Yeah well, that depends on what Christy is gonna do.

She's gonna dance to the tunes of Finance. Same as her predecessor did. Same as the NDP's new leader will do. In return, they'll all be well looked after. They're all masters of "double-speak", or they wouldn't be where they are.

When they talk about a "...a knowledge-based economy that can compete and succeed on a global scale", what they really mean is an "...ignorance-based economy."

One that delivers 'more', in real wealth, (to everyone other than its own citizens), and continually gets 'less', in money, for it. And pretends it's making everyone richer in the process.

But reach in your wallet, or look in your bank account. Does the money in it BUY you 'more' in terms of actual goods and services you need or desire NOW than it did ten years ago? Or 'less'?

"By the time you SEE the bandwagon, it's already too late."

"But reach in your wallet, or look in your bank account. Does the money in it BUY you 'more' in terms of actual goods and services you need or desire NOW than it did ten years ago? Or 'less'?"

That depends on what you buy.

Energy ... likely less.

Entertainment .. likely more .. but it feels like less because we need to be entertained by others more and more.

Were the ancient citizens of Rome able to buy more with the compensation they received for an hour of work they put in to receive a denarius or more as opposed to us for the 10 bucks or more?

What is more? More rice? More chariots? More cars? More TV's. More nubile dancers?

They earned money; they paid for stuff and services the same as we do. Define more. Define improvement.

I think your perpetual argument is a bit exotic. We work, we eat, we rest, we play. We do so in the times we live in and the society we live in. Some people are better off than others, some are worse off.

Some, like Sheen, simply cannot cope, because they have so little ... ;-)

I am starting to like the new phrase that is going around.

"It is what it is."

Perhaps we can expand on that.

"It was what it was."

"It will be what it will be."

People today are such profound thinkers .... LOL

Quote:

“Our province’s economic future is going to be driven, in large part, by our natural resources and resource communities,” said D’Avignon. “By 2020, Asia is projected to account for half of global economic production. British Columbia has made important investments in infrastructure to get commodities and goods to market ..."

Oh man, what a chilling outlook. The portal through which all this traffic will rush is the Campbell-built Monster Ministry of Natural Resource Operations ... which effectively altered the regulatory authorities and procedures under several existing pieces of legislation.

The one-stop shop for permits to snap up more of British Columbia ...

I think the following article sums it up better than most others I've read lately... a history lesson of sorts.

This Time We're Taking The Whole Planet With Us

[url]http://rense.com/general93/thistime.htm['url]

Sums up my thoughts on the future BCBC wishes to sell to us. They are selling us a corporate globalism that will enslave the middle class and take us all down with them... BC Business Council in step killing the sustainable free enterprise equal opportunity economy that built our countries wealth that they now see as something to be harvested for profits through monopoly capitalism today... for the select few at the expense of everything the greatest generation left behind for us.