blueblood

We have that program, it's called contract law. Breach of contract means the lawyer's get let out of their cages. The bankers got posh contracts, that's an issue to be taken up with the board of directors at each bank.

Isn't making it easier to make money improving the economy? You should start watching Ice Road Truckers and you will get your answer.

Ah, but the CBC likes to use the access to information act in their reporting. They're finding out the hard way that it's a two way street. BTW, your right on the ratings of cbc vs. tsn. However, I was referring to the scope/style of coverage of tsn vs. cbc. Which like taste in music is only opinion. I imagine if CTV got to carry games on Saturday night, they would get similar ratings, especially leafs/habs games. As for comparing roads to the CBC, that's a non-starter. Roads directly improve the economy, and private industry could not set up a road because it can't be able to get people to pay for using the road without some ridiculous expensive security apparatus costing more than the road itself. And there is an option to pay for roads in the public system, you can choose to buy gas or not or buy a vehicle and pay for registration or don't drive. CBC is mandatory, yet private industry can and is an effective substitute. I would rather see the 1.1 billion spent on roads than on the CBC, it's a much better investment.

That's why I put "try" in there.

The tea party was a grass roots movement and they now have senators and representatives in congress. They brought their ideas and helped shape the national debate. I'd say they brought change from within.

And what's the 9 percent income tax, chopped liver? It would take a while to work, but to have that kind of a tax code would help out the economy. Its bold and at least its an idea instead of bash obama.

Farmland has gotten gangbusters as well. A good piece goes for about 1500$ an acre and rent is 65+$per acre. Right now a guy can gross 440$ per acre on wheat and 650$ acre for canola on said land if hes's good. Lots of guys are renting to get some cash, but some tenants are getting punted off because the landlord wants a piece of the action. I'm doing rent based on percentage and that ranges from 15-20 percent, just in case prices drop I won't be taking a bath on a long term lease. It would be nice to buy, but I'd be taking a kick in the pants. To buy a house out in the rural prairies, you aren't planning on making money on it, chances are someone will be taking a cat to it.

There is consensus on the left and right that the bailouts were very controversial. Since the usa still wanted a cheap money policy to keep prices going up. Labour prices, house prices etc. To do that there needs to be lots of credit. When people save money or cash in their stocks, the liquidity is gone. So the banks get bailed out with tax money/printing money. Its all for the short term and kicks the can down the road. I'd say let people save and deleverage debt and take the kick in the pants now. It was the "cheapest" way to try and jumpstart the economy.

So you don't think the average joe had a hand in this? All righty then...

America had little if any social programs and a deregulated finance industry in the late 1800s and was one of the fastest growing and one of the most prosperous country on earth. America got along fine then, why not now?

Really? Why are people making 40000 a year considering buying 400,000 dollar houses, 50,000 dollar vehicles, vacations, etc? They should get a brain and not step into the bank in the first place. They didn't want to take responsibility and everyone is paying for it. Then they elect politicians selling them snake oil that they should get entitlements because they deserve them even though not enough wealth is created to pay for it. Then there was the easy money policy - drop interest rates, print money, create Fannie/Freddie, and create the CRA. Then some become those bankers and with all of this cheap money guaranteed by the gov't, engage in stupid lending practices because they are entitled to their pay bonuses. We don't need laws, we need common sense. What you propose is a house of cards, and it's already come down.

If your mad at one, then you got to be mad at all three areas of fault. The bankers for being stupid enough to make those loans, the average joe for being stupid enough to get a loan that they can't pay back, and the government for creating an environment for all that stupidity to take place. This isn't just a banking problem, it's a hangover from the biggest party of the year.

No they aren't, the tea party movement in the US is a testament to that. As a result, the deficit, national debt, and gov't spending are under the microscope.

Like these: Jobs!!! I don't get it more people are becoming millionaires every year, and that's a problem??? Posters like this are why commerce, economics, and business should be mandatory for high school graduation.

Exactly. If govt, the "bankers", and the average joe were each one person, it would be like the supervisor giving them all 3 a smack in one shot a la the 3 stooges. As far as I'm concerned everybody screwed up.

You guys have the cbc, and we have energy production. One creates wealth and one is a money pit. I can look at the numbers of Bell media and the other publicly traded energy companies, yet I can't look at the numbers of the CBC, who's corrupt now? Is this actual checks being handed out, or is this "lower tax rate" opportunity cost technicality spending?

More and more people becoming millionaires is a problem??? Last time I checked, that's a society becoming richer as a whole.

Congress is unpopular because nothing is getting done. The irony is that the republicans are doing exactly what they campaigned on, and that was stop the democrats. Unfortunately for the voting public that also means stopping everything, hence the poll numbers. Remember that the Senate is also part of congress, and who has the most seats there???

i'll go with our naval experts here, bc2004 and derek. You do know that the USA could clear the sky above the persian gulf rather quickly in a wartime situation making detection rather difficult - refer to the flashlight in the stadium analogy. The submarines and other cruise missiles/stealth aircraft are for attacking radar. Hard to guide a missile with no radar and the US fleet with theirs switched off. THe iraq personel numbers and capabilities were to compare and contrast a potential situation with Iran. Given the USA's track record of not only success, but obscene smashing success against soviet/chinese style military capabilities, I think we can go with the USA completely smashing Iran. Only 200? Hell the US goes through that in less than a month when doing operations and has plenty more cruise missiles to spare. The US doesn't want to start attacking Iran because that may start WW3. Iraq had no allies and the USA already had them weakened. However, to rip apart Iran as meticulously as the USA likes to operate needs lots of money, which the USA doesn't have. Iran is where Iraq was in 1990, a large well, equipped army full of itself and we all know the end of the story of that one. The USA was projected to have 20% plus casualties and lose planes, shipping, tanks, etc. What happened, Iraq got smashed and hard.

It already was his undoing, the midterm elections showed that. The voters gave the freshmen republicans marching orders, and they are following them to the letter.

Yet oil is keeping canada's economy afloat, lots of work out there.

I wonder what the protestors have to say about this... Cbc I see people getting better and better off...

FSN, versus, and NBC, and more significant tv deals every contract negotiation. Have you seen the ratings for the winter classic? Same league as college football. Then there was the gold medal game, highest rated sporting event in more than a decade except for the super bowl. They have pretty good coverage if you ask me. Oh and tsn completely obliterates CBC for hockey coverage. Trade center anyone? Just wait till tsn eventually gets full playoff coverage. Let the CBC die, for an organization always peering into other's books and not letting their own be shown. Stay classy CBC!!!

I don't think there will be that many people protesting, just about everyone here has a job and Alberta is crying for workers

And apparently more than 99% of north Americans are "really interested" in protesting!!!! How's north america's version of the Arab spring going? Did they get more than 50,000 protesters in NYC yet? Hell Cairo had another zero on top of that on their quiet days.