This is for all the ones who have the nerve to assume right way that some are racist just because they don’t approve of all the support the refugees are getting.
You have no room to say that to the people who care more about our own than helping new comer’s. Just because some are mad they are getting more help than Canadians does not make you racist.
They have every right to be mad and upset about the help they are getting. They are just upset seeing all that help just because they came from a bad situation.
So next time you see someone upset over the help they get remind yourself it does not make one racist. The person has every right to there view on the topic just like the ones who support them getting that help.
Try to remember there are some honest poor here really trying to better themselves but are not getting as much support as the refugees. —Not everyone is racist because of how they feel
This article appears in Dec 24, 2015 – Jan 6, 2016.
Inconvenient truth #459 – a “race” is not something that you can convert to (Sorry, Rachel) or get butchered like a hog for deciding to leave.
Inconvenient truth #773 – a large amount of those people wringing their hands about our own domestic under-advantaged, probably didn’t give two sideways fucks about them prior to the Boy King’s ill thought promise to bring 25,000 to our shores by January 1st.
Think about this:
– you can’t compare the level of “need” of our working poor to that of families living in a tent in a refugee camp for years on end.
– the refugees are expected to find jobs and be independent within one year. The vast majority will become independent, find employment and pay taxes. And they probably won’t gripe that some of their taxes are going to support those born here who need help.
You mean angry. Mad is state of the crazed mind.
He went mad and was taken to the NS Hospital. Once he came out of his psychosis, he became angry with his spouse for putting him there.
Critics should feel welcome to assert that the support given to refugees is too much, but they must also support their assertions with hard facts. Hard facts which justify the support given to refugees are that refugees don’t actually garner that much support relative to seniors or Canadian welfare recipients (I hope we still don’t believe that silly and widely discredited chain e-mail), that the support they do receive is time-limited (2 years max), that some of the support they receive is actually in the form of a loan that must be paid back, that the cost of privately sponsored refugees is almost entirely covered by groups of private citizens who are making rational choices about how they wish to spend their own income and wealth, that most refugees are fleeing war, persecution and poverty rather than poverty alone and therefore may be more deserving of help, and that the overall fiscal burden of all immigration programs is substantially less than Canada’s fiscal commitments to health care, social assistance, re-training and unemployment insurance, all of which benefit low income Canadians.
Denez makes an excellent point.
While I do agree that both sides should have a voice and that labels are over-used and childish on both side and only work to our detriment, I will say this:
The majority of the people who oppose the refugees are conservatives (not all). Most conservatives consider social systems such as welfare and medicare to be ‘socialist’ and hate the idea of them. (I agree with that notion with regard to our current welfare system) … they don’t really care about the poor of this country, they just use them as a launching point for their agenda. This invalidates them in my opinion.
Politically, I don’t align with any party. Every single party has done things that I like and things that I don’t like (some more than others) … but reading the comments of conservatives on the internet, it is difficult not to paint them all with the same brush. Difficult, but necessary not to. My parents and grand parents are conservatives and they are not racist. But on the internet conservatives come across as racist, homophobic, militant and hateful. Liberals come across as whiney, constant victims, flakes, etc.
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I agree they’re not necessarily racist, easiest question to ask people that take this view is do they support ending all of our foreign aid budget too? The budget is about $5 billion a year, can be easily googled, even under Harper (although its been decreasing slowly).
I also see the same thing as Ho!st noted, some (a lot?) of these people are anti-social programs in general and have suddenly had a change in heart when some of our foreign aid budget is directed towards these refugees.
you’re an idiot. “Just because they came from a bad situation”.
It’s not like these people are choosing to be somewhere that isn’t their home country. They are going to have to live with lifetime consequences;; mentally, physically, emotionally, financially, lingually, spiritually, etc. I’m sure if they could choose their circumstances, the outcome would be much different. They’re not “trying to talk away from you” — their being offered help because they are in genuine need with no other options. Granted, there are some people with the same circumstances here, however, there are also several resources that they can actually access, can communicate to get these resources, and/or are familiar with area~ these refugees don’t have a hint of advantage in life; just let them settle into an emotionally warm country, not a bitter one.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, that I find it morbidly ironic that the 100’s of thousands of Palestinian refugees that went to Syria and were treated like shit by Syria for 3 decades are now forced to migrate as refugees again and are suddenly identified as “Syrian” refugees. 13 UN registered camps housed Palestinians who still identify themselves as Palestinians until it suits them otherwise, were in Syria. Syria refused to acknowledge these people and made sure they stayed in certain areas only…now they are the rest of the world’s problem again. Irony at its worst.
I just wish all the people who are anti-refugee would stop pretending they ever gave a fiddler’s fuck about Canada’s own homeless and needy.
You never did, you never will, this is just a bullshit excuse for your fear and loathing of foreigners getting some help and “taking your job”.
It’s very transparent.
Who’s getting for Karneval in Koln?
^*psyched*
Why would you want to go there? you might get raped.
Stupid poor people get mad at other poor people. What a shame. To all the stupid poor… foreigners are not the reason you’re at where you’re at. The reason there are poor is because there are rich. Get mad at the small corporate taxes and the large subsidizes, we the citizens give to the rich. Under the disguise of “jobs”. There will always be jobs, don’t be fooled. Stop taking your anger/stupidity out on people in worse off situations. Try, if you can, to put your self in the shoes of others. Get out of your bubble for a second. You may not be racist, but you are delusional. The funniest thing is that everyone seems to idolize the rich even though they have their boots on the necks of the poor. P.S I’m aware their are good rich people.
I’d like to know where you got your degree in finance, accounting or business CL LE, I think you should return it. You clearly don’t understand how keeping corporate taxes low encourages investment, growth(including jobs) and security. But please, tell me how a hard working entity(business or person) isn’t allowed to accumulate wealth legally and ethically while paying their employees more than they are worth vs the bottom line?
^^^ “You clearly don’t understand how keeping corporate taxes low encourages investment, growth(including jobs) and security. “
Really?! I’ve never seen any proof that the “trickle down” theory is anything more than a way for the economic elite to retain more cash and shift tax burden to the middle class.
The reality is that decreasing taxes to the poor and lower middle class has the most economic benefit because they spend the extra money locally for goods and services – thus boosting the local economy and jobs. On the other hand lower corporate taxes typically result in cash hoarding by the corporations – unless it is used so that can buy out smaller companies and decrease competition.
Read this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-b…
CUJA12 I never once said that companies should pay employees more than they’re worth. If you have to make stuff up to counter. You might not be as right as you think you are.
CUJA12, i never said that companies should pay their employees more than they’re worth. That would obviously be proposteris. If you have to make something up to counter an opinion, maybe you’re not as right as you think you are. Bow to your corporate masters. I will not.
“When wealth and the wealthy are valued or honered in a city, virtue and good people are valued less”
“…and what is valued is always practiced, and what isn’t valued is neglected”
Plato (republic)
If you want to quote the globe and mail, at least be objective, here they suggest eliminating small business tax while as well. So where does that revenue get made up…smack yourself. Big corporate evil so tax them more, but small business provides local jobs so give them less taxes at the cost of billions (over 4 years projected at 8.5 billion vs 13.5 billion for big corporate). But let’s say a big corporation decides to bring themselves to Canada, with low taxes it means more opportunities for the company. Construction, maintenance, finance etc etc. jobs….http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-b…