tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post8093605509826854932..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: Fixing Quebec: Free Post-Secondary EducationEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-67503556498519710482013-10-13T07:57:17.983-04:002013-10-13T07:57:17.983-04:00Various societal alternatives have been proposed a...Various societal alternatives have been proposed at various time. For a simple example of that just browse through the Mars Trilogy of Kim Stanley Robinson. In short, education, housing, healthcare and work are all rights freely available. We don't have that yet and the reasons are complex. To simplify it should be enough to say that when the premise is skewed the result can be no different. The main problem is the outlook of our society which is extremely short term. This in turn caused the development of short term view constructs such as corporations, fractional reserve economies and profit centric outlooks. After all we've convinced ourselves that value equates with the unit of measure (think money vs value). The value of a chair is not $x nor is it 2 feet or 3 pounds. It's what one can use it for. Even still 300 years ago people were building for the ages. Not so today. A consumer driven society needs consumers to function. It is after all a giant ponzi scheme. While I therefore agree with the initial post one must also realise that no government that cares about elections will pass such legislation when all it needs is to pretend to follow the most vocal members of the electorate. And also let us not forget that an educated electorate is much harder to control and predict. Thank you editor, I appreciate your effort and applaud your hopeful sentiment. Amaraldanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04349637205366663920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-67507720744938200712013-10-11T19:40:21.463-04:002013-10-11T19:40:21.463-04:00I've debunked every single "facts" L...I've debunked every single "facts" Liam threw at me and then acted like an internet tough guy and insulted me. Who's the idiot, exactly? Maoist Rebelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-62119650481910949072013-10-11T16:06:47.208-04:002013-10-11T16:06:47.208-04:00'cold war propaganda is still strongly entrenc...'cold war propaganda is still strongly entrenched in liam's brain it seems. he'll need a therapy.'<br />Here we have a useless idiot supporting a useful idiot. Stick together guys.<br />Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-76479991744269215502013-10-11T09:39:51.158-04:002013-10-11T09:39:51.158-04:00*investors*investorsadskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-14595902882754711542013-10-11T09:36:37.861-04:002013-10-11T09:36:37.861-04:00Note that the people featured in this article are ...Note that the people featured in this article are trained in technical fields, and one of the problems cited is layoffs. So it's not people with degrees you would probably consider "useless", and it has less to do with universities than with the economy.<br /><br />The problem is that university degrees do not match the economy, and cannot match the economy under the current system. As a result, many university graduates are left with a diploma and no job. The problem is that there is a disconnect between the educational system and the corporate-run economy. For example, there is no way to predict how many Comp Sci graduates the economy will need next spring. And if many are needed next spring, who knows if the CEO of IBM or CGI doesn't decide on a whim to lay off a couple thousand programmers and engineers in the summer and offshore the work to a cheap labor market like India only to shore up his company's stock options? Corporate entities are like that: completely unpredictable, unaccountable, and socially irresponsible.<br /><br />About "having a $100K job with the FTQ doing absolutely nothing all day", it's true that many jobs in the public sector are pretend-jobs, just like much of construction work in Quebec is finding "problems" where no problems exist only to "fix" it, and much of police work is done on "crimes" invented to justify the existence of so many police departments, etc... much of work in the private sector, contrary to popular belief, is also pretend-work. With manufacturing and increasingly technical work outsourced to cheap labor markets, corporations in North America are filled with people called "managers" who hold degrees called "MBA". This is basically an army of useless people who invent stuff for IT people to do, only to have the stuff undone a few days later to go back to the starting point. There are also client relations people, i.e. people companies use to suck up to rich inventors. <br /><br />Even professionals are mostly bogged down in bureaucratic work. Fewer and fewer engineers design, few doctors operate, etc...most just sit and fill out papers all day.<br /><br />If we had an economy where only useful work was done, we'd have 80% unemployment.<br /><br />adskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-43059251427851024922013-10-11T07:57:16.682-04:002013-10-11T07:57:16.682-04:00@Troy
