[xerxes]

ridenrain wrote:

Gordo Campbell plays a mean guitar too but I don't think it's going to help this time.

I didn't know that either. But I guess most people in Bc want to smash him over the head with one anyways.

[Zipperfish]

ridenrain wrote:

Gordo Campbell plays a mean guitar too but I don't think it's going to help this time.

No, he's mean adn he plays guitar.

Raise the minimum wage Gordo, you cheap bastard. And quit bleeding the working folk dry with your beer taxes.

[ridenrain]

I guess grumpy Libs are doing some digging.

[OldChum]

EyeBrock wrote:

#9,

I just sick of rich plonkers thinking they know best. Get some time in on the shop floor then come back and then tell us what's best for us.

I'm a right wing socialist. I believe our leaders need to earn their positions, not just get it given to them because they went to Harvard or Oxford.

There are plenty of able people from modest backgrounds who could lead us.

If only those of modest means could afford to run for office. It is a game of the rich and that is where it has gone wrong. Politics that is .

[bootlegga]

Canadian_Mind wrote:

EyeBrock wrote:

Ken, I just have an aversion to the rich leading us poor plebs.

It's not a partisan thing, I'm just a working class guy, born in public housing, Dad was a big guy in the Union.
I just don't like the sense of entitlement these rich guys have.

I don't expect them to be poor, but come on, villa in Provence? I'm sure he has a finger on the pulse of the Ford worker in Oakville.
Iggy is slipping in my view.

Can help what you were born into. Just as you were born into a poor working family, Iggy was born into a rich one. And being of Russian decent, I bet his family had to work their fucking asses off as immigrants to accumulate their wealth, which in my mind is admirable.

There is nothing he could do to win over your heartsbecause of his wealth. He could sell off a prized villa which has been in his family name for 60 years now, and still have the net worth of the place.

Not game on in my mind. If a person doesn't want to be a poor person who's country is run by a rich person, then they better stop bitching and start working... All the way up to being the one who is running the country.

[poquas]

Money or the lack thereof has absolutely no bearing on the value or good/evil of a person. The fact it takes wealth to move into politics is a problem with the system not the people working within the system.

I wasn’t born into money. We were at best upper middle class and what I’ve achieved in wealth is my own doing. I studied hard in school (which I paid for myself) and spent a career which was well paid and I did a good job. At 60, I have no debt and got to retire early. I have land and a comfortable living for myself and my family.

The people who have a problem with other’s wealth (perceived or not) is a problem for them to deal with. If someone “feels” like a “poor plebe”, it’s time to look inward and attempt to elevate their own self worth. Criticizing those who have only because you don’t is jealousy carried too far.

Quote:

If a person doesn't want to be a poor person who's country is run by a rich person, then they better stop bitching and start working... All the way up to being the one who is running the country.

That says it all.