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danmand

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This is the issue with Leftists. You ignore how the real world works. When the Auditor general has stated in reports that the public sector collective bargaining process is heavily unbalanced in favour of the unions. Something is wrong with the process. But the Left just ignores that fact, because the majority of the left are the ones sucking off the taxpayers tit.
You are being immature. The leftists on this board are the ones who make lots of money.
The people who complain about paying taxes for public services are the ones who struggle to make things meet.
 

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You are being immature. The leftists on this board are the ones who make lots of money.
The people who complain about paying taxes for public services are the ones who struggle to make things meet.
This is very true and it's mind-boggling. LOL
 
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JohnLarue

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Pirate profiteering fuels inflation, which is something that they, he and especially you champion.

Profiteering drove manufacturing offshore.
Corporations focus on milking and plundering governments.
Debt is primarily used to shower the private sector and corporate special interests with riches.
This cannot continue.
you really do not have a clue
 

JohnLarue

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Do you really think housing prices will drop that much? I highly doubt it.
time will tell

increased supply will make housing more affordable
perhaps not for the city tent dwellers - I know not all of them are wacked out drug addicts & drunks
& I can have some empathy for people who get jammed up
but the nanny state is unsustainable
 

Butler1000

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time will tell

increased supply will make housing more affordable
perhaps not for the city tent dwellers - I know not all of them are wacked out drug addicts & drunks
& I can have some empathy for people who get jammed up
but the nanny state is unsustainable
The problem as I see it is half the population is below average intelligence. Which means they will never be successful. But what they are is the service workers and consumers that keep the whole capitalism thing running. If you want your businesses staffed you need to give them a place to live within reasonable distance, and the means to get there, while still having money left over to spend.

Not having that you get the USA. A good portion of those homeless encampments are actually working poor living in cars, vans, and RV's. Go look at the footage. They can't afford rents, but want to remain near jobs and family.
 
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danmand

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The problem as I see it is half the population is below average intelligence. Which means they will never be successful. But what they are is the service workers and consumers that keep the whole capitalism thing running. If you want your businesses staffed you need to give them a place to live within reasonable distance, and the means to get there, while still having money left over to spend.

Not having that you get the USA. A good portion of those homeless encampments are actually working poor living in cars, vans, and RV's. Go look at the footage. They can't afford rents, but want to remain near jobs and family.
It is near impossible to understand the wet dreams of LaRue, where 25% of Canadians live in cars and tents without health coverage and no education for their children.

He does not stop and think how the Canadian economy would look like in his dreams, and how crime and drug use would sky rocket. Or maybe he is incapable of understanding the consequences.
 

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Not having that you get the USA. A good portion of those homeless encampments are actually working poor living in cars, vans, and RV's. Go look at the footage. They can't afford rents, but want to remain near jobs and family.
I travelled up and down the U.S. left coast 3 lifetimes ago. Didn't see one tent city. So, what's changed?
 

JohnLarue

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The problem as I see it is half the population is below average intelligence. Which means they will never be successful.
Not necessarily, many people do quite well via outstanding work ethics, superior customer service and or unshakable determination.

The flip side is easier to figure out , bad attitudes, poor work ethics, dishonesty, self-entitlement .often block success & few are able / willing to figure out why they do not achieve success




But what they are is the service workers and consumers that keep the whole capitalism thing running. If you want your businesses staffed you need to give them a place to live within reasonable distance, and the means to get there, while still having money left over to spend.
if there is a housing shortage near where a company operates , that means there is usually a lot of people , so no shortage of labor to fill positions

Not having that you get the USA. A good portion of those homeless encampments are actually working poor living in cars, vans, and RV's. Go look at the footage. They can't afford rents, but want to remain near jobs and family.
'want to remain near jobs and family'
does not jive with the migration to sanctuary cities
Americans more than anyone move from state to state all the time for employment opportunities
 

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The problem as I see it is half the population is below average intelligence. Which means they will never be successful. But what they are is the service workers and consumers that keep the whole capitalism thing running. If you want your businesses staffed you need to give them a place to live within reasonable distance, and the means to get there, while still having money left over to spend.

Not having that you get the USA. A good portion of those homeless encampments are actually working poor living in cars, vans, and RV's. Go look at the footage. They can't afford rents, but want to remain near jobs and family.
Service jobs are more polarized. Hamburger flippers and call centre employees and then lawyers and software engineers on the other end. The manufacturing economy had assembly line jobs. Resource extraction has also become more mechanized.
 

Butler1000

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I travelled up and down the U.S. left coast 3 lifetimes ago. Didn't see one tent city. So, what's changed?
Loss of manufacturing jobs, loss of worker rights, Wall St malfeasance. Digital economy, mass increases in incarceration, mass increases in corporate owned housing and rising rents. Sub prime mortgage collapse.

Lots more. Increased drug use due to poverty. Off shoring of capital. Lack of infrastructure building. Corruption at all levels. Militarization of police. Two wars.
 

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I think all large entities in the private sector should have restrictions on political activity. Especially spending money on attack ads and political contributions.
Were those ads within the law? If so, they did nothing wrong.
 

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I'm pretty sure all the workers are making money too. And affordable housing, of which I agree more should be built, is a govt responsibility.
Is there a better way to do so rather than the provincial government forcing cities to cut development fees while reducing the criteria to qualify for benefits.
 

Butler1000

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Not necessarily, many people do quite well via outstanding work ethics, superior customer service and or unshakable determination.

The flip side is easier to figure out , bad attitudes, poor work ethics, dishonesty, self-entitlement .often block success & few are able / willing to figure out why they do not achieve success






if there is a housing shortage near where a company operates , that means there is usually a lot of people , so no shortage of labor to fill positions



does not jive with the migration to sanctuary cities
Americans more than anyone move from state to state all the time for employment opportunities
"Bootstrapping" and blaming won't solve the problems. And the move to sanctuary cities came as a result of poverty, it was not a cause of it.

And believe me, I was down in the USA recently. The homeless were in the small town we were in. As well I was in Vegas. And it isn't a sanctuary city by a long shot. They were everywhere there too.

My point being an address is so important. You need it for a job, to get a bank account, and for so many other things. WIthout it you become an "unperson". And can easily end up in the poverty cycle.
 

Butler1000

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Is there a better way to do so rather than the provincial government forcing cities to cut development fees while reducing the criteria to qualify for benefits.
I actually didn't agree with cutting the development charges.
 

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Firefighters can’t strike. Cops can’t strike. Paramedics can’t strike.etc. All essential services. So is educating our youth. 12% a year. Go suck a bag of dicks. You can all be replaced overnight.
Cops and fire get independent arbitration for their contract; they don't have it imposed on them by their employers.
 
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