Votin' day

[Valiere]

Yesterday, I saw a sign that said "DON'T WANT REPUBLICANS TO WIN? VOTE EARLY ON NOVEMBER 3RD!"

Today, November 2nd, is the last day to vote. Early voting was weeks ago.

Sneaky, sneaky.

[Valiere]

Isn't voting mandatory in Brazil?

[drenrin2120]

I followed this race more closely then others, but I still didn't vote.

[Valiere]

Voting's easy when you're aligned with one party. There's a magic button that fills it all in for you.

[drenrin2120]

An easy button, you say? Yes, that'd be my problem. No damn easy button.

[Archem]

I'm a non-voting felon, thank you.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Screw voting! I have money!

and I am leaving this country at  some point, i hope.

[Ben]

I don't vote.


Because i don't really believe in the democartic electoral process, unless its on a municapal level... I believe in the electoral process when applied to a municipal level.

Provincial I SHOULD vote for...but I dont. Lots of oil money in our voting in Alberta. My party of choice cant even get one seat in our parliament...I dont bother.


Somebody is bound to call me an asshat for saying so, but I quite like the model in China right now. Wherein Agricultural and rural areas are governed with a more socialist model, and urban and industrial centers with a more capitalist and democratic style.


Its all about money. And you cant take a landmass the size of the USA, Canada, China, Russia etc and expect one system to work well all arcross the board. Regradless of population density.




Honestly Im sick of canada. I dont know where you all get the idea that we have "free health care". I am in debt about 6 thousand dollars to the health board of Alberta right now....because I dont qualify for blue cross. Im moving to france one day.  And next year, when the collectors catch up to me, Im sure Ill owe another 20 thousand on top. After all, cancer treatment aint cheap...Canada's "free" health care is run on a provincial level...Im not sure why we havent all seperated into smaller countries. We get some manner of emotional attachment to the idea of one big happy country. We arent all happy...the north of canada is in a sub-third world state in many parts. Our resources are sold back to us at double and triple the cost, because of National incentives for Oil refineries to station themselves in certain provinces. If all the oil comes from Alberta, and Has to be refined in Ontario before being sold back to us....I dunno. Everything is rosy in other parts of canada. But I don't live in the same country as they do. I dont care what the borders say... Ontario is another country then where I live...I just dont need a passport to cross the border is all.


All cold aside....I loved this place. Now after years of busting my *** to be driven into debt because I needed surgery and treatment....sure, I receive Employment Insurance when I lose my Job....and sure, they cant turn me down at a hospital....but Something about the debt that follows this....dosent seem right. Im trying to forumlate a plan wherein if Im still alive in 5 years, Im getting the hell out. There are countries out there doing things the right way, and I want in.

[drenrin2120]

Honestly Im sick of canada. I dont know where you all get the idea that we have "free health care". I am in debt about 6 thousand dollars to the health board of Alberta right now....because I dont qualify for blue cross. Im moving to france one day.

My professor made us watch sicko then write a paper on it... =\ Was pretty ****ing gay. She loves moore and thinks canada is awesome. I don't know. I'm pretty divided on my political opinions, but even I can see moore's bias as all hell.

[Ben]

My professor made us watch sicko then write a paper on it... =\ Was pretty ****ing gay. She loves moore and thinks canada is awesome. I don't know. I'm pretty divided on my political opinions, but even I can see moore's bias as all hell.

**** Michael Moore. That whole movie was based on ONE PROVINCES HEALTH CARE. Ontarios. **** Ontario.

[drenrin2120]

It's funny how every argument against michael moore never brought up that point.

[Ben]

Seriously, when I watched that film I was angry...like, white knuckles angry.

[drenrin2120]

It kind of makes me mad now that this woman is my professor. Funny quotes from here...

"Look! Canada has free health care! Why can't we have free health care??"

"Believe me, not everyone with a Ph.D is what you'd call 'smart'."

[Ben]

It kind of makes me mad now that this woman is my professor. Funny quotes from here...

"Look! Canada has free health care! Why can't we have free health care??"

"Believe me, not everyone with a Ph.D is what you'd call 'smart'."

Not to mention, It was never "free" anywhere. The Insurance Premiums are added to our taxes...that was in the old days. Now in alberta, you need to pay cash to get a doctors note. And there is a cash charge you need to pay before you even see a doctor in a clinic.

Free. Ask you teacher what planet she comes from where ANYTHING is free. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or free anything.

Honestly, I want to phone your professor and tear a strip out of her. Ask her if she wants to talk to a real canadian about our lovely health care system. Ill tell her how an abulance ride cost me 600$ last year. Ill tell her about the bill collectors, and my credit rating being ruined because I have Scoliosis. Ill send her photocopies of my bills. Ill tell her about the Beds that get cut back every year at mental health facilities forcing low-threat mentally ill into the streets without the treatment they need to contribute to society, driving up the homeless rate in a city thats known for 8 month -20c and colder winter (that could have been given two weeks of treatment to save their mental state and return them to their domestic lives and families)

I can tell her about my friend who inheirited a debt after his mother passed away for her ten plus year battle with Bone-marrow Cancer. And when my bills come in for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma treatment, Ill send her those too. Maybe she can hold a Michael Moore Movie Marathon fundraiser to help me pay my debts off before the ****ing tumors come back. **** your prof


But then again, "those who can't do, teach"

[drenrin2120]

Sorry, Gem. I didn't mean to get you all riled up. =\ I've met a lot of weird professors where I'm going now. A lot of radicals, people with dumb views. I guess that's just where they end up because no one else wants to deal with them, a community college.