tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702065106344798334.post7746652921355118225..comments2024-02-07T06:58:35.517-08:00Comments on I Hate Saskatchewan: He has the internet nowI Hate Saskatchewanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944594438364743853noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702065106344798334.post-68381180482312718912010-05-04T10:10:06.285-07:002010-05-04T10:10:06.285-07:00On another issue I agree that Pankiw is an asshole...On another issue I agree that Pankiw is an asshole but he is correct (sort of) about "reverse" discrimination. For instance why should natives be the only people to get free university education? Why don't we imitate the Germans or the Dutch where education is free for anyone who has the necessary ability? In the United States there have been hundreds of student loan suicides and a few on this side of the border although not much mention of this gets into the press. On the other hand Medicare in this country is universal, more or less, and very few people in Canada dare to oppose. Perhaps therein lies the rub. Compare our native "leaders" to the late Dr. Martin Luther King. In his book "Chaos or Community" King wanted to tackle the issue of poverty for <i>everyone</i> including whites. He supported a guaranteed annual income as one solution. Now governments around the world are gradually starting to see that this is a solution to the "jobless recovery". What took them so long? The problem in this province is the level of political discussion is about that of the average football rally. What passes for the political Left is always on the lookout for the next government grant (for them only naturally. I talked to an "activist" who actually believed a GAI was a good idea for his friends but <i>not</i> anyone else!) VERSUS the thugs on the right represented at their ugliest extreme by Pankiw. I personally know a retired woman, fairly left of centre, who received a death threat because her unemployed and disabled son wrote a mildly worded letter to the local paper complaining about "freebees". Guys like Pankiw are trying to bring out the worst in a very disgruntled audience. The social science dominated "left" gives compassion a bad name while the "right" promotes increasing state interference under the rubric of personal liberty.Wernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213034395981099737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702065106344798334.post-90870154135109471932010-05-04T09:24:23.698-07:002010-05-04T09:24:23.698-07:00I didn't say the whole population just more th...I didn't say the whole population just more then there should be. Remember the saying "where there is one rat you see there are two hundred that you don't". The general atmosphere in this province tries to drag everyone down. The open line shows, the Leader Post and that idiot drivel for older people called "Senior Living" are just examples. These things wouldn't exist if at least a significant portion of the population can be influenced by them. The fact that you complain about my use of the word "cretinous" suggests you are feeling sorry for people who don't deserve it.Wernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213034395981099737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702065106344798334.post-10486267902303297642010-05-04T09:15:20.744-07:002010-05-04T09:15:20.744-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Wernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213034395981099737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702065106344798334.post-72720057873860135602010-04-29T11:49:32.888-07:002010-04-29T11:49:32.888-07:00"We have high school teachers who believe in ..."We have high school teachers who believe in creationism and a cretinous population that lives for the next beer and the next football game."<br /><br />Someone stereotypes an entire population like this (like the blog's author does), and HE'S the one doing the criticizing. Werner, where is thy logic? (But I guess since you use big words like “cretinous,” you are free of vice, right?)<br /><br />"We have high school teachers who believe in creationism"<br /><br />Could be. I haven't met one, but that could be true. By the way, there might even be some HS teachers who think this in other provinces or states. Yes, believe it or not, Sask is not the only place where something negative can happen.<br /><br />This is a good blog for the 0.01% fringe who love to gripe about everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702065106344798334.post-64753608811840460652010-04-24T16:11:29.714-07:002010-04-24T16:11:29.714-07:00where is thy stingwhere is thy stingWernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213034395981099737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702065106344798334.post-28459127498958802282010-04-24T16:10:36.787-07:002010-04-24T16:10:36.787-07:00In Saskatchewan people get their opinions from cra...In Saskatchewan people get their opinions from crap like the Leader Post one of the dumbest newspapers in Canada (one of their former editors said that "legality equals morality" about as good a definition of fascism as you can get in three words) and braindead open line shows. We have high school teachers who believe in creationism and a cretinous population that lives for the next beer and the next football game. What crime did I commit in a past life to end up here? I'm surprised that the suicide rates don't go right through the roof especially in rathole Regina. Death why is thy sting?Wernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213034395981099737noreply@blogger.com