100% correct and taken from Canadian gov't statistics.
"Not creative" implies that I lied. I did not. The figures are not "my creation"
What facts would you have as wrong? The 95-5% ratio of wealth to people who control it?. Amply supported. How many people would you make Desmarais, Pelladeau, Black, Pattison, the Eatons and the Reichmanns? and what percent do they hold alone? If every civil servant was worth and average of 100,000 in loose cash they would only be worth 150 billion all told. The group that I just mentioned controls more than that and that is only about 14 people. 5% of the people would be 1,500,000 Canadian wealthy. The cash is about 3 trillion for an average wealth of 2 million per wealthy person if they owned everything there was to own. The richest at Desmarias, owns and controls perhaps 50 billion worth of enterprises, the poorest, with say one apartment building or a corner store may only have measly one million in the bank or in property. I would suggest to you that it is totally believable that is the ratio, or our business people are far poorer than is tenable in this society. All that ratio is saying is that there is one business person per twenty people who controls and acummulates wealth out of proportion to the wage earner who is lucky to own his house. Just go through any town and count the people and count the businesses and total their worth against the wage earner. a town of 50,000 people has say 18,000 wage earners who are worth on the average about 25,000 cash and property if we are generous. That is 450 million. The ratio of the white business pages to people is about ten to one so their would be 1500 small and large businesses in the town. Only about 300 would be very large with more than a million in cash and property. In one town I know I could count about 20 people who are worth perhaps 20 million. So the very rich equal the total worth of all the wage earners. If we take the next 300 biggest businesses as worth 2 million apiece, hotels, car lots, large retail stores and restuarants we have a total of 1 billion versus 1.4 billion. So now .6% of the people or 1.75 of the working population have 71% of the money, easily reckonable. So to leap in faith to a 95% ot 5% ratio is not so crazy. All you are saying about Venezuela is that the rich are not so rich so their ratio of wealth to the poor is not so great. It is much more marked in Canada where wealth is easier currency.
The ratio of the % of the GNP that the civil service absorbs? Trust me here. Experts have said its true. How about the ratio that the debt alone absorbs? What % of our taxes go to paying public debt, which fuels the maintenance of the gov't?
It is not sufficient in argument to pretend authority and criticise the opponent. Nice try though.
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