See picture.
So the same bullshittery as here however it seems we haven’t gotten bad enough to make the average voter open their eyes. Goddamn frustrating as a parent to two boys on the spectrum.
Doug Ford and the OPC does not care about our children.
As someone who is witnessing this in Ontario, what did the shithead do that pushed them over the line?
Love me Dungeon Soup
TIL that RRSP in AUS is compulsory. If true that’s amazing and a bigger step than Canada has ever done.
Which further gets to pension age being low is bullshit as it is lol. It’s meant as a general guideline it’s why I don’t plan on taking my pension until I’m 70. Means I can. Get more money by delaying. Unfortunately not all people can do that though.
Regardless, the point is demanding a pension age of 55 is insane as is expecting the pension age to stay at 65. The average person born in 2000 is expected to live about 80 years which means most people will live well beyond that. The system is not designed to support someone for 25+ years because when it was designed we did not live that long!
Which gets to the underlying problem. UBI. We keep addressing all these fractured issues when they would all be solved with a fucking UBI but God forbid politicians ask corporations and millionaires/billionaires to pay for it.
We can’t even get our politicians to fund education and healthcare properly.
We are cooked chat.
Here come the downvotes but whatever. This is a problem in the entire 1st world so my position in Canada is just as applicable.
I’m 49. My dad is 82 and just stopped working.
It is a fact that people are living longer and able to work longer. It is also a fact that people, on average, do not plan for retirement that is why we have social assistance. It is also a fact that government social assistance is supposed to be a stop gap not a replacement for individual responsibility. For the government to be fully responsible your taxes would need to increase drastically.
In Canada one of the best things that was done recently was to raise the amount every Canadian pays into the CPP. This did not improve it however, this just made it less likely to run out of money in the future. This is why they also are providing incentives to delay receiving your CPP and why globally there is a push to raise the pension age.
So there are multiple problems
In none of these scenarios does lowering the pension age make it easier.
On a base level I agree with what you said. It’s bullshit my dad has to work until 82. But Jesus Christ reality people. It’s not feasible!
As a end fyi. My parents are lower middle class and we’re good with money but then in the 90s we had a recession and my dad lost his job to computers and ther went their savings. This is not a unique story. People can be responsible and shit happens. As it stands now they barely make by on only government pensions because they live in the middle of nowhere and they rent for well below market value because the person who owns their house is a genuinely nice person. Survival shouldn’t rely on luck.
How fucked up of a country is it that, in America, if Hitler was around living in Texas and putting Jews in concentration camps and murdering them, the president could pardon him?
This isn’t a left or right. Abolish pardons. No one should be above the law. Yes I understand shitty governments would weaponize this fast. I don’t care.
Trump. Elon. The whole lot of them need to be on trial for policies that have murdered millions worldwide.
Is? He has. It’s been happening since he entered office.
Many smart people have been poached by Canada and Europe already.
Just like in WW2 lol
I feel justified that after so many years my not liking this douche was justified. I get a lot of people love Smashing Pumpkins and they wrote a lot of good songs but they always came across as pretentious to me and this fucker always gave me weird vibes.
Man fuck that shit. Glad I never tried them out.
Worm better
I ain’t eating a raw onion
What do the morals of ants mean to man?
Top left 100%
Mapane worms are a thing and a staple meal in Botswana.
Tell my last 2 girlfriends this. They don’t care.
no mods
banned by the mod
Wut?
Loving parents and growing up in a small town, a 10 year failed marriage that resulted in 3 kids I love to the moon of which 2 of them are on the spectrum. Many failed relationships.
I’m proud of the man I’ve become at 49 years old.
So like parts of Michigan?
The underlying issue with energy is always storage. That has always been the appeal of fossil fuels and now nuclear.
Shelf stable energy ready to be unlocked in a rock or liquid that nature provides right out of the ground.
Will the party read the fucking room though?