Recession Hits Close to Home....

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Good Day to All,

As Harpo prepares to present his platform, albeit too late, I have seen the following occur in the past week.

-- best restaurant in town has closed
-- Legion went on restricted hours with volunteers
-- only convenience store went on restricted hours
-- one bar closed the other on restricted hours

So it begins.....contrary to the safeguards that are supposedly in place to prevent these happenings.

Have others noticed the same where they live?

 

[hermanntrude]

nothing like that here. we're a province that "has"

 

[tracy]

Ha, come to the US. I was in Denver last weekend and the stores were nearly empty on a saturday afternoon. I notice a lot less people in restaurants too.

 

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....in addition I was speaking to my landlord (a councilman at large in the tri-county area that I live in) and he told me that the Home Hardware sales were down 37% and Canadian Tire down 28% for the month of September. As a result of this, these franchise stores are to become company sores as of November 1st....

....Tim Hortons which just recently completed a new restaurant across from their old one has suffered lagging sales....

....cash back is also being affected...

But the liquor and beer stores sales are up.

 

[TenPenny]

Haven't seen anything like that yet in NB, either. Still going full speed ahead here, except the local brewery is laying off 50 people due to the US slowdown/recession/depression.

 

[Colpy]

Good Day to All,

As Harpo prepares to present his platform, albeit too late, I have seen the following occur in the past week.

-- best restaurant in town has closed
-- Legion went on restricted hours with volunteers
-- only convenience store went on restricted hours
-- one bar closed the other on restricted hours

So it begins.....contrary to the safeguards that are supposedly in place to prevent these happenings.

Have others noticed the same where they live?

So, explain four simple things to me......

1. How the global economic disaster is Harper's fault.

2. How a new tax on everything, and 12 billion bucks a year of new spending will help. (the Liberals)

3. How driving big companies out of the country with tax clawbacks, and 10 billion bucks a year of new spending will help. (the NDP)

4. How 22 billion dollars a year of new spending will help. (the Greens)

Harper is still the best choice, by far.

 

[darkbeaver]

So, explain four simple things to me......

1. How the global economic disaster is Harper's fault.

2. How a new tax on everything, and 12 billion bucks a year of new spending will help. (the Liberals)

3. How driving big companies out of the country with tax clawbacks, and 10 billion bucks a year of new spending will help. (the NDP)

4. How 22 billion dollars a year of new spending will help. (the Greens)

Harper is still the best choice, by far.

Harper fully supports the neo-liberal economic Washington consensus.
Liberal spending will help nothing (wrong areas)
Big companys are underpayers and underemployers, 10 billion made available to small community based initiatives would greatly increase productivity in small manufactories of things presently offshored.
Any money spent wisely to recapture production from forign manufactures would help Canada.
Harper promotes the hidden neo-con agenda, barely a week ago he stated catagorically that the Canadian economy was fundementally sound. The mans a liar or an idiot or a lying idiot, there's the possible choices, he's not Canadian.

 

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So, explain four simple things to me......

1. How the global economic disaster is Harper's fault.

2. How a new tax on everything, and 12 billion bucks a year of new spending will help. (the Liberals)

3. How driving big companies out of the country with tax clawbacks, and 10 billion bucks a year of new spending will help. (the NDP)

4. How 22 billion dollars a year of new spending will help. (the Greens)

Harper is still the best choice, by far.

In an economic downturn it is the responsibility of the government to pay close attention. The head, until this election was called, of that government was Harper. I did not say the global problem was his to assume.
I am concerned with Canada and my little corner of it. IMO I do not think Harper cares. As per the other parties at least they are putting up ideas to Canadians and not at the last minute.

Maintaining a surplus is idealistic in government but not always maintainable.

I do not have all the answers, nor do you or the candidates, but doing something or proposing something is better than nothing at all.