Upon doing further research I realized I mad...@Troy<br />Upon doing further research I realized I made an error. There are multiple Concordia Grads with awards (and many more nominees) but not all from the film department. Some are from Comm. Studies. <br /><br />You can look them up yourself. Start with Canada's foreign-language entry from last year and work backwards. Maybe you'll learn something!<br /><br /><br />-KevinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-30952448671670247092013-10-11T07:54:48.601-04:002013-10-11T07:54:48.601-04:00@thatguy
look them up on the internet. if you don...@thatguy<br /><br />look them up on the internet. if you don't find anything wrong with any of them let me know i'll help you out.<br /><br />@sylvain raciste<br /><br />you think i should have answered liam's question about liberals by listing pq affairs?!? this would have been disrespectful for him. why don't you respect liam sylvain raciste?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-31053234893933584002013-10-11T07:50:02.853-04:002013-10-11T07:50:02.853-04:00@thatguy
you might not be familiar with www.libér...@thatguy<br /><br />you might not be familiar with www.libéraux.net. check it out. you'll learn. if you think the site's author is biased, just click on the links to newspaper articles related to each scandal.<br /><br />@sylvain raciste<br /><br />"and all you can talk about is the Liberals."<br /><br />you brought up the liberals in your comment 10:20 and made a claim about them. you need to support that claim. not me.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-18566443393807394452013-10-11T07:45:04.434-04:002013-10-11T07:45:04.434-04:00@troy
"why does nobody else in the world use...@troy<br /><br />"why does nobody else in the world use it?"<br /><br />it's a hidden gem, mate.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-33040310552543399302013-10-11T07:45:04.240-04:002013-10-11T07:45:04.240-04:00@Troy,
Let me put it this way: the ones who could...@Troy, <br />Let me put it this way: the ones who couldn't get credit are the same people you wouldn't bother hiring for any position. <br /><br />As to you second question: look up the history of Quebec in the 50s and 60s, then produce a comparison with educational streams elsewhere in North America. <br />Essentially the CEGEP system cannot happen anywhere in the USA, and most of the rest of the country lacked the post-secondary educational facilties (even if somewhat substandard) to be transformed into a cegep system. <br />Heck, Quebec has government-funded universities that are older than some provinces!<br /><br />-KevinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-74903664406503425402013-10-11T07:03:02.924-04:002013-10-11T07:03:02.924-04:00I agree - sovereignty at any cost - that's why...I agree - sovereignty at any cost - that's why we must partition this place so some of us can survive and thrive. No reason we all have to go down with them!Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-64281062238801892392013-10-11T06:35:47.888-04:002013-10-11T06:35:47.888-04:00If that's the game we're going to play, ho...If that's the game we're going to play, how about corrupt separatists like Andre Boisclair, Pauline Marois, Gilles Duceppe and all those filthy biker-backed union leaders who helped the PQ with unethical electoral rigging?<br /><br />Sylvain Racistenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-4564464134880332762013-10-11T06:28:56.280-04:002013-10-11T06:28:56.280-04:00@Student - and where are your numbers mate?
We...@Student - and where are your numbers mate?<br /><br />We're talking about how the PQ is clearly corrupt (perhaps you decided to ignore that the FTQ admitted to helping rig the elections) and all you can talk about is the Liberals.<br /><br />Another shit argument busted.<br /><br />Sylvain Racistenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-29923157232735003072013-10-11T00:52:44.363-04:002013-10-11T00:52:44.363-04:00Hmm odd how most of those names you threw out have...Hmm odd how most of those names you threw out have never been charged with anything, and some of them not even tangentially implicated in anything, but yes well documented cases. thatguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-54153800912198909462013-10-11T00:42:45.133-04:002013-10-11T00:42:45.133-04:00After a year and a half of PQ-ers yelling that the...After a year and a half of PQ-ers yelling that the Liberals are corrupt, and stating it as a fact, there's been very little in the way of actual proof or charges. All the UPAC meetings seemed to have only culminated with a couple of doners having been charged with giving too much money. thatguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-64482489833232062692013-10-11T00:35:32.540-04:002013-10-11T00:35:32.540-04:00Kevin,
Answer me this, are those students you men...Kevin,<br /><br />Answer me this, are those students you mentioned the exceptions or the norms? Besides, just as the Editor pointed out, if CEGEP system is so brilliant, why does nobody else in the world use it?Troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960771543572680283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-34989872991597720082013-10-11T00:24:15.843-04:002013-10-11T00:24:15.843-04:00@maoist rebel
