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  • I thing y'all are talking about two different things that are loosely connected. Watch this doc to see why regulation spurred 40 years of economic growth and deregulation reversed it as scheming greed took over real productivity: watch?v=iFfTcAcGjcU

  • a drought would be handled by the market because in a market more goods come from more places. supply will meet demand as best possible, far better than any central planning could do, and history proves that. Trade has always existed, that the market. thanks to markets we are growing faster in the last 100 years than EVER before. these are not people? How little respect for human rights you have. these people employ many, and in return you think they should be stripped of rights. Lovely.

  • Neither for all of the above, except for corporate tax breaks. The rest of it is just a bunch of special interests demanding more , even though it will solve nothing and only serve to impoverish us all.

  • @MrLibertea so you are in favor of corporate tax breaks ? wow. you need to get yourself checked.

  • @turgore yeah, I believe people should keep more of their own money. i don't need government to punish people for being productive. I trust the market, a system of voluntary transaction/bargaining over a government, a system of force. How insane of me!

  • @MrLibertea these are not people. These are large scale exploitation machines- it is the few at the top who get the money. Marketplace is fine but sometimes it needs intervention. Let's say a drought happens. The government redistributed resources in case of emergency. Now people have food to eat. What about in a market But economy ? Everyone starves. A market economy is still fairly new- thousands of years tops. Before this humans lived MILLIONS of years in tribe like societies.

  • Very well done; illustrates nicely the choice between an humane, progressive future that benefits all Canadians and a dystopian, corporatist police state.

    N.

  • Great job ;)

  • Nothing wrong with spending money on security - let's try and keep it in line with other G20 countries, who all came in at about 10% of the amount of money we spent. (It also would be nice if we got something for all that money - for instance, if the cops had actually prevented crime instead of brutalizing a thousand poor schmucks who couldn't run away fast enough.)

  • @dunstanmorey maybe we shouldn't have a summit in the first place.

    

  • Nothing wrong with keeping criminals behind bars - just that the number of bars (i.e. prisons) should be proportional to the number of crooks. Lower crime rate means don't waste billions on new prisons. Let's have policies based on facts, not ideology.

  • What exactly is wrong with keeping criminals behind bars??

    And why would we not spend money on security for a world summit? Even Iggy's saying we don't have a strong enough presence on the international stage, but against these summits - you can't have it both ways.

  • Well first, who's promising the "THIS"?

    You need ads for the economic action plan - why offer programs to help people and then have no way of letting the masses know they exist?

    What exactly is wrong with EI as it currently exists?! As someone who just went through it from a layoff - I got nearly an entire year off work paid. How much longer should we let people sit around and not look for work?

    We need to have our own military resources without having to rely on our neighbours.

  • Typo!

  • This is effective but you should re-post it and fix the typo at the end: "choose" not "chose"

  • Thanks so much for posting this! It really puts everything in perspective. And yet, I'm still having arguments with people about why this government/budget is bad for Canada. Transparency. And honesty. That's what I want from the Government of Canada.

  • I'M VOTING NO ON MARCH 29,30,31 !!

  • Tough choices. I'm going to need to sleep on this one. #cheekysarcasm Fantastic video!

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