tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post1571278669040730187..comments2024-01-08T21:00:24.932-08:00Comments on The Straight Goods: The World Moves Left While Corporate Money Moves WrongGrant Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-72545551582469782642011-11-29T20:35:00.776-08:002011-11-29T20:35:00.776-08:00Going to the U.S.A to buy isn't a solution. I...Going to the U.S.A to buy isn't a solution. It is part of the problem. <br /><br />Dairy marketing boards ensure farmers can make a living wage and hang on to their dairy farms. Other countries such as the U.S.A. and France give their farmers huge subsidies to ensure they continue to remain in business. Canada used another method which in the long run will help keep farms in families instead of them being taken over by agri business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-53342706430217632922011-11-28T20:19:01.188-08:002011-11-28T20:19:01.188-08:00Back from my day trip to the US.
Gas is $.97 per l...Back from my day trip to the US.<br />Gas is $.97 per litre at exit 266.<br />$2.49 for a jug of skim milk at Rite Way in Blaine.<br />2 pound block of cheese is $5.99<br />Cream Cheese for Christmas baking is over a buck less each.(wife needed it!)<br />To hell with the carbon tax AND dairy marketing boards. Canadians demand a free market economy, not price fixing for the top 1%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-78345230415379580122011-11-28T12:13:20.307-08:002011-11-28T12:13:20.307-08:00I have just returned from Rmd Centre (Sears & ...I have just returned from Rmd Centre (Sears & The Bay) searching for men's dress socks ...MADE IN CANADA....NOT one pair was found, they were all from China, Korea, Taiwan...now how is that keeping our Canadian jobs - I did not buy any of them and WON T ! So we should consider avoiding anything not made in Canada, we need the jobs here otherwise we only encourage more jobs going offshore.<br /><br />BOYCOTT FOREIGN MADE ITEMS and or PRODUCTS - thanx !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-2070282967110835902011-11-28T10:14:57.106-08:002011-11-28T10:14:57.106-08:00You vote with your money. Remove it from one of th...You vote with your money. Remove it from one of the five chartered banks and use a local credit union.<br /><br />Stop using charge cards and get rid of them completely. If you do not have the cash in hand to purchase an item then you do not need the item in question; do without.<br /><br />One million flyer points will get you a free flight from Richmond to Abbottsford. Who cares; be a tourist in your own country. Canada has many diverse and beautiful communities to be discovered by you.<br /><br />Every time you purchase food, or other items you keep that local farm and part of the country strong. <br /><br />Buying local strengthens the local communities and keeps the money circulating locally. If you purchase cheap foreign food you strengthen foreign countries and farms producing cheap food and goods. <br />Look around, read labels, plenty of stuff is still made in North America.dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-69689590131430762172011-11-28T10:00:08.727-08:002011-11-28T10:00:08.727-08:00As I have said before, why are some of you still l...As I have said before, why are some of you still listening to AM static? Tell the sponsors you will no longer support businesses advertising on 980.<br />As for the HST, if it is still there as the election approaches, it will spell serious trouble for the Libs, a party doomed to oblivion.<br /><br />Anyway I am off to Arco in Ferndale to load up on gas. The wife reminded me to buy some dairy there too. <br />PS. Harper, you are the most anti environmental government in our countrys history. More asbestos and dirty Alberta oil for corporations, more pollution for voters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-63164102849732646582011-11-28T08:01:03.183-08:002011-11-28T08:01:03.183-08:00We need a good researcher to post all of the top s...We need a good researcher to post all of the top salaries as is shown here:<br /><br />http://northerninsights.blogspot.com/2011/11/net-zero-mandate-not-for-all.html#comment-form<br /><br />To think contract negotiations are upcoming, I think all workers deserve an increase, at least a cost of living one as they are falling further and further behind, if they're lucky enough to hold on to their job with this gang in office. The deficit they have built up in this province is astonishing, but despicable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-91520503838886155622011-11-27T16:07:49.416-08:002011-11-27T16:07:49.416-08:00Food costs are price gouged very badly, especially...Food costs are price gouged very badly, especially in BC's supermarkets. I have saved thousands of dollars, buying my food through the underground, since the HST. The vegetables, fruit, eggs and meat, tastes so much better. I will never go back to the supermarkets, and take the chance of being poisoned to death, by life threatening poisons and diseases. I ordered my x-mas turkey early, to make sure I got one. Those turkey's go very quickly.<br /><br />I had an urgent bathroom reno, I saved two thousand dollars by paying cash, to one of our underground trades persons. Again, no HST.