Canada : 8.9 Billion Surplus

[SL|M!]

WTF is going on?! Since when did we become so fkn rich?! Kiss those days of 1.5 dollar exchange goodbye

[lloyd]

we need to spend it on buying US dollars to drive up their dollar a liittle..

[Wiggles]

i think its just cause the USD sucks balls right now, makes everyone else look good.

[Spunky]

Well they should put some of that in our shitty heathcare system

[Veterans Day]

Originally posted by spunky
Well they should put some of that in our shitty heathcare system

I thought it was free and the next best thing to sliced bread?

[Pipecrew]

Originally posted by Veterans Day
I thought it was free and the next best thing to sliced bread?

It is, he justs posts to, well, basically post.

[Jay_StandAhead]

Originally posted by SL|M!
WTF is going on?! Since when did we become so fkn rich?! Kiss those days of 1.5 dollar exchange goodbye

we became rich 7 years ago glad you finally found out about it!

[Spunky]

Originally posted by Veterans Day
I thought it was free and the next best thing to sliced bread?

Not at all..longer waiting lists and people actually die waiting for surgery.Trouble is everybody abuses it..going in for the sniffles fucks it up and creates longer back ups.We also have the doctors and nurses leaving to go to the states which creates even more problems.

[SL|M!]

Originally posted by Jay[neX]
we became rich 7 years ago glad you finally found out about it!

I just got the Internets this year

[Thumbking]

Originally posted by spunky
Not at all..longer waiting lists and people actually die waiting for surgery.Trouble is everybody abuses it..going in for the sniffles fucks it up and creates longer back ups.We also have the doctors and nurses leaving to go to the states which creates even more problems.

so true, we have people that go in to the emergency for headaches/sliver's/eye irratation/hang nails etc... etc..

when its free you get hypocondriacts going in for everything.

[Drake]

Originally posted by spunky
Not at all..longer waiting lists and people actually die waiting for surgery.Trouble is everybody abuses it..going in for the sniffles fucks it up and creates longer back ups.We also have the doctors and nurses leaving to go to the states which creates even more problems.

It's also politics. Doctors pretending to be too busy. They want more pay and no salary caps. When they don't get their way with the government, they're too busy to see you. As the patient, you suffer because you are the pon.

[Drake]

Originally posted by Mike33
It's also politics. Doctors pretending to be too busy. They want more pay and no salary caps. When they don't get their way with the government, they're too busy to see you. As the patient, you suffer because you are the pon.

It's like the teachers always pretending they want the best for the kids they teach when all that they're really after is keeping their 2 months off work and high pay.

[SL|M!]

Originally posted by Thumbking
so true, we have people that go in to the emergency for headaches/sliver's/eye irratation/hang nails etc... etc..

when its free you get hypocondriacts going in for everything.

ya that sucks, I hate those people. Despite all that crap, its still better than having no health care system

[Spunky]

Originally posted by Mike33
It's also politics. Doctors pretending to be too busy. They want more pay and no salary caps. When they don't get their way with the government, they're too busy to see you. As the patient, you suffer because you are the pon.

Well it could be but when you see the waiting room packed and have to wait an hour to see him for 5 minutes tells me something is fucked up

[Drake]

Originally posted by spunky
Well it could be but when you see the waiting room packed and have to wait an hour to see him for 5 minutes tells me something is fucked up

I hear ya. Sometimes it really is a problem depending on where you live.

[Rankings]

Originally posted by Mike33
It's like the teachers always pretending they want the best for the kids they teach when all that they're really after is keeping their 2 months off work and high pay.

I don't know where you got the idea that teachers got paid well, but it's entirely wrong.

[Drake]

Originally posted by input
I don't know where you got the idea that teachers got paid well, but it's entirely wrong.

I'm not sure where you live, they get paid very well where I live. And any job that allows you to have 2 months off work is pretty good IMO.

[Rankings]

Originally posted by Mike33
I'm not sure where you live, they get paid very well where I live. And any job that allows you to have 2 months off work is pretty good IMO.

