As fun as it is to take jabs at the Canadians (and they very often deserve it), it's not like 'Mericans such as myself are faring much better. Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful not to live in Canadia...but at the rate things are going me owning a house is similarly a longshot, unfortunately.
Also, in our current systems, even "owning" a house amounts to renting it from the government.
Man, the juxtaposition between people's understanding of founding documents, and what America was actually founded on, are ridiculously depressing.
Government works for us, and documents like the Declaration of Independence essentially say we should kill the government if we decide they're not working for us. It was unimaginably based...but all hinges on peoples' perspectives, which have sadly largely been captured.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government
Literally the Fucking Declaration of Independence.
As fun as it is to take jabs at the Canadians (and they very often deserve it), it's not like 'Mericans such as myself are faring much better. Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful not to live in Canadia...but at the rate things are going me owning a house is similarly a longshot, unfortunately.
Also, in our current systems, even "owning" a house amounts to renting it from the government.
Man, the juxtaposition between people's understanding of founding documents, and what America was actually founded on, are ridiculously depressing.
Government works for us, and documents like the Declaration of Independence essentially say we should kill the government if we decide they're not working for us. It was unimaginably based...but all hinges on peoples' perspectives, which have sadly largely been captured.