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Subject: My opinion on unions, natives, the CRTC, marriage laws, education and more
Some quotes I’ve run across over the years that sum up my opinion on a variety of controversial topics (I couldn't have said it any better myself):
Unions:
Unions promote mediocre behavior. There is no incentive to be above average since your efforts will not be rewarded, just as the fear of being punished for poor work ethics does not exist. Union leaders tell their members what to do, what to say and how to act. They are even told how to vote. There is no independent thought in the union environment. Union members are just a bunch of lemmings unwilling and unable to care for themselves since they always have someone else who is supposed to care for them. When a union workers loses their job, the first thing that crosses their mind is "who will look after me now" instead of thinking "what do I need to do to make myself more marketable to the world".
There are many areas where our current economy is failing. Unions are not solely responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. But the mentality of union members thinking someone else is responsible for them will ensure that union members will not evolve in an ever changing world. The world is changing people. This idea some of you have that your are entitled to a job for life with a big fat pension waiting for you is just not going to happen.
Are you a DOer or are you a follower? If some of you people are unemployed now in this current economy, what are you doing about it? Or are you just coming to your favorite socialist website telling the world what a victim you are and asking "who will tale care of me now".
The Canadian Justice System:
Just give up expecting justice in Canada. The left-wingers have ruined the entire notion of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S ACTIONS through their obsession with political correctness.
Natives:
I have one thing to say, the ills of our Aboriginal communities will never be cured until we stop treating them like children getting an allowance. It won't happen overnight and it won't be pretty, but self-governance is the only respectful and fair solution.
How about making them accountable for their actions rather than feeling sorry for them and giving them more financial handouts. Fact is that giving them every opportunity to get out of poverty such as free schooling isn't going to help. If I had someone giving me free money and a house why would I change?
All they have to do is obey the laws and they won't end up in jail. Commit the crime do the time.
It's more like aboriginals failing their own youth and the rest of Canada.
Get rid of this poor-me attitude and grow some 'accountability'.
The CRTC:
There's a real reason why Canadian 'content' isn't more patronized and it isn't a matter of availability or visibility, rather it's typically just unappealing crap. And that's what should be addressed not figuring out yet another way to bureaucratically legislate an expensive way to shove garbage down our throats that we weren't interested in in the first place. ACTRA would be better served with earnest self-examination than finding ways to force themselves on Canadians.
If Canadian musicians need the heavy hand of the CRTC on their side in order to survive, then it obviously wasn't that good or marketable. Arts should be funded by one source: the ultimate consumer.
Canadian Marriage Laws
Most of these so called "dead beats" are guys that would be happy support their children directly but are denied equal/joint custody and instead are forced to pay child extortion to their ex wife.
Fathers aren't equal in the eyes in the courts and the Department of (in)Justice is an eager partner in this extortion racket.
This is a system driven by bitter ex-wives and vindictive feminists.
These days, the definition of “divorce” is “a winning lottery ticket for women.”
Generation Y:
Oh please, Gen Y is hardly the first cohort to be released into the real world in the midst of a recession or period of high unemployment. Those of us in Gen X didn't exactly have an easy time of it in the early 90's or post-dot.com collapse either. We did exactly what the Gen Y crowd needs to do now. We sent in hundreds of CV's, both for currently advertized positions and for "future consideration". We took jobs that weren't exactly what we wanted or directly related to our education simply because they were the best we could get. We went back to school our skill sets didn't match what the economy needed.
The biggest disservice that the Boomers have done to their Gen Y offspring is raise them in a manner which leaves them feeling entitled to everything and anything they want, when they want it and most often handed to them on a platter on their terms without any significant effort required. This generation has grown up with the expectation that their parents would retire off just as they entered the job market creating a more-jobs-than-people scenario, thus guaranteeing them a good job in whatever field matched their personal interests. Similarly they seem to expect that entering the job market, in entry-level positions, shouldn't require them to lower the standard of living they've always enjoyed. Now they're getting hit with the double whammy of their parents not being able to retire + a contraction of the employment market causing the realization that life doesn't always give you want you think you deserve.
This generation is not a failure generation, just an overly-entitled generation that's used to getting what they want, when they want it and without having to expend any real effort to get it. They're also having trouble adjusting to the real world in the first real down time that any of them have every seen. This isn't entirely their fault, their Boomer parents who raised them on a coddled diet of over-indulgence and self-affirmation have to bear a large responsibility for this generation's attitude of self-entitlement. Unfortunately the way they were raised is now making learning the same lessons that every generation before has had to much more painful:
The world doesn't owe you anything, so pull up your socks and work for what you want instead of expecting it to be handed to you by over-protective/over-indulgent mommy/daddy.
The Canadian Educational System
Our educational system from high school to University, is purposely designed to make happy little workers. The end product is obedient, compliant, slaves, people trading their time for the crumbs of someone else’s deal. You’re degree tells prospective employers that you have gone through, the system and you are trust worthy will conform to do what ever it takes to get that pat on the head. The whole educational process is by design is to reinforce in ones head that you are the slave working hard to please your master, that being the teacher. When you get and have your diploma (Anchor) and your conditioning, you are trapped.
