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Tue Apr 14 2009 08:44:54 ET

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

Perry continued: “Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas.”

A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.

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Canadian Government Continuously Growing in Size

In the middle of a major world economic downturn with millions poised to lose their jobs and way of life, while government bureaucrats, politicians, staff and the like enjoy and maintain a high standard of living through bonus payments, larger than inflation annual salaries and allowances, etc. All this at the expense of the over burdened Canadian tax payer.

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Is this fair? Perhaps governments should “feel the pain” with the rest of the poplulation. Perhaps some “down-sizing” in government departments is appropriate.

With roughly 1 in 5 Canadians working for various levels of government, public service size should be seriously reduced in numbers. It is recommended that some new legislation should be passed in Parliament, Queen’s Park and City Halls that defines some “limits” as to the “size & numbers employed” at all levels of government (TVO.org, 2009).

The Canadian government has passed new legislation which extends the foreign worker visa program from one (1) to three (3) years in the past 6 months. On December 15, 2008, professionals seeking to work temporarily in Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) can now receive work permits for up to three years, the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, announced today. Previously, NAFTA workers were required to renew their work permit every 12 months.

Below is a letter written by an EconoChristian.com writer who is dismayed with the Canadian government’s repeated attempts to displace and reduce the middle working class of citizen in that country. Indeed, it has already undermined middle class workers by its unfettered immigration policy which allows some 400,000 new immigrants into the country. Proponents argue that increasing immigration increases economic prospertiy, while critics argue it actually limits economic opportunity because a majority of immigrants granted citizenship are sponsors of highly skilled immigrants.

Skilled immigrants are what Canada needs, not the former type of person. Indeed, the reason so many immigrants are admitted is because a majority of them are sponsored into the country (often family members), but also because of humanitarian reasons. Essentially Canada is a dumping ground for all kinds of people who do not contribute anything substantial to the economy.

If one were to look at other countries such as Japan and other Asian countries, one will quickly discover that their economies are prosperous not because of increased immigration, but because of an export-oriented economy and a high savings rate that the Japanese have been known for and is ingrained in their cultural consciousness. Canadians, on the other hand, and Americans, have extremely low savings rates and are actually borrowing money from places like China. Take a look at the growing trade deficits and the US dollar holdings of treasuries the Chinese have because of these deficits.
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OUR GOVERNMENT’S OWN RESEARCH CONTRADICTS WHAT IT IS DOING

The federal government’s own research has told it that with regards to Canada’s economy, immigration consumes 99% of the economic benefits it produces. With regard to population decline, in 1990, when Canada had a population of 26+ million, Health and Welfare Canada’s demographic research told the federal government that Canada’s population would continue growing until 2026 with half (130,000) the immigration we have today, so population decline should not have been an issue to be looked at in 1990. The same Health and Welfare study concluded that Made-In-Canada alternatives (such as making use of 45+ year old unemployed males and encouraging more females to enter the workforce) are superior to immigration in dealing with a larger number of older people in Canada.

In other words, the federal government’s research contradicts what it is doing. (See highlights of the major federally-sponsored studies entitled “Charting Canada’s Future” and New Faces In the Crowd” in the “Research” section of this web site) (Canadian Immigration Watch, 2009).

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Dear Readers,

I am writing to protest my dismay to the changes in the Federal government’s immigration rules which now allow foreign workers to remain in Canada for three (3) years instead of one (1) year. I am writing you to halt your destruction of the labor force of our country, as well as undercutting the permanent residents of Canada by importing cheap labor from other countries.

The United States has taken similar steps to fill supposedly vacant positions for which employers “can not find applicants” for, particularly in the engineering, scientific, and information technology fields, by instituting the H1B Visa program. Much evidence, particulary from government studies, institutes, and numerous other think-tanks have found that there is indeed no such labor shortage (1) and that the only reason the government has instituted such “temporary” guest worker programs is to undercut the American working class.

There is strong evidence [2,3,4] from numerous think-tanks and institutions showing that a similar situation in Canada is developing, and that the real reason we are changing our immigration rules to allow more supposedly highly-skilled immigrants and foreign workers is just to undercut permanent Canadian resident citizens’ earnings. An example is the skills and labour shortage in the Eastern Canada region (2), where top University professors dubbed Nova Scotia a “low wage ghetto” due to the increase in productivity in the past 15 years, but an overall reduction in wages.

Why would someone stay in a Province that continually reduces wages, does not allow workers to easily unionize, or has an employer which does not participate in training and/or profit-sharing programs?
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I severely question why our elected representatives and those whom we pay taxes to continually try to undermine our way of life by importing cheaper labor from other countries instead of providing incentives to corporations/companies to train existing employees in “higher skilled labor” or paying them sufficient wages to perform “jobs that regular Canadians do not want to do.”

I am also very, very disappointed that you, our elected representatives, do not invest public funds or provide tax incentives for companies to train permanent resident Canadians in the the areas of the economy that need these workers.

Indeed, this kind of practice was largely shown to have been extremely detrimental to other countries in the past who have practiced completely open borders, such as the Corn Laws of Great Britain; the bracero program of 1942-1964 that is so often touted by immigration enthusiasts as the example of how well such things work; as well as a study in 1991 by the Economic Council of Canada found that periods of immigration were not directly linked to periods of high growth [6].
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A study by the C. D. Howe Institute, a conservative think tank, suggests that immigration cannot keep Canada’s population young and could possibly contribute to population ageing in the near term.[3] Employment statistics also bring into question whether skilled worker immigrants, with a 34% unemployment rate,[4] are successfully meeting existing labour market needs in Canada. Many developed nations have much lower fertility rates than Canada but have not embraced immigration (Japan, Korea, etc).

In conclusion, I am writing to you to do your duty and lobby the Federal government to limit the amount of immigrants we admit each year, as well as reduce the amount of time temporary workers from other countries stay in our country; taking our positions when a fully-qualified or potentially fully-qualified Canadian could already take the job. I am very tired of paying taxes to our government when it does nothing to attract and retain quality companies to provide spending power to permanent Canadian residents.

