Posted on 03/04/2006 4:58:59 PM PST by Heartofsong83
Yep, coming from the liberal heartland of North America. The more I read the demands, the more I wish it would become an unreachable island in Lake Ontario...
Long term ionvestment locte n TO?
Not likely.
Welcome to Canada's new " Calcutta."
Give every Citizen in Toronto the right of concealed carry.
The Florida remedy is quite in order.
This curious point of view is the direct result of a couple of generations of Liberal party in-breeding. If you want this to happen in the US, keep electing Democrats.
If Toronto was in the US, it would be 80-85% Democratic, and less than 15% Republican (the balance being leftist third parties).
That was my thought exactly, look what happens to the system when liberals run things for years.
Stories like this make the Hildebeast go all "autoerotic"
This curious point of view is the direct result of a couple of generations of in-breeding due to Liberal party dominance. If you want this to happen in the US, keep electing Democrats.
Been working in Toronto for a couple of months. You have no idea how bad things are. There is this great glee about multiculturalism, which means there is no longer a Canadian culture. In Ontario, 1/3 of the high school students opts for a 5th year of HS to have more time to "adjust". All signs are printed in English and French, even in Ontario, but the language you hear all around, even in the workplace, is most likely going to be middle Eastern or Asian. Really scary place.
Communism has failed miserably everywhere it's been tried.
WHO ARE the simpletons who write editorials for this "Toronto Star"?
Until 2003, most students had a 5th year of high school in Ontario, as the credit requirements for 4-year colleges and universities had such.
Any chance of you moving out of Toronto?
Exactly. Canada needs to stop sudsidizing the stupid the lazy and the ignorant if it wants any kind of future worth living.
What is doubly disturbing about this piece is the obscene suggestion that Canada will need MORE handouts simply because of an increasing minority population. Classic example of the racist underpinnings of modern 'liberal' policies.
If life in Canada is that bad, these "newcomers" can always return to their countries of origin.
...take a page from Hugo Chavez - let the poor rob the middle class. That'll fix the problem...
For all the Liberal handouts of the past we have this to be thankful for. Throwing money at them will not solve the problem. If any word is mentioned about the racial "poor," who are in fact not poor by African standards -- they have free housing, social assistance, free medical, enough money for drugs, TVs, VCRs and the like -- they will cry racial discrimination, as if it is Canada's fault that they are in these horrible circumstances. They will take no personal responsibility and the liberal system will want to categorize them as "victims" -- which means a huge investment in the vested interest of professional social workers to correct the problem. Meanwhile, drugs, crime, delinquency, illiteracy are rampant and will increase regardless of the amounts of money given. Again, money is not the solution and only contributes to the pernicious attitude of entitlement and abuse of the system.
I read between the lines myself and came to the same conclusion.
As an aside, I've recently become friends with a single parent co-worker who unfortunately is getting food stamps for his kids. He's a pretty smart guy, but my theory is that since he gets all his food 'free' he doesn't worry about certain things.
He feeds the kids total CRAP food like hot pockets, those cheap-ass frozen pizzas and other frozen crap. If that's not bad enough, the kids waste 80 percent (no kidding) of what's put on the plate in front of them. They whine when it gets cold so he cooks some more 'crap', they nibble on it, watch TV and whine again when it gets cold.
This is not your typical 'welfare home', just a 'little' assistance, if you will.
Makes me wonder what the 'welfare queens' are doing with our tax money.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
They sound like racists to me.
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