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Good Luck, Canada
In the aftermath of Justin Trudeau whopping defeat of conservative Stephen Harper, and the resurgence of liberal Canada, all we can say is: good luck Canada, you'll need it. From Reuters:
The US has seen that movie before, it's not a happy ending. Oh, and enjoy that AAA credit rating while it lasts.
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On a more serious note, here is the full post-mortem, pardon the pun, of the Canadian elections from Bank of America:
Liberals win with a majority of seats
The Liberal party won the Canadian election with an estimated 184 seats out of 338 (as this goes to print), ousting the ruling Conservatives. The Liberals were expected to win a minority of seats, so the majority victory comes as a surprise. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will become the new Prime Minister, commanding the confidence of the majority of Parliament. The change of government should largely keep Canada’s business-friendly environment in tact: Liberals want to keep corporate taxes low, and the party supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal, as well as most major pipeline projects. However, a push for carbon and environmental regulation by the Liberal government could be negative for the energy sector.
Near-term uncertainty, medium-term small GDP boost
In the near-term, the change of government adds to policy uncertainty, especially as Justin Trudeau is an untested leader at the Federal level. However, over the medium term, the Liberals’ plan of running modest deficits for three years should be a small positive for the economic outlook. The GDP impact of the Liberals’ proposed spending plan is challenging to estimate, given uncertainties about multiplier effects. If we assume a multiplier range of 0.5 to 2.0 (a 0.5 multiplier means $1 of spending adds 50 cents to GDP), the Liberals’ announced deficits of just under $10bn/year could add 0.1pp-0.3pp to GDP growth in 2016 and 0.1pp-0.5pp to GDP growth in 2017. Greater government spending will, on the margin, reduce the need for monetary policy easing.
Limited risks of fiscal deterioration
Canada’s sovereign credit rating, currently AAA, depends on a number of factors, including economic activity, commodity prices and fiscal discipline. We see limited risks of a notable deterioration in fiscal health resulting from the Liberal victory:
- On October 14th, ratings agency Moody’s published a note that the election was unlikely to change the creditworthiness of the federal government, regardless of which party wins the election.
- The Liberal plan for deficits of around 0.5% of GDP is modest. Also, the plan is to end deficits by 2019, suggesting only a temporary period of higher spending.
With a majority of seats, we think it should be relatively straightforward for Liberals to implement their platform: there is no need to court votes from other parties to pass the budget, as would be the case under a minority government. Thus, we see less risk of fiscal slippage and less uncertainty in budgetary implementation.
Next steps
Although the House of Commons is technically scheduled to open in late November, we think it is more likely that the House returns in late January 2016, allowing time for new Liberal ministers to be sworn in and learn their files. To open the new session, Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau will deliver the Throne Speech, outlining the government’s goals. Throne Speech is a confidence motion, but since the Liberals have a Parliamentary majority, the speech will pass. The budget will likely be released in the spring of 2016, with implementation likely starting in the summer.
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The joke is on Canada.
Nobody cares about hockey, Boomer.
Yes we can....aye?
It's eh, eh.
Cheer up Canada. At least a "community organizer" from most corrupt county in the world wasn't elected as your president.... TWICE! Doh!
Does anyone really CARE about what happens in Canada?
It's the end of the Northern US.
There goes banking restrictions in Canada.
does George Soros own all the voting machines and have the votes counted in Spain like in the U.S. too?
CanaDUH saw its M2 money supply blow up over 100% under Harper... I'm guessing that's just the lame part of the hockey stick before TurDeau and the BOC work their print magic.
Eh! Ju see da tits on his wife, eh?
Just what Canada needs ... another Dynast.
...Isn't true Liberalism "small town" USA?
Same for Canada
Current USSA is Corporate Fascism.
Same for Canada
I voted for Harper - since that didn't pan out:
Any word from South of the Border as to when US Troops will be given the ok to come to Alberta for "vacation" in full combat gear, and no insignia?
#glasshalffull
Canada is just like the rest of the Western World, they don't want to face the facts. You can have your free government stuff now, but your children and grandchildren will reap the wild wind.
I saw de teets of de wife of tru-dough. She av nice ones, ay? She also av de butter face. She make remind me of mademoiselle piggy, non?
Just like the US. Harper (W) blows everything up, hopey-changy (O) comes in promising to fix everything, then doubles down. Only Harper did a hellofa job keeping it all under wraps, while W was a clear blow out.
