I like this line,

QuoteThe priority now is to ensure "an adequate, reliable and cost-effective supply of energy for the state in a manner that promotes the health and welfare of the public and economic growth.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 16, 2024, 03:27:25 PMThe wealth has to be spread around based on some type of merits though

if someone is telling me I have to make sacrifices to support someone simply because they are breathing they are going to get a big fuck you on that proposal.

Tell me we're all chipping in for the betterment of us all and I'm 100% behind such a philosophy

I agree with this.

I did not need a report to know that living standards are heading in the wrong direction under Trudeau.

QuoteCanadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.

"Despite claims to the contrary, living standards are declining in Canada," study co-author Grady Munro says in the report by the fiscally conservative think tank, "Changes in Per-Person GDP (Income): 1985 to 2023."

The study says that from April 2019 to the end of 2023, inflation-adjusted, per-person GDP in Canada, a broad measure of living standards, fell from $59,905 annually to $58,111 — a 3% loss and the third-steepest decline in almost 40 years.

Only a 5.3% drop in real GDP Canadians experienced from 1989 to 1992 and a 5.2% drop from 2008 to 2009 were more severe.

The study also says the latest decline in living standards which lasted for 18 fiscal quarters from 2019 to 2023 is already the second-longest in almost 40 years, surpassed only by one that lasted 21 fiscal quarters from1989 to 1994, "and if not stabilized in 2024, this decline could be the steepest and longest in four decades."

A chart in the Liberals' 2022 budget projected that Canada was in danger of experiencing the lowest annual growth in real GDP per capita between 2020 and 2060 among 16 comparable countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, as well as lower growth than the OECD average and lower than every other member of the G7 — U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Japan.

"Most Canadian businesses have not invested at the same rate as their U.S. counterparts. Unless this changes, the OECD projects that Canada will have the lowest per-capita GDP growth among its member countries."

The problem, critics say, is that in the Liberals' 2024 budget released last month, its major themes — higher spending, higher deficits, higher debt and higher capital gains taxes — are all sure-fire ways to reduce business confidence in the economy, discouraging private sector investment aimed at increasing productivity and innovation.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-canadians-standard-of-living-is-on-decline-report-says

Quote from: Lokmar on May 16, 2024, 02:55:46 PMAre those 7 distinct losers or are some duals of losers? 

From what I have read, probably the latter. That Aylana guy can have it.

Quote from: Aylana on May 16, 2024, 02:48:33 PMYou forgot to mention Gary posted another dick pic.

And you saved it on your computer.

This appered in the Sun newspaper chain. Trudeau is throwing good after bad.

QuoteEven as the much-vaunted electric vehicle (EV) transition slams into stiff headwinds, the Trudeau government and Ontario's Ford government will pour another $5 billion in subsidies into Honda, which plans to build an EV battery plant and manufacture EVs in Ontario.

This comes on top of a long list of other such "investments" including $15 billion for Stellantis and LG Energy Solution, $13 billion for Volkswagen (with a real cost to Ottawa of $16.3 billion, per the Parliamentary Budget Officer), a combined $4.24 billion (federal/Quebec split) to Northvolt, a Swedish battery maker, and a combined $644 million (federal/Quebec split) to Ford Motor Company to build a cathode manufacturing plant in Quebec.

Some would-be EV makers or users are postponing their own EV investments. Ford has killed its electric F-150 pickup truck, Hertz is dumping one-third of its fleet of EV rental vehicles and Swedish EV company Polestar dropped 15% of its global workforce while Tesla is cutting 10% of its global staff.

And in the U.S., a much larger potential market for EVs, a recent Gallup poll shows a market turning frosty. The percentage of Americans polled by Gallup who said they're seriously considering buying an EV has been declining from 12% in 2023 to 9% in 2024. Even more troubling for would-be EV sellers is that only 35% of poll respondents in 2024 said they "might consider" buying an EV in the future. That number is down from 43% in 2023.

Overall, according to Gallup, "less than half of adults, 44%, now say they are either seriously considering or might consider buying an EV in the future, down from 55% in 2023, while the proportion not intending to buy one has increased from 41% to 48%." In other words, in a future where government wants sellers to only sell EVs, almost half the U.S. public doesn't want to buy one.

And yet, Canada's governments are hitting the gas pedal on EVs, putting the hard-earned capital of Canadian taxpayers at significant risk. A smart government would have its finger in the wind and would slow down when faced with road bumps. It might even reset its GPS and change the course of its 2035 EV mandate for vehicles few motorists want to buy.

It seems that at this moment, voters are done with Trudeau, even if he isn't done with them.

Asked on Tuesday about his future and should he step aside for the good of the Liberal Party, Trudeau gave no hint that he plans to go. It seems he still wants to stick around and fight Pierre Poilievre in the next election.

Quote from: Conservative Perspective on May 16, 2024, 12:46:54 PMMissouri AG working to crack down on businesses hiring illegal immigrants

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has begun following up on complaints about businesses employing illegal immigrants in an effort to crack down on the practice in his state.

Source: Missouri AG working to crack down on businesses hiring illegal immigrants

It should be a serious criminal offense to hire an illegal alien. Period.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 16, 2024, 01:05:42 PMthis and that property grab scheme just pulled in the same fucking city are literally setting the precedent to turn us into a banana republic


A tyrannical regime under the cloak of socialist justice will ALWAYS want the ability to take from the haves with the promise they are giving to the have nots. It's part of their fucking charter. The whole benevolent RobinHOod mentality.

And when they can justify property seizure based on legal precedent because of one having embellished their income, assets, resume, work history, etc etc... they've literally got 98% of all Americans by the balls. and THAT is what this is all about.

Kevin leary was right on track when he said this isn't about trump anymore. His only flaw was that he was attacking the problem from the foreign investments angle. This is bigger than that.

When Uncle Sam wants your property, for any reason whatsoever, the last thing they want is some annoying barrier like the constitution standing in their fucking way.

Idiots these people... I fucking swear.

I used to be adamant supporter of redistribution. But, when I supported it, the wealth was supposed to be spread around. Now, it goes right back into the hands of the rich prog control freaks who hate the working class.

Quote from: Lokmar on May 15, 2024, 03:52:07 PMThe problem is, the genie is out of the bottle, having been released by democRATs. There's no going back now.

I know. If Biden is impeached, the Democrats will have themselves to blame.

I do not think Americans should be forced to pay any foreign wars. But, it was absurd for Democrats to impeach Donald Trump over aid to Ukraine, and it would be absurd to impeach Joe Biden over withholding aid to Israel.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 14, 2024, 04:21:33 PMThe ones they robbed him of in Georgia when they cheated their way into the whitehouse

I am not familiar with that.

I saw videos of Dutch farmers in tractors protesting in front of their parliament.

Trudeau is making life harder for farmers here. That maeans food scarcity and higher prices for us. Progs love using inflation to control us.

Quote from: Oerdin on May 15, 2024, 01:28:52 PMLast year Democrats passed free health care for all illegals in the state.  That sounds like something that can easily be cut and save billions.  Another one is Democrats passed free abortions for everyone who wants one plus travel money to get to California for you free abortion plus free hotel stays.

Taxpayers should be in front of your state legislature every day until that is changed.

Quote from: Erica Mena on May 15, 2024, 01:39:47 PMAdmin is posting gay porn now lol

I thought he only posted Trump memes.