Last year’s dismissal, and in some instances disdain, for our supply chains has disappeared into thin air. We are learning what is optional and what is not, what is a luxury and what is not. Toilet paper became a famous symbol of this reawakening, a kind of ironic and weird magical talisman that caused a light bulb to go on in the west’s collective consciousness: this sh*t doesn’t just fall from the sky. Read on…
Another part of the artical that is SPOT ON.
“We live in a western world that has been so well taken care of that it can take everything for granted – endless supplies of food, clothing, heat and shelter, and these basic needs have been so consistently and ubiquitously distributed that treat them like oxygen, and we have a whole new layer of what we consider necessities: telecommunications, social safety nets, stable governments, entertainment, rights to protest, air conditioning, you name it.
That is part of the human condition, to take for granted that which they don’t have to provide for themselves.”
Absolutely right.
On a side note, my wife will watch those house finding shows on HGTV and the things that North Americans will find to whine and bitch about in what they NEED for their home just makes me roll my eyes. What a pampered spoiled bunch of children.
On the topic of your side note- I saw one of those shows while in a waiting room (the only place I’ll ever come into contact with many undesirable things…), a couple dropped like 50K on the kitchen, 30K on the bathroom, and then pissed and moaned about needing 6K worth of work on the roof. Peoples priorities in general need a DRASTIC reset and have for quite some time.
Oh, I so agree! I am a retired commercial interior designer (primarily restaurants, hotels, some resorts) and did timber frame vacation homes for millionaires at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort. I am just so “taken aback” by the demands of some of the people showcased on shows such as “Property Brothers”. They “need” separate bedrooms c/w ensuites for each entitled child. When I and my friends were growing up, we would get the “stink eye” from our fathers when we turned 19 (completed high school) as in “When are you going to leave?” One of my sister’s friends received luggage as a heavy hint.
FYI – my brother (retired architect), my friend in Toronto (still practicing) and my self have never had a contractor finish a project when they said they would. They always have an excuse – from “I have a pimple on my bum” to “I left my tools at another job site”. So I just laugh wildly when the Property Brothers promise a time line of 6 weeks or 8 weeks and look so sincere.
I see people out and about in January wearing running shoes and light jackets, no gloves or toques as if nothing could go wrong.
Certainly many city folk piss on preppers, even moderates like myself.
Back in the day I cleaned the toilets of night shift catering cooks to start my shift. It’s humbling. And just one example of many.
Think Juthtin or Morneau have ever given a shit about who cleans for them?
Remember what Evil Butts said and continues to say about “yellow vests”.
I’ve always said thanks to the deplorables because I am one.
A whole lot of people need to be jap slapped.
starting at the top of the Liberal party
Another prime example of peoples priorities needing a reset- Who really provides more to society, a janitor, or some mid-level marketing manager? Guess we just found out, didn’t we?
Indeed we have: the stock market is roaring, so it would seem a lot of people are simply surplus to requirements, at least in the view of neo-liberal economics. I hope you are not suggesting capitalism under-values ordinary working people.
Yes, and I wonder if there will be any change in the selection approach used to determine the hot stocks afterwards. I’ve always taken the approach to invest long-term in thins that will produce concrete items, because I live in a world of real things. And I’ve got an extremely low return rate as a result.
A prof of mine once said that there’s two ways to make money in mining. You can mine the ore, or you can mine the investors. I’ve always been an ore miner. That’s not the easy way to get rich.
It depends on what you consider a reasonable rate of return. I’ve bought stocks that, even though they traded in a narrow range, provided a good return on my investment through their dividends.
I’ll still be doing my analysis of financial reports, looking at balance sheets and figures such as debt to equity. There’s no guarantee that I’ll make money if I bought those stocks, but I’ll definitely reduce my chances of losing my investment by eliminating the obvious financial sinkholes.
As for timeframe, I’ve held certain stocks for many years, in some cases as long as 2 or 3 decades. So what if the price doesn’t go up rapidly? If they pay a decent dividend I can use that money to buy other stocks or, perhaps, re-invest it and buy more of that company’s shares.
