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xposbrad said:
Whoever said the provincial alberta NDP have high approval ratings, please check again. No details on their budget, no plans on debt repayment on the loan or what it will be used for ( the 6b they requested). Oh, and higher corporate taxes. Alberta couldn't have picked a worse time to elect such an incompetent party to run the province while oil prices are depressed.

http://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/poll-shows-honeymoon-over-for-ndp-notley-2


Oh and companies really love her min wage hike lol. I guess there is a price to pay for socialism, but the NDP will get smoked next election because with commodity prices tanking, and the NDP thinking it's a good idea to raise taxes, those usually don't go well together for a resource driven economy.
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Really, the most significant number to me is the approval for Premier Notley having dropped quite a bit,” Maggi said. “But in context of where the approval numbers are for all the other provincial leaders, it’s a very solid, solid number.”
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Very good numbers compared to most other provinces.

The time to make unpopular policy changes are in the first year in hopes that nobody remembers in year 4 reelection year.

I think the liberal premier did the same in Quebec.
 
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XPOFAN said:
Alexander Panetta ‏
In the midst of debate over Mexican immigration, a Fox News host proposes also building a 5,000-mile wall w/ Canada:
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I can't wait until they kick out all the illegals and the price of fruit and vegetables goes through the roof because no Americans will pick the stuff for the same money the Mexicans did. Prices at Vegas hotels will likely double as well as no American could handle the rigors of hotel housekeeping on a daily basis.
 
Lotusland said:
I can't wait until they kick out all the illegals and the price of fruit and vegetables goes through the roof because no Americans will pick the stuff for the same money the Mexicans did. Prices at Vegas hotels will likely double as well as no American could handle the rigors of hotel housekeeping on a daily basis.
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Oh yeah.

A buddy of mine works in the Okanagan valley every summer and says the hardest working people there are always the Mexicans. There's always a lot of Quebécois that go there, but they work at their own rhythm to make a little bit of money while getting drunk and/or high the rest of the day, but the hardest working people are always the Mexicans.
 
For sure, Mexicans are super hard workers around here, often working 2-3 jobs, and they're pretty much in every kitchen of every restaurants.

Doesn't change the fact that they are illegally in the US though.
 
Lotusland said:
I can't wait until they kick out all the illegals and the price of fruit and vegetables goes through the roof because no Americans will pick the stuff for the same money the Mexicans did. Prices at Vegas hotels will likely double as well as no American could handle the rigors of hotel housekeeping on a daily basis.
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and who is going to hand out those nice cards on the strip?
 
GrandWazoo said:
For sure, Mexicans are super hard workers around here, often working 2-3 jobs, and they're pretty much in every kitchen of every restaurants.

Doesn't change the fact that they are illegally in the US though.
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I was in Seattle last weekend, (damn your hotel taxes are major rip offs, occupancy tax, state tax, tourism assessment etc, added about 100 to my bill (had two rooms, one for Contessa and me, and the other for Count Jr and Count's Mother) but I digress). I was shocked at how many Mexicans are now in Seattle, used to be the Mexicans stopped at San Francisco ;)

No wonder the Cowboys have so many fans in Seattle!
 
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TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I was in Seattle last weekend, (damn your hotel taxes are major rip offs, occupancy tax, state tax, tourism assessment etc, added about 100 to my bill (had two rooms, one for Contessa and me, and the other for Count Jr and Count's Mother) but I digress). I was shocked at how many Mexicans are now in Seattle, used to be the Mexicans stopped at San Francisco ;)

No wonder the Cowboys have so many fans in Seattle!
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Haha, I have two good friends from Texas and boy do they hate Mexicans.
 
GGpX said:
Oh yeah.

A buddy of mine works in the Okanagan valley every summer and says the hardest working people there are always the Mexicans. There's always a lot of Quebécois that go there, but they work at their own rhythm to make a little bit of money while getting drunk and/or high the rest of the day, but the hardest working people are always the Mexicans.
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Even if you paid Americans double the Mexicans many still could not handle the day to day grind of doing that job and they would never meet the quota limits the Mexicans do. There is a reason why Nike has Bangladesh kiddies building their runners and it is not just all about cost.

I can't wait to see how Donald Trump is going to bring those jobs back to America.
 
Lotusland said:
I can't wait until they kick out all the illegals and the price of fruit and vegetables goes through the roof because no Americans will pick the stuff for the same money the Mexicans did. Prices at Vegas hotels will likely double as well as no American could handle the rigors of hotel housekeeping on a daily basis.
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More importantly, the U.S. economy will instantaneously come to a halt - produce, hospitality, landscaping, on & on it goes.
 
Lotusland said:
I can't wait until they kick out all the illegals and the price of fruit and vegetables goes through the roof because no Americans will pick the stuff for the same money the Mexicans did. Prices at Vegas hotels will likely double as well as no American could handle the rigors of hotel housekeeping on a daily basis.
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First they'd have to find them. It's not going to happen.
 
The immigration issue is largely symbolic for most Hispanics in the U.S. Most are actually conservative and would vote GOP if they toned down their rhetoric, which is exactly what happened when W won the Hispanic vote in 2000 and 2004. Having said that, allowing illegal immigration because Mexicans do work that Americans don't want to do is not a good reason to allow it/not do much to try and stop it.
 
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