I live in South Carolina, USA. And around here teachers don't get paid shit. They start at a salary of around $22,000 a year and get very minimal salary increases. My mother in law has been teaching school for 15 years and she still makes less than $30,000 a year.
At the school where she teaches they go year round, so she she gets off like 2 weeks every couple months rather than 2 consecutive months in a row.

[Drake]

Originally posted by input
I live in South Carolina, USA. And around here teachers don't get paid shit. They start at a salary of around $22,000 a year and get very minimal salary increases. My mother in law has been teaching school for 15 years and she still makes less than $30,000 a year.
At the school where she teaches they go year round, so she she gets off like 2 weeks every couple months rather than 2 consecutive months in a row.

Yeah that's terrible. I guess it's different everywhere. Teachers should get decent pay as their job is absolutely necessary. Like all of us even the high paying ones get greedy sometimes.

[SL|M!]

Originally posted by Mike33
I'm not sure where you live, they get paid very well where I live. And any job that allows you to have 2 months off work is pretty good IMO.

They got all that extra shit to do after school hours though

[Nysus]

Originally posted by spunky
Not at all..longer waiting lists and people actually die waiting for surgery.Trouble is everybody abuses it..going in for the sniffles fucks it up and creates longer back ups.We also have the doctors and nurses leaving to go to the states which creates even more problems.

And there are nurses and family doctors in the system that SHOULDN"T be in the system and cause further problems, and expenses.

Matt

[Huggles]

Originally posted by Thumbking
so true, we have people that go in to the emergency for headaches/sliver's/eye irratation/hang nails etc... etc..

when its free you get hypocondriacts going in for everything.

I go in for Migraines, it's not like a normal headache

[directfiesta]

Originally posted by Mike33
I'm not sure where you live, they get paid very well where I live. And any job that allows you to have 2 months off work is pretty good IMO.

Aside from a week here , a week there .

My sister was a teacher , and now at 55 she has a very substantial retirement ...

Now, they do deserve it .

[Nysus]

Originally posted by directfiesta
Aside from a week here , a week there .

My sister was a teacher , and now at 55 she has a very substantial retirement ...

Now, they do deserve it .

Some teachers are shit. The great ones definitely deserve it, the shitty ones should have been weeded out early on, though they still haven't figured out a good system to do that.

Matt

[Dugmor]

Time to move to a third world country !

[MetaMan]

no problem, why does it say Canada? it should just say Alberta.

last time i checked not all the provinces help,

whats that i hear? nothing.

[Jay_StandAhead]

Originally posted by MetaMan
no problem, why does it say Canada? it should just say Alberta.

last time i checked not all the provinces help,

whats that i hear? nothing.

you're right, only Alberta pays taxes.

[MetaMan]

Originally posted by Jay[neX]
you're right, only Alberta pays taxes.

ya we do, last time i checked the fisherman arent bringing in the countries hall.

[Rich]

Originally posted by Mike33
high pay

lol

[Theo]

with guys like quiet paying taxes there it's easy

[smack]

budget surplus eh? what's that like?

[BoNgHiTtA]

U can borrow our Bush, he will clear up those surpluses real quick.

[BoNgHiTtA]

Hey you know I actually had an idea. Why doesn't Canada buy an army instead of leaning on us?

[nofx]

Originally posted by smack
budget surplus eh? what's that like?

rofl exactly. we have a 500 hundred billion dollar DEFICIT

[sacX]

Originally posted by Mike33
It's also politics. Doctors pretending to be too busy. They want more pay and no salary caps. When they don't get their way with the government, they're too busy to see you. As the patient, you suffer because you are the pon.

Perhaps they really are too busy? *shrug*

Where I live, New Zealand (which is also mostly socialised medicine), doctors don't want more money they want to be able to work less hours.

[xclusive]

Well teachers cant' really be fired even if they are bad because of the freaking unions and it brings out whole educational system down. As far as canada having a surplus good for them if a country is run right things will always work out well but if not you get what is happening in the US under Bush...

[BRISK]

Originally posted by input
I live in South Carolina, USA. And around here teachers don't get paid shit. They start at a salary of around $22,000 a year and get very minimal salary increases. My mother in law has been teaching school for 15 years and she still makes less than $30,000 a year.
At the school where she teaches they go year round, so she she gets off like 2 weeks every couple months rather than 2 consecutive months in a row.