I’ve been an investor long enough to know that there’s a lot of hurry up and wait. Investing has a lot in common with farming and ranching.
I would never, for a second, suggest capitalism (especially at its purest level) undervalues us working stiffs. The bureaucratic culture that has invaded institutions both public and private alike absolutely does, though.
We live in a meritocracy, and the people who are going to come out on top after this crisis are the ones who work harder and smarter. Why should they care what happens to those on the bottom rungs? So-called working people need to realize nobody gives a damn about them, and organize their lives accordingly.
And if you are worried someone who just arrived here is going to kick you out of your home, that tells me you have made some really poor decisions about your education.
On that entire rant…I totally Stand with ya buddy.
Grew up in 2 brm house…3 kids. It wasn’t till I was in Gr 10, that us,kids had our own rooms…we felt like royalty.
Milk came in glass jugs..4 quarts a week. Mom would scoop the cream off the top-that became whipping cream ..if we were good. I still recall her using an old 2000lb cast Iron wood/coal stove to cook on…
Mom & us kids all picked blueberries for extra cash as dad sweated his balls off in a Vancouver Iron foundry for the princely sum of $ 2.35/hr.. Great money in those days.! Early- mid 60’s.
Yea, I know from whence I came and think there’s a few just like me on the blog. I also recall both my parents telling us what they went thru during WWII…in Holland. Not fun by any stretch.
So I have a bit of an issue with the whiners….but also huge disdain for the ASSholes snitching on their neighbours…thats Fkn Gestapo shit.
This Lockdown needs to end – Damned soon. Country will not exist if people dont wake up and realize, the only way to beat this shit is to expose the herd…one way or another…to not do so ends in NAZIism, perpetual Tyranny & a disease that will continue to rear its ugly bio engineerred head…As The ChiComms continue their takeover of our country.
I will live free…. To not do so dishonors ALL who fought in the 40’s including both my parents.
Don’t forget what many people went through during the 1980s, thanks in part to PET’s NEP.
I spent much of that decade on the dole and, no, I wasn’t proud of it. I wanted to go back to work in my profession more than anything else, but jobs were hard to find. Whole companies disappeared almost overnight during that time and, yet, there were people who thought I wasn’t trying “hard enough” and that I was a loafer, a deadbeat, and a freeloader, sitting on my backside, raking in all that “free” government money. (Free? Yeah, right. Not only did the government carve off its slice before I got my cheque, I had to declare it all on my income tax return.)
During that time, I had to make do with what I had. I did with $1 that most people needed a fiver for. I saved money wherever I could, such as turning old envelopes into scrap paper and old socks into rags, cutting off pieces to darn other socks. And, no, there was no pizza and no movies. My only indulgence was the occasional six-pack or bottle of wine.
Now the same sort of people who looked down their noses at me while I was out of work nearly 40 years ago are the one who’re howling in indignation about being “inconvenienced” or “deprived”.
Sorry, but if I can survive hard times, so can they. As for all the pogey I collected, the government got it all back and then some through the income tax I paid afterward.
Liberals take things for granted. Whenever someone says “we”, meaning all of us, take things for granted or don’t appreciate what we have, it’s almost always a liberal.
“Speak for yourself” is my reply to that. Correct the liberal by telling them to limit their use of the term “we” to liberals exclusively, then they will be perfectly accurate.
Liberals hate religious people, but at least they appear to be thankful in their prayers. Conservatives want to ‘conserve’ many of the things that made the civilized world a good place to live, it’s doubtful a true conservative simply takes things for granted.
Sadly the author is too correct, there are too many liberals.
Every accusation by liberals is a confession.
Absofuckinglutely!
“Every accusation by liberals is a confession”
Exactly! Buddy says it well too.
Should be the first comment on mainstream ”news”
And “Canadians” will still support increasing the carbon tax.
They will also support the current legislation imposing insane new regulations and standards on commercial drivers.