It's (Canada)is the ass end of the Northern US...
There fixed it for you.
Depends on perspective. Canadians could say that the US is Canadian excrement.
Agreed Nopalito, They also share a big problem with Canada: weak minded lazy people trying to slip across our southern border.
I was unaware that Americans were fleeing into Mexico.
Just needed to get someone new in before the real crash hits, so he can blame Harper and maintain power for the elites. Ignore the rhetoric, Canada's fate is the same as it was before.
Look at a map. We're on top of you so in prison you'd be our bitch!
No, Its the Northern end of US
Why does a state get to have its own PM?
They should... being heavily involved with oil & commodities. TurDeau is an airhead... but all we really did was swap one banking puppet for another banking puppet.
Isn't that all ANY election does any more?
Yeah. Let's stop selling 8 million barrels PER DAY of crude oil to the US. Canada is America's largest supplier.Drive much down there? Can you hear me now?
WOLCOTT, Conn. —Authorities say they seized 60 cats and a pair of dogs from a Connecticut home in an apparent animal hoarding case in which the homeowner was trying to run a cat rescue.
WTNH reports that police found the animals in Wolcott Friday.
Sgt. Patrick Malloy says authorities received complaints from neighbors about an odor coming from the residence and bags of garbage containing cat feces that littered the property. He says the inside is "unlivable."
Police say the owner was trying to run a cat rescue and may face animal cruelty charges. Several cats were underweight and dehydrated. All of the animals are being checked out.
In other news, Canada boycotts the US by refusing to sell 8 million barrels of crude oil per day. Pentagon decided to rendition the new Canadian Chancellor, sending him to Guantanamo to educate him on waterboarding. Oil mysteriously flows again...
just two dogs with all those cats? that's messed up.
/s/
ATTENTION ALL DOG LOVERS!
Next time y'all gotta cat in the car, roll down the window (best done at speed) grab the cat by the scruff of the next and hold him out in the air stream while yelling "bark bark bark"
Also best done with heavy leather gloves and jacket
Welders gloves and leather apron is best.
Not sure I understand the point to that but it does sound like fun. I have one yard cat left, the others are flat or coyote shit but this lone retarded cat will not die. I'll need a partner in crime as trying to drive while wrestling a furball full of claws is maybe not optimal. Maybe I will bring the dog along. She will either enjoy it or get the point that behaviors have consequences.
I have a cat and he hates the car... and that was funny... but I would suggest a full face off-road helmet with a neck guard as well. If the cat has claws there will be some shredding going on.
Knucks - your comment triggered a deeply buried joke from 4th grade.
How do you make a cat bark? pour some gasoline on the cat & light it on fire. WOOF
How do you make a dog meow? put the dog in the freezer, froze solid, take it out and put on table saw. MEOW.
I guess none of you like Cats.
Ofcourse you're all missing the point. If property wasn't so expensive with endless rent rises due to Candian Exceptionalism this poor fool would have a business out not operating out of their home. That or they just liked Cats ;)
Hell yeah, I do. I have a bunch of Snowbird friends, and own a little of their currency and stocks. Besides, the people are solid and stable unlike this society of ungrounded uneducated dumbasses.
Their biggest problem is getting body odor from their southern armpit. They are goofy with multiculturism but their banks are not giddy on derivative diarrhea.
No kidding about the multiculturalism. My first thought when I heard about the election results was that now Canada can import a couple hundred thousand "Syrian refugees" - for cultural enrichment, of course.
Forward (over the cliff)!
LL,
So I guess you are an exceptional Murican.
what is it with political families in the Americas?
Bush, Clinton and now Trudeau
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/world/americas/justin-trudeau-following-in-his-fathers-footsteps.html?_r=0
How long before the Wookie or the adopted daughters run for office?
I thought that the grandmother ate the kids when they went to Africa. No?
Does this mean the Stones are gonna tour Canada again?
NoVa, he's a sinclair, his mother's son, not unlike his maternal grandfather, airhead & silly & unlikely to ever allow public disclosure on a dna test. he will do what the bankers tell him, he cannot think for himself, he will continue the zionist doctrine, he won't make any annoucements about Fuku, even though his maternal grandparents lived on the west coast, he will smile a lot.
