blueblood

wages are dropping thats a fact of life, the asians produce the same products as easterners do at a lower price, the manufacturing labour market is saturated. If you want higher wages, head out to Alberta or Saskatchewan, its that simple. You can't have your cake and eat it to.

you forgot about Guergis as well. Harper doesn't really tolerate shenanigans like that, hence the MP hauling ass out of caucus. Next election he's done. Bye bye political career. I imagine he'll sit as an independent and vote with the tories.

Not much, they got rid of the cancer immediately.

It would be a he'll of a shot to his former team who he has grounds for being upset with. Unfortunately for him, that Rodgers was a gem prospect that needed game time. Favre already smoked green bay with his glory stint with the Vikings, but your right it would be more significant with the bears. He'd be pretty old if green bay decided to retire his number.

That would be the decline of the last 1/3 of the century when the cost of production overseas became more competitive than over here. It's been a new game since japan rose, moreso with the rest of Asia. The first 2/3, north America had the advantage of Europe devastated by war, china under a nut bar, Japan still cleaning up, south america in constant strife. North America was the only game in town. It's interesting to note that under a more capitalist model Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world in the late 1800s, a military coup and a war on poverty put a kibosh on that.

As much as I like favre, he's Done. I don't think his conditioning is even close to being there, and there was his final season debacle, not to mention I don't think favre could mesh with the bears. Also losing an elite guy like forte ruins things. The bears are better off prepping for next year. Although if an act of god occurred and favre suited up, I'd have to start cheering for the bears.

Nope. And that prying out of the business men's hands resulted in massive investments overseas. The manufacturing sector got out bid. Sometimes medicine tastes bad but you have to swallow it.

Ha ha. Yay massive GDP growth, electricity, telephone, and everyone getting richer. Your right it wasn't pleasant for some people, but you have to remember that technology was being developed and attitudes were different. Child labour still exists today, visit any farm with male children, on the tractor at 10. Cn and cp still have police forces. No guts no glory. It was either that or being peasant farmers into perpetuity, and farming in the 1600s was not a good time.

Aren't the extremely high qb ratings these days due in part to more of the short passes qbs are doing these days? I mean my hero favre had one of his best if not best year the year before his retirement.

except the public sector cuts are coming. THe losses occurred in part time jobs, there was a gain of approx. 35000 and part time went down 53,000. You fail to mention sept. there was 61,000 new jobs. My link Still lower than average by a full point. THe sky isn't falling.

It's going to go down a bit when the public sector quits hiring. However the private sector is holding its own and producing more full time work.

The founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress disagrees with you. My link

They can let them go because the private sector is doing its share of hiring.

That's true, and that goes for just about any worker. However, the compensation package is based on experience and the ceo's past record. A good record results in a large compensation package. Hence why they get fired. THe HP"s board of directors was so worried about the company's brand being hurt by Mark Hurd running around on his wife in the wake of the Tiger Woods scandal, they canned him. THey estimated the loss of the brand's worth to be more than the ceo compensation so they canned him. However what the board didn't realize was that Hurd's decisions made them billions, which really stood out when he was gone. I imagine the shareholders at HP were furious at the board and some members of the board might have got the boot.

Its not a logical fallacy. WIthout the industrial revolution and how it proceeded, there would be no incentive to mass produce and the jobs that came with it and there would be a great deal of 1/4 section farms and it would be old mcdonald all over again. A big reason why it happened is because there was so little taxation, few regulations which meant there was a huge opportunity to make money, and as a result people became richer. ITs being done in CHina, India, Brazil, and south asia.

Except its not a crap shoot. Look at HP before and after their CEO Mark Hurd got turfed for running around on his wife. It's night and day their financials. A good ceo is critical for a company, hence the difference in compensation to say the secretary.

Its as narrow as you want it to be.

A fish diet is different than a cow diet. Fish are predators and that's how their bodies are. They eat smaller fish and the way their anatomy is they taste better caught in clear water eating smaller fish than if they were farmed and being fed soy/canola meal protein rations. Fish farming is still a new industry and it will take time to get the recipe right and not to mention lowering the costs. Cattle production is different. They eat carbohydrates and cellulose. Cattle production is also hundreds of years old and consumers have voted with their taste buds that corn/barley fed cattle tastes far superior to grass fed. And that's because of the increase of fat which is where a lot of the taste comes in. Two kinds of fat, the fat on the edge of a steak, and the fat in the connective tissue. Basically they go to a feedlot and hangout eating barley for a few weeks till slaughter. Before that they are free range in the summer because that's the most cost effective way to raise them. Cattle can't be put in a barn like pigs and chickens because cattle eat a lot more and require more space. They have it dialed.

Of course it's forgotten, it's pretty near cleaned up just like bp oil spill. Better than train derailments and truck accidents and leaky containers. How else do you plan on transporting oil, telepathy?

Where did I say I was scared of a theocracy? Those people can vote in whoever they like. Your just dodging an anti-capitalist rant of yours. Heck those countries current govts are so new there hasn't been a chance for them to piss away foreign investment. However the previous dictators that were there pissed away all the investors money and forced their people to live in squalor, not "the capitalists". How do you know that he majority of republicans are Christian fundamentalists? The same way some other posters think aboriginals. Are all lazy mooches? The difference between us is I think both prejudged statements are wrong and you don't.

Because those banks wanted the best CEOs at money could buy, they paid for what they thought was the best and it didn't pan out in the long run. Given the profitability of the banks at that point in time, their compensation was justified. If you have a problem with the bailouts, that's the govts problem for not demanding the banks nullify their contracts to management to get the bailouts. CEOs with 20+ years and a track record of making a company billions of dollars are extremely rare and their compensation is justified. And there isn't enough CEO's, even base salary is evidence of that. Had those occupiers went to business school instead of liberal arts over the years, he labour pool of CEOs would be large enough to put downward pressure on salaries. This also goes for other executives in companies.

The work isn't shoddy, pipelines are a far safer alternative than containers and far more efficient. Most of you hippies maybe. Most of us are for the standard of living we enjoy today. Better go buy that horse!

Including giving us the standard of living we enjoy today, would you rather go back to the days of lords and peasants living in a shack?

But it has to be cheap otherwise we all end up in the poorhouse. That's a big reason we had growth in the late 19th century, no red tape.

Do you know why there is a dead animal problem along the railway in the mountains, it's because the train cars leak grain. So you want expensive and time consuming containers full of oil beamed to china? They have to go on a ship. Pipelines are the solution, it's far safer than loading a container on a flatbed and hoping for the best, do you know what a train derailment with shipping containers would do? If we did things your way, oil would be 200 dollars a barrel and we'd be in worse shape. That's the dumbest idea of transport I've heard yet.