cold war propaganda is still strong...@maoist rebel<br /><br />cold war propaganda is still strongly entrenched in liam's brain it seems. he'll need a therapy.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-65494589659274170952013-10-11T00:18:33.404-04:002013-10-11T00:18:33.404-04:00he didn't question the necessity to speak engl...he didn't question the necessity to speak english mate. he just said english was a foreign language. there's no link between the two. are you part of the 42% canadian illiterates?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-24856752504127598012013-10-11T00:16:06.967-04:002013-10-11T00:16:06.967-04:00"The 1%, as you call them, earn their wealth...."The 1%, as you call them, earn their wealth. I am not in the 99%, and would definitely not consider myself unlucky. I pay taxes. I don't want to incentive those that do not work, not have them continually stay on unemployment insurance."<br /><br />No they don't. The vast majority are born into it and/or inherent wealth. It's good that you pay taxes, but it's a huge problem when wealthier individuals in society refuse to make contributions to the society you live in. These people are the scum of the Earth and are less than worm. You seem to put so much emphasis on labor and you assume that labor is out there for everyone. The vast majority of people on welfare eventually do find jobs as shown in poll after poll. It's more complicated than that, so look at the stats here:<br />http://www.sixthestate.net/docs/welfare/welfareprofiles.pdf<br /><br />As is evident, the evidence does not support your claim about welfare recipient. <br /><br />"Widespread poverty existed since companies were owned by Stalin allies. The Proletariat were reduced to struggling or forced to leave their home to go work in a industry town like Moscow or Saint Petersburg."<br /><br />Wrong. The Tsarist regime was characterized by huge wage gaps and it was completely wiped out during the Soviet years. The mass poverty was mostly in the villages, of which the causes were droughts, people killing cattle and the ridiculous 10% kulak persecution requirement that Stalin had set out. Here's a quote from the book "The ABC of Communism": "The proletariat seizes the public power, and by means of this transforms the socialized means of production, slipping from the hands of the bourgeoisie, into public property. By this act, the proletariat frees the means of production from the character of capital they have thus far borne, and gives their socialized character complete freedom to work itself out. Socialized production upon a predetermined plan becomes henceforth possible. The development of production makes the existence of different classes of society thenceforth an anachronism. In proportion as anarchy in social production vanishes, the political authority of the State dies out. Man, at last the master of his own form of social organization, becomes at the same time the lord over Nature, his own master — free." Frederich Engels, Chapter 3. <br /><br />Before you make another ridiculous statement about capitalism, keep in mind that the core tenant of capitalism is economic inequality. Maoist Rebelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-27890249173102481692013-10-11T00:11:11.983-04:002013-10-11T00:11:11.983-04:00@cutie003
the only ones we know didn't balanc...@cutie003<br /><br />the only ones we know didn't balance the budget ever were the previous liberal government. you'd like to see them in jail too cutie003? or do you have a double standard for these things? or no standard at all and just conditioned negativity towards the parti québécois?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-29657397697201282372013-10-11T00:07:42.563-04:002013-10-11T00:07:42.563-04:00why do you say it won't rival many research fa...why do you say it won't rival many research facilities in europe and north america? gut feeling?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-60806227849862900182013-10-11T00:05:49.090-04:002013-10-11T00:05:49.090-04:00who's villenueuve?who's villenueuve?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-37471045772165251712013-10-11T00:04:19.504-04:002013-10-11T00:04:19.504-04:00"I noticed on the map is the fact that New Br..."I noticed on the map is the fact that New Brunswick is faded, but Labrador isn't. Does Pauline expect Labrador to join her on her delusion to statehood? Another thing, I noticed is the fact that Outaouais and Montreal are faded. Is it not important to create jobs, here too?"<br /><br />paranoid hysteria.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-40618398168213786432013-10-11T00:00:38.951-04:002013-10-11T00:00:38.951-04:00what did he build?what did he build?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-71186076277702423502013-10-10T23:54:59.436-04:002013-10-10T23:54:59.436-04:00"Secondly, the Libs might be as corrupt as th..."Secondly, the Libs might be as corrupt as the PQ, but at least they're competent."<br /><br />?!? please list their economic achievements in the period 2003 to 2012, with a focus on the budget deficit.studentnoreply@blogger.com