Psycopathy is genetically inherited
Is Treaudeau a Z-stooge like Harper and the whole US Govt?
You can bank on it.
Trudeau is just a stooge, plain and simple. Tried two different university degrees, failed to get a Bachelor's in either.
Worked as a snowboarding/white water rafting instructor.
Was a PART-TIME drama teacher.
That's it - his non-political resume up to age 37.
Won the MP job a few years back, riding on Daddy's coat-tails.
It wouldn't be so bad if he had mommy's looks and daddy's brains, but he got everything from mommy.
I tought i wers votin fer Jaques Vilneuve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Villeneuve_%28racing_driver,_born_...
Eh? Beer bought vote again.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/whats-the-most-rewatchable-movie-of-a...
Are ya daffy?
Strange Brew.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/
sounds like Palin's CV. They tried that here but there were still too many small 'C' conservatives who just wouldn't go there. McCain ended up wearing it. Sorry to hear, Canada.
OTOH if you can liberate the Great Lakes region & Mississippi watershed, while the Yanks are off saving Syria from itself, you'll keep your rating.....there are still quite a few French sleeper cells in Kentucky, upstate NY, Fort Detroit and Fort Duquesne just waiting for the 'go' signal. It's "laissez le bon temps rouler," I think.
It's eh, eh.
You wanted change.....that's the first change.
It's now aye.
Stick around....they're gonna be lots more.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/housing-debt-moodys-economist-1.3277940
Another result of distorted manipulated markets with serious malinvestment...years of trouble ahead for the Loonies.
Probably the biggest bubble per capita ever. But good luck shorting it
that's "eh" you clueless yank :)
I'll be happy if he breaks with the Cretien, Martin, Harper habit of sending our Canadian troops to die fighting for the American Empire. Let them shed their own blood.
TRM,
the 'eh' Team will continue to be fodder. the 'eh' Team are contented to be a colony.
Canada is fucking done. No where to run no where to hide you stupid shits.
you know nothing, john snow
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
Only know one thing: Winter is coming
"nowhere"
They're deploying the weapons of mass Change and hope like America did.
So in all... the billionaires are having a party right now because for them, the good days are here!!
They need moar hope & change.
bwuah, lots of places to hide up here. Tens of thousands of square miles of trees, mountains, rocks, and snow.
More bad luck for the Obama-Saudi-NWO ISIS Axis of Evil now that Canada is no longer a reliable ally to support the jihadist headchoppers. Give this Trudeau time and he will turn into an egomaniac like his waste of skin father Pierre. For now, former PM Harper has to send his CV to Goldman Sachs.
The good, the bad, and the ugly:
Pierre Trudeau War Measures Act Address October 16, 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaoBD-eakk
Hmmm, kinda reminds me of a certain world leader these days...
That was an appropriate response.
Harper outlived his usefulness to Goldman a long time ago. The hints that he was no longer going to tolerate Islamization was the last straw. Trudeau is the new face of Bay Street and Wall Street.
Fun fact: yes, we have voter ID laws here. Problem is, you don't need proof of citizenship, just proof you live in the electoral district. A passport isn't even good as ID (it doesn't have an address on it).
One day, we'll find out how many people with no business living in Canada in the first place, much less voting, were bribed or ordered by their imam to vote Liberal.
The ID is matched to a prepared list. How do names get on that list? Are they not from tax info where citizenship status is identified?
You can get your name put on the list that way, sure (they ask on the T1 form, rough equivalent of the US IRS form 1040). You can also register on the day you show up to vote as long as you have an ID with your name, photo and current address.
What they don't do is ask you to prove citizenship with a passport, birth certificate or citizenship card.
As soon as they put trannie bathrooms in all the grade and high schools they'll have exactly zero dollars for anything else.
Disclosure- long porcelin.
Canada, America's hat!
Are you kidding? If only the conservatives in the US would have lined up behind a .5% deficit we would not be nearly in the hole we find ourselves now. Canada's liberals are going where our conservatives dare not tread.
What will be next, a balanced budget? Cats and dogs sleeping together?
Another war monger bites the dust
Stephen Harper Promotes War in Syria as a “Solution to the Refugee Crisis”http://www.globalresearch.ca/stephen-harper-promotes-war-in-syria-as-a-s...
Harper pledges funds, equipment for Ukraine as fighting intensifieshttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/harper-arrives-in-ukraine-a...
