harper's new sentencing minimums

[Saskatchewan]

Harpo is an idiot.

You want to reduce crime. Improve peoples standard of living.

Yeah. Because everyone is stealing just one loaf of bread to feed their family, right?

 

[afterhours]

Harpo is an idiot.

You want to reduce crime. Improve peoples standard of living. The biggest thieves IMHO is the Government and the Banks. Let's start with them first.

BS

I am not big on politics but I don't think he wants to reduce crime. He must be smart enough to know that this will not reduce crime.
I think he wants to win support of the public, and maybe let his cronies make some money on building jails or whatever, and kick some of it back to him in some shape or form.

 

[train]

I am not big on politics but I don't think he wants to reduce crime. He must be smart enough to know that this will not reduce crime.
I think he wants to win support of the public, and maybe let his cronies make some money on building jails or whatever, and kick some of it back to him in some shape or form.

Hey not everyone behaves like the Quebec Liberal party....lol.

 

[The Options Menu]

Yeah. Because everyone is stealing just one loaf of bread to feed their family, right?

No, but young underemployed men are actually a menace to society because they tend to get 'creative' when confronted with an unsatisfactory future, or too much free time. When presented with 25/hrs a week at Timmy Ho Ho's, or when they have no prospects at all, bad things happen. That's pretty much been shown to be the root of almost all preventable crime, and it costs everybody a fortune. Cudos to the guy with high school diploma and 3 part time jobs @ $11/hr, but a lot of men wouldn't make that choice. People can say 'personal responsibility' all they want, and like 'abstinence', a certain amount of lip service CAN BE GOOD, but if you take the notion too seriously you actually end up causing real harm, and causing outcomes that have real big costs.

It far cheaper to have robust before and after school programs (in and out of schools), summer programs, summer student employment subsidies, reasonable equality in public education, help to make sure an adult is 'at home' in the evenings, to encourage mixed income communities where possible, access to post secondary education, AND ACTUAL DECENT PAYING JOBS for young men (and it is young men specifically). That's what kills preventable crime cheaply.

 

[Brill]

maybe i used a dated copy?

What was your raisin behind that?

 

[sleazure]

I hear this is a big reduction from the prior sentence of 365 days.

That's so weak, it's 52 weeks.

 

[red]

What was your raisin behind that?

i don't think anyone is really reading my posts, but i don't want sound like sour grapes

 

[userz]

Good on Quebec and Premier Charest for standing up to the Harper Taliban agenda, at least one province will speak out against this ideological madness.