Are people just getting too selfish and Greedy?
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Who does? It doesn't make sense to go into free trade with an economy and system supposedly on the brink while ours isn't exactly as good as it may look.
Where? Cash used to talk but now - it's been a long long time since I've seen anyone care. They pay large fees for using the debit/credit cards. Just another place where banks are hard on the economy because those charges are built into our purchases. Most of us assume that when we hand over our debit card, the money instantly comes out of our account. I'm not sure how it works but I do know that in my last job in the Okanagan, due to high debit charges (Moneris in this case), I only sent the charges in once a week. They must have a way of putting a hold on the funds via the record of scanning the card. It saved them money but at the same time, they had to wait for payments to actually be in their hands.
Technology is great! Bet all of you who own Blackberry's are not thinking that right now. Their problems have now hit Canada and everyone's BB is going down. They have no idea when the issue will be repaired because of the backlog of data.
Piss off and kiss off. My heart is broken. How come Mormons could not have set up anything as strong as the Catholic bank?
Debit charges come out of your account immediately and C.C. charges are held against your account immediately.
VanIsle Technology is great! Bet all of you who own Blackberry's are not thinking that right now. Their problems have now hit Canada and everyone's BB is going down. They have no idea when the issue will be repaired because of the backlog of data.[/QUOTE said:
Canada Pension is not covered by what you paid in. Taxpayers make up the difference. Are you going to get off the government tit or are you too selfish to give up your goodies?
We could take the money from the seniors (you know...the richest generation in the history of Canada and the one that artificially raised its own standard of living with deficit financing and then sticking their children and their children's children with the bills) and spread it around
That may be true where you are, but here in my daughters' schools, 80% of the teachers are involved in clubs or teams. The woman who coaches middle school soccer does it 4 days a week for 10 weeks (2x per week for the boys, 2x per week for the girls), that's from 3:30 to 6pm. After that season ends, she does other stuff. The faculty guy who looks after the girls' high school hockey team works with them 2 or 3 days a week, until 6 or 6:30 pm.
There's hockey, basketball, volleyball, badminton, soccer, field hockey, cheerleading, chess, band, choir, etc etc etc...and every one of them needs one faculty member involved. The cheerleading is every Sunday for 4 hours, all year long. I'd never claim teachers didn't work after school hours.
As others have said, the teachers are paid based on 200 or so days per year; around here, if they wish, the pay is then prorated over the whole year, so they have money coming in during the summer. They start back in school the second last week of August, two weeks before the kids come back in.
Poor hard done by government workers expected to show up every day just to get their supersized paycheque and pension that everyone knows is their god given right to have.
F**K off, I didn't set the premiums for Canada Pension, but I would imagine to ease your own conscience, you are volunteering extra payments so when you retire (if someone hasn't killed you first) you won't be a drag on the public tit! Besides, do you have a statement of my contribution or are you just blowing smoke out your arse?
It is fairly funny to see someone with an indexed pension, complaining about workers striking for pay increases.
What has one got to do with the other? Was there talk of deindexing their pensions?
Everyone should be allowed to ask for a raise. I think that would be covered in "freedom of speech".
Sorry I don't really have the answer to that. I only know what doesn't work. I think every job should be evaluated by a panel according to the attributes of the job- education required, skills required, environmental conditions, degree of responsibility, amount of concentration required, hazards encountered, labour intensity, etc. etc. and each attribute indexed and totalled to set a factor (to be reviewed periodically as conditions change) So if a brain surgeon comes out at .99, a plumber at .86, an oil rig charge hand at .83, a carpenter at .77 then those are the numbers used in the formula. I think this would avoid a lot of job action and squabbling.
That's the Soviet system Comrade JLM. Next your say we'll all get free rubber boots and a dacha with summer off?