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If i ran a business, like these fools are running governments, I'd be fired.
It seems all the countries are taking the same approach, and following one another. 'Hey look, they are going into massive debt, in order to prop up an economy, if we don't do it, we will fall behind!'. WTF?
If Canada did not start this mess, with the same bad habits, why would be following those countries by borrowing to finance those bad habits? We do not have the same problems, so why are we offering the same solution?
Yes, we will suffer due to lower demand for our goods, services, and commodities. But, because that is a real problem, with a very real solution (which does not include deficit spending), we should let it sort itself out. Other countries will eventually rebound, and we will be fine. I think for 'natural' problems, we need a more natural solution of waiting it out.
Our budget and planning is being driven by emotion, rather than logic. It is idiotic articles, and thinking like this (following article) that lead to so many 'bailouts'.
| quote: | Laid-off GM worker still waiting for help
John MacDonald, 29, worked for General Motors in Oshawa for 11 years before being laid off in December.
He’s single, rents a house in Oshawa and is currently eligible for $337 a week through employment insurance; at GM he was making more than $1,000 a week, after taxes.
budget hopes: MacDonald hoped for retraining funding that would let him take a year-long engineering program for nuclear operations.
He said he has been told he is not eligible because he only qualifies for 36 weeks of EI and the program is longer than that. Retraining funding must be substantial enough “that I could still have some kind of income to pay my bills and still put some food on the table.”
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http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/173158 |
Read again, the fool made $52K last year, AFTER tax, and is waiting for a hand out. He is single, living in Oshawa by himself, and thinks he is entitled to re-training money. Should he not have saved some of that crazy cash for a rainy day? He is still getting over $1200 a month in EI, which is fair, because he paid into the fund. But to make that much money annually and expect a hand out is outrageous. Worse still, is that the paper picked this story and printed it, in the metro, which has the largest circulation out of the free papers in Toronto.
Having gone straight from high school to work, and earning this kind of money is amazing. It just shows you how many things are wrong with the auto sector, and the type of people that work there. Go get OSAP, go to college, and get a fuckin education, and maybe then you will know how to save, and stop sobbing to the rest of the world.
People need to stop relying on the government for handouts, and get out there to make a better life for them selves. We are breeding generations of beggars, whiners, and freeloaders.
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