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[TOM4CWB]

Parsley, if logic or common sense was behind the present system... you would allready have your answers... Japan set up in Korea... then Indonesia... now India.

Japan does not like China... the EU/US and Arabs are behind much of their development.

I would have done what Obama did with GM... too much culture wrapped up in GM for it to be wound up. PM Harper did it right too. Money is supposed to serve people... not people serve money!

[cottonpicken]

The problem is there is no solution.

[per]

Kato do you think that this is a targeted turn of events? Squeaky wheel gets the grease kind of thing? I would hope not but it wouldn't be hard to believe and it would be fun if you could prove it.

[kato]

It's crossed my mind..... I'm trying to resist paranoia though. That's a slippery slope to go down, and I would hope we live in a country that's better than that.

[workboots]

Inflation of the usd currency

There’s your debt solution.

There’s your global trade imbalance
solution.

Only problem is you’d be stuck with Lots of pissed off yank’s with a devalued currency.. therefore it would have to be a slow transition over a decade or two so people could evolve into a different lifestyle. Ah the psychological effects of time. The US commodity producer would have a nice hedge against this inflation and a new world with a more favorable currency exchange to buy up these goods.

Corporate America, you know.. the ones that runs this world, they dont give a shit about Americans. They care about the only thing that keeps the fat corporganism alive. $Money$
The world is flat, money can be made globally and the United States won’t be the best or only place to rake in the nice margin.

think of how many more big mac's that mcdonalds could sell to china...

But of course there are lots of arguments against this theory like any.

[TOM4CWB]

C.P.;

The world today vs. 500; then 200 years ago... zeros have simply been added... inflation of currency occured/s... the system keeps going... as long as folks decide to continue to use it.

Is there a better alternative?

Not one we know of!

[grassfarmer]

I can say with a fair degree of confidence that the guys implementing these programs in AB follow the posts on Agriville relating to AFSC/CAIS/agstability. That became apparent to me during a phone call I made to them after posting a rant on here about poor service/useless programs.
'nuff said.

[kato]

Perhaps they should be reading them.

It's a good way to find out what the regular "farmer on the street" is dealing with. The best truths are overheard in the coffee shop, where real people say what they really think. It's also a good way to hear the opinions of people who are not representing organizations that are afraid to step on a toe for fear they will be shut out.

Maybe it could possibly lead to someone in charge taking charge and implementing some constructive improvements.

Anybody out there listening??????

It's time to make better use of resources than digging in the archives. If the programs were set up correctly, the only mistakes that would be made would be the odd entry typo. It's time to set up programs that do not need years of review to make sure they've been applied correctly. I wonder how much it cost to find the $600 we apparently owe from a program that we never did figure out how it worked ourselves. I bet it was more than $600.

[parsley]

New Zealand got to the point where no one would loan them money some few decades ago.

So they sat back and priortized what was important, reduced wages, changed governments. They cut back. Balanced books. Traded goods and services. A Union's value of exacting bloated pensions and super wages became of no value. There was no money. Citizens had to haul out some of their own garbage. Self-appointed government aristocracy transformed into ordinary citizens working FOR ordinary citizens.

The most important part of rebuilding was the change in mindset.

In North America today, the public service exacts proportionately way more money in wages, than the private sector. Unions demanding all the pensions and wages, and job-position creations are making the workforce economically unviable.

Case in point in Saskatchewan is the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, (and rural taxpayers'money) The creation of Assistants to the Assistants to the School Superintendent positions is embarrassingly comic. Each positions could be eliminated today, without any ill effect on the quality of education to children.

What has that got to do with marketing on AV?

Every government union employee shuffling into an elevator, or weighing CWB wheat at port in Vancouver, is overpaid, gets way too many benefits, gets too much pension, and is a liability farmers cannot afford.

Canada keeps borrowing money to maintain a lifestyle we cannot afford. And interest rates will rise. And farmers pick up too much of the cost.

And marketing costs are unsustainable because they become greater than the value of the raw product.

Pars

[TOM4CWB]

Pars;

You totally missed the point.

THe US/EU set the rules... and play the game. Everyone else follows.

That should be self evident. You may not like my answer... that does not change reality!