Conservatives: Not our job to feed starving Canadian children
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OK - I have been preparing a thread on this very subject off and on. Being Christmas, busy, shorthanded for the past 6 months at work. Losing another, training another I will work on it over the holidays. a ton of prov stats to compile, along with EI and other program costs.
And the centerpiece will be a well known Conservative.
This particular government has signed race to the bottom free trade agreements
with almost everyone wiping out the steady middle class jobs and creating the new
poor for the benefit of companies. Yes there are a few crack heads and drunks but
the main category of working poor are a direct result of Conservative Government
policies. In fact the most recent survey released today says fifty seven percent of
respondents don't feel better off this year than last. Those kinds of numbers chip
away at economic confidence.
It is time we looked after Canadians first for one thing secondly if these rich families
can afford to store money away in illegal foreign accounts they can afford to pay
their share of the tax burden they have avoided so far,
Even more important Harper looks like he's losing his grip a bit. For years his caucus
has been silent almost, first the Parliamentary verbal scuffle over Ford now this
silly statement. Soon the doors will swing open wide and tongues will wag demonstrating
the current Reform disguised in Tory costumes are every bit as loony as the Tea Party
down South. Mr Trudeau is getting happier by the day.
with almost everyone wiping out the steady middle class jobs and creating the new
poor for the benefit of companies. Yes there are a few crack heads and drunks but
the main category of working poor are a direct result of Conservative Government
policies. In fact the most recent survey released today says fifty seven percent of
respondents don't feel better off this year than last. Those kinds of numbers chip
away at economic confidence.
It is time we looked after Canadians first for one thing secondly if these rich families
can afford to store money away in illegal foreign accounts they can afford to pay
their share of the tax burden they have avoided so far,
Even more important Harper looks like he's losing his grip a bit. For years his caucus
has been silent almost, first the Parliamentary verbal scuffle over Ford now this
silly statement. Soon the doors will swing open wide and tongues will wag demonstrating
the current Reform disguised in Tory costumes are every bit as loony as the Tea Party
down South. Mr Trudeau is getting happier by the day.
Why is this even a wedge topic to begin with?
Obviously we need to look out for each other but I'm sure we can also agree to do so responsibly.
Obviously we need to look out for each other but I'm sure we can also agree to do so responsibly.
1. It was not "Conservatives" that said it, it was James Moore.
2. It was taken out of context.
3. Small "c" conservative give more to charity than anyone else..........
Who Gives and Who Doesn't? - ABC News
The government pays in too.
The point is, I've not read anything from this guy that says he thinks poverty is okay.
See, there is a massive logical fallacy in the way the news has covered his statement.
He has said that he doesn't think we should be providing breakfast programs, we should be providing parents with tools to feed their kids themselves.
The media has said that means he doesn't care about child poverty.
The fallacy is that breakfast programs feed kids, while doing nothing to address poverty. They are actually counterintuitive to addressing poverty, because they let us feel like we're doing something, while fixing nothing.
He hasn't said he wants to leave the kids to go hungry, he's simply said he doesn't think this tool is appropriate. I don't think lynching the guy for having an opinion about the effectiveness of kiddie versions of soup kitchens, is right.
Didn't a wise man compare the wisdom of giving a guy a fish compared to teaching him how to fish? Therein lies the answer to this conundrum!
Maybe she should be holding herself (and whoever the father(s) is(are) ) accountable. Maybe she should realize that if she can't afford to pay for that many children she should stop having litters of them! Having children is not the problem. Thinking that everyone else except for yourself is responsible for said children is a problem.
That statement is just a metaphor, Karrie, it could easily apply to hunting, gardening, sewing, knitting or any other endeavour where the end result is products. The trick is to get people to be resourceful.
You can have two low income earners living in an apartment complex with one child that could need support in this day and age. Let's not be so quick to assume that people in this situation are all inbred white trash.
Too much time is spent bickering over what people say, when more effort should be made toward determining the reasons and solving the problem. One of the main reasons is the preponderance of street drugs. Not only are the drugs a problem for obvious reasons but they are "eating up" money that could be used to feed hungry children. Take the profit out of drugs for importers and traffickers. One way to do that is automatic 20 year sentences c/w with hard labour for perpetrators!
I agree, Petros, but no use attacking the legal stuff while the illegal stuff is running rampant. Also some legal drugs and alcohol is justified, but it's hard to justify crack and heroine.
