Opposition says Liberals not doing enough to boost economy.
I guess if we’re going to defeat the Conservatives over a recession that never happened, I guess we’re supposed to harangue the Liberals into doing more.
Thank you but they’re doing quite enough, thank you. The only thing gov’t, any gov’t, does efficiently is hire civil servants.
h/t NationalNewsWatch
Right you are. Governments don’t boost the economy, the best they can do is get out of the way. I though the Conservatives knew this.
Not doing enough! Justin has marshalled TWO Gay pride Parades, whale watched in Tofino, done shirtless selfies with kids,all the while accompanied by the lovely and talented Sophie,and they say he hasn’t done his part!
I hope now Justin decides to spend ten times as much as KNothead in Alberta, and hires 470,000 government employees.
Please,Allah,let me be one of them.
Has the CPC gone completely liberal?
Harper’s revenge is that the civil servants aren’t getting paid.
I think since Harper left the conservative party has begun to drift to become a more progressive party again.
But not to worry Prime Minister Selfie will show us all how to dance thru the next century.
I think since Harper left the conservative party has begun to drift to become a more progressive party again.
But not to worry Prime Minister Selfie will show us all how to dance thru the next century.
I’m sure if one asked an Alberta provincial government employee about the current economic situation, the answer would be along the lines of: “Recession? What recession?”
Yup, Red Rachel is hiring–good times all around, eh?
A successful economy requires wages and prices to find their free market level, because people trade voluntarily for mutual benefit. Government is coercive; interference in the economy is destructive.
Nothing about the moratorium on tanker traffic to the West Coast?(while allowing it on the East coast)
The CPC are not getting my vote next time if they do not seriously up their game. I will not vote for PCs.
“Economists noted that Canada’s performance has been lagging other developed countries – including the United States, which reported another month of better-than-expected job gains Friday.”
Better than expected? Pshaw. The American jobs market may be better than expected, but they media was silent for nearly 8 years when it performed poorer than expected and we’re to listen to the media about “better than expected” now?(by-the-bye, now that they expect shit from Barky, better than expected is still piss-poor)
In politics, memories tend to fade after a few weeks. Unless a certain matter is constantly brought to the front of the news queue, people forget about it quickly. When was the last time we heard about Mike Duffy, let alone what he is supposed to have done?
Want the masses to forget about a certain scandal? Draw their collective attention to something else–a war, a different unspeakable incident, a major sporting event. That’s how bad economic news is soon forgotten and politicians take advantage of that. By the time they campaign for re-election, all those lousy numbers from a few quarters ago will have faded from people’s memories, so anything which seems remotely better can be elevated to “happy days are here again”.
They’re not called sheeple for nothing.
“…people trade voluntarily for mutual benefit. Government is coercive; interference in the economy is destructive.”
That might be true, as an abstraction in the mind of a first-year economics undergrad. The real world, however, doesn’t abide such simplistic, all-or-none thinking.
All successful economies throughout modern history have been mixed economies to some degree or another; no economy has ever been a pure “free market”, for the good reason that it’s simply not viable in any civilization more complex than a pre-industrial village society. Coercive intervention is a necessary characteristic — it doesn’t “destroy” economies, it makes them possible. The only thing to debate is the degree and precise policy nature of that “interference”.
Also, be wary of confusing a market economy with a market society. The former, appropriately regulated, is a desirable arrangement; the latter, a pernicious mindset.
Yes, I heard this yesterday. I had the same thought; governments should stop trying to do anything to help the economy and leave it up to the people. They could stop taking all the money that people earn and burning it in a fire-pit of government investments.
governments do nothing except destroy the wealth that the people manage to create in spite of those same governments trying to destroy the ability to create wealth. the end result of too much government is cuba, north korea, and the current blossom on the vine venesuzuwaila, you know that south American communist disaster where the people have no food. the day I have no food as a result of government policies is the day I take whatever I want from any government official that I can lay hands on.
A name change is in order here. May suggest Your Token Marxist? Or Your token Village Idiot?
As Ronald Reagan famously said, Government is not the answer, it’s the problem!
