Aaaannnddd… let the union bashing begin. The whining and complaining about union wages, the poor taxpayer being taxed beyond their means.

Yet all the while, our provincial and federal governments hand out huge subsidies and tax breaks to multi-national oil, gas, mining, and every other kind of corporate interests, we can possibly imagine.

Poor companies, like Enbridge and TransCanada, need that corporate welfare, to suckle on the taxpayer’s teat. Yup, the Millionaire CEO’s really need that break!

Why not a 10 year deal like they want to give the teachers?

Say people#1 you missed IPP’s.

Annnnd… where’s People#1 with his usual “Unions Good / Corporations Bad!” banter?

Oops… I was too late.

I worked for two big good corporations and I always belonged to a union. I was never envious of any profits they made, in fact I was glad that they made a profit or they might have gone out of business and I would have been out of a job and the union would have been out of business too.

Just saying.

Too many examples of large profitable corporations, cutting expenses by laying off Canadian and BC workers and hiring temporary foreign workers. To add insult to injury, in some cases making those workers who were going to be laid off to train the new temporary foreign workers, who were set to replace them!

Too many examples of corporations and companies like Glacier Media, laying off Canadian and BC workers, to outsource those jobs to India and the Philippines!

Just saying.

I suppose you heard that the Chrysler (actually Fiat) corporation is demanding 700 million bucks in federal and provincial money to modernize its Canadian manufacturing facilities? If it does not get the money it threatens to close and move elsewhere. Apparently unions are pushing the governments to cough up the dough!

So, now what?

Some people on this forum are so negative, critical and sarcastic all the time, it really makes me wonder what their lives are really like!

The truth is not always positive and pretty! However, you are right about the sarcasm! It is completely uncalled for!

I come here to read the latest news! Some comments are worthwhile, some are not.

That’s life. From some comments I even learn something. I don’t allow the useless ones to have any influence on my life!

Wow.. so I describe the negative, and despicable, actions of corporations and you interpret that as my comments being negative, critical and sarcastic Give more?

Thanks for the catch 22; we can no longer point all the unethical, despicable, and immoral things these corporations are doing in the interests of even greater profits, because it sounds negative and critical??? Well guess what Give me, what they are doing is negative, immoral, unethical and disgusting!!!

@ Prince George;

Suppose you heard about Electro Motive Diesel taking a $5 Million dollar subsidy from the Harper Government, only to close it’s plant one year later, and move it to the USA, where the workers get half the wages. Take the money and run…

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/the-5-million-electro-motive-subsidy-that-wasnt/article545237/

sounds like some people have guilty conciouses and attack before the truth sayer gets his chance to comment. Either way, people have a right to their opinion. Sometimes their opinion is wrong sometimes it is right. I learn lots just reading and listening and don’t know any of you. I thank 250 NEWS for that opportunity! They are 10 times better than the citizen where half of the news reports are so wrong and misinformative to the public. Also if the commenters say something they don’t like politically they are banned from the site for comments. Look at the hundreds banned because they all dislike Mayor Green. We should be so lucky to have a forum fair and unbiased like this one. Don’t fight amongst yourselves. Respect each other. You all have a right to your opinion. I thank you.

That is a very reasonable collective agreement, I think. If the PG City’s unionized employees had agreed to something like that in the first place, there would not have been all this infighting.

Hey, I think I am the first one to actually comment on the article rather than preempting it with all sort of diatribe.

Oh … btw “Give more: or less …. I learned a long time ago to not question what others do with their spare or sparse time. That is their business, not yours unless you are a busy body.

Besides, don’t you have better things to do with your time than to comment on other people’s activities or inactivities?

BTW, what is positive or negative is a matter of perspective. What is negative to one person is positive to another.

I enjoy Ambrose Bierce’s writings, especially hid Devil’s Dictionary from which comes this definition:

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.”

additional definitions especially applicable to blogs such as 250NEWS

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”

“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.”

“Self-evident, adj. Evident to one’s self and to nobody else.”

“TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.”

“POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

So people#1 you are against profits is that right? Also are you saying only corporations are unethical and greedy?

People#1, time to come clean: Are you in favour of giving Canada Chrysler/Fiat the 700 million dollars of tax payers’ money that it is demanding?

Yes or No?

No side stepping the issue by quoting some other incidents of misuse of tax dollars.

(Remember, blue and white collar jobs are at risk of being lost).

Ahh, yes a nice ethical situation where a corporation is attempting to “extort” nearly a billion dollars of our tax money, and if we don’t give it to them, they threaten to leave.

Well folks there you have it, more unethical, immoral behavior from multi- national corporations!

I can’t believe some people on here put these “things” on a pedestal and worship them.

People#1 Is it safe to say that you’ve never worked for a business that made a profit? Seems strange to me. I personally would rather put in my hours and make money for the business. Honesty is good policy. Great customer service benefits not just your paycheck but the bottom line.

Posted by: commoner on February 18 2014 8:56 AM
People#1 Is it safe to say that you’ve never worked for a business that made a profit?

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I get the impression she’s never worked; she’s of that generation that feels that society owes them a living.

However, it’s refreshing to have someone around here who’s not in denial about climate change.

People#1 would not answer my question.

He/she still has not and perhaps never will. I gather that he/she is against giving Fiat (Chrysler) the money it demands for assisting in the modernization of its Canadian manufacturing. Even though the workers themselves are asking both governments to do the right thing and save their jobs!

Today’s vehicle makers are very, very mobile.

The Chinese would love to get an empty manufacturing plant for 10 cents on the dollar.

The question is simple: Yes or No.