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Canadians are not fooled by the government Public Relations material which is released to the media for consumption of the public. We do our home-work and experience these events daily and we do not agree with the increases in immigration or the need for longer-staying foreign workers when permanent resident Canadians could be trained to fill these jobs.

Sincerely,

Author

Windsor, Ontario

References:

(1) A study by the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University also found that there is no shortage of U.S. engineers. Eighty percent of respondents to a Pratt survey say U.S. engineering jobs are filled within four months, and 88 percent didn’t offer signing bonuses.

(2) Larry Haiven, a professor at Saint Mary’s University, said the report he wrote for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows while productivity has increased over the past 20 years, Nova Scotia’s wages are lagging far behind.

(3)No Elixir of Youth: Immigration Cannot Keep Canada Young, Backgrounder, C. D. Howe Institute, Number 96, September 2006, URL accessed 29 November 2006

Why are politicians, media and businesspeople hyping the credit and financial crisis as if it were something they didn’t see coming? It has been in the making for decades, made worse since Canada signed away its economic sovereignty to the unelected World Trade Organization and NAFTA. For these reasons, Canada should be holding its own “Boston Tea Party” that the citizens of the United States are currently planning on implementing to protest massive government intervention in every facet of their economy.

This pipe dream of stabilizing Canada’s economy is not solved by shipping our manufacturing base, already less than a quarter of our economic activity, to countries where they utilize slave labour and manipulate their currency. Taxation is not the solution when the money really comes from our childrens’ futures in the form of tremendous debt. Indeed, this has been the staple of government policy since the early start of the 20th century; that is, Keynesian economics and government intervention.

No one should be opposed to fair trade, but it’s time to recognize “free trade” is fiction because every trading relationship is managed in some way. This is true because Canada and the United States have become the world’s dumping ground for cheap, slave-labor goods produced in places where there are low or no labor standards or social safety nets like the Western world has.
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Our major trading partners manage their economies to benefit their citizens, so why can’t we? Get our jobs back, put money in our wallets, let us spend it as we see fit and watch the economy grow again. Taxing does nothing but impede spending and discourages people from making proper investments and encourages outrageous financial scandals. The World Trade Organization was never voted on or discussed with the general working man or woman on “main street,” so who’s benefitting from job losses and the so called “knowledge based economy” which is really just a euphemism for unstable industries based solely on services which is nothing more than redistributing wealth rather than creating it.

You can’t spend your way out of a recession. You have to save and produce your way out of it.

What about this “Tea Party?”

The Boston Tea Party was a direct action protest by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and has often been referenced in other political protests.

They’re calling themselves the “Tea Party Tax Protesters” and already dozens of them have held events across the USA. The protesters say they’re fed up with excessive state and federal tax increases and they’re rallying to express their outrage and demand change (KKTV, 2009).

More than $2 trillion has been spent on bailouts and stimulus packages in the last year. In the $800 billion spending package, members of Congress had a few hours to read 1,000 pages of bill text. No one in Congress noticed that it authorized bonuses to AIG executives, which the House later voted to tax at 90 percent. Congress imposed a penalty on payments that it authorized! That should have been a sure sign that Congress was trying to spend too much money too quickly (Kansas City, 2009).

Written by EconoChristian.com with outside sources.

Jury says refusal to pay tax not crime
Sonja Puzic and Dave Battagello
Windsor Star
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

A Superior Court jury ruled late Monday that a Windsor optometrist was not guilty of tax evasion when he refused to pay nearly $350,000 in income taxes over five years.

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Mr. Charlie Hart of Winnipeg Man., Engineer, Never paid one cent in Federal Income Tax. The Feds took him to court and, using the B&A Act (the recognized Canadian Constitution, the judge found him not guilty. The feds took him to court two more times with the same result. The third time the Judge told the Revenue Canada that if it took Mr Hart before it again, he (the judge) would fine Revenue Canada in contempt of court. Read the B&A act. It is remarkable that Canada is the only Country of stature that does not teach its Constitution to its students.

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There are two specific sections of the B.N.A. Act that deal with the delegation of authority between the Federal and Provincial Governments. Sections 91 and 92 deal with authority for various types of taxation, who has authority to levy which taxes, and various other areas of jurisdiction.

The Act is very specific in its direction. The right to tax income, known as “direct” tax, was delegated to the provinces; and it was clearly indicated that any monies so raised must be raised provincially, and used for provincial purposes. The Federal Government was denied the right to levy income tax.

But the Supreme Court of Canada goes further. It states that no level or government is allowed to transfer its authority to another level of government, and if transfer were attempted by one level, it could not legally be accepted by another.

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Jury says refusal to pay tax not crime
Sonja Puzic and Dave Battagello
Windsor Star
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

A Superior Court jury ruled late Monday that a Windsor optometrist was not guilty of tax evasion when he refused to pay nearly $350,000 in income taxes over five years.

Dr. Jack Klundert hugged his lawyer, Doug Christie of British Columbia, and wiped tears from his face and glasses after the jury was discharged. He smiled faintly at his wife, who sat in the courtroom and took notes.

Superior Court Justice Joseph Quinn thanked the jury for tackling “the complex issue.

“These decisions are not easy to make,” he said.

SECOND TRIAL

Klundert, 53, was standing a second trial for tax evasion under the Income Tax Act. He failed to pay $348,231 in taxes on income estimated at $1.5 million between 1993 and 1998.

Klundert was found guilty of making a false statement on a tax return in 2002 and fined $80,000.

He was also ordered to enrol in a constitutional law course as part of his two-year probation.

But the Court of Appeal found fault with Superior Court of Justice Steve Rogin’s instructions to the jury and Klundert took his protest against Revenue Canada to court again.