Canada’s Harper promotes new police powers and warhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/15/cana-j15.html
Harper visits Iraq to laud Canada’s role in Mideast warhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/06/harp-m06.html
Trudeau is to Harper as Obama is to Bush.
Yep, it’s all a theatre – they all serve the same masters. Some are casted/selected for their rhetoric abilities (Obama) and others “because he seems like a fun guy to have a beer with” (Bush). There’re no ideological differences of importance (some symbolic) – the only sure winner of ‘elections’ in most of the West is the banking-sector/FIRE-sector (or the ownership-/rentier-class – the 0,01 %).
Sounds like Harper was another free-spending big-government type like Hillary, Biden, or any other Republican.
Harper = Emperor Palpatine
Trudeau = NWO Stalking Horse, to make Big Government just that little bit more palatable.
yeah, but you forgot to pimp your blog.
Lets ask the 'Times of Israel' what they think -
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-canada-election-support-for-israel-is-no...
"The good news is Ottawa will continue to be staunchly supportive of the Jewish state, remaining one of the only countries in the world — with Australia perhaps the other one — that will steadfastly stand with Jerusalem come what may, warts and settlements and all."
Bastards, being taken over by a foreign state is for the birds.
The new guy is a Bankster puppet just as much as the last guy.
In related news, he seemed to be amenable to the idea of reducing/ending the War on Drugs. Legal cannabis alone would be both GDP positive to Canada and anti-war, which any pleb should be pretty damn happy about.
Let me guess. He's going to LOWER health care premiums?
They are way too high!
Where is my extra credit for the double entendre?
south park. always ahead of the times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwxq_ObL0YE
had to post one more, best of canadians on south park:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCd4ZOTVg4
That second video is very telling of their future. Will Durant talks about when too many foreigners enter a nation it gets stronger in some ways but also weaker in some ways since the new migrants do not have the same values as the natives and also they are not as loyal to the new country. Can you see the Pakistani Abdul in Vancouver fighting for Canada? or the Shenzhen Wang Ho defending Canada?
We're gonna see serious changes in the West due to the massive flood of immigrants/refugees. i suggest everyone read some of Durant to see what's going to happen.
The reason that some places are third world shitholes is not because of the place. Culture deserves the credit. The multi-culti diversity croud wishes to eliminate civilization by making culture homogenous.
Correction: they wish to eliminate the WHITE race & European cultures.
They are doing nothing to eliminate any other cultures, which will duke it out over our lands as soon as we're gone.
hope and change? are you shitting me?
It's been my experience that Canadians about 8 years behind the rest of the world.
Canada isn't even a real country, just something someone made up.
Maybe they should take the Queen of England off their money....and people would stop accusing them of that.
Yes, I understand tradition.....on the other hand however.
It is the reason I do not buy canadian gold coins (also australian) I do not want to see the ugly old inbred hag on my precious.
That is true of all countries. Most countries are actually very young (relatively to human history) and most countries “live” for very short periods (again, relatively to human history).
This is Hope and Change, Eh!
Right? ...Suckers!
Hope and change = He HOPES to be able to buy lots of votes for the next election while removing all the CHANGE from everybodys pocket
Ow abut beer and donuts, eh?
The Canadians I know could care less about politics, except those in urban areas. I guess the joke is on them.
How much less could they care?
Who will he bomb first?
drones
The Canadians
Funny how 'Hope and Change' morphs to 'Communism and Tyranny'.
Funny how?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWINtUCshxY
Fascism, not communism, we don't see wide spread public ownership of OUR resources, quite to the contrary, private business is taking control of public assets. Where you people come up with this BS.
If you take the exact definition of communism you are correct but there has never been a communist government in the history of the world.
Communism always manifests itself in the perverted form the commies bring to its citizens. Yes, in the US we have plenty of fascism but the communists bring their tyranny of government over the citizen. Fascism is just greed sanctioned by government, communism will take your freedom, property, rights and your money.
Ok, let's see what you just wrote there:
"Fascism is just greed sanctioned by government, communism will take your freedom, property, rights and your money."
How the fuck do you know what communism will do to you, when in your first sentence you admit there's never been a communist gov. in the history of the world? OTOH, this world has seen quite a few examples of fascism in the past century and they all operate on the same auctoritarian postulates of anti-individualism, hawkish romanticism and (mildly put) utter disrespect for any and all political opponents (besides taking away your freedom and rights).
