Category: Children R Our Future

Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation

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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
“My name is Paige Kezima…”

“The Voice of Students” is comprised of intelligent and eager students committed to advocating for the needs and wants of our students. Our platform is as follows:
– Lobby for a tuition freeze
– Increase funding to student groups and societies
– Review the locker tax
– Make more money available to student groups and societies

“My name is Paige Kezima…”

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The Horror, The Horror!

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OMG who would ever imagine that a government would have the audacity to provide job training for welfare recipients?!?

The B.C. government is considering a plan to help people get off welfare by flying them north to cash in on high-paying jobs in areas such as the oil and gas industry.
Minister of Social Development Stephanie Cadieux, whose ministry is involved in planning the project, said she anticipates the program will be attractive to only a “modest number of people.” She said the government will not force people into the program, or remove benefits from those who refuse to participate.
Shauna Butterwick, an associate professor at the University of B.C. and a researcher for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, has penned two reports on creating meaningful training programs for welfare recipients in B.C. She said the proposed plan appears to have a “limited view” and does not factor in the reasons why many people are on welfare in the first place. “One thing that welfare studies have found to be really crucial is that the social networks [welfare recipients] create are the one thing that helps them survive,” she said. “You would be taking them from that. Those kinds of social networks you don’t just recreate overnight. I would expect a level of isolation and alienation.”

Charles Adler & David Menzies discuss this “outrageous” idea.

Nationalized Families = The Decline of the West

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Last Fall a business professor in Bangalore, India published a detailed column that explained why America and Europe are on a permanent decline into oblivion. He cited several reasons why, but Nationalization of the Family and Entitlement Mentality were two prime ones.
Here’s a snippet:

The crisis faced by the West is primarily because it has forgotten a six-letter word called ‘saving’ which, again, is the result of forgetting another six letter word called “family”. The West has nationalised families over the last 60 years. Old age, ill health, single motherhood – everything is the responsibility of the state.
When family is a “burden” and children an “encumbrance,” society goes for a toss. Household savings have been negative in the US for long. The total debt to GDP ratio is as high as 400 percent in many countries, including UK. Not only that, the West is facing a severe demographic crisis. The population of Europe during the First World War was nearly 25 percent and today it is around 11 percent and expected to become 3 percent in another 20 years. Europe will disappear from the world map unless migrants from Africa and Asia take it over.
The demographic crisis impacts the West in other ways. Social security goes for a toss since people are living longer and not many from below contribute to their pensions through taxes. So the nationalisation of families becomes a burden on the state.

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