pension cheque $ 1500 this is 1000 for old age & 500 for cpp. and 50 from gordy gives a grand total of $ 1550 times .70% = $ 1085 for essentials leaves 465 for phone, transportation and extras like the pharmacy bill, a used pair of shoes,mend the socks and underwear, will need to get the still going, can't afford a nip to keep the bugs and cold away. Boy I sure will vote for these guys as the body bags for afghanistan, winter games, convention centers & politician's gold plated pensions are more important than us old folks having to save up for new store teeth.Gordy how about a little more cash for us old people then we wouldn't have to cut in on your liquor monopoly?

"Body bags for Afghanistan, winter games, convention centres, and gold-plated pensions for politicians", and many other such like perversions, all have a greater purpose than what meets the eye.

They are all additions to the National or Provincial Debt that distribute incomes in the PRESENT. Without adding to ANYTHING in the way of goods and services "on the market" as CONSUMABLES in that same PRESENT for those same incomes to be spent on.

That's their real beauty to those who control our money. They're just like having a "good war." They allow consumer goods and services ALREADY "on the market" to be more fully consumed, and the necessary profit level for the businesses making and selling them to be maintained, (since, in accounting, it's from those 'profits' the principal portion of bank loans will be amortized as its repayments come due.)

Without such perversions, or the equally perverted supposed need for ever more "exports" and a "favourable" (to the Bankers!) balance of trade, overall incomes paid out as wages, salaries, and dividends are consistently collectively insufficient to liquidate overall costs being impreesed into prices of all the CONSUMER goods and services we need or desire at the point of final retail sale. The overall level of business profit falls, and Bank loans can not only NOT be fully amortized, but the Banks further restrict the writing of any new loans. Making the situation worse.

The irony in such a ridiculous situation is that what's foolishly spent on killing people on both sides of a war that'll likely solve no more than any other war has solved long term, on 2010's winter games, and convention centres, and retiring the likes of Gordo to mai-tai heaven on Maui, COULD, with a correction to the accounting, just as easily be spent on senior's housing WITHOUT taking a dime off any one of them in their "golden years'.

BINGO on the last paragraph socredible ...

It is called priorities and it seems that someone has decided that it is better to wear a military uniform and get some target practice on foreign soil rather than for those same people to wear a homecare uniform and look after our own in our own country.

Congratulations to Quesnel for such a nice facility.
Well done! Keep up the good work.
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