He told the jury he wrote zero income on his tax forms because he believed the federal government had no constitutional right to pursue him. He said disclosing his earnings to the government would be like “sitting down with thieves” and telling them where his valuables are kept.

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The media likes to spin this story to make it look like he is avoiding paying taxes. The real truth is that he is trying to prove that the Federal government has been taking power away from the provinces for the past 90 years and by refusing to pay income tax to the Federal government, they won’t be allowed to hoggle all the money that the Provinces should be getting directly.

Giving power back to the Provinces would be a major step for democracy because this political paradigm works best when it is decentralized and closest to the hands of the electorate.

Written by EconoChristian.com with other sources.

The Korean private educational sector for the English language is definitely as tumultuous as the article below states it is. Having taught for a year over in South Korea, this author’s experience was very similar to the author’s experience below. It is hoped that more teachers will decide to thoroughly research the schools they decide to teach at beforehand, or decide to teach at a reputable school recommended by previous teachers.

Thu, January 05 2006 By Todd Vercoe, The Korea Times

There is quite possibly no more frightening a word to the foreign community in Korea than hagwon. This Korean word conjures images of overworked staff, contract violations, difficult working conditions, broken promises and, dare I say it? Outright lies.

The private language school boom in Korea began in the early 1990′s and continues today with a hagwon on nearly every corner. Certainly no one can find fault with parental desires of seeing their children educated to the best of their abilities and private institutes seem to address a need in an overburdened educational system. However, business owners with suspect educational credentials seem content to hire foreign staff with equally suspect educational credentials to pretend to teach (more like entertain) children in some kind of a babysitting service designed more to generate fast profit rather than quality education. There are, of course, exceptions. Many private institutes do genuinely atempt to give quality educational guidance to their students. Others, and often times it seems the majority, are more determined to squeeze the fast buck out of their “customers.”

That Korean parents settle for poor educational standards is sad, but not really the concern of this writer. The future of Korea a decade or two from now is much more troubling when the effects ofthe foreign community are felt in the business that Korea does with the world.

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The average foreign hagwon teacher is brought here to provide a pretty (often European) face to the teaching of English. That they have no particular qualification to teach, other than a university education, is no matter. And what are foreign teachers greeted with here in Korea? Contracts that are not honoured, salary obligations not met, health insurance not paid, requests to teach illegally, threats of punishments that breach immigration lawand on the dark side, sexual and physical assaults.

This of course is not only a Korean phenomenon. There are disreputable business people all over the world.One only needs to pause for a second to consider the nature of the used car salesmen in North America to find a comparable example to hagwon owners. There is, however, a major difference in that used car salesmen tend not to deal with a foreign community on a large scale.

Considering that the foreign teaching community is, to some extent, the elite of North America and other nations in that often the only requirement in getting a teaching job in Korea is a university degree. This means that all (legal) foreign teachers place in the top twenty-five percent of education. Only 23 percent of the people in Canada had a Bachelors degree or higher in 1998, 24.4 percent in the United States (2000 census). What then will happen to these educated elite, often in Korea only for a year to pay off student loans or to try to save money for further study, return to their home nation with details of maltreatment from their Korean bosses? What lessons will thesepeople take through their lives about Korean business when contracts are routinely ignored

How much will these future leaders of other nations want to do business with a country that can’t properly police a widespread industry? The website Dave’s ESL cafe is widely regarded as the professional educators resource in teaching English around the world. One simply has to read the forums to see the litany of abuse that foreign English teaching staff suffers at the hands of hagwon owners. EFL-law.com a resource site for teachers of English across the world reports reports that it receives far more complaints about Korea than any country in the world. In fact with the American and Canadian embassies regularly posting warnings against teaching in Korea, the number of foreign teachers in Korea has dropped from 13,000 in 1997 to 6000 in 2005. It is quite telling that on thejob posting section of Dave’s ESL cafe there are postings ESL cafe there are postings for 735 jobs in Korea and 825 for the rest of the world. Apparently, the word has gotten out against teaching in theLand of Morning Calm.

Recent moves at some universities in Korea have moved them into the realm of hagwons. Attempts to deny staff due compensation, violations of Korean labour and immigration laws, unfair dismissal and other unfair employment practices have also taught their foreign staff about the dangers of doing business with Korea. Even in the government run programs of EPIK and GEPIK one can hear reports of unfair business practices being foisted upon the unsuspecting foreign worker.

Student discipline including beatings still continue in South Korea

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When the hagwon boom in Korea is over and the young, educated, foreign staff have gleefully returned to their home nations to rise in business, academe and politics what will these people have to say about their experiences in Korea and about doing business with Korean firms? When the time comes a decade or two from now in a North American boardroom and someone suggests offshore manufacturing in Korea or another nation, it is difficult to find fault with the person who lived in Korea stating: “Don’t do business with Koreans, they don’t honour their contracts.” Only through strong desire of the government and the people of Korea can the long-term damage of this unforeseen problem be abated..

Related links:

• Don’t teach English in South Korea
• Don’t teach in Korea

Of course, always do your own homework!

Governments are no longer suited for the role of definers, defenders, or supporters of the public good (nor have they ever been). Low voter turnout, democratic deficit, and increasing anomie and apathy of the public at large are stark examples of how the voting electorate have lost trust in their Government and the way in which elected representatives are made as purveyors and definers of the public good. Election after election, the polls show steady declines of the public exercising their fundamental right to appoint representatives into Parliament. Indeed, according to statistics from Elections Canada, voting turnout in the 2000 elections was the second-lowest ever, at 61.5 per cent (CBC, 2004). How then, would the Government, as many people claim to be the ideal choice as definers of the public good, be justified in defining and governing a country full of rightly-so cynical voters? In order to answer this kind of question, one must examine the methods in which society has traditionally allocated resources.

