Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "ABS-CBN News"
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@bernardjameswilson
He didn't just wake up and said "This country now sucks". This was a process that started about 30 years, or so, ago. Where, at one time, life was free and you could work and reap the rewards, more and more restrictions were placed on our lives. It became harder and harder to get good medical care, in spite of the advances in medicine. Laws and more laws became the norm. Insurance and government regulations became more and more intrusive. People expected more and more from the government and that meant more taxes and more laws. If you didn't live the change, you can't understand it.
As an example. We live in a small town of 1800 people. We had 3 doctors and they were all available at any time of day. Now there's none. 7 service stations. Now there's 1. He operated a small farm and he did maintenance on his own equipment. Now it's impossible because it's all electronics and you could lose your warranty if you even tried to work on it. We had a landing at the back door, made of cement that replaced a wooden landing back in 1966. 7 years ago, his insurance company told him that he would no longer be covered if he didn't put a railing on it, so my brother and I did it. This rule was mandated by a government agency.
We didn't lose our freedom to a marching army, like he saw from invading Nazis. Instead it was a slow encroachment of government controls, regulations and mandates and EVERY time it was an assault on his wallet and freedom. He's now 92 and it doesn't matter as much to him because he's at the end of his days but he's not blind, either. We're losing our freedoms, one law and regulation at a time and the slow relentless of it doesn't hit like tsunami. We're more like frogs in boiling water.
I've seen it because I'm 70 years old. My daughter hasn't seen the change but she knows something is wrong. The way things are going, my grandchildren will never be able to afford their own homes. I feel so bad for their futures....even their present but the regulations keep coming, tying our hands in a tighter and tighter grip. They will never live the lives that my dad or even I've had. That freedom has slowly evaporated away. It isn't that we had it so good. It's that the good that we had is being lost and the ability to work hard that allowed to build good lives from nothing, has been taken away from those who have to live today.
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@leolabustro8531
Thanks. Margret Thatcher once gave a speech in which she pointed out that the richest country in the world, in natural resources, was the Soviet Union. It had everything. Rich soil, oil and gas, lumber, abundant water, gold, raw iron...it had it all. Yet, the people of the Soviet Union, had starved to death, they stood in line-ups for basic needs and it was all due to government policies. Venezuela is going through the exact same problems. They're the same policies that Trudeau is forcing on our country.
THAT is what I'm talking about. Over regulation and government interference in our lives. A lot of people don't want to accept that. I appreciate you're support and your ability to understand how governments are slowly destroying the dreams of the individual in western society. Thank you for your response.
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@thehellyousay
I didn't say it was terrible. You're missing the point, COMPLETELY. My dad moved thousands of miles from home to a country that was free and growing and he was able to succeed, like ALL the immigrants did, from nothing. No money, no education, no real life skills and only his determination, hard work, willingness to learn to a country that gave him free reign to realise his dreams.
He gave up his relationship's with his parents, his siblings, his friends, all he knew to seek an opportunity and he did because Canada allowed him to. Now his grandchildren and great grandchildren don't have that free reign anymore. That's the failure that he's talking about. Life is still good but the opportunities are eroding away. You can be blase about it until one day YOU will be the one that realises that maybe he was correct.
But, never mind. Don't question a thing. "I'm ok, Jack" A great mantra. The same mantra that Neville Chamberlain said before the world erupted into war in 1939. If you don't acknowledge it, it's not happening.
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@maxpayne7419
Seat belts and helmets.....you're just being a jerk, now.
This is now a country that, if you use the wrong pronouns, you could find yourself in big trouble. They make it up and YOU have to follow. We have the internet but now, our government, wants to control the content. Our esteemed PM, was worried that maybe the guys working on a pipeline might be too overly zealous towards young women in the small towns that they're working through. That this should be considered when deciding if such a project is worth the trauma for these young women.
This isn't just in Canada. The farmers in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Ireland are now facing restrictions and land appropriations because it's said that farmers are a threat to the environment and our esteemed PM has implied that this might be a good idea. Home prices have sky rocketed and rents are insane....yet the PM wants to bring in MORE immigrants, which means home prices will keep going up, far beyond the capabilities of the young....but that's alright. You're GOT your little kingdom. Who cares about the people that have been here for generations.
As far as I can see, you're just being a troll. You've not made any kind of case. All you've kept saying is that you're 55 and that everything is great. Do you know what? It is. But if you can't see that we're heading in the wrong direction, you're not seeing. When the young have no hope of owning their own home, things are wrong. If you can't see that, you are the proverbial ostrich.
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