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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lino... who wrote (39)	10/28/2000 10:14:36 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37181

This country is way too big to be run by the central banana republic of Ottawa. We need to split it into Eastern and Western Canada right at the Ontario Manitoba border. We should have should split currency to. If the Vancouver and Alberta stock exchanges can work together so can we. Our western republic will have a head office in Calgary and they can have the old system since they like it so much. If it is done nice and orderly we won't have the U.S. freaking out and intervening. You remember like they did with the flesh eating disease virus that nearly killed Bouchard.

To: Lino... who wrote (39)	10/28/2000 10:42:43 PM
From: Gulo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37181

I don't know if I can completely agree with you. > will find, for the most part, that the these proponents are in one way or another subsiding as beneficiaries of wealth redistribution themselves. Maybe "for the most part", but the ones with influence are often the young of the idle rich. Like Trudeau. Of the people on welfare that I know (which is quite a few), I would say a minority are outright socialists. Most university staff I know are outright socialists. Organized labour is socialist because it suits the leaders of the movement. To be sure, the socialist bent originally came from the Marxist dogma of the struggle by labour against the owners of the means of production. Today, however, people like Buzz Hargrove are simply organized crime figures that spout the socialist dogma to keep their sycophantic foot soldiers in line. >a liberal arts degree seldom brings equitable employment in the private sector. You can get the info from any university that tracks grad employment. (Most don't, because it would be too embarrassing.) Believe it or not, English, Political Science and History grads are actually more likely to find gainful employment than, say, a Zoology or Renewable Resources grad. Their wages also tend to be higher, mostly because they end up in business. Clear thinking requires a good handle on the tools of thinking - language. I can't understand why this country needs all those sociologists, though. I find the trend towards using loans to finance education promising. Maybe prospective students will think twice about whether their chosen field of study will increase their value to society, or if they can afford the luxury of simply expanding their minds. That reminds me of a good joke: A University Grad and a Tech School grad were in the men's room (sorry ladies, they have to be men for this story). As they finished their business at the urinals, the university grad turned to the sink while the tech grad headed for the door. The university grad turns to the techie and says, with the greatest condensation, "At university, we were taught to wash our hands after taking a leak." To which the techie replies, "At tech school, we learned how not to piss on our hands."