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was that the neighbour who is the illegal immigrant you have working your fields?

Ok - frankly it wouldn't have occurred to me that it would be anything other than cost of living/opportunity/quality of life issues. But i can see how some would tie that to politics sort of. The idea that taxes are substantially higher in left wing states or something. It's not really a thing here. I've heard someone say they're moving to alberta from ontario because they're sick of the politics or something but it's almost always something else. I don't think we think of it like that up here the same way, people move en masse to alberta because of the huge pay opportunities and lower cost of living, not because it's a right wing province.

Because 'reflecting developments" isn't "caused by". If they were 'Caused' by they'd be part of the 50 percent. But - for example the covid cerb payments affected inflation a lot, especially the longer they went on. THat reflects a global issue - covid. But it wasn't CAUSED by anyone anywhere else - canada decided to spend that money along with all the corporate bail out money and decided to keep it going for as long as they did. "reflect'. Not caused by. Everyone had to deal with covid - but how we chose to deal with it was an internal matter, not external. External issues only accounted for 50 percent. That's why the SAME bank and the SAME authors at the SAME time said that if trudeau cut spending by 3 percent the bank wouldn't have to raise interest rates to fight inflation, and that trudeau was forcing the bank to fight inflation by itself while he made things worse. I've posted and quoted that extensively as well but you trudeau defenders don't like to mention that one Sorry eyeball. I know you love to defend trudeau, but he was responsible for about half the inflation/interest we experienced right off the bat, and at this point he's pretty much 100 percent the reason the bank can't get us down to target. 3.4 percent again this last month.

Nope. Those are external and global factors. only 50 percent was due to external or global factors. This is what you can't understand - ANY global factor you mention is included in their 50 percent Supply chain that ISN'T a global factor is things like the lack of housing. Housing shot up like a rocket during that time after a brief lull at the beginning of covid. That is a supply chain issue. Not enough homes being built. Also trucking issues. It cost more to ship things at that time. You may have heard about some of that at the end. Also internal labour issues. When people are forced to go home they don't produce things any more. This had serious impacts on food. Etc etc. Now - you can argue some of that was necessary but you can't argue it didn't involve trudeau. Sooowwwwweeeeee - swing and a miss again little guy

I can subtract - 100 - 50 is 50. Sorry that's over your head I know - math is hard for lefties

It feels based on your initial comments that you were thinking some people might dispute this for some reason.... is this a contentious issue in the states or something?

I get that for you the perspective is different - you have to live with the results more than we do. But for the rest of the world it's like another season of hells kitchen yeah - in general you know people will get yelled at, you know someone is going to get called a donkey, etc but it's still entertaining And this is shaping up to be the best season ever! Lawsuits! Denied access to the ballot!!! Health problems! Stair challenges! New scary look that actually just makes him look constipated! And waiting in the wings is the losing side rioting like crazy in one form or another! Oooooo the drama!!!! 😮

Well not 'meanwhile' - that's what the op argument was and what we've been talking about. Not limiting growth to a sustainable level is indeed a major huge part of our inflationary problems, productivity problems and some of our social ones as well although that hasnt' been discussed. But no, the problem was not identified 'decades' ago and only an 1diot would suggest that the second largest country in the world was identifying 'too much immigration' as it's problem when it was first born 150 years ago - so centuries is pretty rediculous In the end the problem really isn't immigration per se - it's growing our population at a rate faster than we can provide infrastructure and support for. In the past we only brought in immigrants at a rate where we could absorb them into society, provide homes and education and skills, etc etc. So there wasn't a major issue And - with the reforms brought in in 2006 we vastly improved on that, and after that immigrants really were a net benefit at the level we were bringing them in. But we've gone from about 250 thousand people in 2015 to close to a miillion today - we cannot even come close to absorbing that. IF we could there woudlnt' be a problem. Population is growing faster than the economy can handle, says National Bank of Canada Yeah you're just making shit up at this point Every single issue you run into has been a major discussion point that you've brought up for centuries now!! "SOLAR POWER - I WAS ARGUING ABOUT THAT IN 1886 !!!!" LOL~

THHHREE is the number of the factions of the american left - socialists, liberals and moderates!! And the alphabet people FOUR!!!! FOUR is the number of factions, the socialists, liberals. moderates, and alphabet people. And illegal immigrants - FIVE!!!! Five... look i'll come in and start again......

