HistoryBuff44
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What a spanking. Taft is definitely gone. I'm disappointed to see Hinman not be re-elected, however that will likely go to recount (it's like 50 votes or something).
Good for Ed. This results essientially gives him the right to tell the media to go to hell.
ya i think Hinman lost by 39 votes. With 0 seats its going to be harder for them in the next election as the rules as they stand now say they must have a seat in order to take part in the debate. Perhaps it was volume, but i tried to go to their website a few times and each time it took 3 minutes to get the home page downloaded... thats a no-no. most people wont wait around that long.
I find it so funny how people were predicting a large liberal and NDP increase they both were halved... LOL.
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I'm glad that you agree that lower taxes is the way to go. I have been advocating lower income and corporate taxes for the last number of years.
The $1.5 billion investment in grain ethanol is distorting the market and changing farming practices. And all of this is done on the false premise that it is great for the environment. I'd rather have farm supports that take land off the market so that the land that is used for food is more profitable. That would be a true investment in farmers and in the environment. Ethanol can only operate in a subsidized and protected market that forces consumers to use it and makes them pay for it with taxes and higher food prices.
Once the open market happens, the Wheat Board will be gone. It would be best if farmers understood that. It isn't just grain that duties get slapped on when you are violation of the WTO. It will be on things like manufacturing or services. The Wheat Board will never operate in an open market system.
When oats went into the free market, the Wheat Board no longer traded in it. And so it would go with barley and wheat.
I am curious to hear what your opinion is in regards to the multi billions that have been spent by the liberals in their vain attempt to keep the auto industry afloat. do you consider that to be a waste?
its interesting that you say the WTO doesnt allow state run and open market selling of grain, why then is the "Canadian" wheat board only really for the praries; the east isnt bound by it? Does Ontario have a provincial system for selling grains produced there?
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The problem lies not with political parties or governments, but with capitalism itself.
A statement like this should really be accompanied by some sort of argument, should it not?
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The Geneva conventions do not forbid aerial bombardment of cities.
Interesting, it does however afford the protection of "innocent" people when renduring aid to wounded others. the bombing lasted for 3 days, the argument could easily be made that there were innocent civilians rendering aid to many wounded soldiers stationed in the city while the bombing continued.
I think the convention was ignored by both sides when it suited their needs.
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It was total war.
period.
Would you say then that during a war anything goes?
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What would your guess be of the amount of Allied (and russian soldiers) that dies each day as the European war wound to a close?
From that point (early Feb 1945) to the end of the war there would have been a few thousand. Do you think it was an attempt to "shock" germany into surrender?
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I read this article in the globe and mail today:
I think its worrysome when politics or lobby groups get mixed into the writing of history. I can understand the anger of veterans, i certainly wouldnt like the insinuation that you were used to slaughter civilians, but should society let that anger change the way it is written into the history books?
Was that even the situation? From all the reading i have done on the second world war, it would seem that at the time of those cities being obliterated (im referring to the purposeful firebombing of dresden and a couple others which killed, according to the article, 600,000 people), that the outcome of the war was not in question by that time, it was simply when would germany finally surrender. was it retribution for what germany did to warsaw, to so many cities in russia and of course london and other UK cities? To say those events must have been an influence is an understatement.
Just because we dont like what an event in history means, should we not accept what was done and take what lessons we can for the future? Or are they right, was the firebombing a necessary event of the war? Does it even matter... one way or the other?
I look foreward to your comments.
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I was a little confused by that childrens hospital they just finished a while ago. My understanding is that it has just 20 more rooms than the one it replaced??? youd think they woulda went a little bigger so that we dont have t build another in 5 yrs.
Also, some of the nurses that work there and were at the old one dont like the layout as much... something about more walking around to get at things. course this one was a rumor i had heard and you know how they can be sometimes...
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For some reason this seems a little off to me.
Saskatchewan Premier has asked the provinces' MPs not to vote for the budget. Now correct me if im wrong but isnt the sask govt NDP? and yet the province doesnt have any NPD MPs (i think most are Cons).... doesnt that kinda mean that the people of sask wanted conservative representation in Ottawa and not NDP? why should the MPs even listen to a provincial govts' orders? they are separate branches for a reason.
In another note this dispute seems to me like another good reason why senators should be elected, then they would be obliged to do what their ridings want.
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It is against forum rules to cut and paste an entire copyrighted article. You should also provide a link to the originating article. Finally, your chosen thread title says nothing about the topic.© The Ottawa Citizen 2007I have reported your post.
wow... having a bad day were we?
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Did you really need to quote the whole article to make your 'point'?
You don't think this 'beating' was a bad thing? You think it shouldn't have been 'reported'?
Or do you just like to type things sometimes for really no reason?
I dont understand this post at all...
copy and paste makes for quick typing... as for the other 2 questions, where did they come from? he was just raising an issue to be discussed
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Honestly i think the division of "sides" in canadian politics is hard to measure. Even more, that difference is dissappearing, its being driven by our history and future. We as canadians like our universal healthcare and some other "socialist" policies, so much that even conservatives wouldnt dump them. but at the same time we know the extreme socialism doesnt work, we have seen it abroad and in quebec over the last 20 - 30 years. The path really is converging before us and the parties get very little choice as to what they will do when they govern vs say 60 years ago.
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Free trade works to create cheap labour markets, concentrate power and take it away from elected governments. If the governments want low unemployment and a tax base they must follow orders of the corporations and ultimately banks or else the corps just go elsewhere for labour.
