Canada under Harper drops out of UN top ten most developed countries

[art-in-the-making]

I guess the higher you are the harder you fall, eh?

Canada, perennially ranked #1 country in the world on the UN development index under the Chretien Liberal government, has now fallen right out of the top 10 under Harper's mismanagement and pandering to the corporate elite.

Worldwide, the wealth gap is on the rise everywhere. In Canada this has been accelerating with Harper cutting corporate taxes and pulling all sorts of gutless shenanigans to hammer the middle class.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/03/14/canada-slips-.html

This is hard enough to swallow. Maybe we better not get into the news that global temperatures now appear headed for a 4 degree increase this century, which would leave several of the world's most populated areas uninhabitable, according to the study in the news today.

Canada under Harper, backing out of Kyoto and aggressively purveying tar sands oil, and tearing up environmental laws and attacking science, among the worst offenders on a per capita basis among developed countries contributing to global warming.

Anyone think we'll be fed up with this by 2015?

[ilurkthereforiam]

Canadians who don't work in manufactering want a bigger bang for their buck.

They are fed up with paying too much for products that can be made cheaper elsewhere.

I shop locally but I want value.

I look for value when buying stock for my store so I can pass on the savings to my customers.

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

I have read the wages are going up, but that's only for factories with major US or Canadian corporations and the other reason they are going up is because Mexican and Chinese products are getting a lot of bad PR. Many oversees manufacturers will still keep the wages and the working conditions low.

The rise in wages will be a long way away. Meanwhile in the US and Canada our manufacturing has been majorly hurt, will have to be rebuilt and many people want to destroy unions which means the decent wages will still not exist. So yes, eventually things will 'equalize' but not them to us.....more us to them. We will have gone down and not up.

They are fed up with paying too much for products that can be made cheaper elsewhere.

You pay for what you get. My experience with a majority of off shore products from China or the 'islands' is that they are poorly made and cheaply made and a life span that doesn't even register. It's planned obsolescence so that people return to buy more and more....and too many people fall for it.

[art-in-the-making]

Canadians who don't work in manufactering want a bigger bang for their buck.

They are fed up with paying too much for products that can be made cheaper elsewhere.

I shop locally but I want value.

I look for value when buying stock for my store so I can pass on the savings to my customers.

There is no doubt that lurk is doing the same as many would do.

But no question either that it is a strategy that has no future. Never did never will.

It is a completely hypocritical situation. There are very few jobs that couldn't be potentially at threat due to overseas or imported labour.

The whole idea that a Canadian who earns a good living in this country would be "fed-up" with other Canadians making a decent wage is reprehensible as far as I'm concerned.

[ilurkthereforiam]

There is no doubt that lurk is doing the same as many would do.

But no question either that it is a strategy that has no future. Never did never will.

Ya I've only been doing what I do for over 20 years.

Not much of a future there.

Several competitors have come and gone.

[art-in-the-making]

no future

This conversation is about the country.

By no future, meaning if everyone tried to do the same thing, the country's economy would implode.

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

I met a fellow in the summer who was a drug dealer. We talked. He didn't care what his product was as long as it was making him moneyyyyyyyyy! I told him eventually his number would come up and he pointed to his Viper in the driveway and pointed to his Rolex watch and pointed to his very good looking lady in the kitchen and said "I'm doing just fine". Last week I was talking to a customer of mine. I've done work for three generations of their family. He owns a huge company which he inherited. He lives in a house worth at least a mil.2. New cars in the driveway. His kids get whatever they want. But he's a month late paying his bill to me. The bottom line is success is all in the perspective one has.