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Forum: BC Topic: exporting logs, exporting jobs |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:10 pm
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| You can repeat it a soften as you like and you can shout it from the rooftops, too. There is a petrodollar and almost no one argues with that. No one but those who don't want to admit tot he problem. I don't know where you get your ideas about Canadian/Japanese trade but you could not be more wrong.... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: The Wrong Sign Paradox. |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:44 pm
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Forum: BC Topic: exporting logs, exporting jobs |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:28 pm
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| There is very little that we have gained in World courts through the FTA. I assume that you mean the Softwood Lumber question that did not work out all that well. Progressive areas of the country? In the sense of manufacturing, Ontario is number one in that. Socially, Quebec is. I cannot credit that... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Chimps and Bees Do It, But Is Democracy Natural? : Discovery |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:54 pm
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| Oddly, China is a democracy. It is what is calleda "Vanguard" democracy. As were all the Marxict states in the beginning. That is, that it is, or was, an ignorant mass - a peasant society, led by an educated elite into a new society. Provided the mass is engaged in the Party, it does not m... |
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Forum: Poems / Writings Topic: Zipperfish Embarks on Literary Career |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:11 pm
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Chimps and Bees Do It, But Is Democracy Natural? : Discovery |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:56 pm
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| I don't think that democracy is "natural" in the sense that it is in any way innate. Virtually all advanced societies and Empires in the past have been built on slavery and autocracy. However, the only societies that survive as advanced societies are progressive democratic ones. Democracy ... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: This is the terminus of Tory radicalism |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:48 pm
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| I don't think that you are reading the "right" media, andy. Be that as it may, though, Canada does not need to get a handle on its spending. It probably needs to improve its social programmes and spend more. Canada is near the bottom of the OECD in both taxes and spending. In fact, there i... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: Geo-engineers can save us |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:52 pm
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| Better deep space than getting the Martians upset with us. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Conservatives' budget to reset retirement at age 67 |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:48 pm
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| The first intelligent post, andy! |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: This is the terminus of Tory radicalism |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:43 pm
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| The "rate of spending that came about with the recessi0on," andy was not a significant increase in spending. It was stimulus spending that has already ended. As an aside, what we need there is an assessment of the efficacy of that spending. The $5.2 billion dollars are cuts to programme sp... |
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Forum: BC Topic: exporting logs, exporting jobs |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:37 pm
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| Those Auto Plants replace existing facilities, caelon. They create nothing new. And they replace them only in part. It also is the doing of the federal government that for a generations now has brought the country ever closer to the USA. The purpose of the Mulroney Trade agreements was to integrate ... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: This is the terminus of Tory radicalism |
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:36 pm
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| I did not say that the budget was a "cut to the jugular," andy. I am pointing to the foolishness of saying that the cuts were gentle and not harmless. The cuts are, though, draconian and no one should be fooled by Flaherty's blarney As for the poster above who thinks I post crap about this... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: So you wanna be finance minister? Try balancing the budget! |
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:08 am
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| I have read, incidentally, psudo, that the OECD forecast for this year is for Canada to rank 14th. in growth. The IMF has it at 152nd. of all nations. Not much of a boost to the claims of this government that started off with one of the most favoured positions. I don't know the actual source of that... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: This is the terminus of Tory radicalism |
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:54 am
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| And you are the most insensitive individual that I have encountered in a long time. Everything that does not directly hit you is not worth considering? |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: So you wanna be finance minister? Try balancing the budget! |
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:49 am
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| a stimulative programme rather than austerity would grow the country out of deficit. Economists don't agree on this. The other side says the people grow the economy, not government. That you have chosen a side in the debate does not prove that you have chosen the best option. So, tell me: what does... |
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