Frontier Center and CWB elections

[GrainBeetle]

I Found the below attachment on the Winnipeg Free Press website, Saturday Nov 15 edition, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Rolf Penner who is running in Manitoba for a CWB Director position is a frontier policy fellow. It appears he too wants to turn Manitoba into Ireland. I imagine if he lived in Iceland, he would have been very proud of the deregulated banking system that country adopted several years ago. Look at them now.. complete disaster.

Even Steve Harper was bragging to George Bush this wknd that regulation saved the banks in Canada.



WFP Nov 15, 2008:

So much for private sector

In Celtic tiger caged (Nov. 12), columnist Tom Ford offers his mea culpa for having touted Ireland as a lodestone for industries anxious to take advantage of its "European Union membership, low taxes, and big corporate subsidies," but which became a tombstone recently "when Ireland became the first Eurozone country to officially enter recession."

The Frontier Centre has also been writing of Ireland's exemplary free-enterprise economy. Manitobans should remember that the next time a Frontier Centre "fellow" tells us we could be as rich as Ireland if we just sell Manitoba Hydro, dump medicare, scrap the Canadian Wheat Board and turn our economy over to a low-taxed and highly subsidized private sector.

HERB SCHULZ

Winnipeg

[cropduster]

Turn the lights on Herb!Reach around behind you using BOTH hands.........if you`re lucky you WILL find your ass!Grainbeetle will be there with paper!

[redbaron]

It might be worth noting who Mr. Schultz may be. There was a Herb Schultz who was the former special assistant to Premier Ed Schreyer (Manitoba) from 1971 to 1977. Might explain the view point.

[liberty]

And what of the semi-socialist European nations like France? They are likely to officially enter a recession very soon, despite the fact that both nations have a high degree of government ownership and regulation of the economy, along with unsustainable privileges for unionized workers.

What is noteworthy about France is that its unemployment rate has hovered around the 10 percent range for many years as a result of their government's penchant for central planning, in contrast to a much lower rate in Ireland.

About all you can say about the socialist workers' paradise of France is that when they enter a recession, no Frenchman is likely to notice since they've been in one for so long.

[Jay-mo]

We all know what happens if the CWB gets tossed......that's right, the beloved CBC is next!

[liberty]

A correction to my previous post:

And what of the semi-socialist European nations like France? They are likely to officially enter a recession very soon, despite the fact that France has a high degree of government ownership and regulation of the economy, along with unsustainable privileges for unionized workers.

[liberty]

Here's a quote from Bill Bonner of the Daily Reckoning regarding the supposed "deregulation" of the economy under George Bush:

"… 36% of GDP was spent by government…and more than half of all eligible voters depended for their livelihoods - in whole or part - on government checks

…federally-chartered mortgage lenders - Fannie and Freddie - helped stimulate a huge bubble in the housing market

…the US government's central bank - the Federal Reserve - led by Mr. Bush's appointee, Alan Greenspan, practically single-handedly caused a huge bubble in finance, credit, speculation and consumer spending

…when the bubble inevitably burst, Mr. Bush's own Treasury Secretary (recently one of the Wall Street bankers who had most benefited from the financial bubble) rushed in to use government money (aka taxpayers' money) to buy up Wall Street's mistakes…

…then, the feds partially nationalized the nations leading banks…

…and further lowered the cost of credit, in order to try to blow the bubble up again…

…and now, the United States, along with the world's other leading governments, is pledging to give the world what it least needs - more regulation!"

And the result of all this regulation and taxation, if allowed to proceed far enough, will be to turn a recession into a depression. I can't wait.

[RolfPenner]

Grainbeetle, for the record I resigned from my position at the Frontier Centre last December.

Also, my primary reason for running in the CWB director elections is that I would like it to be voluntary. My secondary purpose is to improve CWB performance. Accomplishing the first will lead to accomplishing the second.

I am not running in the CWB elections so as to try and privatize Manitoba Hydro, dump medicate, lower tax's, re-write banking regulations or turn Manitoba into Ireland (I'm not particularly fond of Guinness truth be told). I'm pretty sure all of those things are outside of the CWB's mandate. But then again like most farmers, I've never been allowed to look at the books.

I know things can get a little heated when we talk about the single desk but please don't put words in my mouth that did not come from me. I have said many things recently and in the past about the monopoly with regards to its performance and how it treats farmers property. You can find a lot of it at my CWB election blog

http://rolfpennerforcwb.com/

If you want to take a run at me, at my logic, my reasoning, or the facts I present that's fine. But I'd appreciate it if we could keep the discussion on what the election is actually about, the Wheat Board.

[cottonpicken]

Thought i was the only one that followed bill bonner.

[cottonpicken]

Rolf,or anyone what are your views on the anti-capitalistic moves the current conservative government is doing?