Get the fuck out of our park, and get the fuck out of our city. We are the 53 per cent: the people who actually pay taxes to fund the social programs that support your steady drinking problem, and your weed habit, but certainly not your hot water bill (if you know what I mean). Get a job, get a life, and whatever you do get the fuck out of the park so that people who actually worked and died for something can mark a solemn occasion. —The 53%
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2011.
Your tax dollars also go toward propping up dictators in foreign oppressive regimes, bailing out banks and killing innocent civilians in places like Iraq and Afganistan. But you seem to have no problem with that. Go live somewhere where people don’t have the right to assemble or protest. See how you like it. I have a job and support my own drinking and smoking habits, by the way, but those people have a right to be there, and from what I hear they have agreed to move out of the way for Remembrance Day.. so pipe down.
Banks in Canada weren’t bailed out. Maybe you should educate yourself.
They’re moving, so chill the fuck out.
WTF is your issue. I’m ignoring this shit like it isn’t even happening. Keep it moving folks.
Maybe you should punch yourself.
haha, you funny tommy and donk…nothing to see here folks
“Your tax dollars also go toward propping up dictators in foreign oppressive regimes”
That, Tommy has been going on for a long, long time. The Trudeau Liberals made an art of it. Our willingness to engage with the Third World means that External Affairs has a fairly lax set of guidlines over what entails acceptable levels of corruption, brutality and incompetence. Anyone for a Cohiba or a Rum & Coke?.
As far as Iraq goes, there has been no official, aknowledged Canadian involvment, although a recent book bt Mark Urban,” Task Force Black”, contains a throw-away reference to Canadian Special Forces operating in-country during the search for hostage James Loney but provides no specific details.
“Banks in Canada weren’t bailed out”
FFS just because banks weren’t bailed out doesn’t mean that social injustices don’t exist here.
i like dark and stormies commander. sorry i didn’t bring any treats this year, but festive festivus baking starts soon^^
Can’t wait Painey. If the boy and the squeeze have any recycled trees that they particularly desire, send me the want list.
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1rn869Z…
Lt. Bookman is on the job.
Canned, I wasn’t speaking of social injustice in general. Your comment does not consider what I was responding to.
I was respond to the ill-informed leftists on this board who seem to think that Canada went to war in Iraq, that Canada bailed out banks, that Canada funds dictators, and other such half-baked theorists of the fantasists that count for commentators on these boards.
Here here OB. Where can I sign up to evict those losers?
that episode was just on, he eats up the screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zePQavforA
Love Bookman♥
Sebaceous – you can’t even evict the Pthirus Pubis from your eyebrows and crotch mohawk.
“crotch mohawk”
I lawl’d
i hope xeno is okay, she might be off the grid. it was a bad nor’easter
Forgive my factual errors, but specifics aside AC, there are a lot shittier things that your tax dollars go towards than people getting social assistance, or “support(ing) your steady drinking problem, and your weed habit” as OP puts it. Studies have shown that people drawing welfare are no more likely to use or abuse drugs and alcohol than any other segment of the population. Also, that money represents a very minute portion of the budget, yet the crazy righties always want to talk about it like it’s bleeding us all dry.
I agree with OP that they should clear out for Nov 11th, but forcibly removing them would be a violation of their rights, and we enjoy a lot of freedoms today that previous generations fought and protested for. So forgive me for kinda talking outta my ass, I just didn’t like the cut of this bitch’s (and the 3 or 4 that came before it that basically said all the exact same things) jib.
Oh, and it’s just as much “their” park as it is “our” park being that it is a public space.
personally speaking, i would rather hang out with robbie. lots of dogs there too
let them stay, but forcibly remove the tents for 1 day. fair enough?
GV, I believe that’s what most of us have been saying. Get rid of the tents, stay for the ceremony.
They are leaving and even going to clean up before they leave. Hense no reason to complain at this point. Be happy they have respect for the vets.
i think most people have been very well behaved, hence, no dustups
I promised myself that I would stay away from LTWWB but it is difficult to resist when the following kind of thing is posted:
anonymouscritic1 said:
“Banks in Canada weren’t bailed out. Maybe you should educate yourself.”
You may be forgiven for believing that there was no bank bailout in Canada since it didn’t receive much scrutiny at the time and whenever the subject was brought up the government insisted on calling it a “bank stabilization” program or alternately an “asset transfer”, but never a “bank bailout”.
The reality is that the Canadian government “borrowed” money by issuing government bonds and loaned the proceeds to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) who then used it to buy mortgage assets from Canada’s big banks in order to allow them to free up capital in order to maintain a certain liquidity in the lending markets. The debt that the Canadian government took on in order to do this amounted to $75 billion.
Some might try to argue that CMHC acquired $75 billion in assets from the banks and so it was as the government claims simply an “asset transfer” but then it doesn’t differ very much from the U.S. TARP program in which the same thing took place and for much the same reason.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty argued at the time that such a move was essential to preserving the liquidity of Canada’s lending markets and maintaining the health of Canada’s banking system, meaning that if such an action had not been taken our banking system would have suffered during the financial crisis.
The end result was that the Government of Canada (you and me) took on an additional $75 billion in public debt in order to make sure that the banks could continue to carry on business as usual.
The central irony in the whole situation is that when the government issued bonds to raise the money it loaned to CMHC to buy mortgage assets from the banks, it ended up transacting this business with Canada’s big banks, in effect “borrowing” from the banks in order to “buy” bank assets through CMHC.