The economic market bears the most resemblance to the ways in which traditional societies allocated and distributed resources. Here the basic tenets of economic theory were displayed to function in a systematic manner; there was supply, and then there was demand. Soon came Government into the picture, as best depicted in the post World War 2 era when Keynesian economics came into play where it contested that Government intervention in the free market was needed to serve as the balancer of supply and demand because it was thought that the free market wasn’t able to control itself. While this may be true, many authors have speculated that Government also had the possibility of failing.
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A theory developed by James Buchanan, who won a Nobel Prize for his contribution to economic theory and thinking became the founding basis of the term public choice theory. It also led to the development of the Center of Study for Public Choice at Mason University where it remains the most popular source for this theory. The premise behind this theory is that the same principles that economists use to predict peoples’ actions in the traditional market-place and melding them with peoples’ actions in collective decision-making. Essentially it means that people are self- interested in how they spend their money.

The chief advantage to public choice theory fits neatly as a panacea with the current situation due to the rational ignorance of voters. That is, each voter is faced with a small possibility that their suffrage will change the outcome of an election; therefore the logical choice for the voter is to be generally ignorant of politics. This could be called government failure, akin to the market failure that the government is supposedly there to protect against. Where is the economic efficiency in having low voter turnout and a politically apathetic populace, and how would the government be able to determine the public good? The answer is very simple: the government is not in the ideal position to define the public good.

The first argument in this debate is that of corporate campaign contributions to political parties and patronage appointments of party- friendly businessmen and lawyers to government-office by in-power political actors. History is replete with examples of major political actors and public representatives rewarding their major campaign contributors with rewarding posts in office. In a democracy where the government exists as a pure public good for the mass of voters, there exists interest groups, or conglomerates of concentrated interests, which seek to influence Government policy (which include their definitions of public good) to implement economically-inefficient policies that would benefit not the whole public but just their slim minority.

Political appointments, often in the form of careers in the public service, have stood to be the most common type of rewards given to political party-friendly businessmen (and women). Affirming this claim is a report by Ward (2006) where Justice Gomery stated that “… numerous political appointments to Crown corporations that have been made over the years have been a smudge on the integrity of the appointments process and have often stood in contradiction to the merit principle” (Ward, 2006).

A prominent example of government corruption includes the sponsorship scandal, which started in 1995 to give the Federal Government more visibility in the eyes of the people of Quebec. Chiasson, Gail, Wentz, and Laurel (2005) reported that Justice Gomery, in his account, concluded that between 1996 and 2002, $282 million was spent on this program where 44% of the money going mainly to Quebec advertising agencies that over-billed their claimed amounts (Chiasson, Gail, Wentz, and Laurel, 2005 ). This case clearly demonstrates the arrogance and contempt that elected politicians, accountable to the public, clearly have for the democratic system. This case further solidifies the idea that government irresponsibility runs rampant throughout government; leads the public into disillusionment with their elected representatives; and further driving up the democratic deficit, which in turn provides less legitimacy for government to determine the ‘public good.’
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On another vein, we see that corporate campaign contributions have always been a determining factor in election outcomes in Canada. It is common sense that political parties with the most funds are able to muster a much larger political campaign than those with less. The traditional “big three” parties of Canada have been recipients of large sums of money from special interest groups which included business and corporate donations. Further examples of patronage, large influence from corporate donations, and otherwise ‘unethical’ behaviour abound. The orgy [patronage appointments in the 1984 campaign] confirmed what many Canadians already suspected: Liberals were pretty much a piece, greedy, smug, more concerned with their own interest rather than with the national interest, oblivious to outrage, deaf to dissent (Simpson, 1988).

Indeed, according to Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (2002), “In addition to being a source of scandal and corruption,” he writes, “the ways in which political activity is [are] financed may lead to severe inequalities. If the costs of campaigning are prohibitive, citizens without private wealth may be prevented from running for public office” (Duschinsky, 2002, p. 69). Here he adds weight to the claim that corporate funding of political parties is prohibitive to citizens without private wealth, which would allow them the public good and right to run for office.

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Computer viruses and anti-virus software are inextricably linked and are most likely a racketeering scam brought about by the software and information technology industries, according to overwhelming evidence. Indeed, one only has to question why there are so many viruses for the Windows operating system and so few for the Macintosh and Linux platforms.

It is common knowledge that ”Bill Gates wrote the first code ”virus” to break a program, in high school (yes it was probably an accident, but he learned from it). Thus, ”Computer Viruses” were born. He was also known as the ”Mother Of All Hackers (MOAH)” from when he exploited (hacked, stole, same thing) the ”Basic” OS running on Harvard’s Mainframe computer and ported it to the ”Altair 8800” that started him on his way to his billions of dollars.
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It is also now widely known that he duped his friend out of a hacked copy of QDOS (aptly named ”Quick n Dirty Operating System”) then renamed it various other names according to who it was being sold to. IBM PC-DOS, COMPAC-DOS, MS-DOS, etc. etc. Gates was fond of hiring young high school and college kids as code slaves for further writing of the OS. Bored, underpaid, overworked, mischievous, they began putting ”bugs” in the code. Hence we still have Microsoft computer ”bugs” today. Were they put there on purpose with Bill’s knowledge? Probably, as was the case with COMPAQ-DOS. Bill loved it when his company got paid more money the next year to write a fix. Thus, building in code to break, was born, and why much of the IT industry is based on perpetual work that the companies create for themselves, more specifically anti-virus companies.

Much like many shipyard workers in the past(and their bosses), were known to set logs afloat in the river channels of the old days; they called them ”Silent Messengers”! But they only used this practice when business was slow and – or they were about to lose their jobs. Does this justify it? No! You ever heard of the disgruntled ”Postal Employee” going postal? The same thing happens in every business. Many of the ”bugs” are just another form of ”Silent Messengers” of today; anything to make a buck, right?
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Indeed, according to a report from the New York times newspaper, a Russian company was recently (October, 2008) caught creating perpetual work for itself by creating the viruses that it sells anti-virus programs to its clients to eradicate. A hacker revealed that a Russian software company is behind a security scam to take money from spam and botnets. The hacker revealed via files posted online that Bakasoftware makes millions per year through an elaborate scheme that relies on email spam and indirectly controlling thousands of unprotected PCs. This could be the reason why so many people are switching to Linux and Unix-based operating systems including Macintosh computers; most viruses are targeted at Windows operating systems.

