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Offline eyeball

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #1605 on: April 03, 2021, 04:13:50 pm »
Maybe we should just worry about what we do. We aren't the world's reserve currency like the USD.

The US is a failing super-power and it's currency has no more business being the world's reserve currency then Russia's. By this reasoning China should be dictating to the world how the economy works.

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« Reply #1606 on: April 03, 2021, 05:55:47 pm »
The US is a failing super-power and it's currency has no more business being the world's reserve currency then Russia's. By this reasoning China should be dictating to the world how the economy works.

But it is. Ours isn't and never will be.

The US is still by far the largest economy of any country.
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« Reply #1607 on: April 03, 2021, 06:06:29 pm »
I would have thought preventing disease and the loss of life would be justification enough. I suspect the endemic corruption that existed long before COVID in Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela is what put them in the poor house. But hey, what do I know, perhaps the only real way to create prosperity is with a little corruption.  Too much is probably bad for you but given how many corporations seem to have forsaken most western countries perhaps we're not corrupt enough.   
I'm taking about printing our way to the end of the pandemic.  Why did you change the topic from getting thru a pandemic to creating prosperity?  There's no justification for clouding the issue this way.

I'm just saying there will be long term consequences to all that spending. Those consequences could be trying to service a crippling debt which would put us no further ahead in the long run. There were those who maintained it doesn't matter what we spent, anything was justified, it didn't matter if a few dozen billions were wasted or miss directed, speed was all that mattered.  It does and it wasn't.
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« Reply #1608 on: April 03, 2021, 09:52:34 pm »
I'm just saying there will be long term consequences to all that spending. Those consequences could be trying to service a crippling debt which would put us no further ahead in the long run. There were those who maintained it doesn't matter what we spent, anything was justified, it didn't matter if a few dozen billions were wasted or miss directed, speed was all that mattered.  It does and it wasn't.
And history is saying the consequences of putting the economy first will have worse economic consequences. No doubt we'll be warned of dire consequences if we don't borrow even more to save the economy.  Godspeed will be the order of the day.

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« Reply #1609 on: April 03, 2021, 10:41:26 pm »
And history is saying the consequences of putting the economy first will have worse economic consequences. No doubt we'll be warned of dire consequences if we don't borrow even more to save the economy.  Godspeed will be the order of the day.

Oh, there will be consequences. What happened in the nineties is creditors were balking at lending to Canada so Chretien and Martin had to slash spending and a lot federal responsibilities got downloaded to provinces
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« Reply #1611 on: April 13, 2021, 01:04:56 am »
what's in a readout statement, hey!


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« Reply #1612 on: April 13, 2021, 01:05:47 am »
Look at all those voters afraid CPC gonna cut their free money.  Best election money can buy.
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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #1613 on: April 22, 2021, 11:35:16 pm »
Well this is odd:  https://globalnews.ca/news/7780124/canadian-forces-military-misconduct-kellie-brennan/

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Maj. Kellie Brennan tells MPs Vance said he was ‘untouchable,’ fathered 2 of her kids

Maj. Kellie Brennan says former chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance told her he was “untouchable” and that he “owned” the military police. She also said “he fathered two children with me.”

Global News reached out to Vance in February about the allegations. When asked if he was the father of one specific child by name, Vance said: “I am not.” When asked whether he was the father of another specific child by name, he said, “I don’t even know who these people are.”
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“On a personal note, he fathered two children with me. He’s not responsible to pay or to have those children under his responsibility. It’s all up to me,” Brennan said in testimony before the House of Commons status of women committee on Thursday night.
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« Reply #1614 on: April 23, 2021, 03:18:23 am »
Minister Guilbeault touched a BuffaloGal nerve!



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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #1616 on: May 08, 2021, 06:52:20 pm »
CEWS seems like a joke.  The only way to save it is if by miracle things sort out after this tax season and transparency improves.  Don't hold your breathe:

"Wage subsidies were meant to preserve jobs. In many cases, the $110.6-billion response padded bottom lines"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-emergency-wage-subsidy-data-analysis/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-cews-a-massive-subsidy-shrouded-in-secrecy/
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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #1617 on: June 02, 2021, 05:55:27 pm »
Bill C-233 was defeated today.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7915810/abortion-bill-vote-bill-c-233/amp/

Anyone who is for such a bill, I’d like to know how, specifically, it would be enforced.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #1618 on: June 02, 2021, 08:56:00 pm »
Conservatives who voted for the bill are evil monsters for trying to stop abortions on the basis of sex (gendercide) and only want to control women's bodies.  Everything is a trojan horse towards the conspiracy to control women's bodies.

All women deserve the right to kill their fetus if they don't like the sex of the baby because this is what human rights look like.
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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #1619 on: June 02, 2021, 09:26:38 pm »
Conservatives who voted for the bill are evil monsters for trying to stop abortions on the basis of sex (gendercide) and only want to control women's bodies.  Everything is a trojan horse towards the conspiracy to control women's bodies.

All women deserve the right to kill their fetus if they don't like the sex of the baby because this is what human rights look like.

Please tell us how you would enforce this.  Lie detectors?
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