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OT: American Politics

Re: OT: Canadian Politics

McGuinty did get the firefighter's vote in the last couple of elections somehow. Not sure how the police forces voted.
 
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You see, you just can't take the filters off.

I ****ing hate McGuinty, I rail at the rates we pay for hydro. We're getting scammed and Quebec is getting rich at the same time. That has nothing to do with you acting like you're about to change you power consumption so's you can eat. I'm not sure how you're missing that.
Wait.
Are you stupid as well as poor? I know that quite often they go hand in hand.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

Bleedsblue&white said:
You see, you just can't take the filters off.

I ****ing hate McGuinty, I rail at the rates we pay for hydro. We're getting scammed and Quebec is getting rich at the same time. That has nothing to do with you acting like you're about to change you power consumption so's you can eat. I'm not sure how you're missing that.
Wait.
Are you stupid as well as poor? I know that quite often they go hand in hand.
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Trust me, I'm far from poor.

But as a single homeowner it's getting harder and harder to live in Ontario.

You seem to love paying more though. Congrats.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

We've lost all of our manufacturing power, people have less income relative to inflation than ever before, young people are flocking out West with their advanced degrees in droves, and we have an aging power infrastructure primarily from nearly fifty years ago. This province is ****ed. Completely and utterly.

People don't want to make the huge slashes and cuts to the budget that is desperately required. The rapidly aging boomers don't give two shits about the next generation so they're going to suck the final remnants of all the benefits in the various social programs, then the young people who refuse to give up these programs are going to be stuck paying exorbitant taxes if they want to maintain some vastly diminished form of them.

As a result businesses are not going to want to operate in an environment that doesn't cater to their desire for low operating costs and they will look elsewhere: to Saskatchewan, Alberta, and increasingly northern Canada.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

johnunit said:
Granted the US rates and rates for specifically Ottawa aren't listed, but 'highest rates in north america" don't seem to be the case.

http://www.hydro.mb.ca/regulatory_affairs/energy_rates/electricity/utility_rate_comp.shtml


Edit: let's throw in one from a right-wing rag denigrating a right-wing government, too.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/02/11/highest-in-the-country
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Our resident McGuinty cum guzzler! When I get a moment I'll post some materials myself.

And of course you support McGuinty, you've never paid a hydro bill in your life.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

May as well get used to higher rates. Ontarion rates are proected to rise somewhere between 46% and 65% by 2015.
 
HabsAddict said:
625 MILLION rounds. What struck me is that Greece MILITARY has something like a 200 million rounds (90's) "stockpiled" for war and this is 3x as much in two CIVILIAN branches.

I'm kind of hoping to see some related story on how it will be spent or why the need for so much.
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625 million rounds isn't as absurd when you consider how many guns there are in the US warchest. And the line between civilian and millitary is blurred as hell at this point in the US.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

and yeah...anyone who could have, should have gotten involved with the micro FIT program.

I've got a good bit of south facing roof that I'm definitely looking into putting something on, government program or no.
 
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