Taking Our Money, Take out what they want, and give us spittle...

[Beau]

I live in BC, and before the HST went into effect, the government spewed so much about how HST is going to "help lower-income groups" etc...
Of course a lie, since now the cost of food, clothes and many other things are higher and the tax is pretty much doubled on those items.
So how does this help the poor who can't afford food or clothes and other things. It's SO ridiculous !

Actually, their are a number of exemptions for the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax in BC:

* Fuel to power your vehicle (gasoline, ethanol blends, diesel, biodiesel)
* Books
* Child-sized clothing and footwear
* Children’s car seats and car booster seats
* Children’s diapers
* Feminine hygiene products

Of course, the cost of food in BC is already high, so adding in the extra tax for food doesn't cater to low-income families at all.

 

[RMJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

George Carlin's thoughts on saving the planet ;)

Good one SAO :D

Also the next step PTB would like is total control of your bank account. Deposit pay (same amount for all except elites) on Sunday and whatever is not used by Saturday is taxed @ 100% and you start all over again. Then if you step out of line you may not get paid on Sunday. Go the whole week without. Freinds, neighbors monitored so as to not help those who "misbehaved" or they may be punished. Kind of depressing but not out of the realm of possibility.
Makes me wrestle with the continued usefullness of politics and staying in the game. We may just have a bottom up revolution.

 

[Mona]

I looooove George Carlin, I sure do miss him. He made a lot of people laugh. When I die I want to go where he went, he is one of the few earthlings who truly made sense when he opened his mouth.

Thanks SAO for sharing this video, I had a great laugh. You know, the funny thing is that George described exactly what I used to be. I studied an environmental technology because I wanted to save the planet, and then I realized that I was cating to the rich oil tycoons instead, while I was destroying my health in a lab testing their dirty soil and water samples making barely a living, while they earned the real big cash. I used to believe in the illusion that Earth could be saved. But then I woke up from this illusion and found the real truth that I was living in.

This might not be very helpful, but try not to think of GAIA as being alone. She is connected to the entire Universe and we know STO gives all to those who ask, right? :)

Good point. Plus, there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

George Carlin's thoughts on saving the planet ;)