8/3/2013 7:08 AM
and I got to thinking. "If everyone was a smart as me, the world would be a much better place" Let me begin by saying I look at myself as being a staunch fiscal conservative and a radical social liberal. How can that be, you ask? Well I don't mind paying reasonable taxes but I damned well want to see it spend on necessities like police, fire, healthcare, infrastructure etc. etc. I don't even mind if some of it goes overseas to help out in disaster situations and to help people less fortunate. But when I hear of senators and parliamentarians lining there pockets with my money for questionable expenses and loop holes, I'm outraged at the audacity. When Gas generating electrical plants are cancelled during an election in order to win the local riding at a cost of nearly a billion dollars...I lose my mind. I did not pay my taxes in order to see the incumbent MPP keep his or her seat
Now on the other side, my radical social side, I firmly believe that if Sally and Jennifer want to get married and adopt a goat as their child and name him Billy, I couldn't care less. How does their personal life affect me in anyway? If they abuse Billy, then they should go to jail just as anyone who abuses their child should.
If Mohammed comes to our country and attends worship and bows to the east five times a day, he is welcome to do that "Praise Be To Allah" I don't care. If he abides by the laws of the land, he can pray to Tim Horton for all I care. The minute he gets together with his chums and decides to derail a train, he has stepped outside of social norms and goes to jail.
The same goes for radical Christians who believe in killing abortion providers or anyone who doesn't see thing their way. If religion is a personal choice, keep it personal. Once it affect someone else's rights and freedoms, you don't deserve to live freely in my society.
Drugs: again a personal choice. If you want to do drugs and you don't steal from me or hurt anyone to get the money to pay for them, pump your veins full and smoke your brains out. I don't care. It doesn't affect me in anyway. I would go one step further, I would legalize all drugs and one step even further, in the case of opiates and other highly addictive drugs, I would supply them free of charge in an organized clean supervised medical environment. The drugs, medical people and supplies all paid for by tax payer dollars. If the people want to get off the drugs, there would be trained people to assist them. If not, pump yourself full at my expense.
If you don't have to commit crime to feed your habit, then I don't have to pay more taxes for more police, more prison guards, more prisons to house and feed you.And I don't have to pay for your health care because the needles are clean Your drug habit is your personal choice....as long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care.
I'll bet the bottom line cost to society of setting up such a system would be a fraction of what we pay to catch, prosecute, and house these individuals currently.
Signed: Staunch Fiscally Conservative Radical Socially Liberal, Red