no good to the wealthy. They dont matter because they dont give their money to people like Vi.
And unfortunately it's people who think like Vi, lawyers, executives, businessmen, politicians, who are running the country. And they just dont give a shit.
Why do we need to keep progressing our economy at such an unbelievable rate? You can only make the rich richer and the poor poorer for so long. And eventually you need to level it out, or we are going to end up like Mexico or some other shit-hole.
In the 90's our economy was doing great. And i wish we could have at that point gone "look, the economy doesn't really need to get better. We need to start leveling things out and spread the wealth to everyone. We are a prospering country and its time we start to use that to make the country a better place to live for EVERYONE.
I.E. It a damn shame that people can't even afford to have their houses fixed. So many are living in poor and dangerous living conditions because they just can't afford to hire a contractor. But if the government did something more to help either a. the contractor so that he/she can offer a lower rate or b. the common human to be able to afford the rising costs of labour and materials.
And its the same deal with health care. Common folk are staying sick because they can not afford to miss a day of work to pay to see the doc. That leaves people suffering when others are prospering.
Same for education. Less money is being put into the public education system which is forcing people to send their kids to private schools. And in doing so they are expanding the sector of privatized schooling where the teachers are paid more. So what "good" teacher would want to teach at a public school where all the kids are poor?
Its like the problem with Canadian doctors leaving to the U.S. to get paid more. We now have a shortage of doctors because they go for the greed and go to the U.S.
Privatization is destroying our economy. The rising cost of resources is destroying our economy. And what is being done about? Silly quick fixes and throwing money at the problem. The U.S. keeps getting themselves in deeper and deeper in debt.
We need a solution.
