Recession? Don't hold your breath as Trade Deficit plunges.

[PIK]

How about high wages and benefits and sky rocketing hydro bills. That is why ford is building a 2 b plant in mexico.

[socialist]

Why didn't Europe's participation in a common trading system prevent WWI? It seems the exact opposite occurred when Germany became a rising economic power and England started feeling threatened by their growing economic clout....war was an inevitable result. And what we have today....a world with thousands of nuclear warheads, is the US seeing China on the rise and doing an "Asian Pivot," meaning trying to force China into a subordinate role or forcing them out of favoured trading status, and then there's the dangerous game of trying to stop Russia from gaining more economic influence in Europe and surrounding them with hostile forces. We've likely never been as close to WWIII all through the Cold War years, and yet nobody talks about it mainstream media.

All we did with land and water resources, was learn how to squeeze more out of an empty bottle:

1. oil drilling technology started being applied in the 70's to drill down into deep underground 'fossil' aquifers, and even rechargeable aquifers all over the world are being depleted at unsustainable rates. Even the US Interior Dept. is predicting that the largest aquifer in the US - the Oglalla Aquifer, may be depleted by the year 2030 at current rates of use....that's not very far away for the #1 agricultural producer to adjust to!

2. more land has continued to be taken from cutting down and destruction of tropical rainforests. The increasing numbers of species' extinctions is largely because wilderness zones are being demolished so fast in recent decades.

Neither of these trends can be continued to provide more food in the future. Even the most optimistic estimates point to declines in global food production even while populations keep increasing. These are crises created by capitalism and unregulated application of new technology, so the last thing we can expect to fix them is applying more of the same!

We are consistently #1, #2 or #3rd best economy of the G7 during Harper's small c conservative gov't and closest to a balanced budget. Like all developed countries we need more well paying manufacturing jobs, but with the rise of the under developed economies offering lower wages, that is a struggle that all of the G7 countries face. Socialist rhetoric is not a real answer. Obama's beautiful speeches did not bring back manufacturing jobs in the US. Look at what the left is accomplishing in Greece. The NDP or any other socialist gov't has never delivered sustainable economic policies and well paying jobs anywhere in the world. Liberal policies in Ontario has led to the a total per capita debt load double that of California. I wish taxing corporations and overly paid CEO worked to create jobs but there is no historical evidence that it works in the long term. I wish there was a Santa Claus and tooth fiery. Realistically, kicking out Harper for emotional reasons is likely to lead to a weaker economy, more debt, less jobs and a loss of social programs.

[cybercoma]

How about high wages and benefits and sky rocketing hydro bills. That is why ford is building a 2 b plant in mexico.

I thought you said a post before this that it was green energy policies alone? I guess as long as you're deflecting from Harper's record, it doesn't matter what it is, eh?

[socialist]

I thought you said a post before this that it was green energy policies alone? I guess as long as you're deflecting from Harper's record, it doesn't matter what it is, eh?

Not sure how the Liberal carbon tax (i.e. A tax on everything) is considered moving to the 'middle' of the political spectrum. To me it seems as far left as possible, because it gives the government the ability to tax and control everything, including the air we breathe.