Damn that sucks

[SL|M!]

Originally posted by BoNgHiTtA
Hey you know I actually had an idea. Why doesn't Canada buy an army instead of leaning on us?

We have peacekeepers

[Rinaldo]

a surplus doesn't mean shit... the US owes itself a couple billion and it doesn't mean shit

so you know you could have 100 billion in surplus and you won't see anything happen that'll change your life in a postive way. Welcome to Politics...

You are a Country with 30million people and a per capita of 18k... you call that wealthy? I guess compared to the rest of the world you are. but you still have a bunch of Countries ahead of you

[Rich]

Originally posted by Platinum Rinaldo
a surplus doesn't mean shit... the US owes itself a couple billion and it doesn't mean shit

so you know you could have 100 billion in surplus and you won't see anything happen that'll change your life in a postive way. Welcome to Politics...

You are a Country with 30million people and a per capita of 18k... you call that wealthy? I guess compared to the rest of the world you are. but you still have a bunch of Countries ahead of you

Actually the USA owes other countries over 7 TRILLION and it means a hell of a lot. They don't make it sound like it means a lot on TV, but talk to an economist, it could become a massive problem. Every American is in dept $20,000 the day he's born. Just because they ignore it on mainstream news, doesn't mean it's not a crisis waiting to happen. They have much more important things to talk about on CNN, like Scott Perterson. Canada also has a debt, but now we're making surplusses and hopefully we'll pay it off.

[Mack]

Originally posted by spunky
Well it could be but when you see the waiting room packed and have to wait an hour to see him for 5 minutes tells me something is fucked up

wait and hour??? You have NO idea, if you don't go in the middle of the night, or an ambulance didn't bring you in. You will be waiting in an American ER far longer than an hour.

[webmaster x]

Originally posted by lloyd
we need to spend it on buying US dollars to drive up their dollar a liittle..

good idea.

[Rich]

Originally posted by webmaster x
good idea.

Worked for China

[VeriSexy]

Originally posted by BoNgHiTtA
Hey you know I actually had an idea. Why doesn't Canada buy an army instead of leaning on us?

Cause armies are expensive and when was the last time Canada declared war on anyone? If Canada had Bush he would spend $100 Billion on the army and you would never see a surplus for a long time

[VeriSexy]

Originally posted by Rich
Worked for China

Buying Bonds have nothing to the with the Yuan, China pegs its yuan at 8.3 to the dollar, which analysts say makes its products
about 30 percent cheaper in the US market

[VeriSexy]

"Some of China's growth has come at the expense of U.S. manufacturers, companies included Nucor Corp. have said. They blame the Chinese yuan's peg to the dollar for giving its exporters an unfair advantage. China pegs the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar. "



http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...X5s&refer=asia

[webmaster x]

Originally posted by Dugmor
Time to move to a third world country !

hhmm.. now that you said. it gave me an idea.

[sacX]

Originally posted by Platinum Rinaldo
a surplus doesn't mean shit... the US owes itself a couple billion and it doesn't mean shit

so you know you could have 100 billion in surplus and you won't see anything happen that'll change your life in a postive way. Welcome to Politics...

You are a Country with 30million people and a per capita of 18k... you call that wealthy? I guess compared to the rest of the world you are. but you still have a bunch of Countries ahead of you

Canda's per capita GDP is closer to 30k than 18.. United States is 37k, then consider the USD is worth a lot less now than last year and they're pretty close.

[sacX]

Originally posted by VeriSexy
Buying Bonds have nothing to the with the Yuan, China pegs its yuan at 8.3 to the dollar, which analysts say makes its products
about 30 percent cheaper in the US market

Buying bonds has EVERYTHING to do with the Yuan. How do you think they peg it to 8.3? it's by buying USD bonds and selling Yuan.

[Rich]

Originally posted by VeriSexy
Buying Bonds have nothing to the with the Yuan, China pegs its yuan at 8.3 to the dollar, which analysts say makes its products
about 30 percent cheaper in the US market

Yes I know, Wallmart analysts. In reality it's the reason America's trade deficit with China is so massive.