jester

After renting for many years I would buy as quick as you can. Rent pays someone elses mortgage, might as well get the benefit yourself.......

A daughters wedding is the one that the mother-in-law wished she had.......

A religious quotation taken out of context. I'm sure thats never happened before........

You mean use the rhythm method of warfare.

IN basic terms you will understand free-masony is getting a bricklayer to work for no monetary renumeration. Of course if you are trying to say it is a secret organisation bent on world domination then spout out, stop trying to be tricky. Or it could also be to blame for all of islams faults and failures, again gibberish away...

Seems that the concensus is to buy then. I mean how many rental tenants are in Forbes...

Hard to decide if this is intolerance, ignorance, stupidity or someone who has no faith in their faith..... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/...ga.html?ref=rss B.C. school yoga classes slammed

It is only an intellectual exercise not a suggestion. But using your idea this shows that only a small part of a corporation is used in decision making, sort of like having a ....brain. So when you are at work what part do you work in.......and does the sun shine on you???

Subsidised by the EU farm grant system. French farming isn't efficient..

Oh,Oh I know lets invade someone then........

But the theory doesn't say they are people but that they are in a way alive. A tree doesn't need to be recognised by another tree to be a tree and once a corporation is given birth by it's "legal consruction" it reacts as a live organism. 1--It can and does move parts of its body,( employee's, departments etc..) 2--It produces offspring.(sub-divisions, departments) 3--It responds and reacts to outside influence, (publicity, customers, taxes,etc) 4--It aquires and consumes food,(supplies, goods, employee's, etc) 5--It gets rid of waste,(garbage, retires and fires employee's) 6--It turns food into energy,(profit) 7--It can and often does grow larger,(usually the main aim is to get larger) Convinced yet....... Also it can be taken to court for its actions and held resposible......

No. Corporations need a "legal" status while real life does not. So you don't have a birth certificate or drivers license or passport etc. Legal status is just paperwork which we all have.... And a legal status isn't a requirment for life, just for society......

Heard this theory on the radio (forget which show) but could it be true. The seven main processes for life are... 1--Moving parts of the body 2--Producing offspring 3--responding and reacting 4--Getting food to stay alive 5--Getting rid of waste 6--Turning food into energy 7--Getting to adult size The main theme of the theory is that each one of these processes are carried out by modern corporate entities so can they be said to be a form of life? Just think the company you work for regards you as either food, waste or a parasite........

How do you presume we do that? Your new here so I'll forgive you for not knowing how I'd presume to do that (kidding)! Some steps: 1) Seriously reduce corporate income tax or eliminate it outright 2) Remove foreign ownership restrictions, especially on transportation and media 3) Seriously reducing the ability for able-bodied people to not work... ie. cut their welfare to just above starvation and homelessness. 4) Provide major tax incentives to people that start and operate small-businesses, an essiential element to our future economic strength. 5) Remove any additional tax on investment income over and above standard income tax rates. 1--Why? Corporations aren't known as public benefactors unless there are good publicity results. 2--So when the foreign owner hits hard times your jobs go first. 3--Also known as indentured servitude, quite popular in the 1600s I believe. 4--Who would work for them? Under your system starting a business would be more beneficial than working for someone else. 5--In the end who would be paying taxes? Not corporations,or small business or the rich.

Local buses only I'm afraid. At 65 you get your bus pass though you can buy a senior pass for the railways. Of course other people can buy different passes so the benefit isn't all one way...

Not as good as the guy I knew in Toronto who has an old bank passbook where he had typed in he had $1,000,000 in the bank. A very popular activity in Greece before the Euro was introduced was showing how you were a millionaire in drachmas- about 25,000 to the dollar or something equally worth it.....

I think I speak for the entire forum when I say: "huh?" A response I believe to this from the post above it....

1--Why 35? Why not say 21? I didn't "own" my first home till I was 39, but then I didn't get married till I was 38 so had (ahem) better things to spend my spare cash on. 2--Hopefully the value of your home would increase as time goes by. My first home cost 135,000 and is worth over 460,000 now 10 years later, a lot more than my principle and interest. 3--Only if you buy badly and don't do all your maths right. 4--Depends what you do with it. A personal choice I know that mine was very well spent I mean invested........ As to the rest ,does it need doing every weekend-mine doesn't and I don't have someone else telling me how much to spend on it and where or when.........

CHURCHILL: Agreat man if only for the quotes, they still work for today as well.......

Unless people want to work for low wages I think they should do some research on supply side economics. If there are more jobs than people the wages will be higher, conversly the more people the lower the wages. Rather than complaining people won't go to Alberta and work I would be discouraging everyone I met from coming. Of course the ones bitching could be the owners of businesses so the more, the merrier they will be. At this rate the average wage in Alberta in two years will down to $5.00 an hour because everyone moved there and now can't afford to leave. If you want to keep your high wages and expensive lifestyle stop telling people to jump in the pool or pretty soon you won't have enough water to swim in.........

The basic pension in Canada is $105 a week. Are you in dollars or pounds. If it is dollars than you can get a lot more over there. If you arei in pounds then it would be The equivilant of $387 a week. jester, I believe that to be eligible for a UK pension you must have to have contributed to NI, similar to our CPP system, correct? margrace, you have earlier stated that the basic amount paid is around $12000 (OAS + GIS). So the minimium amount a senior would be getting in Canada would be $230/week Q&A: Basic state pension There is also the fact that things in the UK are more expensive than in Canada. As a rough guide what you would pay in Dollars is more often than not the price but in pounds.

Can you please enlighten us on what government pension benefits a retiree is eligible to recieve in the UK? Also is it available to all retirees or just a subset? Basic pension roughly $170/week and is payable to everyone at age 65. varies with marital status etc but not by much.....

But what about cricket! A sport where the spectators can use as many calories as the players, where a game that goes on for FIVE DAYS ends in a tie, a game with meal breaks built in, now thats sport.......

I beg to differ as people keep on electing them..............

An interesting thread. I am living in the UK but both my parents are in Canada. I am always amazed how there is a senior discount and how freely people ask for it. If you asked for one here in the UK everyone would look as if you were having a senior moment. If you think pensions are bad over there you are lucky you aren't here. Many of the company pensions are bankrupt or the money has been used by the companies and lost, not forgetting the government tax raid a few years ago. Along with the hospitals deciding if it is worth the money to keep you alive being a pensioner there is a lot better than here.....