The purpose of free trade is to give corporations more power, they pick the politicians that we elect by their support.
Everyone loses except the investment class in free trade, that is why the gap between the rich and poor is growing.
Is it really a loss if all people in the country can aquire goods at cheaper prices thanks to the cheaper production?
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Thought i would create this thread to get some opinions of what people think about this.
here is the article i read:
I imagine there will be a lot of worry for manufacturing jobs since labor is so cheap there, but the potential for resource deals exists. Also i think it is important that our financial firms are able to get into that market as soon as possible to reap the rewards.
another article i read a while back said that india has a GDP growth rate of 8-9 % and that their financial system was far deeper than chinas.
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You know, so many people need reminding of what happens when you let tyrants get away with things.
a little event known as world war 2 occured because the world decided to let Hitler get away with breaking treaties and doing bad things. and he gave plenty of warning of what he wanted to do, it was in his book mein kamf.
we have the same stuff today, islamic extremists have shown what they intend to do, we cant let them gain power over there or soon they will bring the fight to us more regularly. Have you seen the footage of what they are doing in Iran. young kids are being taught to hate and that its alright to kill people AND that they should to get to heaven. every now and then Glen Beck shows this on his 1 hour show on CNN. that footage doesnt get aired here unless he shows it.
we cant let them get powerful and consolidated over there or this fight we have now will be nothing compared to what would come.
we have got to think more than 5 minutes in front of our faces.
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Makes for a good photo op and probably gets a few votes.
Imagine what kind of hospital you could build and outfit in any of many needy rural areas of Canada-the same place where the people paid the taxes to amass that 200 million.
a 200 million hospital? would be very small.
I agree, isnt the new one they want to build in south calgary going to cost just shy of a billion or something??
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Here is your government in action. Get an empty bucket and watch today's (Feb 26) MPTV. This is what we are paying them to do.
Ya thats great stuff, i wish the people of the country could punish these people with pay cuts or penalties or something for acting like idiots.
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The industrial military complex in the US always seeks to justify its existence by exaggerating threats. It is true today and it was true during the cold war.
The industrial military complex in the US created the Cold War in the first place. The Soviets were always playing catch up with the Americans. When the Soviets had 4 nuclear warheads, the Americans had 300, so the Soviets had to make another 300 to catch up. When they got there, the Americans had 3,000 so the Soviets had to play catch up again. And again. And then we ended up with enough nukes to blow up everything on earth a 1000 times over.
Actually you have it backwards. The Soviets consistently had more nuclear warheads than the Americans.
actually the soviets were behind in nuclear warheads until the mid 70's at which time they continued to build even though the US stockpile was dropping. by the latter 80's they had close to 45,000 of them.
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Very generally, the US pays for its military and Canada gets to free ride under the US security umbrella. Canadian governments pay for more health and education services.
I keep hearing that Canada gets a free ride. What exactly have we been protected from that we couldn't do ourselves?
i couldnt agree more, we constantly get that from people in the states especially, but what was this great thread that the US saved us from??? Vietnam? dont think they were coming here to get us. Iraq? dido. the soviets? in that case they would have been fighting NATO. granted we dont meet NATO treaty standards at the moment but then a lot of countries in it dont.
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Do we really owe this kid anything, at what piont do you stop being a Canadian citizen, where do we draw the line a revoke citizenship...
And what to we do with this kid if our government does secure his release from gitmo..
revoke citizenship? why should canada do that?
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With all the interest in China these days and the stuggles to come (economic ones im referring to) learning mandarin would be a smart move.
I'm going to buck conventional wisdom on that one. China's industries are raking it in through slave labor. The one thing Henry Ford taught us is that the workers have to prosper in order to create demand for product, and a stable economy.
China's industrial leaders are earning huge profits (but less than they think), in the short run. Why do I say "less than they think"? Because I represent, personally, $6 million of defaulted debt to Chinese banks, from ethnically Chinese import/export companies. Bank lending is based on politics, and not economics. A combination of lack of domestic demand, bad debt and, eventually, new sources of slave labor will bring the economy down. Indonesia and Malaysia, circa 1997, will look like a Sunday school picnic.
India, on the other hand, may be the real thing. Time will tell.
I hear what your saying, and i agree that they are paying little to their workers, but a little payed to a lot of people adds up to a lot. though each worker will not contribute much to demand the fact that there are so many is making a difference. look at the stats, domestic demand is on a steady rise in china, more and more vehicles are sold each year there for example.
It will impede their growth for a long time, but that may be a good thing, after all how much hotter than 10% do you want an economy to be?
It would, arguably, be a good thing for us if it was higher, then the prices would be higher and that would keep canadian domestic products a little more competitive, but this could be a topic for another thread i suppose.
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With all the interest in China these days and the stuggles to come (economic ones im referring to) learning mandarin would be a smart move.
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Personally, i wish they wouldnt cut taxes and just keep throwing large surpluses at the debt. the money saved on debt servicing costs will come in handy in 10-15 years when the baby boomers are retiring.
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Just based on what ive read, it seems hes good at the opposition side of it, but he doesnt seem to have any real plans of his own.
He keeps talking, saying that the cons should have implemented the liberal environment plan.... what plan? if they did have one it sure as hell wasnt working! our emissions went up 25% under their rule.
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I agree. It's funny how people complain about the government and then when its time for them to speak, ie election time, they dont.