BC minimum wage now the lowest in the country

[rustled]

This particular revolution, if successful, will see the people on the bottom first succeed in taking what the lower and middle classes don't give up as a free choice. Our purchasing ability will drop as consumer costs rise and our taxation rates go up. We'll be hit hard long before the wealthy feel the pinch.

So: How nice of others to decide on our behalf what we should be giving up as a free choice, and what will be wrested from us if we don't agree.

[Omnitheo]

@GB DDT has serious detrimental effects on other species and negatively impacts the ecosystem far more. Predators at the top keep other insects in check, and if the chemicals you are using are affecting them as well, then you are just exasperating the problem.

[rustled]

@GB DDT has serious detrimental effects on other species and negatively impacts the ecosystem far more. Predators at the top keep other insects in check, and if the chemicals you are using are affecting them as well, then you are just exasperating the problem.

Here's what some of the scientists say:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... t-malaria/
(exacerbate. Similar word, different meaning.)

We want to avoid smug first world superiority in the face of third world poverty. And here in BC, even those trying to live on minimum wage have it far better than they do. When you think in terms of that, we have little to complain of here.

Thing is, what's an appropriate minimum wage for a fortunate province in a first world country? The incremental wages are tied to a formula. Does that formula need to be changed?

[The Green Barbarian]

@GB DDT has serious detrimental effects on other species and negatively impacts the ecosystem far more. .

And yet this is just another giant lie, much like man-made climate change. Millions in Africa are dying because of this lie. Just like millions are being denied electricity because of leftist boneheads forcing the climate-change garbage done their throats.

"Fraud in science is a major problem." So begins "DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud" by the late J. Gordon Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Entomology at San Jose State University in San Jose, California.

The article was published shortly after his death last July in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Fall, 2004. It is based in part on his 34-page manuscript discussing fraud in acid rain, ozone holes, ultraviolet radiation, carbon dioxide, global warming, and pesticides, particularly DDT.

His publications distinguish Edwards as the leading authority on the environmental science and politics of DDT.

In World War I, prior to the discovery of the insecticidal potential of DDT, typhus killed more servicemen than bullets. In World War II, typhus was no problem. The world has marveled at the effectiveness of DDT in fighting malaria, yellow fever, dengue, sleeping sickness, plague, encephalitis, West Nile Virus, and other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, fleas, and lice.

Today, the greatest killer and disabler is malaria, which kills a person every 30 seconds. By the 1960s, DDT had brought malaria near to extinction. "To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT. In little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been inevitable," said the National Academy of Sciences.

Rachel Carson began the countrywide assault on DDT with her 1962 book, Silent Spring. Carson made errors, some designed to scare, about DDT and synthetic pesticides. "For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception to death," she intoned.

"This is nonsense," commented pesticide specialists Bruce N. Ames and Thomas H. Jukes of the University of California at Berkeley. (Ames is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, world renowned. Jukes, who died a few years ago, was a professor of biophysics and a leader in the defense of DDT.) "Every chemical is dangerous if the concentration is too high. Moreover, 99.9 percent of the chemicals humans ingest are natural... produced by plants to kill off predators," Ames and Jukes wrote in Reason in 1993.

http://spectator.org/articles/48925/ddt ... nd-tragedy

Leftists - always hurting people with bad ideas. Just like with their constant baying that raising the minimum wage will be some kind of "cure-all" for the less advantaged.

[Catri]

Just like with their constant baying that raising the minimum wage will be some kind of "cure-all" for the less advantaged.

Nobody thinks raising the minimum wage will be any kind of cure-all at all. I believe that a raise in minimum wages will help the working poor to be slightly less poor. The only thing that would be even close to a cure-all would be a guaranteed income across the board, which would surely make you righties apoplectic. Which actually makes me more supportive of that idea being discussed than I normally would be, just cause it's fun to watch you guys go off.

[The Green Barbarian]

Nobody thinks raising the minimum wage will be any kind of cure-all at all. .

I disagree completely. This is exactly what the leftist nuts and loons think. If you can even use the word "think" when describing how they come to the flawed and backward conclusions they do.

[davis123]

I can't be bothered to go back and pick out all of your insults,

Because there weren't any.

Really? What exactly do you call your comment below, that you just posted? Do you really expect anyone to want to conversate with you when you continually resort to insults?

I disagree completely. This is exactly what the leftist nuts and loons think. If you can even use the word "think" when describing how they come to the flawed and backward conclusions they do.

[The Green Barbarian]

Really? What exactly do you call your comment below, that you just posted?

my extremely well-founded opinion based on years and years of experience trying to debate leftist nuts and loons.

[maryjane48]

i will take leftist loons over rightwing nazis all day everyday ty :)

[The Green Barbarian]

i will take leftist loons over rightwing nazis all day everyday ty :)

me too! Too bad there aren't any right-wing Nazis around, but plenty of idiot leftists!

[ferri]

*back on topic please! thanks!