The biggest problem with the world today is half-educated MSM-parrotting useful dickwits like you, sir, that are running TPT(S)B's errands by rooting for one type of Big Gubbermint on the expence of the other.
I think I'm beginning to finally realise what motivated Yeats to write his "Second Coming"...
Rocket Scientist - you disagreed with my definition of communism because it does not meet the dictionary definition, I explained that there has never been a dictionary definition of communism but the world is rife with what communism really is.
You cite the '2nd coming' because you disagree - you have exposed your true leanings of liberalism.
Lol, what a limp strawman you got there! Have you never ever in your pathetic life come across a definition of 'communism'? Well, I certainly don't blame you but the ruthless state-sponsored propaganda that you've been brainwashed with every single day of your life (remember McCarthy? Well, he's still alive!!!)
Here, let me help you with some different definitions so you can find a common denominator: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster, The Legal Dictionary...
All those definitions and still no communist government that served the 'collective', only served those in power and enslaved the citizen.
The definition of communism is the antithesis of the reality of communism.
So, how many times are you going to vote for Bernie Sanders?
You operate on false premises, dude: communism as an ideology is mutually exclusive with terms like 'government' and 'state'. As such, you were right about one thing only - there has never existed a truly communist society in modern day civilization (and it never will, simply because humans are mere apes with thumbs).
And why in the world do you think I'm Murican?
"...you were right about one thing only - there has never existed a truly communist society in modern day civilization (and it never will, simply because humans are mere apes with thumbs)."
My entire point RS.
Which is why I cite 'communism' in the vernacular for which it stands.
All the leftists become so offended when the words, 'socialist' and 'communist' are used in their true context and cluck that the words are being used incorrectly, but the reality of those belief systems always become what they really are - oppressive, dictatorial, murdering government.
You can dress any word you like in the camouflage of your choice but reality will always expose the truth.
You’ll have a very hard time educating anyone (from US) on the topic of ideologies – you’re against decades of corporate propaganda and ‘new-speak’. In US everything related to state/statism/public etc. is the same as or related to socialism/communism/Marxism/progressivism etc. (all terms that in their ‘intellectual tradition’ have morphed into one undistinguishable mass). There is no conception of a ‘capitalist state’ – it’s an oxymoron in their vocabulary.
Yeah, this is a common, and very intentional, problem for us in the US. Our vocabulary has been debauched and distorted over the past few generations to the point that most of our political terminology has no meaning. In the modern era it started with the words "Socialist" and "Communist," which have come to mean "Everything I don't personally like." There was a reaction in the 1960s, when "Fascism" came to refer either to high-school football coaches, police, or anyone who tells the young to get a haircut and a job.
Then it got serious, when Republican operatives like William Safire and Frank Luntz set out to turn "Liberal" into a word that meant "Communist" to most people. "Liberal" came to describe a cartoon image of an excessively generous welfare state, intensive government control over private interests, ridiculously sentimental social policies, and a weak, effeminate, ineffectual overall nature. Why they chose "Liberal" is hard to understand, as all politicians in the US are "Liberal" by definition, except maybe Bernie Sanders or, possibly, Ron Paul.
Now the Humpty-Dumpty-esque usage of words (to mean whatever you want them to mean) has carried through to make words meaningless such as "Conservative," "Terrorist," "Progressive," and most other political terms. In Business, words that no longer mean anything include "Accountability," among others.
The overall goal is to prevent people from being able to even discuss political and business ideas. If they can't discuss them, they can't determine truth from falsehood. If "The State" is demonized (except for police and the military, of course), then by default the only positive values come from corporate interests.
It's working very well.
+1
“The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought in order to render dissent literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” - G.Orwell (a must read)
All the leftists become so offended when the words, 'socialist' and 'communist' are used in their true context and cluck that the words are being used incorrectly, but the reality of those belief systems always become what they really are - oppressive, dictatorial, murdering government.
You can dress any word you like in the camouflage of your choice but reality will always expose the truth.
Facism. Is it really much different on the ground from Communism? With either system, the grunt gets "disenfranchised".
Free shit morphs into price controls , shortages , violence , starvation and mass death.