You mean because he's arguing with an 1diot? Meh - it's true trying to talk sense to a .... actually what are you again? Spider monkey? Anyway,... trying to talk sense to a 'lower intellect creature' is largely a fools errand but for some of us it's an amusing hobby. Like teaching a dog to roll over or play dead - not very practical but amusing

Equals you're a lying sack of crap? LOL Supply challenges were caused by trudeau for the most part. IF you have 2 apples and 1 person who wants to buy an apple, you don't have inflation. If you immigrate 2 more people then you've got 3 people who want an apple and 2 apples. Guess what. Further, if you give people money they want to spend it. If there's not enough things available to spend it on guess what So if there's a world shortage of apples and you have enough for yourself but then you bring in more people..... ohter factors are things like the price of oil. Foreign wars drive that kind of thing up. But our ability to produce it was severely reduced by trudeau. Again - his policy impacts inflation when there's pressure on energy. They REFLECT developments - they're not CAUSED BY developments. So how much did global or foreign factors influence inflaton? lets see.... Around 50% of the increase in inflation observed since the end of 2019 can be ascribed to global or foreign factors. 50 percent were actually global or foreign factors THAT MEANS 50% CANNOT BE ATTRIBUTED TAO GLOBAL OR FOREIGN FACTORS So do you know what 50 percent plus ZERO is? that's the percent that justin was responsible for. Oh - and it's worth noting that not only am i right, and not only do the banks and economists agree at this point, BUT - as per the OP we now KNOW that trudeau KNEW his policies would be driving up inflation. So there you go. Can't even claim it was an accident. But it's lovely to see you joining moonbeam in desperately trying to defend trudeau as usual

A lot of left leaning moderates have complained of that. If you're not slightly left of castro you're far right. If you don't buy in to EVERY SCRAP of the 'left agenda' then you will be cancelled. There's bound to be some backlash from that.

Yes it is. No contract needed

they said it would take months to dig them all out.

Yawn - still desperatly trying to defend trudeau. Yes. 50 percent is due to foreign factors. Only 50 percent. That's half. Which is what i'd claimed. The other half is internally controlled. Not foreign. Only 50 percent is foreign. Everything after that is NOT external. Trudeau made the supply chain issues vastly worse in several ways, number one being his immigration policies and also his spending. So still on him. That's where the other 50 percent comes from. Scotia bank ALSO reported that if trudeau had cut spending by even 3 percent there would have been no need for interest rate hikes to curb inflation. But you like to ignore that because it proves 100 percent you're wrong. And now - surprise surprise- we see economists and banks all over agreeing with me. Including the original article here. And they warned trudeau that his policies would create inflation. So they knew it then, they know it now - you're wrong. 50 percent of the increase in inflation/interest between 2020 and mid 2022 was trudeau's responsiblity. Not global factors. Trudeau created the supply chain issues that make up 35 percent of the rest of it with immigration and excessive spending. And NOW - almost all of it is trudeau. Our higher interest rates and persistent high inflation (3.4 last month which is still terrible) is pretty much 100 percent due to trudeau in the form of tax, immigration and spending. Sorry kid - you can't defend trudeau on this one. The inflation we faced was at least half his fault in the beginning and is pretty much all his fault right now. Feel free to have your hissy fit

Well that tells us all we really need to know about you.

