Math not your best subject?
Perhaps that is why your ideas on society are impossible.
There are nine million people in Haiti. How many are homeless?
You think there are a million cottages in Muskoka that could house say six each?
There are two million people living in houses in TORONTO.
So say you want to give 2 million homeless Haitian people homes in Toronto. Where you going to put them?
Get the picture?
I'm ALL for looking after people who try but can't look after themselves, within my limits.
But here is the problem with human nature that screwed communism. Without the incentive to work to get ahead, people won't bother to try to get ahead. Why go work your ass off if the guy who doesn't, gets almost the same?
If you are saying that the government should simply do a one time stripping of the assets, homes, bank accounts of "rich" people and then give it all to the poor people, then the money would be gone pretty quickly.
Then what?
Thank about it for a little while.
i'm not suggesting re-locating anyone to/nor from anywhere. My thought for the day was a visual representation/ reflection on the gross inequities between the haves and the have nots. Some readers got it, you obviously did not. I have toured visitors from both Europe as well as rather wealthy South Americans, through cottage country from time to time. They are typyically flabbergasted by the immensity of the conspicuous consumption. To them it seems to represent wastefullness of land and resources. The South Americans particularly commented that if they had second homes at some distance in their countries, and these places weren't fenced nor guarded, after one week away from the place, the doors/windows, furnishings and interiors would be ripped out and carted off.
As the middle class continues to erode, and middle class auto-workers find themselves working in Walmarts, fast food joints and call centres, the increasing number of have nots in canada are some day going to wake up rather hungry and upset with their lifestyle inequities, at which time the "Muskokans" will be facing the same dilemmas their wealthy counterparts are dealing with in third world countries. It's only a matter of time before the pool boys will need to have that German shephard on a leash as they patrol your barbed wire walls. Some "cottagers" are already routinely detecting squatters having wintered or summered in their abodes in the Bancroft area. i really have no solutions, it's simply an observation...and who is to say we will stand immune from anarchy, rebellion and riots when the working stiffs have finally had enough. As soon as they run out of cash for their sedatives, (booze, drugs, video games and big screen tv's), they'll be after yours. things are already heading that way quickly in the States..angry people, Tea Parties, red necks, guns, militias, survivalists, home foreclosures..and it goes on and on and on
