Ok, so I haven't had many political rants in this journal, and I usually don't blab on about politics in journals/with people my age because they tend to be at that stage where they're hopping onto the political bandwagon, namely, whatever the media is presenting to them. So here are some things that have lately been bugging me:
Global Warming:
For some reason, I keep thinking that global warming is going to make everything warmer even though i know that isn't true. Basically I keep thinking that since Vancouver has pretty decent temperature during the summer usually, I ought to be expecting better weather as it continues on. But of course I'M WRONG because global warming basically makes the hot places get hotter (hehe sucks to be you Arizona), and the cool-ish/cold places get colder. Hence it is June 5th in Vancouver and all we have seen is rain...Then again, it's Vancouver.
Barack Obama:
While I don't support him, I'm not so much annoyed with him as I am with all these stupid teenagers hopping on to support him without a second thought, and then acting as if they know a lot about politics. You don't. Hilary Clinton's health insurance policy was better (yes, it was), and everyone seems to think it is cool to criticize her for not giving up the nomination to Obama easily. Yet no one really likes to stop to think that it is BETTER for a leader to go down with a fight than to roll over and give up with grace. Sheeeesh. Not to mention Obamagate, but that's probably more of a Canadian thing, but none the less. Then of course there is that whole thing about receiving public/government campaign funding if Mccain agreed to as well, but he went back on that because he was receiving so many donations, etc. He seems to be a fan of "campaign rhetoric", as he has been quoted.
Stephen Harper:
*sigh* poor Harper, everyone around him seems to be resigning or getting kicked out. First Peter Mckay (given that he had a reason, filling in for the incompetent), Maxine Bernier, his minister of foreign affairs, and not to mention Rona Ambrose who got shuffled out for doing a crap job. So fair enough, his cabinet is incompetent, i guess that is in a SENSE forgiveable since it isn't Harper's fault personally. But then comes the matter of the GST. What the HELL was Harper thinking. It's like "oh, thanks for saving the wealthier man 800$ when purchasing an Aston Martin, but it doesn't do much for those who need financial assistance and who are buying things such as food and medicare, which don't even have the GST tax on them. It would have been much better to have LEFT the GST as it was (and kept 10 billion extra dollars for Canada in the process) and lowered income and corporate taxes, while perhaps also installing a carbon tax. This would make it so that the government would still be acquiring the same amount of money, if not more, yet less well-off people, as WELL as the better off employed people would have more money to spend. Not to mention that because of the carbon tax, people would be more conservative with gas because of the higher prices. So basic and so stupid.
And while he's at it he's investing something around 50 billion in Canada's military. Thanks, because that is what we need, you knocked out our national daycare, and installed some defence ideas that we don't need. Oh, except we might need them, Mr. Harper, if you pull more moves like that apology you wrote to the New York Times for us not joining in Iraq.
Anyway, enough of that, people just see to think that Harper is a good prime minister because he is callous, which i applaud him for, but I want Ignatieff in.
Michael Ignatieff:
This one will be kept short. People criticize him for having not been in our country for the past few years because he has travelled the world. It isn't like he wasn't politically involved during that time, or that he is in any way inexperienced. He taught Poli Sci at Harvard, it isn't like he isn't up to date! If anything, he understands political issues better than any other Canadian politician in government right now. Of course there is the bonus that he is a Liberal, but from the times I have met him/ heard him speak, he is one of those men who are a true intellectual. Not to say that Harper, Obama and Mccain are stupid or anything of that sort, of course they are all extremely intelligent...But Ignatieff...is smarter. It is so sad that Neither him or Bob Ray won against Stephane Dion...ugh.
Finally
All these Canadian university kids turning conservative because they're thinking University is really left wing. Well, it is. But that is more borderline Socialist/NDP area, not Liberal. Being a full-hearted conservative means that you support (though aren't trying to change) 1) Pro-Life in all cases 2) No, or very little, separation of religion and state 3) The GST cut (ew) 4) Criminal sentencing on Marijuana (that means if you get caught at a college party smoking a joint, you can have a minimum of 5 years, which is what they were recently trying to install.
I'm going to leave this post public in the hope that someone argues with me. Not one of those stupid internet arguments, but more kind of an actual debate kind of a thing.
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energetic
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