[BeaverFever]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Until they realize the "debt" is actually just savings bonds that they and their parents and their grandparent parents bought and continue to buy and get regular returns on.

Unless it's a Conservative government debt, and then it's beyond evil.

I've never said that. I don't think anyone on the left hass

[BeaverFever]

shockedcanadian shockedcanadian:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Until they realize the "debt" is actually just savings bonds that they and their parents and their grandparent parents bought and continue to buy and get regular returns on.

Your problem is you think government debt is like the payday loans and high-interest credit cards that you probably live off of. But it's not the same. Not at all.

And also, I think they'll appreciate not having an unmanageable backlog crumbling infrastructure and totally destroyed environment. That's real legacy that future generations should worry about.

So you believe the debt is ok because the public lends at a low rate?

. Yes. Nobody's forcing investors to buy those bonds and T-bills you know.

[andyt]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

andyt andyt:

Oh, for fucks saake. Here's what I said:

andyt andyt:

I guess we're lagging behind the US, because their employment numbers for May were dismal.

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Well, we did have an entire city of 90,000 who were on 'vacation', so I guess we can excuse the drop in productivity.

We, as in Canada, not just Alberta, are lagging behind the US in having a drop in employment - I'm sure it will come eventually.

How does your reply make sense in that context? Canada as a whole is doing well right now, unemployment wise, even if Alberta isn't. Alberta /= Canada.

Alberta is still part of Canada, even though it's against your wishes. When you speak about 'Canada' that includes 'Alberta'.

Like the part of the article that I quoted says, the wildfires would have dragged our numbers down, if Eastern Canada had not done unexpectedly well. I thought that would have been obvious, but I guess we have to have a couple more pages of discussion to flesh out this seemingly easy concept: My reply makes sense in that it a continuation of your own point.

Underconstumble? Or should I break out the crayons and draw a picture?

WTF is wrong with you? My initial post was about Canada not following the US into depressed employment numbers. Ie we had surprisingly good numbers for May. How does your reply that "excuse the drop in productivity because of vacation" make any sense in that light? How is unexpectedly good employment numbers an indication of "drop in productivity?" Are you so wrapped up in Alberta that you can't take in what's happening in the rest of Canada?

[herbie]

Why not?
They cancelled the F-35s and they could've got them all for less than the price of
1 BRIDGE IN VANCOUVER...

And oil is up to $50 a bbl and we're saving A WHOLE DIME for gas from when it was $150

Ppl will buy anything.