No. Having children out of wedlock will probably make you poor.So getting married makes you rich?
No. Having children out of wedlock will probably make you poor.So getting married makes you rich?
No. Having children out of wedlock will probably make you poor.
The thing I hate is not real socialism- Socialism means everyone working for the common good- what we call "socialism" is the people who feel like it working for the common good.
Nobody was/is going to cut pensions or medical care.
What we will see is the AB Crown getting into the oil business incurring big debt without first planning a huge push and achieving west coast pipelines and ports.
SK investments in BC ports was the key to the potash boom. Next stop NB. 5 new massive mines being built and expansion of all the others = cha ching in 5 years
Way more fun throwing around undefined terms that basically mean "stuff I don't like.""Real" socialism is the common ownership of private property and the co-operative management of industry. It isn't "working for the common good" per se, but workers keeping the wealth they generate and maintaining a society beneficial to all. Social Democracy (the NDP), an ideology you seem to confuse with lazy people getting handouts, is about maintaining the capitalist system that funnels wealth from wealth-creators (workers) to the rich, and then redistributing that wealth back down to the lower classes after the fact. Social Democracy recognizes the inequalities in the system and seeks to alleviate them, whereas socialism wants to replace that system.
Of course, you know all this, don't you Comrade JLM? Didn't you tell me you were a socialist for 30 years?
A great irony being that around 25 yrs ago, under Don Getty's "stewardship" the Alberta gov't started to sell off Alberta Energy Company, which had large stakes in the natural gas industry, the 2nd largest share of Syncrude, owned the pipelines bringing oil sands synthetic crude south, and large reserves of heavy oil in the Cold Lake/Foster Creek region...
"Real" socialism is the common ownership of private property and the co-operative management of industry. It isn't "working for the common good" per se, but workers keeping the wealth they generate and maintaining a society beneficial to all. Social Democracy (the NDP), an ideology you seem to confuse with lazy people getting handouts, is about maintaining the capitalist system that funnels wealth from wealth-creators (workers) to the rich, and then redistributing that wealth back down to the lower classes after the fact. Social Democracy recognizes the inequalities in the system and seeks to alleviate them, whereas socialism wants to replace that system.
Of course, you know all this, don't you Comrade JLM? Didn't you tell me you were a socialist for 30 years?
Well I voted for the Socialists for 30 years mistakenly thinking they were for the working man. What a mistake that turned out to be. You live and learn. Actually whatever it is you wish to pursue in life, I think doing it via any politician is a mistake.
Well I voted for the Socialists for 30 years mistakenly thinking they were for the working man. What a mistake that turned out to be. You live and learn. Actually whatever it is you wish to pursue in life, I think doing it via any politician is a mistake.
I don't think I've ever seen a "socialist" party on an ballot. Of course, I am a lot younger than you. Which socialist party are you referring to?
What "socialists" did you vote for? What Country were you living in for 30 years?
Nope they just put the candidates names in alphabetical order. Well, I was referring to the N.D.P. (which is a misnomer) but they morphed out of the old "C.C.F." party in the late 50s. (Everybody is younger than me)
I voted for the NDP in BC from the 70's on up and at no time, during that time, could they have been considered "socialist".
Probably not- Socialists would probably turn in their graves!
Nope they just put the candidates names in alphabetical order. Well, I was referring to the N.D.P. (which is a misnomer) but they morphed out of the old "C.C.F." party in the late 50s. (Everybody is younger than me)
Then, obviously, you didn't vote NDP. Who did you vote for those 30 years?
Number one cause of poverty is having children out of wedlock, i.e. single moms.
The NDP are social democrats not socialists. CCF was more socialist than the NDP. It's not a misnomer. The NDP's existence is a concerted attempt to soften the left leaning bents of their predecessors.
I voted for the NDP in BC from the 70's on up and at no time, during that time, could they have been considered "socialist".
The NDP are social democrats not socialists. CCF was more socialist than the NDP. It's not a misnomer. The NDP's existence is a concerted attempt to soften the left leaning bents of their predecessors.
Where does the democrat fit in?