The number of strikes might matter if you weren't playing tiddlywinks

https://archive.ph/v7IbV Liberal MPs are fuming after Mayor Olivia Chow's administration threatened to hike property taxes even further if Toronto doesn't get more money from Ottawa to cover shelter costs for refugee claimants. Being blamed for a property tax hike at a time when cost-of-living issues are on everyone's minds is a hit the Liberals don't need. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~~~ So Chow is holding toronto - a liberal bastion - hostage over the flood of immigrants. "give me money or i'll pull the trigger on the taxpayers" Bet the libs didn't see this coming

Stop voting for justin and we won't have that problem

Yeah but before we used to lock them up. They may re offend again someday but not that afternoon. We have justin to thank for that phenomenon.

Yawn. Sorry did you say something? Don't be stupid - the local gas station has a perfectly servicable generator and operates just fine during our many power outages around here. Did you HONESTLY think that wasn't the case in most remote areas? So does the local small general store. Me too actually But you can't really have a generator to provide the kind of power necessary to fast charge multiple ev's as easily as that it would have to be radically and impractically larger with huge tanks. Also -got 3 jerry cans in the shed. Do you have 3 Jerry cans of electricity stored anywhere? That was an EPIC fail ICE gets 100 advantage points Translation - if you don't know that EV"S suck compared to ICE and bought one anyway - you're dumb as an electrified post. Your argument literally is you should have known you made a bad choice to begin with. Just because you don't know how to dive in cold weather doesn't mean other's don't. Again that's some faulty logic "I DRIVE AN EV BECAUSE I KNOW IT DOESNT" MATTER BECAUSE I WON"T BE ABLE TO DRIVE ANY WAY!!!" well - if that's the case isn't the emissions the same for both? Zero? Was that actually your argument or were you trying to DELIBERATELY poke fun at EV drivers?

Trump says he know's who his running mate will be!! Former President Donald Trump indicated he has made up his mind about whom he would like to be his running mate should he win the Republican presidential nomination. "Well, I can't tell you that, really," Trump told Fox News during a town hall in Iowa on Wednesday when the moderators asked him who is in the running to be on a presidential ticket with him. "I mean, I know who it's going to be." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-fox-news-town-hall-iowa-vice-president-rcna132691?cid=referral_taboolafeed Please god let it be sarah palin!

PP is a fine leader and will do well for us. Trump reminds me of Zaphod Beeblebrox from the hitchhiker's guide - he becomes galactic president and nobody thinks he's a good president because he's a thief and a liar and says and does a lot of bat crap crazy things etc etc..... But in the end it turns out that the president's REAL job is to distract people from looking at the REAL power running the universe and from that perspective he was one of the most successful presidents in galactic history. When you look at what trump actually DID his time in office was actually relatively successful. The economy recovered nicely, wages shot up, trade relationships were enhanced in favour of the states, etc etc. His middle of the night tweets, his fights with the press, the investigations etc. didn't actually have any real impact. So people aren't really afraid of him.

It is that as well, but there are a number of reserve currencies. The term just means currencies that are so popular that a lot of countries have a significant amount in their banks as part of their 'reserves'. Being the 'anchor' usually means the 'prime' currency if you will, the one that everyone else turns to for stability. It means you can skrew up a lot more than other currencies and still expect to be strong

The US has one luxury in that it's an anchor currency and they can get away with certain things that would be brutal for most economies as a result. There is a theory called modern monetary theory which suggest you can spend as much money as you want when the economy is weaker provided you hoover all that excess back out as soon as the economy starts to warm up using taxes (not interest but taxes). But it hasn't worked out well not the least because no gov't wants to be seen raising taxes so they don't when they're supposed to. On the other hand we saw with greece and spain etc what happens if you let borrowing get out of control. And the short answer is if things begin to collapse then services become unavailable. The biggest weakness with capitalism as a fiscal model is it's prone ot fluctuations - booms and busts. Gov'ts conduct themselves in such a way as to try to level that and flatten it. But if they do stupid things and lose control, when the piper finally comes for his payment it can get very dar and very bad very fast.