Most government statistics about the economy, unemployment, growth, etc. are lies or half-truths. Expect the US economy to BOOM in September-October, one might call it the Hillary Effect.
I think since Harper left the conservative party has begun to drift to become a more progressive party again.
But not to worry Prime Minister Selfie will show us all how to dance thru the next century.
Funny how government fiscal policy is always great schemes that are impossible at a personal level.
For you and I income must equal outgoing or we be bankrupt.
Yet for government this never gets applied.
So are the bureaus exempt the laws of mathematics?
Or is political theatre just a bonfire for the productive citizens efforts?
Of course it may just be human nature, for no parasite ever considers the cost they impose on their host.
Until the host is gone.
With no new “meal ticket” in range.
Next time we won’t steal so much?
“For you and I income must equal outgoing or we be bankrupt. Yet for government this never gets applied.”
Did you pay for your house in cash, upfront in one lump-sum?
Hey token, how much of the money that Trudeau #1 borrowed has been paid back or will ever be paid back?
“Did you pay for your house in cash, upfront in one lump-sum?”
You bet your butt I did. I learned how to save and invest. Mind you,the beaytch selling the house for the “costumer” was not happy when I talked the seller down and paid cash up front. Something about her cut. And I still get asked how much my mortgage is. They seem PO’d when I say nothing. I tell them that when I say I own it,I OWN it. I don’t pay rent to the bank. Heh. A great feeling.
As a simple businessman I realized there was a dif between ‘operating cost’ and ‘capital investment’. Capital investment requires financing which brings a amortization of capital and a carrying cost.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have learned to ignore this basic premise and regularly add to both. If citizens allow these people to increase debt with no debate over paying this debt off the ultimate result will be collapse. Canada has no where near the same capacity to carry debt on a per capita basis, as the Americans, because our economy does not have the same depth or resilience. Canada’s economy is resource based and yet our government actively subverts the energy industry that created so much wealth and positive balance of payments.
Because governments, both federal and provincial, rack up debt the hard decisions of government can be punted down the road. This is poor governance and nation threatening. It is crass politics at its worst. Leadership is supposed to inform the citizens not exploit them. I consider all parties at fault, especially those who have formed government over the past decades.
We have several generations in Canada who have never had to make really hard decisions on nation building. From the Boomers on debt has been used to ‘make life easier’ whether affordable or not. When the day comes that this is no longer possible Canada will quickly fall apart.
Mike Duffy was their punching bag, he should be able to sue their collective butts off the map, his “trial” has let all the other Senators off the hook. No one has or will be charged. It’s what it always was down to, Senate business and management, the bucks stopped there, they wrote the cheques. PM Harper should have stayed well out of it, he should have said he appoints people as per our system, those people are then expected to abide Senate rules, he does not run that Chamber. He only needed to ask those accused to step aside until the Senate cleared it up. Instead he decided to insert himself into it and a circus ensued, a media frenzy, a recipe for political suicide.
Actually, I own two houses…one I bought in 1984, the other in 2001.
I paid cash for both.
I’ve also bought expensive new diesel pick-ups for cash.
I’ve had up to 200 grand in unsecured credit…Oh and I’ve never paid any interest on any debt in my entire life as I’ve never borrowed money that I didn’t have a means of paying back within the ‘grace period’.
I’ve also never worked under the table. nor been involved in illegal activity.
I’m not saying this to brag but to point out that IT CAN BE DONE…with a little discipline.
Oh. And the owner was quite happy when $250,000 showed up in her account. If I recall correctly,the real estate twit got zero. Funny thing about that. I paid the 150 bucks for the the title transfer.
Strangely enough.
Yes.
You unable to defer your pleasures long enough to save a few bucks?
Or just totally unskilled ?
As the average liberal normally is.
Coercion doesn’t make anything possible that couldn’t have been done better in its absence. Coercion produces nothing.
The only people who want to debate “the degree and precise policy nature of that ‘interference'” are the prospective bureaucrats who hope to grow fat off the productive. It’s time they were told to get lost.
A market economy raises the standard of living. There have to be laws against fraud and so on, but “regulation” is worthless.
You’ll have to define what you mean by “market society” before it’s worth addressing.