"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
Living on the Canadian border I swim with Canadians at my pool. They're very proud of their country. They're very proud as individuals. This was Harper's downfall. He became despised for failing to adequately measure the pride of Canadians, as he reached out and far too inexcusably fawned over the much larger world around him.
The great irony of life is that it all seems so seamless, so cogent, and so matter of fact from everyone's individual perspective.
Even for the people fleeing from Syria right now, in China as they daily expect riots and marching revolutionaries to fill the streets, and even for some pickaninny living on the murderous border between the Hootsie and the Tutu in deepest darkest Africa, the whole universe seems to have been fashioned to each of them, for each of them, to live out their predestined lives just as God planned it all just for them.
LoL! Justin Trudeau is a name that will forever live in Canadian infamy. Trudeaumania is going to end up being just another small delusional, imaginary, altruist-kingdom along the roadway that heads to yet another common crackpot "hope and change" progressive purgatory. That path is well worn by wide-grinning politicians with a great deal of public exposure, surrounded by a great many certified experts, none of whom have even one ounce of practical experience in anything other than getting their clueless hero elected.
Get the Mounties to mount and let the sideshow begin!
"Also, the plan is to end deficits by 2019, suggesting only a temporary period of higher spending."
The ambition being shown is fucking inspiring to me.
NOtice how these politocos never end the deficit now - it's always at the end of their term of office. ie kick the can down the road but leave hope (snicker).
Just in time for more election promises.
We went from "Change" in 2008 through "Forward" in 2012 to "Real Change" in 2015 .. upcomming next "Change, this time we really mean it" in 2017?
News about Trudeau:
https://atokenmanblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/tru-doh/
It turns out he's one of those UN 'international order' types.
We're F***ed. The liberal party leader also wants to follow the Australian model for gun control as well.
Gun control via Australian style, eh? And believe me, it's not to prevent you from hurting yourselves! Well, it boomeranged on the Aussies.
lurching to the left out of fear of the inevitable
Yay! More "free" shit for Canadians. Wait until they see the bill...
Take a look at where Canada scores on education relative to the US. It's higher. The average Canadian is smarter than the average American. We saw the writing on the wall and got ris of Harper while we still had a Middle Class.
Our political parties still mean something, so when we choose there will be change. Maybe good, maybe not.
In the US it doesn't matter who you elect, it's all a show for the masses.
Best Canadian Fiscal Surplus? CHRETIEN / Liberal
Worst Canadian Fiscal Deficit? HARPER (Mulroney was almost as bad. He was Conservative too)
The question is: Did Trudeau meet with the same people Stevie met with in Versailles, France back in 2003?
The same ones that trashed the world economy 4 years later?Did Stevie know then what would happen?
Curious how Stevie's lackluster campaign back then took off like a shot after that meeting. Same thing happened to Obama on June 6 2008 in Chantilly Virginia.
Is this just more "Meet the new boss; he's the same as the old boss?"
If you really believe there's any bit of difference amongst the government shows, I think somebody has colored your blue pills red.
Banks own the whole world, your little ice patch included.
Back to full blown socialism for Canada. Yes, when the electorate realizes that they can vote for the governments largesse, it spells the end of democracy as no government can fulfill this promise forever.
What's really going to be interesting is as the world's financial system falls off the cliff due to the stupidity of politicians and central banks, it's going to be Trudeau Junior that's going to have to dismantle the generours social programs that his father created. LOL!
When you believe that there is no more productive capacity left in the economy, the focus turns to "spreading the wealth around" of what's left.
Public support for leftists is a transparent indication of the desperation in society. A democratic level display of mobs in the streets, knocking down doors and taking what they can.
When your primary belief is that there is no future in working for a living and the only avenue of survival is TAKING, not EARNING, then our economy, our future is cooked.
"When you believe that there is no more productive capacity left in the economy"
The problem, my friend, is not that there is no more productive capacity; the problem is there are far too few who want to bother to invest their money, and especially their time, in a new venture.
Why bother? All you get is vilified for trying to get rich, bled to death by a thousand paper cuts (or paper forms, take your pick), and once you reach a certain size, the unions camp out on your door to get in the tent to take what's left.
Ayn Rand was a crackpot in many ways, but she was right about human nature and work. Let people live relatively comfortably by doing nothing, and a whole lotta them will choose to do.. nothing. Attach leeches to everyone who's trying to be productive, and watch how the life slowly/not so slowly is drained from them. An increasing number of people are going "semi-Galt" - they still live in society, but they take menial jobs, milk the system for everything they can, and squirrel away supplies for when TSHTF. They don't create new businesses, new jobs, or new opportunities.