And continue to preach to their children that an advanced degree in victimhood is more valuable than learning some real skills.
Even now as we grind to a halt through fear and government mandate,we remain enslaved in our beliefs.
We need a new country,because this one is too big and too hidebound stupid to save.
We need tighter borders with defined standards, things we cannot accomplish in a state of kleptocracy,which relies on citizens of great ignorance and sloth.
There is no waking the Woke.
How do you tell a Liberal?
Answer is; You can’t tell them anything.
Even when the supply chain is crushed by rule and regulation,when full blown famine sweeps in,it will still be “Someone Else’s fault”in the eyes of our parasitic overload.
When the canadian dollar trades below 40c US,it will still be Trump’s Fault or that of the petrodollar.. cause Alberta.
The mark of our combined idiocy is the National Debt.
“Things come to pass.”
Like me I’m sure you all are praying this will “pass” soon.
Thinking about that day a memory has come to mind.
Years ago on a cold winter Saturday afternoon we were at a city swimming pool with our kids and grandkids. The three pool venue was teaming with kids. It was crowded. Especially the pool that was all one depth, about 30 inches, for the tots. I ,like other adults, was in it with our grand kids.
Suddenly their was a screaming panic…and within seconds this pool was evacuated!
You would have thought there was a shark!
Once we were all out we could see what caused this sudden disruption.
There floating in the water was some little kids poo contribution floating away.
Well as we all watched from the edge, and waited, no staff member would get into the water and scoop it out with a bucket. Instead they reached for it with a long handled net.
Once it was fished out a staff member walked around the edge of the pool with a gallon of bleach I suspect, and poured it into the pool.
Yelled to us all to wait 5 minutes and then feel free to swim again.
So a hundred shivering kids and adults waited like sheep the 5 minutes…and within seconds they/we were all back in the pool.
Happy Easter you all.
This will pass. And I’m sure we will be the wiser for it I hope.
What we are living through right now is the green new deal. 30% unemployment, bread lines, shortages, misery and death. This is what would happen if the Green party ever formed government.
Well except for the cheap gas. We would have massive gas shortages instead.
Buddy that’s it that’s exactly it .
The good things of this Virus!
1. Everyone will experience Cabin Fever.. it’s real
2. Everyone will experience the Retirement pox….My wife has to wake up every day with an A-hole and spend her whole day with the A-Hole… During the work routine we both got Time-out’s… I expect a lot of divorces will result when folks see what’s ahead for them….. The good parts of retirement are short lived…. first ~3 years and then you resent that you retired….Your welcome
Watched CPAC for a hour today. Politicians are terrified that a labourer could have a buck more from the government over 4 month than he or she had before. No mention of the 159.5 million going to the W.H.O. and other corrupt organizations where a prominent person, who shell not be named, likes to have a job in the future.
https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2020/04/backgrounder—canada-provides-funding-to-address-covid-19-pandemic.html
“What we need is a Famine.”
– K. McMillan
We didn’t get a famine, we got the Chinese Plague instead.
It is going to rip up families, businesses, institutions, and nations.
People have no idea of the changes coming.
Fortunes will be made and Fortunes will be Lost.
You know who will be among the biggest money losers? Hospitals and Healthcare. There are no elective surgeries, no regular routine appointments, even normal emergency care is way down. Minnesota Hospitals are losing $31 million dollars a day, or a BILLION Dollars a month. How many will go broke and close? How many dermatologists, dentists, orthopedic surgeons, opthamologists, gastroenterologists, chiropractors, etc., will go bankrupt? What about all the support staff, like physical therapists, receptionists, and on and on?
The famine comes later after the effects of the current economic shutdown start to be felt.
And it’s not going to be pretty.
E T , I fear you are correct.
The lulziest thing Unme has called us is “slavers.”
Rich, coming from a tankie who likes buying goods made with slave labor in China’s extensive gulag system…
Yes, but UnMe is free to choose to enslave others. Isn’t that the Libertarian ideal? (/sarc)