Post by John GaltPost by wyPost by Eddie HaskellPost by Eddie Haskell"Wholesale and retail trades added 26,000, compared to a loss of 28,000
retail jobs in the United States in November."
Let this be a lesson for you retarded apes. No, wait. You can't learn. And
plus, you don't give a shit. As long as you get your welfare checks.
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/12/03/Unemployment-rate-in-Cana...
the US should become a socialist country.
Revisit the subject header, cretin.
But, but, but .... everybody knows that a conservative in Canada is a
socialist conservative, not a capitalist one.
No, we don't know that. Canada did an "austerity" plan in the late 90's
(something that true socialists are allergic to) and has been reaping
the benefits of since.
With the help of the introduction of the GST, Canada's VAT tax, which
not only considerably added to the coffers and reduced the debt, but
also doles out quarterly rebates to Canadians. In fact, that's one of
the reasons why Canada came through the crash in pretty good shape
compared to everybody else, that and its more strictly controlled
banking environment. Something Americans can learn from.
Post by John GaltHaving graduated from university there and having some first hand
knowledge of the politics, it's more correct to say that Canadians agree
on a more expansive definition of infrastructure than Americans do, a
definition which includes a more extensive definition of social services.
Outside of that, I find that conservatives (outside of Quebec) tend to
be just as rabidly free market oriented than are Americans.
I'm not sure if I'd use the word rabidly, but outside of Quebec there
certainly is more of an effort to appease the free market
environment. I also couldn't say if it was more so than Americans,
though. I'm not sure there's any real way to measure that, but the
free market environment here is not as reluctant or determined to not
want to contribute to a socialistic system as they are in the US.
Post by John GaltYou may or may not be aware that the total Canadian tax wedge is roughly
the same as that in the US. There is a myth that they pay higher taxes
than we; it's not true, with variances according to province.
Yeah, you got that right, there's not that much of a difference in
general. But it's pretty amazing how Canada ends up doing so much
more with its tax intake with a more, say, egalitarian view of how to
distribute those taxes.
Post by John GaltOtherwise, they'd be
Post by wydoing everything in their power to bring down the whole universal
single payer health care system and replace it with a costly
privatized one all in the name of free enterprise. But no such
thing. And guess what? Even with socialist conservatives and a
socialist health care system, Canada still managed to fare the best of
all countries throughout the crash and its unemployment is
decreasing.
Yes. There were precisely *no* regulations that prevented Canadian banks
from investing in US CDO's. They just didn't, because of an innate
conservativism (this statement from the Toronto Dominion CEO who was
interviewed on CNBC this week.)
So, we can conclusively say that they avoided disaster because their
bankers are MORE economically conservative than those in the US.
Not to mention that none of them needed a bailout. Canada's banking
system is now ranked No. 1 for the third straight year.
http://banknerd.ca/2010/09/10/canadas-banking-system-ranked-no-1/
Must have something to do with ... socialism.
Post by John GaltJG
Hmmm, must have something to do with ... socialism.