Is this type of perpetual work rampant throughout the IT industry, as well as other totally unrelated industries? For starters, the IT industry was originally touted as the solution to make the working life of millions of Westerners easier by freeing them from tedious and repetitive work such as copy editing, waste of paper, and so on. Interestingly, e-mail and PDF files were touted as methods for saving paper, but the reality of the situation is that paper consumption has actually increased at least 40 per cent since the advent of e-mail and electronic documents because most people prefer using hard physical copies instead of staring at a computer screen (Telegraph, 2001). While it is not being suggested that the paper industry colluded with the IT industry to increase paper usage, what is being suggested is that businesses and people in general are too quick to accept new ideas without first thinking of the policy implications.

The policy implications of the information technology industry are astounding because it is an industry based around change and constant updates as new technology is released. The IT industry is reminiscent of and old-school, organized crime protection racket. Traditionally, the word racket to describe a business is based on the example of the “protection racket” and indicates that the speaker believes that the business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed.
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Software is the epitome of this paradigm because users are practically held hostage and forced to purchase updates or new software because the tools (often physical, not ethereal in nature) they originially used were entirely replaced by computer code. So, until the time comes when the workers throw their sabo (shoes) into the looms (business machines) as the Luddites did during the beginning of the industrial revolution, it looks like companies to the likes of Symantec and other software companies be selling a lot of anti-virus programs.

Massive Profits Fueling Rogue Antivirus Market

In the cyber underworld, more and more individuals are generating six-figure paychecks each month by tricking unknowing computer users into installing rogue anti-virus and security products, new data suggests.

The Anti-Virus Industry Scam

One has to wonder how the anti-virus industry sleeps well at night. On one hand, it purports to serve the world by defending our computers and networks from any number of electronic critters and malicious code. On the other hand, sometimes its “cure” is worse than the problem its companies and products allegedly treat. Add to that a decades-old concern over business, market share, and publicity, and you have all the ingredients for a confused industry, product, and service. This situation regularly benefits the antivirus software industry and victimizes its customers.

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Inflation is on its way and we’re not prepared for it, says establishment shill economists and financial analysts Kevin Phillips and Nouriel Roubini, who both published books within the last 2 years predicting the rise of this insidious evil lurking around the corner in economies where government plays a nefarious intrusion in the lives of private citizens.

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For those green to the term, inflation occurs when the money supply is increased and “chases” prices of goods and services; much of which all people in countries use and consume on a daily basis. When this happens, prices often skyrocket but are not matched by increased sums of income for purchasing power. Essentially it hurts the savers, low income people, and those with high debt loads on their backs because these groups of people are not able to comfortably absorb price shocks as those with no debt and/or high incomes and large amount of wealth.

A year ago, Kevin Phillips, an ex advisor to the Nixon administration, warned of a the pending explosion of a 25-year “multibubble” that started in the 1980s, when the financial sector accounted for 10 percent to 12 percent of the U.S. economy had started metastasizing into an “arguably crippling” 20 percent to 21 percent by the middle of this decade (Reuters; Daniel Trotta, 2009).

Indeed, all of the government manipulation of the US economy — not to mention the governments and economies in the rest of the world — is starting to come home to roost. All of the overleveraging and “easy credit” was bound to create a disaster all of which can be blamed on U.S. Treasury Secretaries all the way back to the Nixon administration, but more prevalently during the Clinton and Bush regimes.

The fact is that central bank manipulation — government manipulation — is the prima facie for the financial bubbles which have been plagueing economies of the world for quite some time since the introduction of central banks in the early to mid twentieth century when the Federal Reserve (a quasi-private institution) was established by international bankers in the 1930s in the United States.

The US economy — already suffering from bank failures, insane trade deficits, and astronomical public debt — has not seen the full effect of these facts and is about to encounter further hardship from areas ordinary Americans rely on day to day; that being credit card debt and personal loans. Since the banking sector has essentially restricted loans to those with previously good credit ratings, many businesses relying on cheap credit are being held in the mud. In a corollarily to the housing bust that occured in the past year, the US economy has yet to witness the fruition of other sectors that have relied on previously cheap credit manipulated by the central bank, those being the commercial and industrial real estate markets.

What economists, politicians, and pundits do not mention is the poignant fact that the entire monetary system of the world — having been essentially taken over by the Federal Reserve through the forced creation of central banks in each country around the globe — has enforced the creation of fiat, or government issue money. This fasci of money has throughout history been the target of control and manipulation of all politicians, dictators, and despots. Convincingly, Rome fell mostly because of their issuance and debasement of their currency.

In fact, at the end of the Roman empire, their mercernary legions refused to take Roman currency. “Whenever a nation slips from wealth creation to wealth preservation, it becomes increasingly difficult to sustain the prior level of wealth. As the cost of maintaining the Legions went up, the ROI on having them declined. In order to pay the cost of preservation, Rome debased its currency multiple times. Debasement is a way to pay today’s bills with tomorrows worthless coins. That led to incredibly high rates of inflation. Payment in kind often substituted for worthless currency” (Newsvine.com, 2009). It surely seems the United States economy is on this very same route since the US dollar is bring printed out of existence as we speak to pay for a tripled debt (now currently approximately 15 trillion dollars) — a debt already unsustainable during and previously to the Clinton administration. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” is stated in the Holy Bible in Ecclesiastes 1:9.