To add insult to injury, you, the student takes on mountains of debt for this behavior shaping exercise.
Unions:
Unions promote mediocre behavior. There is no incentive to be above average since your efforts will not be rewarded, just as the fear of being punished for poor work ethics does not exist. Union leaders tell their members what to do, what to say and how to act. They are even told how to vote. There is no independent thought in the union environment. Union members are just a bunch of lemmings unwilling and unable to care for themselves since they always have someone else who is supposed to care for them. When a union workers loses their job, the first thing that crosses their mind is "who will look after me now" instead of thinking "what do I need to do to make myself more marketable to the world".
There are many areas where our current economy is failing. Unions are not solely responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. But the mentality of union members thinking someone else is responsible for them will ensure that union members will not evolve in an ever changing world. The world is changing people. This idea some of you have that your are entitled to a job for life with a big fat pension waiting for you is just not going to happen.
Are you a DOer or are you a follower? If some of you people are unemployed now in this current economy, what are you doing about it? Or are you just coming to your favorite socialist website telling the world what a victim you are and asking "who will tale care of me now".
The Canadian Justice System:
Just give up expecting justice in Canada. The left-wingers have ruined the entire notion of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S ACTIONS through their obsession with political correctness.
Natives:
I have one thing to say, the ills of our Aboriginal communities will never be cured until we stop treating them like children getting an allowance. It won't happen overnight and it won't be pretty, but self-governance is the only respectful and fair solution.
How about making them accountable for their actions rather than feeling sorry for them and giving them more financial handouts. Fact is that giving them every opportunity to get out of poverty such as free schooling isn't going to help. If I had someone giving me free money and a house why would I change?
All they have to do is obey the laws and they won't end up in jail. Commit the crime do the time.
It's more like aboriginals failing their own youth and the rest of Canada.
Get rid of this poor-me attitude and grow some 'accountability'.
The CRTC:
There's a real reason why Canadian 'content' isn't more patronized and it isn't a matter of availability or visibility, rather it's typically just unappealing crap. And that's what should be addressed not figuring out yet another way to bureaucratically legislate an expensive way to shove garbage down our throats that we weren't interested in in the first place. ACTRA would be better served with earnest self-examination than finding ways to force themselves on Canadians.
If Canadian musicians need the heavy hand of the CRTC on their side in order to survive, then it obviously wasn't that good or marketable. Arts should be funded by one source: the ultimate consumer.
Canadian Marriage Laws
Most of these so called "dead beats" are guys that would be happy support their children directly but are denied equal/joint custody and instead are forced to pay child extortion to their ex wife.
Fathers aren't equal in the eyes in the courts and the Department of (in)Justice is an eager partner in this extortion racket.
This is a system driven by bitter ex-wives and vindictive feminists.
These days, the definition of “divorce” is “a winning lottery ticket for women.”
Generation Y:
Oh please, Gen Y is hardly the first cohort to be released into the real world in the midst of a recession or period of high unemployment. Those of us in Gen X didn't exactly have an easy time of it in the early 90's or post-dot.com collapse either. We did exactly what the Gen Y crowd needs to do now. We sent in hundreds of CV's, both for currently advertized positions and for "future consideration". We took jobs that weren't exactly what we wanted or directly related to our education simply because they were the best we could get. We went back to school our skill sets didn't match what the economy needed.
The biggest disservice that the Boomers have done to their Gen Y offspring is raise them in a manner which leaves them feeling entitled to everything and anything they want, when they want it and most often handed to them on a platter on their terms without any significant effort required. This generation has grown up with the expectation that their parents would retire off just as they entered the job market creating a more-jobs-than-people scenario, thus guaranteeing them a good job in whatever field matched their personal interests. Similarly they seem to expect that entering the job market, in entry-level positions, shouldn't require them to lower the standard of living they've always enjoyed. Now they're getting hit with the double whammy of their parents not being able to retire + a contraction of the employment market causing the realization that life doesn't always give you want you think you deserve.
This generation is not a failure generation, just an overly-entitled generation that's used to getting what they want, when they want it and without having to expend any real effort to get it. They're also having trouble adjusting to the real world in the first real down time that any of them have every seen. This isn't entirely their fault, their Boomer parents who raised them on a coddled diet of over-indulgence and self-affirmation have to bear a large responsibility for this generation's attitude of self-entitlement. Unfortunately the way they were raised is now making learning the same lessons that every generation before has had to much more painful:
The world doesn't owe you anything, so pull up your socks and work for what you want instead of expecting it to be handed to you by over-protective/over-indulgent mommy/daddy.
The Canadian Educational System
Our educational system from high school to University, is purposely designed to make happy little workers. The end product is obedient, compliant, slaves, people trading their time for the crumbs of someone else’s deal. You’re degree tells prospective employers that you have gone through, the system and you are trust worthy will conform to do what ever it takes to get that pat on the head. The whole educational process is by design is to reinforce in ones head that you are the slave working hard to please your master, that being the teacher. When you get and have your diploma (Anchor) and your conditioning, you are trapped.
To add insult to injury, you, the student takes on mountains of debt for this behavior shaping exercise.
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