Canada's Depression: Surging Crime, Soaring Suicides, Overwhelmed Food Banks

[Frederick Foresight]

Yes, it's nothing at all the same. Obama gets a pass because of all the stellar economic performance the man has generated eight fucking years after Bush left.

And you wonder why no one here takes you seriously.

So you and your Echo Chamber Orchestra are the ones who are taken seriously? Shared hallucination must be a real trip for you guys.

Look what Bush inherited and what he left behind. Now look at what Obama inherited, and consider that his performance beat Romney's campaign promises during the course of his second term:

Unemployment:

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/10/much-president-obama-beat-mitt-romneys-unemployment-promise/

Economic growth:

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/23/thanks-obama-economy-surges-gdp-growth-fastest-decade.html

And so on:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-republican-campaign-promises-president-obama-fulfilled/

Had the Republicans taken the White House in 2012, there would have been a very different narrative here in P&R given the very same results. And that brings us to the notion of intellectual integrity, which you would regard as nothing more that a vague and unnecessary abstraction.

And here you are, all dressed up in your best narrative finery with no place to go except, perhaps, to yet another rehearsal with the other members of your Echo Chamber Orchestra here at ET.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Affected much?

By your complete lack of a meaningful and relevant response? yeah, much.

 

[WeToddDid2]

So you and your Echo Chamber Orchestra are the ones who are taken seriously? Shared hallucination must be a real trip for you guys.

Look what Bush inherited and what he left behind. Now look at what Obama inherited, and consider that his performance beat Romney's campaign promises during the course of his second term:

Unemployment:

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/10/much-president-obama-beat-mitt-romneys-unemployment-promise/

Economic growth:

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/23/thanks-obama-economy-surges-gdp-growth-fastest-decade.html

And so on:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-republican-campaign-promises-president-obama-fulfilled/

Had the Republicans taken the White House in 2012, there would have been a very different narrative here in P&R given the very same results. And that brings us to the notion of intellectual integrity, which you would regard as nothing more that a vague and unnecessary abstraction.

And here you are, all dressed up in your best narrative finery with no place to go except, perhaps, to yet another rehearsal with the other members of your Echo Chamber Orchestra here at ET.

Bush inherited the tech bubble implosion. But, that is not part of the libtard narrative therefore you are blissfully unaware.

You are demonstrating your complete ignorance regarding economics. You are just like fraudcurrents. Simply a parrot that regurgitates.

 

[LacesOut]

Bush inherited the tech bubble implosion. But, that is not part of the libtard narrative therefore you are blissfully unaware.

You are demonstrating your complete ignorance regarding economics. You are just like fraudcurrents. Simply a parrot that regurgitates.

People give politicians way too much credit for economics.

I have never understood this.

So Clinton created the tech bubble that imploded under Bush?
And Bush created the mortgage bubble that imploded before Obama?
And Obama created the dollar bubble....?
Hardly.

Politicians are simply roadblocks in the way of economic progress. Sometimes they are speed bumps....sometimes they are toll gates....other times they are the spike strips that make you have to completely rethink your way out.

But no one who actually understands economics thinks that a president creates a bubble and another inherits it's implosion.

 

[achilles28]

25% of Canada's GDP are exports to the United States. That doesn't even consider the ripple-effect, from export revenues circulating in the local economy. To say Canada benefits from it's trade relationship to the United States, is the understatement of the decade. I always find it amusing when Canadians proudly boast how much better "we are" then America, when our whole commie utopia depends on a capitalist America...... the irony eh.

Despite what Rear_Ender says, clinics are ubiquitious in Canada. Perhaps she defines them narrowly. To me, a clinic offers medical services to private patients. That includes dental offices, optometrists, fertility, physiotherapy, chiropractic, hormonal replacement clinics. These are all over the place. Every block. The private "doctors" offices are rare. There's only a few I'm aware of.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Bush inherited the tech bubble implosion. But, that is not part of the libtard narrative therefore you are blissfully unaware.

And you're comparing that with the Great Recession? Nice try, BlissMaster.

 

[Fractals 'R Us]

I'm reminded of Cruz, who pointed out that there has been no significant warming in the last 17 years. (Why specifically 17? Because 17 years ago was an El Niño year, when the temperature spiked dramatically.) I can only imagine how much you and Cruz would make if you went into the cherry-picking business together.

I just started reading this thread when I learned that it's all due to Global Warming! No need to read the rest of it

 

[Wallet]

Repo's with ethics - hot new Canadian business?

you can save face. Here's How: "...we will go out of our way to seize a vehicle around the corner or allow the person to bring it out of their place of work so that co-workers don't see their vehicle being towed away." That of course assumes you still have a job.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-27/canadian-repo-men-business-has-never-been-better

 

[Tsing Tao]

By your complete lack of a meaningful and relevant response? yeah, much.

This from the "queen of content" here on the forum.

 

[Nine_Ender]

I recently acquired a new dentist and a new GP. The process went fairly well, found high quality professionals and the appointments were convenient and well done. Tests etc all done, apparently my medical history is kept in database and easily accessible to my new doctor once I designated him as my GP. Things have definitely improved since 6 years ago. Wait time was minimal ( 10 minutes ), free parking provided, standard tests easily done at labs and in one case through the mail. Walk in service available when needed but not for annual physical; dentist did some touch up work between appointments, and my insurance covered the majority of the bill ( he stuck close to the schedule; not all dentists do ).

Quite a different experience then some posters seem to suggest on here. I'm very healthy, rarely need medical help of any kind, but I do know someone quite well who was in "long term care" and it was all paid for by OHIP ( would have cost a fortune in the US and/or led to squabbles with insurance companies I'm sure ). So I've seen the system from two extremes, and while paid long term care is not without issues, it doesn't put one's family into bankruptcy or take away from savings.