With Canada being such a close neighbor with the United States, and sharing such a huge amount of trade volume with its neighbor, it will surely experience a severe bout of inflation to match the economic pain being experienced in the United States. “Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday (April, 2009) the Canadian economy is likely to “accelerate” out of what he deemed a “mild” recession – although warning that the next problem policy-makers may face is inflation” (Financial Post, 2009). The primary problem, however, is not trade issues, but debt incurred by the “financial stimulus” that Canada’s political elite are pushing on the Canadian populous as the economic savior. Keynes himself would be so proud.

The Obama Administration will not save us

For those thinking the Obama regime has the answers the solutions, please think again for the same people who worked for previous administration are working for this administration. At the helm of the newly created “economic recovery board” is Paul Volcker, a Nixon and Carter-era economist who was the former Federal Reserve Chairman at that time. It doesn’t stop there for the Federal Reserve Chairman in this term is Ben Bernanke, a former Bush administration Federal Reserve Chairman. How can things change when things stay the same? Indeed, Einstein told us that insanity is when you do the same things and expect different results.

Government intervention is now in such an elevated state that the entire banking system is at risk of being nationalized. Many major banks have already been taken over by the US government and many more are in danger of being usurped as well. It is obvious the current ‘crisis’ has been engineered to put the economic reins of power into the hands of ‘dear government’ who will guide us toward a socialist paradise with a controlled economy.

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Article written by EconoChristian.com with references to various sources stated herein.

How often have you seen job advertisements stating that some type of degree, diploma, or certificate is necessary? Performing a job or task often requires an applicant to have the pre-requisite knowledge or at least some kind of affinity and ability for the task and work being applied for. If this is so, why are so many job positions asking for so many qualifications?

Students across the world are beginning to question the necessity and value of college education as the cost of such training has risen by 110% over the past 20 years, median family income has risen by only 27% (New York: The College Board, 2001)[1].

Have you ever wondered if the requirement of qualifications and credentials has always been so prevalent? The reality of the situation is that back in the post World War 2 economy of the industrialized countries (Europe, North America, etc) there was a shortage of labour (people to take up jobs) so the qualifications necessary for these positions was often waived or learned on the job, and the employer paid training option was often implemented.

Contemporary Tight Labor Markets

Indeed, as Wikipedia points out, labor shortages were felt in [during and after WW2] agriculture, even though most farmers were given an occupational exemption and few were drafted. Large numbers volunteered or moved to cities for factory jobs. At the same time many agricultural commodities were more needed for the military and for the civilian populations of Allies (Wikipedia, 2009).

Before the war, there were not enough jobs to go around, hence the depression. As America geared up for the war and then got involved, two things happen which would have a great effect on postwar America. The first, to produce what was needed for the war, America’s manufacturing began to grow at a fantastic rate. Secondly, there was rationing, so as workers started making money again, there wasn’t a lot for them to spend it on. So, they saved lots of money.

With this tremendous boom there was a severe need for employers to fill positions which now require “qualifications” that were often learned on the job. Also, many new industries were created along with new job titles, so naturally academia and the college industrial complex jumped on the bandwagon to cash in on the increasing numbers of people looking for work as the economy tightened and contracted with the crises seen in the late 70′s to early 80′s and has not stopped since then.

It can be supposed that a certain element of this preference for a University degree is related to the local labor market conditions (supply and demand of people with certain qualifications), but the reality of the situation is that many people who come out of colleges are more suited for the working world due to the fact that it is more vocationally oriented training rather than the pervasive theory taught in Universities. It is true that Universities purportedly produce workers more suited for managerial or “abstract” thinkers, but it is more likely a matter of class and status and the epitome of the specialized economy’s need to compartmentalize people into specific roles.

The Rise Of Credentialism

University degrees were, up until recently (50 to 60 years), strictly an affair for the wealthy and well connected in society, while those at the lower rungs were relegated to community colleges and technical colleges. As many professions became regulated and bureacratized, Universities came into the fold as the necessary qualification to be completed to qualify for positions such as Nurses, Lawyers, Doctors, and other traditional occupations usually occupied by the wealthy of society and their offspring.

Back in the 1960′s to early 1970′s, high school graduates were able to enter teacher’s college directly from their previous level without having to attain a University degree in a specific or general subject. They could just literally become teachers out of high school and were encouraged to attain a University level qualification during their teaching career.

Similarly, concerns about the commercialisation of universities began to emerge during the debate of the late 1970′s about the safety issues surrounding the then-new recombinant DNA technology. The concern centered on the potential influence of the commercialisation of university research on the university as an institution (Kenney, 1998 & Science in Africa, 2002).
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According to a Statistics Canada report released a day after the 1998 “students’ budget,” students are paying more than ever for their university education. After inflation, tuition fees have leapt 62 per cent since the beginning of the decade, while family incomes have dropped by 5 per cent. Fees for undergraduate arts students increased in all provinces but Quebec. With yet another rise slated for the 1999-2000 academic session, students can prepare themselves for fee hikes well into the 21st century.

The sharpest rise in costs occurred in Newfoundland where, on average, students paid 18 per cent more than in earlier years. By comparison, Ontario had a jump of 10.1 per cent. In other provinces, the tuition surge ranged between 1.7 per cent in British Columbia and 8.3 per cent in Alberta. The national average was 9 per cent. Employment incomes of those aged 20 to 24 have fallen by 21 per cent during this period.

At the same time, average loans from the Canada Student Loans Program remained constant and because it has not kept pace with changing realities, students are left having to do much more with less. But youth aren’t exactly foregoing the post-secondary option due to the fee hikes. The proportion of 19- to 24-year-olds enrolled in university grew consistently from 1975 to 1995. That growth stalled in 1993 and then dropped slightly in 1996, but it is once again on the rise. So who is paying for these changes? Check out the numbers: the average undergraduate debt after graduation in 1982 – $5,260; in 1990 – $8,690; in 1995 – $17,000; in 1998 – $25,000.

Academics, teachers, and other so-called “role models” keep chanting the “need for formalized education to get a job” mantra because our economy apparently needs skilled workers, they say, but is the connection between formalized education and just “getting a job” that clear? Most people in semi-professional roles require skills such as exercising considerable judgement and certain specialized skills.

