Sometimes there is nothing humane that can be done to prolong the life of someone or something. We had a family pet that was something like 16 years old. This dog was the best and the whole family loved her and she loved everyone. Especially my grandpa. When the dog started to show her age and was very sick, my parents knew it was time to put her down. While I tease by calling them murderers, I know that what they did was for the best. Without which we could not move on with our lives.
America’s pet is also getting old and showing signs that it might be best to let it die. The Auto industry is losing money like my dog was losing blood from her nose. The Auto industry is putting out shit cars that … well … no matter what we fed the dog it still was diarrhea and it still was more marketable.
If the auto industry is bailed out of their crisis, then they will never learn from the experience. If the auto industry is bailed out of their crisis, then America will never learn from the experience. It is important for the Americans and Canadians to realize that if a business loses money and goes bankrupt in a capitalist system, then it must die.
Death is a part of life. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Remember those who have died. Learn from them. Love them. But don’t prolong the agony. Don’t create vegetable corporations.
Let it die.
or you can do as Bush did “Abandon free market principles to save the free market system.”
if you need to save it by abandoning it, maybe it needs to die.
Let it die.
What follows below is my response to an email forward I received. The original email was from Chuck Strahl to his supporters.
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Subject: Re: Our Federal Government needs serious prayer!
This [the forwarded] email is full of lies and half-truths. The thing about democracy is that it only works when people work together for the common good of the whole country. Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have demonstrated time and time again that they are only interested in their own wants and needs. They do not care to work with others. The rule on the playground is that the kid who does not play well with others will end up playing alone. That is the position Harper put himself into.
Harper, before the election, was trying to rule the country as if he had a majority. Because the Liberals were in a bit of a predicament, they played along with the Conservatives. It was a game of chicken: two people speeding toward each other, both praying the other person would swerve out of the way. Before the election the Liberals always did. Now Harper tried to play the same game but the Liberals had a plan.
A coalition of parties working together is exactly what a democracy looks like. Each of the parties in the coalition will have to put aside some of the ideas which make them different and look to where they have common ground. As such they will be working for the majority’s interests and not a small group.
Harper demonizes the NDP by calling them socialists and the Bloc by calling them Separatists. But in order for the three groups to work together they will have to put aside their more extreme ideas. Therefore, this coalition is not socialist and it is not separatist. Any group can sound evil if their politics are boiled down into one word. The word I would choose for the Conservatives is Fascist or authoritarian. Harper controls his party like a dictator. He does not have them speak to the press and he wants to choose which reporters have access to the Members of Parliament. This is a restriction on freedom of information. Harper also keeps us in the dark as to what his plans are to solve the economic crisis.
I believe that minority governments are best because the parties must work together in order to get anything done. Harper and the Conservatives have refused to do this, otherwise this would not have occurred. As such, everything that is happening is his own doing. There is no reason for anyone to complain because this is something which the Conservatives have done to themselves.
At any rate, the government does deserve our prayers. But our prayers should never be ones to tell God what is best. To demand that the Conservatives stay in power is to try to force the hand of God. We deserve a government which serves the interests of a majority of people and, I feel, that that is a government which is willing to work together. And the Conservatives are not doing that.
I will quit my rambling.
Take care.
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[forwarded email below]
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My god, the sheer arrogance of this asshole. Does he not realize that the Canadian people did not elect him as Prime Minister? The Prime Minister is not a democratically elected position. It is a position which is determined by the number of seats the various parties hold. It is not elected and, therefore, it is not a democratic position. Its only raison d’etre is because the voters are fickle and need someone to rule over them.
But Harper is even stupider than the electorate. He believes that having the other parties work together to acheive common goals is undemocratic and scary.
“As you read this letter, the Liberals are holding secret negotiations with the socialist NDP and the separatist Bloc Québécois to overturn the wishes of Canadian voters and take power,” the e-mail says.
“They want to take power and impose on Canadians a prime minister without a personal mandate, a Liberal-NDP coalition not one voter has ever endorsed and have it all backstopped by the separatist Bloc Québécois, who simply want to destroy the country.
“We need your help to ensure that they do not succeed!”
How can 3 disparite groups “Impose their agenda?” How can this be an imposition? except to the conservatives. And even so, the conservatives may have a greatest number of seats, but they do not have a majority of the vote.
But the same letter suggests that the leader of the coalition does not have a personal mandate. That is hogwash. Every politician who has ever been elected to office has a mandate. Whether or not they were leading the party is irrelevant. Each member of the House of Commons is supposed to have equal say and equal sway.
The mandate of the politiician in a Representative Democracy, is to represent the people. As such, the will of the people cannot be determined by one group alone. If one group has a majority they will impose their beliefs and the rest are not represented. If the parties work together to solve a problem or answer a question, then they are acting democratically and are truly representing Canadians. But the Conservatives believe that they are right and therefore everyone else must shut the fuck up.
The labelling of the opposition parties as socialist and seperatist is purely childish. It is easy to scare people when you distill the situation or ideology down to a single word. But the Fascist Tories do not want people to think for themselves. They want to gain a majority in the HoC and rule with an iron fist. Because Having 35-45% of the vote is a mandate to impose your own ideology. But having 3 parties who generally disagree with each other, working together for all of Canada, that is imposing your own desires.
