Whoaccio
Senior Member
Well, it would appear the floodgates are open on bailouts before the Big3 auto sector bailout is even complete. Incredible. To date, we have mining, boats,cars, mining and unionized make work projects centering around digging holes and filling them. Truly, we will build the economy of the future. Next, airships, Great difference engines and electric trolley cars to power our colonization of the North! Rule Canadia! Canadia rule the snow! Canadians never will be slaves!
Before someone refers to me as an idealogical extremist for daring to suggest we shouldn't subsidize ships nobody wants to buy, I could accept limited involvement in the economy if it were something more than a crude pantomime of 19th century economic policies that have failed just about every time they are tried. I can accept the ludicrous double speak: wasting money -> 'stimulus,' building otherwise pointless projects -> 'infrastructure,' spending -> 'investing' and propping up failing (or often non existent, see shipping) business -> 'pragmatism.' No, what really gets me is the intense hypocrisy of the entire affair. The NDP-types have, for decades, railed against rampant consumerism, 'American' materialism and valuing throwing the environment under a bus. Now, the first opportunity they get, they expect the 'kitchen table' to subsidize the largest corporations on earth who export 90% of their produce to the 'Great Satan' and artificially induce consumers to consume all manners of environmentally destructive produce.
Before someone refers to me as an idealogical extremist for daring to suggest we shouldn't subsidize ships nobody wants to buy, I could accept limited involvement in the economy if it were something more than a crude pantomime of 19th century economic policies that have failed just about every time they are tried. I can accept the ludicrous double speak: wasting money -> 'stimulus,' building otherwise pointless projects -> 'infrastructure,' spending -> 'investing' and propping up failing (or often non existent, see shipping) business -> 'pragmatism.' No, what really gets me is the intense hypocrisy of the entire affair. The NDP-types have, for decades, railed against rampant consumerism, 'American' materialism and valuing throwing the environment under a bus. Now, the first opportunity they get, they expect the 'kitchen table' to subsidize the largest corporations on earth who export 90% of their produce to the 'Great Satan' and artificially induce consumers to consume all manners of environmentally destructive produce.