Moonbox

There is no source. He's pulled bullshit numbers out of his ass and now he's squirming and squawking because he knows he can't back them up. 3.5% of extra inflation last year - all Trudeau's fault, as you say, and you apparently have the math and facts to prove it. Let's see them? ?

My claim is that your numbers are made up, and that the evidence and facts you say you have don't actually exist. The burden of proof is on the affirmative claim. Squawking about sealioning and carrying on for pages and pages about why you can't provide a simple cite is for a very specific claim just makes you look like a clown. Until you post your evidence, I'm just going to keep reposting this: Provide the math and facts you say you have, or we know that you're making shit up.

That's not how it works, clown. My claim is that you made up your numbers, bullshitted your math and lied about having evidence for it. You could clear it up pretty quickly with the evidence you say you have...except up you won't...because you can't! ? This one? I never disagreed with this, nor did I ever claim Justin isn't responsible for any of the inflation. You're arguing with yourself again. ?

It's a public service monopoly Michael. If the Teacher's Union didn't exist, if there was proper performance standards and accountability, and if it wasn't near-impossible to get rid of an underperforming teacher barring gross negligence/improper conduct, these questions you're asking would have harder answers.

Where!? ? We've had half a dozen of the same inflation debates in the last month. Surely you could provide a single instance where you've provided evidence supporting your bone-headed inflation claims. Instead, you carry on like a clown, giving multi-paragraph explanations on why you won't (can't) provide any. Funny stuff. ?

That's exactly what the smart money is doing right now. The Ontario Teacher's Pension plan has bought billions and billions in the least year. Unsurprisingly, you would do the opposite. ?

I don't give even an ounce of credibility to their claims in aggregate, though there is certainly a few good apples in there that are doing something. The teachers I know roll their eyes at those claims, and they download their lessons and prep from various teaching websites. I'm giving anecdotal evidence here, so take it for nothing if you choose, but that's not really any more reliable than all of this grueling work the teachers are pretending they're doing over the summer. Writing things down doesn't make them so, and nobody is following up or verifying it. Add up all of the extracurricular activity a teacher does in a year and let's see how much that accounts for compared to the average full-year 9-5 worker. ?

I'm saying that you made them up. I'm saying that you've not posted the sources and evidence you keep claiming you have, you just keep refusing and saying you did. You've chosen to once again natter on for half a page about why you're refusing to cite the information you say you have instead of just dropping a link with a quote. That's dumb. Let me refresh: Show it.

The Chuds have abandoned him for what? For who? The Greenbelt thing stinks, but I don't think we yet know how big the story is. Take whatever work the teachers say they're doing in the summer, and divide that by 100, and you'll get a more realistic number. The idea that most of them are working substantial hours in the summer (beyond occasional course-work that qualifies them for a higher pay-scale) is a farce.

How so? Both sides have to agree to arbitration. I think the government has the strong hand here. The Liberals are still a gutter party in Ontario. Ford has been a (relatively?) stable hand, and aside from the Greenbelt fiasco he doesn't have any egg on his face. This has Mike Harris vibes all over it from my perspective, and the Teacher's Union will send their PR spin in every direction, but ultimately most folk in Ontario aren't going to feel sorry for people who earn +$100k for less than nine months of work each year and iron-clad job security, as we potentially head into recession.

A lot of places? ? How many can you count there? The fact that you can point a couple of countries mired in recession with lower inflation means that inflation spikes weren't global? For every country you can show that has lower inflation than Canada's, I can provide 10+ that are higher! Yes, you made those numbers up. That's not what you were asked to provide evidence for. ? You've told us that 3.5% of last year's inflation was caused by Justin. You claim you have evidence and math supporting it, so show it. Otherwise, we can chalk this up as another example of you cluelessly bullshitting, and then lying about the evidence that you pretend you have but won't provide....AGAIN! ?

Japan went from decades of near-zero to negative inflation to +2.5 in a year. Japan's also a case study on bad/misguided monetary and economic policy, with the period from the late 80's to now being coined "The Lost Decades". No, you've never shown that. You've waved your hands around and bullshitted some numbers, as you always to do, and refused to provide real evidence. If you can show me an actual economist worth anything saying anything remotely resembling what you describe above, maybe they'll be worth listening to, but nobody cares about your balogna napkin math.

Yes, I know, but with or without the COLA, they're still at the very top of compensation globally. In a unionized public sector monopoly, this is the only way that the government can bring things to more reasonable levels.

Among the top paid teachers in the world, working 6 hour days for 9 months a year. ? Yes, yes, they mark papers etc, and some of them prepare lessons (most don't beyond downloading it from a website), but it it's for the children. ? The timing here is pretty awful. Folks are worried about recession, inflation is tapering off, and the teachers are going to pretend they are arguing about class sizes and want indexed wage increases to keep up with inflation, but I don't think (or hope) that the public is going to buy it.

Maybe. The current system is better for strong mandates and stability. It's maybe not as good for other things. STV has its own problems as well.

If you already see it that way, it only gets worse with PR. As it stands, the big urban areas are under-represented on a per-capita basis, by a lot.

Five years from now? If it does happen, I'll certainly be surprised, but I'm not sure why I'd be outraged... In the meantime, you keep rooting for the dictatorships and the communists. ?

Making it happen? Maybe? In a few years? The likelihood that 15-20 countries with wildly diverging interests (and in many cases completely opposing ones) will be able to settle their differences in the near-term and come together on this is...unlikely. Either way doesn't help Russia today, so back to the original point: they care. ?

BRICS isn't gold-based, lol. A gold-backed multi-lateral trade currency is aspirational, and setting it up would take years. Global players have been talking about doing it since the 1960's. Russia is still squabbling with India, for example, on not wanting to be paid in rupees for all of the cheap oil that India is importing, and nobody wants to hold rubles. So...yes. They care. Russia's trade with the BRIC group is less than 25% of what crosses the Canada US border every year.

Everywhere else. We're part of a global economy. When prices for globally traded goods and commodities rise, as they did in 2022, prices go up in Canada as well. If we're talking stupid, let's look at the angry muppet who can't grasp this very basic relationship.

The Ukrainian refugees that Russia is forcing out of their homes? Yeah. That's why they care so much, and that's why those closest to the Russian border are the countries giving the most aid to Ukraine (proportionally).

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A lot of that is just not enough people to do the work. The contractors offer dumb prices to people because they're already busy and don't need the work. If someone wants to grossly overpay they'll do it, otherwise they don't really care. Things like lumber are more expensive now, but that's not the main thing driving up costs. On a 2000 sq foot home in Ontario, lumber costs maybe bumped prices up by $60,000 per home, max. That's assuming folks are paying 2.5x the lumber cost that they did before 2020.

Actual violence, rather than just words would be more the bottom, but it can go even further than that. History has shown us what the actual bottom is, and we're not there yet.

This is how it ends, or just how it progresses? It's a race to the bottom.