Bankers always make out okay, it seems, and Canadian bankers wasted no time in patting themselves on the back and paying themselves the usual bonuses for a “job well-done”. Meanwhile the government is a further $75 billion in debt and this number has a very real impact on the Conservative government’s likely inability to balance the federal budget by 2014 as promised and will lead to budget cuts in other areas.
I believe Canadians do have some justification for sharing the anger expressed by those in the Occupy Wall Street movement and for joining in solidarity with them by various “Occupations” around the country. Those Occupying Halifax’s Grand Parade (and I was one of them for a time) are not so ill-informed and irrelevant as you think.
anonymouscritic1 perhaps you should heed your own dictum and “educate yourself”.
Comandante Bob said “I promised myself that I would stay away from LTWWB”
Can’t help but feel a little hurt >: (
Thus further propagating the government’s bondage fetish…
Harper, you kinky bastard….
I’m with donk and 195.
I was pissed that they wouldn’t move for 11/11/11, but now that they are, I’m going back to ignoring their asses.
Though, I DO admire the fact that they have managed to construct what looks like a pretty stable clothesline. A two tier one at that. At least they’re putting their smartz to good use and at least they’re attempting to keep clean and not get that ‘dirty hippie’ thing goin’ on.
53% lol. Get your talking points from somewhere other than Fox News. American stats don’t work here
anonymouscritic1 is technically right… the banks weren’t bailed out – we just had a “liquidity injection” lol. In other words Tens of billions of our tax dollars were used to prop up our banks for the crazy lending they did back when you could get 40 year mortgages without a down payment…. But yeah that’s not a bailout. 😉
http://www.investmentreview.com/expert-opi…
Ah I just saw the comondante’s much more lucid description – sorry lol
http://www.mises.ca/posts/articles/the-can…
now the greeks are doing the world ..umm all greek style 🙁
i’m surprised farmer bob, you deigned to schlep with us ignorant turds
Ivan,
It wasn’t meant that way. I just decided I should spend more of my spare time doing other things (“run outside and play” as my mom used to tell me) and less of it here arguing with you and Bro Tim.
Also, my indoctrination program obviously wasn’t having much effect on you two so I decided to concentrate my efforts at revolutionary change elsewhere >:)
i missed you, i worry when the inmates don’t check-in periodically
Oh yeah, way to rub in the fact that you actually have an existence outside of here. Lousy 1%er *grumble, grumble – shakes fist*
pg,
What’s that old line? “It’s not you . . . it’s me” except in this case it really IS me.
Hey nobody said anything about “ignorant turds”. Obviously I have more ‘splaining to do.
My cousin sent me this, it gives a satirical look at the EU bailout balagan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QwKEwo4Bc…
i just wanted to say turd^^i read your comments in other areas of the coast
http://money.canoe.ca/money/mymoney/canada…
Actually OB, 67% of Canadians pay income taxes… just so you can stop throwing around your stupid 53% number that you saw somewhere on TV and decided to run with it…
RSVPs
“For a while there we were all Keynesians.”
(Jim Flaherty to American congressional leaders, Washington, May, 2011)
: Commmandate Esposito (Nov.1, 2:06AM) – While I certainly am in sympathy with the Occupy Halifax movement, I also think that The Lieutenant’s post is ideologically driven in the sense that he sees the government of Canada as being in league with the “big banks” in effecting a sleight of hand to enrich the fiscal “robber barons.” In other words, what he would call a “bailout” of Canada’s big banks others would call a “stimulus package.” It is a matter of perspective.
The Lieutenant traces what he insinuates is a nefarious scheme of the government by issuing bonds, the proceeds from which are then loaned to
CMHC which then buys mortgage assets from the big banks which free up liquidity in the lending markets. But the end result was not to “ensure that the banks could carry on business as usual” as The Lieutenant seems to suppose but rather to implement a monetary policy such that the injection of liquidity into the economy would serve to stimulate corporate borrowing and expansion which, in turn, would increase the number of jobs which, in turn, would slow or even reverse the onset of recession. It’s called Keynesian economic theory.
The choices the Government had were limited: It could simply print more money the value of which would soon evaporate in inflation, adhere to a classical economic model based on the dual forces of supply and demand which, of course, brought the economy to the brink of a deep recession (or even a depression) in the first place, or practice Keynesian economics which involves “priming the pump” by injecting liquidity into the system. Keynesian economic theory, of course, was not implemented during the 1930’s and it was only the outbreak of war in 1939 – and the enormous government spending on armaments – which saved the economy from spiralling even deeper into a rock-bottom Depression.
There are other points such as the major differences between the Canadian and American banking systems – Canada’s nine chartered banks are “big banks” by design and are closely monitored, unlike the fiscal free-for-all of the US banks which can range from a store-front operation right up to those which are “too big to fail.”
In effect, The Lieutenant’s “central irony” is not an irony at all but simply the means by which the Government implements its monetary policy. There is no nefarious plot here designed to reward the “Wall Street rapists” and beggar the the 99%. That said, the “Occupy Halifax” movement, like the others elsewhere, draws attention to the enormous economic gulf separating that 1% from the rest of us.
Interestingly, a recent document issued by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council highlighted three basic elements of proper government economic policy: the separation of ordinary retail banking from higher risk investment activities, recapitalization of banks with public (as opposed to private) money, and the imposition of a financial transaction tax. It sounds like a plan.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!