my views on how the american goverment traps lower class citizens.

[devonin]

Just to interject one or two little clarifications and comments:

Originally Posted by Cavernio

For instance, in Ontario, in order to be a waitress/waiter, you have to have a Smart Serve certificate or something. That's ridiculous.

This is actually not true. The SmartServe certification is qhat qualifies you to serve and sell alcohol. My mother worked as a bartender some number of years ago and there was a course that had to be taken first. If anything, they've lowered the requirements because Smart Serve is more readily available, faster, and most places of employment will pay to have their employees certified. But to simply work as a waiter/waitress requires no particular certification or training.

Originally Posted by Kilroy_X

Also it isn't particularly relevant whether violence exists elsewhere, as long as violence exists in schools than forcing people to attend school will inevitably forcibly expose people to violence as well.

I find this particular bit of logic to be pretty ridiculous. "Schools expose people to violence", "Yeah well, everything exposes people to violence" "But school is part of everything, so not going to school lessens exposure to violence"

Schools don't necessarily expose people to violence, that's a hasty generalization about schools. My highschool in the 5 years I was there, had a grand total of two fights on school property, neither of which involved weapons, neither of which involved more than two people, neither of which lasted more than 5 minutes. So, 10 minutes of isolated and minor violence (5 of which I didn't even personally witness) out of the over 75,000 minutes I spent at school, somehow I don't think "But schools expose you to violence" is an especially valid objection here.

Certainly many many other areas of publically accessable places seem to demonstrate a higher average instance of violence.