It would seem that before enrolling in and barely scraping by to complete a life draining 4 year degree, it would be more advantageous and cost efficient to offer more University or community college programs 2 years in length rather than the former. Indeed, many community colleges already offer 2 year programs that should be sufficient to compete for positions such as those offered in the business field such as marketing, business analysis and so on. After all, most of what you’re going to need to know is going to be learned on the job anyway.

The statistics and facts seem to be falling on deaf ears with childrens’ role models, teachers, and parents because in the last 30 years the percentage of positions/jobs requiring college/University education has more than doubled while the job responsibilities and tasks have remained the same or have been deskilled (ie. eliminated or replaced by new, argueably less skilled) by technology. Indeed, according to most “role models,” if students do not plan to pursue college education, they will often be threatened with flipping burgers for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately now that the degree obsession from employer human resource departments has expanded into society, lack of a college education often not make it past human resource departments’ clerks’ eyes (or computers).

Why would this be? Well, according to his book Executive Blues, G. J. Meyers warned of the “academic stench” that can often label an applicant “over-qualified” for many of the jobs available in today’s economy. Maybe what attracts employers to college graduates is their ability to sit for unbearable lengths of time at a desk staring at computer screens, or maybe it is the fact that after a college education that many students run up debts to which they will likely never repay in their lifetimes.

Where is the accountability?

In the Ontarian schooling system (in Canada), the Universities, colleges, and post-secondary institutions are empowered under an enabling act and are bound by provisions of different provincial statutes (ie. The Expropriation Act). In addition, because these institutions receive public funds directly in trust (by way of endowments), there are therefore restricted by the rules of accountability. This essentially means they are accountable to the public for demonstrating where the public funds were spent for the goals intended, and to see that it is spent in an efficient and economical manner. However, as all pundits of economics know, and what the economic and historic models show, is that government is not capable of being effective when power is taken away from individuals.
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This means that University administrations are supposed to be responsible for the management of the public funds they receive for collective purposes (very broadly for education and research), but who watches the watchers? Supposedly the board of governors serve this function, but the reality of the situation is that this board is largely a controlled aspect of University Chief Executive Officers’ preferences with no real stated process for reporting their effectiveness to taxpayers. Indeed, the MUSH sector (Municipal, Universities, Schools, and Hospitals) does not guarantee public accountability of funds with regards to University effectiveness (or lack thereof). This fact is so credible that even the Ombudsman of Ontario admitted it:

“Ontario has fallen behind in oversight of non-governmental organizations providing critical public services referred to as the “MUSH” sector – municipalities (except for the ability to investigate complaints about closed meetings in some cases), universities, school boards, hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities, police, and children’s aid societies (Ombudsman, Ontario, 2008)

It would seem that the problem in education starts much earlier than previously thought; it starts in earnest during the grade school education paradigm where students are socialized into specific patterns of social and scholastic thought. The education system has been patterned after the “outcome based” education model where it promotes curricula and assessment based on constructivist methods and discourages traditional education approaches based on direct instruction of facts and standard methods.

Though it is claimed the focus is not on “inputs”, OBE generally is used to justify increased funding requirements, increased graduation and testing requirements, and additional preparation, homework, and continuing education time spent by students, parents and teachers in supporting learning. (Wikipedia, 2009). Could the outcome based education model be preparation for the post-secondary treadmill racket we call Universities and colleges? All signs would point to “yes.”

Some solutions

In his famous presentation, “The problem with rock tumblers: Why Canada’s education system is in urgent crisis and how to fix it,” Tod Maffin outlines the need for education reform from a system where students are encouraged to have their individualities nurtured, developed, and focused into specific areas of study and vocation. Under the current system of outcome based education as outlined above, students are thrown into a public school with over crowded populations, assigned over worked teachers, and expected to come out of this Marxist factory with direction in life.
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What Mr. Maffin compares this system to is a “rock tumbler” where “you take all the students at the beginning of the cycle and toss them into a rock tumbler. You turn on the switch and tumble them for about 12 years.” Essentially this system is meant to form all students into generalists who do not have the chance to develop their individual skills as they should. The nice stones that come out of the tumbler are like the students that come out of the current education system, which he believes creates a bunch of generalists. “Everyone comes out being able to do everything generally well … Few people come out doing one thing extraordinarily well” (Leader Post, 2006).

Parents realizing this disturbing trend are increasingly enrolling their children into private schools, or in many cases, are teaching them at home in an individualized, nurturing environment — guided by Christian or other religious teachings — often not offered in public schools where students of marginalized situations often find themselves ostracized by fellow students, which ultimately defiles their educational experience and dooms their educational future.

Indeed, the US Department of Education’s report “shows that approximately 1.5 million children (2.9 percent of school-age children) were being homeschooled in the spring of 2007, representing a 36 percent relative increase since 2003 and a 74 percent relative increase since 1999.[2] One private researcher estimates that as many as 2.5 million school-age children were educated at home during the 2007-2008 school year.[3]”
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Jesus calls on Christians of all denominations to call into question the current public education system that their children attends as secular schooling has been stripped of all value and meaning when He has been taken out of the curriculum. Without God or Jesus, students become lost in the wild of secularism and often adopt secular ideals. Phil Brennan of Newsmax.com has exposed this secularization of the schooling system stating that “”government schools must stamp out love of country and the family must be viewed as the enemy: ‘As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism’”" (Newsmax, 2003).

References:

(1) The College Board, Trends in College Pricing, 2001 (New York: The College Board, 2001).

[2]U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, “1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007,” December 2008, at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009030.pdf (January 6, 2009).

[3]Brian D. Ray, “Research Facts on Homeschooling,” National Home Education Research Institute, July 2, 2008, at http://www.nheri.org/Research-Facts-on-
Homeschooling.html (January 6, 2009).

