Kate decides to split non conforming electorate and reasons with association
Tues 31 Jan, the witching hour..... fragmented muse
Kate over at Small Dead Animals is associating Rural land/house ownership with Cons and Urban appartment dwellers as Lib/NDP/Green voters.
Association does not denote causation.
Rural Urban, Us and Them. Your with us, or against us. Your like us, or your not. People over there do not think like all of us over here.
Some people over at SDA believe that taking care of an invested home and land somehow qualifies one to be more in tune to politics that makes one see the light in the Conservative Party versus all others.
Somehow to thee, leasing land from the government in the form of property taxes with a mortgaged house on it does not denote a more intricate understanding of politics. Owning rural land is a myth. Try not paying your government lease payment and you will of course be removed from your homestead. Perhaps one acquires the wisdom of Conservative based politics through osmosis while one attends to the needs of their leased land. After all, the Cons talk alot about the grass-roots. Appartment dwellers according to SDA do not benefit from this as I can only speculate. I spend most of my life 5 stories up above the land, does this mean that I am so far removed from the Cons that I would never vote Con ...... nope. I have voted Con in the past.
Kate says that houseing is affordable in rural areas. Yup, way out rural in Northern Ontario far from doctors, specialists, grocery stores, dentists, banks, post offices, etc. Ya have to be healthy with quite a reliable car with a huge gas budget to live Rural where it can be afforded in Ontario, very Northern Ontario that is.
I could have easily afforded a house when my wife and I were living in MooseJaw. A nice 2 bedroom bungalow on a smallish lot for 40,000 dollars and paid cash. We said forget that and moved to an appartment in Niagara Falls instead. The fireworks every Friday night at 10pm as well as holidays. Concerts in the Park. New Years. The festival of Lights. Or just plain walking around the tourist district eating ice cream watching all the tourists and of course the Falls. The vast Public Gardens with its incredable abundance of vegatation and watching the young ones getting married or their pictures taken there. Oh yea, the same 2 bedroom bungalow in Niagara Falls is three times the amount than in MooseJaw. Forget that.
After almost 5 years in the Falls we moved to Kitchener where the same house sold for 4 times as much. Forget that. A 2 bedroom appartment with utilities included in the rent is far less than a mortgage, utilities, upkeep, property taxes, labour for upkeep. The library 200 meters away, the outdoor skating rink in front of City Hall, the outdoor chess tables downtown, the busker festival, and the best part - better and more varied produce at the many different grocery stores. (even have one right across the road kitty-corner) Needless to say, I only use a tank of gas per month :)
Hmmmmm, mortgage broke and can't afford nothing - to vote Con. Or, appartment dweller and can afford what I want and travel a little for the most part - and vote Fiberal.
Kate and her commentors do not speak for me, nor can she/they assume my vote intentions just based on where I live and what I live in.
I have lived in appartments and houses from coast to coast to coast (6 months in Alert on the Arctic ocean coast 454 miles from the North Pole for six months) and Kate and her commentors could never speak for me or my Urban friends.
Anyway, I would rather work on something constructive than mow lawn, home maintenance, outdoor gardening, snow shovelling, paying of utility bills, wondering if heating bills are going to go ballistic and how bad the municipality is going to screw me over this year for my land lease property tax. blahh. Like I said, I would rather use my time a little more constructively than perform brain dead meanial house-ownership tasks. I will leave the, "keeping up with the Joneses" to someone else". :)
Perhaps Kate and her commentators just think that us Urban appartment dwellers just work, and when not working just sit in front of a TV. I don't know, maybe they think we should be out shovelling snow or mowing lawn like they do.
The last para reminds me of the way it use to be Russia between neighbours. Two neighbours, each have a cow. One day, one of the neighbours gets another cow. The neighbour that only has just the one cow calls in the police and demand that they remove one of the neighbours cows. The moral. All one had to do was work a little more and get the extra cow, but nooooooo, he had to have the extra neighbours cow removed to even the score. Myself, I would rather work on something based in wisdom than shovel snow, and be mortgage broke.
a thousand different heads, a thousand different ways and means
cheers :) majere
roger m roeder kitchener ontario
Kate over at Small Dead Animals is associating Rural land/house ownership with Cons and Urban appartment dwellers as Lib/NDP/Green voters.
