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Originally Posted by Dynamic
And the weird fetish this forum has with the word “socialist” is out of touch. I know there is a few teachers on this board so I’m going to propose a just for AO class on socialism and what it actually is. Because I have a feeling it is a word the UPC and many people throw out with no actual clue as to what it means. Even if the city of Calgary is in fact bad at managing money it does not mean it is a socialist city. It means they are bad at managing money. We need to stop making that link because all it does is create another generation of people who do not know the difference.
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You have a short memory. Several current members on our city council are on the record as stating your money actually belongs to the city. They, and their well-meaning progressive (see: socialist) ideas are better suited to spend your money than you are. Seeing as how you'd probably just waste it on something that isn't one of their pet projects.
On average, I agree that Calgary is not a socialist city, but we seem to have an inordinate amount of socialist ideologues in power. With a few notable exceptions, they seem to be the only ones who can lie to the population about "picking up a turd by the clean end" and still sleep at night with a clean conscience.