Politicians, businessmen, and media conglomerates working together have been touting that they had no knowledge of the current depression and economic trouble. Somehow this should be hard to believe given the way in which the economies and financial systems of the world were slowly manipulated throughout the years. It has been in the making for decades, made worse since Canada and the United States’ politicians signed away their respective economic sovereignty to the unelected World Trade Organization and NAFTA; not to mention the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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This pipe dream of stabilizing Canada’s economy is not to be solved by shipping its manufacturing base, already less than a quarter of its economic activity, to countries where they utilize slave labour and manipulate their currency. It also is not to be solved by the proliferation of Casinos and gambling houses which destroy the moral fabric of communities and eventually countries. Here is a brief history of how gambling came to be common practice in Canada:

A 1969 amendment authorized provincial governments to manage and conduct lottery schemes and authorized charitable groups to do likewise under license – the federal government still had control, however, and even had their own lottery. The provincial and territorial governments soon negotiated provisions that led to the introduction of further gambling options in Canada such as province-run ticket lotteries. Governments began to generate substantial revenues from their virtual monopoly on Canadian gambling and became interested in diversifying their gambling offerings. (University of Alberta Study)

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Why would a country with decent, primarily Christian people, decide to open state-run Casinos thoughout its lands without any thought of consequence? You can bet your bottom dollar the policy makers knew the harmful effects that gambling would have on a population, but were desperate for solutions to declining public revenues due to de-industrilization (loss of manufacturing industries; backbone of the economy) and were under the influence of powerful people hell bent on destabilizing the middle class industrialized people of the world. “Canada experienced a dramatic increase in legalized gambling in the 1990s, primarily because of governments’ need to increase revenue without additional taxation” (CMAJ, 2000).

The industrialized world is steadily losing its manufacturing base to countries with low or non-existent labor, environmental, or financial laws. China is such an example of a country where they regularly manipulate their currency, condone limits on speech, disallow private sector unionization, and have poor or non-existent labor laws. Workers work 12.5 hours per day, spend 16.5 hours in the factory, and have to work all night during delivery rush. “There is no overtime pay. Workers are paid on product count. After all kinds of deductions, the average salary per hour is 13 cents” (China Labor Watch, 2001).

How could this come to be?

There should be no misunderstanding here. No one should be opposed to fair trade, but it’s time to recognize “free trade” is fiction because every trading relationship is managed in some way. Indeed, in an ideal world there would be no governments and therefore no need for representative government and public collectivization which all countries eventually become when people of similar values and morals come together in common cause. Indeed, Jesus fought for human freedom and did not give up even after he was crucified and nailed to a cross. As Jesus Christ said to Luke, “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his palace, his possessions are safe” (Luke 11:21).

One has to wonder if the de-industrialization; loss of manufacturing industries (and the subsequent decimation of the middle class); increases in drug trafficking and rises in crime mostly caused by a purposely faulty judicidial system; the increase in gambling and sinful behaviours such as prostitution (being legalized in some countries) and homosexual marriage; and the general acceptance of lies and deceit were deliberately planned out. Indeed, John Coleman, a famous historian and Christian, has stated this is the goal of the elite, satanist cabal steering planetary affairs. Indeed, he states point number five:
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“To bring about the end to all industrialization and the production of nuclear generated electric power in what they call “the post-industrial zero-growth society”. Excepted are the computer- and service industries. US industries that remain will be exported to countries such as Mexico where abundant slave labor is available. As we saw in 1993, this has become a fact through the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA. Unemployables in the US, in the wake of industrial destruction, will either become opium-heroin and/or cocaine addicts, or become statistics in the elimination of the “excess population” process we know of today as Global 2000″ (Educate yourself, 2000).

Who is responsible for this?

The respective governments of Canada, USA, and the other industrialized and developing countries of the world — supposedly represented by their respective politicians — rammed the World Trade Organization’s agenda down the collective throats of their respective peoples through the incremental global trade agreements settled on shortly after World War 2. If one were to do their research, they would find that there were no public consultations regarding the need for so-called free trade rather than the much needed “fair trade.”

The World Trade Organization’s website states that the WTO agreement was ratified in member nations’ parliaments and consultative bodies, but what they do not mention is that nine in ten (90%) Canadians believe that politicians are “likely to lie” when they make statements in the media about important issues (60% “very likely” and 30% “somewhat likely)* and therefore agree that government does not represent common peoples’ concerns. Where is the democracy in that?

What Jesus calls his followers to do is emulate the way he lived his life. That is, to emulate his love for humanity, God, and the ability to question what rules and regulations authority has put upon mankind. Jesus was a revolutionary teacher. “His ideas shocked and frightened the people of His day. He would probably do the same to us today were He here in person. The sad truth is that the teachings of Jesus are just as revolutionary today as they were when He was here, but we have overlooked their importance. Or, we have failed to make application of them to our lives” (The Examiner).

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I call upon all Christians of all denominations to print out and cast their signature(s) as well as persuade their community members and families to sign the following petition in WORD format.

PETITION

to the House of Commons

in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following:

THAT manufacturing jobs are important to Canada’s national economy,

THAT Canada is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs every year,

THAT each week more manufacturing companies shut their doors,
THAT losing manufacturing jobs in Canada affects millions of Canadian families, who either work directly or indirectly in the manufacturing sector,

THAT the loss of these jobs will negatively impact the future economic prosperity of Canada,

THEREFORE your petitioners call upon Parliament to immediately develop and implement a plan of action to protect Canadian manufacturing jobs in consultation with all stakeholders including labour and the business community.

Special thanks to Mario Silva for the petition document.

* These are the findings of an Ipsos-Reid poll conducted between October 22nd and October 24th, 2002 on behalf of The Comedy Network. The poll is based on a randomly selected sample of 1,000 adult Canadians. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within (+/-) 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult Canadian population been polled. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample’s regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual Canadian population according to the 1996 Census data.