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Responding to the parts that EvilTree didn't already respond to...
| quote: | Originally posted by ravr
Oh Please, the conservatives specifically targeted teachers and health care workers.... As result, we got major cuts to the health system and every 2 months or so threat of teacher strikes/ class disruptions, loss of many educators/ over crowed classes. Absoulty disgusting. |
If you're talking about Mike Harris, then yes, it disrupted service for a while, and by the time the Conservatives were on their way out, things had vastly improved. There is enormous waste in the education and health care systems, and the fact that they've returned to their previous levels of service (or better) with less funding should prove it. Harris ran those systems like a proper CEO would run a business; McGuinty runs them like typical unaccountable government bureaucracies.
It always takes 3-4 years after a change in government policy for those policies to take effect. If the changes are particularly significant (like funding cuts), you will always have some level of temporary "anarchy". Unfortunately, humans aren't pre-programmed to think about long-term effects, and it's clear that you're one of the ones who doesn't think past stage one. That is exactly how politicians, including the current provincial Liberals, are able to manipulate people so easily. Make a lot of short-term campaign promises, break them, wait for people's short-term memories and fleeting media-addicted attention spans to take over, and make the same promises again just before the next election.
| quote: | | You can fight nations, but the war on 'terrorism' is unwinnable just like the war on drugs. |
Here, believe it or not, you're actually right. But as you so quaintly put it a few lines down, just because 'Dubya' says something does not necessarily mean it's accurate. We aren't really fighting a "war on terror", just a war on certain terrorism-supporting nations and specific terrorist networks. It's really a war on Islamofascism, but that obviously doesn't sound as catchy as a war on terror. That's politicking for you - I think they should call it by its real name.
| quote: | | If you have no heard, in a recenty study, Al Quida has gotten stronger ever since the war on "terror" and they are actually recuriting people to carry out missions in the US. |
In case you hadn't noticed, they'd been recruiting people to carry out missions in the US since before the Cold War, so this isn't actually news. As for them being stronger since the war started, that is completely false. I very much doubt that you could find even a single report that suggests they're stronger, but even if you could, it would be in direct conflict with the hundreds of reports that they are much, much weaker.
Of course, you might be confusing Al Qaeda with the various Shiite terrorist groups backed by Iran. Some of them have gotten stronger for reasons completely unrelated to the Iraqi/Afghanistan occupations (i.e. the constant stream of funding from Iran, and certain military bungles by Israel). Some of the Shiite groups in Iraq are also a little stronger because the Sunni groups who they're always fighting with are weaker, but that's in constant flux anyway.
Now - do you have any points to raise which haven't already been beaten to death, or are we just going to get more of your dumbass liberal one-liners and Democratic talking points?
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like is that really what you believe? stop living in fear kid go and live a little.
