Michael Hardner

Anti-corporate leftists sometimes think that they are conservative.

Well he didn't inherit the same kind of economy as last time. People want more disposable income. If he can do that, people will approve.

These facts don't lie. For some people, it just means that they have to ignore it. If you look for facts to support your position rather than forming your opinion based on facts... You may be a tribal minion.

1. Ok. 2. Ok. 3. Ok, you don't have to answer of course.

1. Well I just had no response. Isn't that ok? If I had a major take or disagreement with your perspective I would say so. I don't understand why this is a sticking point. I don't expect you to comment on everything that I say. 2. Why do I detect hostility in this response? I sure didn't intend any.

I didn't skip them, I read them and had nothing to add. I want to know how you will know that economic policies are working. What metrics define success or failure?

No crying. I was entertained, for free, for about five months. Mahomes is the GOAT, how can I cry over greatness?

I'm not arguing, I'm asking you how you think about this. If you don't want to respond that's fair. Not every discussion is oppositional.

I will let you define it. I'm probably not going to challenge it. I'll probably just look at what you are thinking I live in Toronto. Refills are $4. Everything sucks

Some objective metric to compare against, so we can tell if the general welfare is improving or not. I get vindication everyday, and I never get triumph. I feel like I've been ripped off.

And what about those of us who have never felt triumph?

You've touched on something. International organizations don't just include the UN, WHO and UNESCO What forces us to honor patents from foreign powers that are trying to tax us for their intellectual property? I think a 5-year patent expiry is more than fair for all medications from US owned Pharma companies. We can start with Merck, Pfizer, Johnson and Jonathan, Bristol-Myers squibb... MAGA folks don't like these anyway because they forced vaccines on the public, and saved their lives... It would be pretty simple to buy Copycats from offshore pill factories. There's your international agreements.

The database may need an enema https://repolitics.com/forums/search/?&q="you people"&author=Michael Hardner&search_and_or=or&start_after=year

When did I use it?

I don't like arguing that the culture war was anything other than a political football. It seems like some are conceding that it's a thing of the past, a battle won. Okay. Well then let's move on.... Are those billionaires going to help us now? How can we actually measure that things are getting better? Inflation rates? How about the GINI index?

Nobody thinks that the term ' you people ' is a pejorative. You could use it to talk about Canadians, CBC executives, anyone. The point was that it was widely inferred that he was talking about new Canadians.

I measure effectiveness against what was promised. One of the criticisms of trump is he makes Grand promises, such as to end the war in Russia within 24 hours.

1. Your question is valid. Let me double check... from the Wiki article I cited "There are an estimated half million illegal entries into the United States each year" 2. Also valid - the number cited might go down 3. Also valid, the number of arrests could go up 4. Well Biden's administration didn't even try to deport so-called "low level" offenders so it already is

At that rate, if they arrested 461 everyday, they would only be getting 1/3 of the illegal arrivals that arrive in a year. So they wouldn't be keeping up. So this isn't an effective operation. Unless you count the show, the political show, that makes people like you excited. And what I'm learning is this is just an emotional performance from the administration so I guess it is effective... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States#:~:text=Illegal entry,-Main article%3A Illegal&text=There are an estimated half,the United States each year.

Lomborg doesn't source that number.

Quote the excerpt that supports your claim please.

Where did you get this?

Right. No one's disputing net Zero would be expensive. Unluckily, we're not going to get there. We're spending less than 1%

Well, besides that our whole structure isn't set up to do this. We house migrant farm workers in temporary facilities. We would have to house Canadians nearby in permanent housing. They'd have to get EI in the off-season, I suppose, since they can't earn at those times. We'd have to pay them more to attract the workers. Just a lot of questions here that need to be answered. But to the assumed point of the OP: yes, things change. We don't have manufacturers, miners, and manual labourers like we did. These people do other jobs now that aren't as physically demanding. They pay .... sometimes more, sometimes less. But nobody seems to be saying we're going to have unionized work groups making things like home appliances in Canada because said appliances would be at least double the cost (and I'm basing this on 1997 prices, which already had a lot of lower labour costs factored in) Fantasizing about unskilled labourers making what they made in the 1950s and 1960s is not productive.

Hm ? Devil in the details - it says Climate Change " based on current trends — will have a global cost equivalent to between 1.9 and 3.1 per cent of global GDP. " That's every year. What are we spending now ? Google says: "Canada: In 2023, the Canadian government spent about 0.5% of GDP on climate action. The Climate Action Network Canada estimates that the government will increase its spending to 0.7% of GDP over the next five years