ROYME55

Vote NDP and the last business man leaving Canada turn out the lights. No thanks it is tough enough to keep jobs in Canada without taxing them into leaving. Ontario found out how bad things can get under a socialist NDP the country doesn't have to find out.

There are a few things here that need to be thought about. One- Money doesn't just disappear into thin air, it went into some very deep pockets. Two- The Americans set a dangerous precedent when the bailed out the S&L's Three- They should have put in some tough laws right after the S&L mess. Four- Government should never use tax payer dollars to save any company, it is a free market system. If tax dollars are used they must be a loan and paid back with interest.The criminals that brought this mess on not only didn't go to jail but got bonuses from bailout money.

After reading some of your comments I see that you have missed the point of my proposal. I guess I needed to explain every detail or I should have expected the point would be missed. The proposal to not limit trade in anyway it was to balance out trade. What I was trying to get across was to get importers and exporters working together. If you force a balance the between imports and exports everyone including the third world benefits. I wasn't implying that goods from China had to be balanced by buying from us. I was viewing it as total world imports and exports. To make it a little clearer the total exports for a given month would free up credit any importer could use to import. Unused credits are carried over until used.

The thing that scares me a little is if we don't give the Conservative a majority this situation could arise again. To the comment that coalitions work in other countries. I have one comment, in those countries the Representatives would more than likely be elected from across the country. In Canada we would have a party in the driver's seat that has only the interests of one Province as a focus. They would no doubt take full advantage of that position.

I have for along time now been a strong believer in getting out of all free trade agreements. Instead we should be perusing balanced trade as an alternative. Balanced trade would not be subject to any tariff complaints as there would be non. The way it works is based on currency values,trade is then balanced on goods and service values. If an importer wants to bring a billion dollars worth of goods into Canada he must first secure a billion in sales to export. The same with outsourcing tech jobs, if you send the work to a foreign country you must find a product to export to balance the value of exported value. The net effect is if he can find the sales we create wealth and jobs in this country. If the product he wants to import has a demand we might just have to make it hear. Imagine that we could actually build up our own manufacturing again and create jobs here. The other benefit is we might get tech support that we can understand what they are saying.

I hope the polls are right and the Conservatives just wipe out the opposition as a lesson to them not to waste tax dollars on an unwanted election. The other pet peeve of mine is the comments that a coalition is not a bad thing. In the countries where they have a coalition government the parties are elected from across the country. In Canada there would be a party in the driver's seat that is only interested in one province. Do you really think that they wouldn't exploit that fact to the limit? The fact is it has the potential to tear the country apart.