It's so sad because we are really on the verge of a golden age, where machines do the drudge work, where the price of most 'stuff' deflates each year as we get better and better at building things, and where humans are free to live and create. Sure, there's gonna be a lot of people who sit on their asses, but we could be so rich that it wouldn't matter. But of course, Jamie and Lloyd need another, bigger boat, another mistress or 3, a couple more mansions that they never spend any time at.
I agree; we're cooked. Glad I'm old.
rant begins here: on a plane trip from vancouver, a housewife from vancouver had a rather loud conversation with a housewife from wisconsin discussing differences between canada and us socialism. all they yakked about was what goodies were for free in US and CA, there was 5 or 6 grand free money for each child in canada, free this, free that, obammascare gave near-free medical insurance for $75 a month to the US one. then the canadian said she was glad to pay 30% tax rate on HER HUSBANDS INCOME for all the goodies. No skin off ner nose, it was the poor schlubs money. There is no need for men, no sense of earning their way, just entitlement, as these women use the government as a proxy to forcibly extract money, whether they are married or not. Clearly, socialist american and canadian women with voting rights and no sense of responsibility/justice are the root cause of fall of the west. imo
Is it no small coincidence that while we have seen massive women's liberation, we still see women protecting their sense of entitlement, of being "cared for" by the opposite sex. We see this even in homosexual relationships where the masculine is expected to be the protector if not provider. I think this is nature at work, but of course, we can only recognize those parts of our nature that bolster a progressive ideology. To take it to its obvious ends, it would also imply that a "women's perspective" in government would definitely change things, not all for the better.
Women have always had power in society, but in our past we have typically allowed nature to define our roles, whereas today, ideology replaces nature with a more perfect plan, that NO ONE knows the outcome. As we saw with Mao, making farmers into doctors and doctors into farmers definitely accomplished his goals, but also led to mass starvation and death...an unfortunate consequence of displacing the natural world with one fabricated from the mind of idealists. Women and homosexuals serving in combat roles in the military. It sounds great, equal rights and all that.Who could be against that...except the entire history of humanity? We can embrace evolution until it provides a result we don't like. We will call nature evil and unjust, as the lion eats the antelope. We will always reflect this back at man, like it is OUR responsibility to restore fairness in the world, like we can be anything else but what and who we are. We have always pretty much understood what the rules had to be to survive, but those are pretty much gone now. We don't need those stinkin old rules. We got new ones now, not written on stone tablets, but by a pen, in the hand of a greater thinker and scholar who massaged his brain with dope while developing his great plans for our salvation, our "correction", all encased in "hope and change".
We shall see...
Best Canadian Fiscal Surplus? CHRETIEN (Liberal)
Worst Canadian Fiscal Deficit? HARPER (Conservative)
BTW the Conservatives from 50 years ago would puke if they saw what Harper and his pals were doing in their name. Harper is a NeoCon, not a Conservative.
Now Feck Off!
As a % of GDP - worst fiscal deficit = Trudeau. And we all know how the son wants to exceed the father.
Political labels (along with their posturing) mean nothing. Fiscal surpluses and deficits are an effect of the machinations of the global monetary system.
Canada is every bit as fucked as every other state, as there is NO ESCAPE FROM THE RAMIFICATIONS OF A CREDIT-FUELED CRACK-UP BOOM.
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Trudeau senior sold Canada down the river in 1974 when he transferred money creation from the public Bank of Canada (interest free) to private banks (with interest of course)
54 cents of every dollar raised in taxes now goes to pay the interest on the national debt
and the morons just voted in his son
HOPE AND CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!
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He musta not got the memo that hope always ends in failure.
Thomson of Thomson-Reuters is a real dickhead. He owns our local NHL team and we pay almost the highest ticket prices and we have the second lowest pay-roll. Hockey players need to eat too you know.
also a serial impregnator.
True Dough .... Zero Guns .... open borders for Muslims .... Americans stay home ?
"An American dollar! What time would you like breakfast Sir?"
Reuters said about Tradeau... "With boyish good looks, Justin thrusts himself into throngs and puts his hand to his heart when listening to someone."
Sound familiar? They are going to get worked!