Association does not denote causation.
Rural Urban, Us and Them. Your with us, or against us. Your like us, or your not. People over there do not think like all of us over here.
Some people over at SDA believe that taking care of an invested home and land somehow qualifies one to be more in tune to politics that makes one see the light in the Conservative Party versus all others.
Somehow to thee, leasing land from the government in the form of property taxes with a mortgaged house on it does not denote a more intricate understanding of politics. Owning rural land is a myth. Try not paying your government lease payment and you will of course be removed from your homestead. Perhaps one acquires the wisdom of Conservative based politics through osmosis while one attends to the needs of their leased land. After all, the Cons talk alot about the grass-roots. Appartment dwellers according to SDA do not benefit from this as I can only speculate. I spend most of my life 5 stories up above the land, does this mean that I am so far removed from the Cons that I would never vote Con ...... nope. I have voted Con in the past.
Kate says that houseing is affordable in rural areas. Yup, way out rural in Northern Ontario far from doctors, specialists, grocery stores, dentists, banks, post offices, etc. Ya have to be healthy with quite a reliable car with a huge gas budget to live Rural where it can be afforded in Ontario, very Northern Ontario that is.
I could have easily afforded a house when my wife and I were living in MooseJaw. A nice 2 bedroom bungalow on a smallish lot for 40,000 dollars and paid cash. We said forget that and moved to an appartment in Niagara Falls instead. The fireworks every Friday night at 10pm as well as holidays. Concerts in the Park. New Years. The festival of Lights. Or just plain walking around the tourist district eating ice cream watching all the tourists and of course the Falls. The vast Public Gardens with its incredable abundance of vegatation and watching the young ones getting married or their pictures taken there. Oh yea, the same 2 bedroom bungalow in Niagara Falls is three times the amount than in MooseJaw. Forget that.
After almost 5 years in the Falls we moved to Kitchener where the same house sold for 4 times as much. Forget that. A 2 bedroom appartment with utilities included in the rent is far less than a mortgage, utilities, upkeep, property taxes, labour for upkeep. The library 200 meters away, the outdoor skating rink in front of City Hall, the outdoor chess tables downtown, the busker festival, and the best part - better and more varied produce at the many different grocery stores. (even have one right across the road kitty-corner) Needless to say, I only use a tank of gas per month :)
Hmmmmm, mortgage broke and can't afford nothing - to vote Con. Or, appartment dweller and can afford what I want and travel a little for the most part - and vote Fiberal.
Kate and her commentors do not speak for me, nor can she/they assume my vote intentions just based on where I live and what I live in.
I have lived in appartments and houses from coast to coast to coast (6 months in Alert on the Arctic ocean coast 454 miles from the North Pole for six months) and Kate and her commentors could never speak for me or my Urban friends.
Anyway, I would rather work on something constructive than mow lawn, home maintenance, outdoor gardening, snow shovelling, paying of utility bills, wondering if heating bills are going to go ballistic and how bad the municipality is going to screw me over this year for my land lease property tax. blahh. Like I said, I would rather use my time a little more constructively than perform brain dead meanial house-ownership tasks. I will leave the, "keeping up with the Joneses" to someone else". :)
Perhaps Kate and her commentators just think that us Urban appartment dwellers just work, and when not working just sit in front of a TV. I don't know, maybe they think we should be out shovelling snow or mowing lawn like they do.
The last para reminds me of the way it use to be Russia between neighbours. Two neighbours, each have a cow. One day, one of the neighbours gets another cow. The neighbour that only has just the one cow calls in the police and demand that they remove one of the neighbours cows. The moral. All one had to do was work a little more and get the extra cow, but nooooooo, he had to have the extra neighbours cow removed to even the score. Myself, I would rather work on something based in wisdom than shovel snow, and be mortgage broke.
a thousand different heads, a thousand different ways and means
cheers :) majere
roger m roeder kitchener ontario