<br /><br />BC loses billions of revenue dollars, by people saving up to 50%, by shopping in the U.S. They also save mega bucks, gassing up their vehicles in the U.S. Everyone that are able, will x-mas shop south of the border...With no HST and much lower prices.<br /><br />I bought my little granddaughter, a beautiful doll house for x-mas at a craft fair. I even found the cutest perch, with a house on the top, for my cat. I bought beautifully hand knitted sweaters as gifts, and all kinds of stocking stuffers.<br /><br />BC obviously doesn't want our business. So I try very hard not to give this province my business.<br /><br />Harper being Harper, doesn't want to explain why, Canada has obscene prices, compared to the U.S. He refuses to answer, why our gasoline is grossly overpriced. He doesn't want our business either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-2849458479983606222011-11-27T13:20:47.770-08:002011-11-27T13:20:47.770-08:00Occupy Christmas is a good idea. Giving to a char...Occupy Christmas is a good idea. Giving to a charity in the name of a friend you would usually exchange gifts with is great! However, some of us are so into the Christmas shopping thing, its hard to give up. <br /><br />There is a way to buy and avoid supporting Corporations making products in foreign countries. <br />GO TO YOUR LOCAL CRAFTERS AND CRAFT FAIRS AND PURCHASE LOCALLY MADE GOODS THERE. <br />It keeps the money in the local community, supports the crafters, and avoid the commercializm of Christmas. <br />B.C. wines are wonderful, there are handmade toys for children, handmade soaps, knitted clothing, art, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-9908091268645598132011-11-27T09:51:12.667-08:002011-11-27T09:51:12.667-08:00Damn fine blogging, bro.
And you're irons are...Damn fine blogging, bro.<br /><br />And you're irons are right where they should.<br /><br />Somethin's gotta' give--that's for sure. And when it does..., i'm betting you'll be more prominent, and that patrick kinsella will be nowhere around.<br /><br />Go Lions!Go Lions!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-59216748276594197112011-11-27T01:22:07.944-08:002011-11-27T01:22:07.944-08:00When you had a slave, you were expected to feed an...When you had a slave, you were expected to feed and house that slave. Now, you just pay em minimum wage and not worry about their survival.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-39069323164712421962011-11-27T00:47:32.768-08:002011-11-27T00:47:32.768-08:00Not only did those CKNW types you mention shill fo...Not only did those CKNW types you mention shill for the HST up to and including voting day, they have used every opportunity possible to blame all the BC Liberal's mismanagement of tax dollars on the results of the vote.<br /><br />In my humble opinion, the occupy movement faces an uphill task simply because they will get no positive coverage from the corporate run media. I really think that the only way to get the attention of those that have made a total mess of finances around the world is to hit them where it hurts, which is the bottom line. If as many of us as possible just turn off the money taps wherever possible on things that are not vital to our well being, we can make a statement that will not only be effective, but totally legal. No court injunctions to worry about, no negative press directed at those of us that refuse to buy the Michael Campbell type of Kool-Aid regarding such things as if the mega corporations don't make gazillions of dollars, the world will end, and best of all, we may actually find that the many must-have dust collectors we tend to accumulate do little to enhance our lives while impacting our bottom lines in a negative fashion. We have become nothing more than the Pet Rock society.<br /><br />I read an article a few days ago where one of the Asian countries has decided to increase the wages of some workers who make clothing for such chains as H&M by the equivalent of $5.00 per month. The reason they are doing this is not because the employees(slaves) deserve a raise for good performance, but because they are earning so little that they are starving themselves into ill health simply because they do not earn enough to provide the basics of food and shelter for themselves and their dependents. This is unconsciounable. We are basically aiding and abetting greedy mega corporations that entice third-world countries to enslave their people just so they can live in the life of luxury at the expense of those they pretend to care for.<br /><br />CamCrankypantsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-42114070837798422102011-11-26T22:40:35.579-08:002011-11-26T22:40:35.579-08:00The Conservative government of Steven Harper slash...The Conservative government of Steven Harper slashed corporate taxes and reduced the GST, to run up the largest deficit in Canadian history. <br />Now, through his corporate financiers, he tells us we have to slash social spending to reduce the deficit that he purposely created. <br />He is lying and should be called to task for being an economic misfit. He is unfit to operate a lemonade stand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com