Coalition Platform

[Fransisco]

Looks like someones gone to the trouble of putting a platform together for the Coalition.

http://www.communist-party.ca/news/Statements/2008/Coalition.html

[bucket]

Oh yeah that whole bse thing. Lets analyse that one.

Lets say the average cattle herd was 100 cows. The value prior to bse was 100000.00 the value of those cows after bse hit was 100000.00 as long as you did not sell all the cows. If you were a cattle man you need the cows to produce the calves that actually was the money maker. The value of 100 calves to sell went from an average of 650 per head to the 450 per head or a loss of 20000.00 in the worst case scenario.I saw the value of some of crops off 160 acres lose more than that in the same time period and goodale wasn't doing anything.

BTW when a cattle man buys cows its 100% writeoff the year he buys the cows. Not one piece of my farm equipment has a deduction like that and then 10 years later when its worn out do i expect to get what I paid for it or go crying to the gov't.

When ranchers start depreciating their cattle and paying recaptured depreciation on them will I feel sorry them.

[bucket]

Oh yeah I had cattle. Got rid of them 1 1/2 years before bse hit. Just recently started back into cattle. Sell high buy low. 5 1/2 years from now I will be selling cows again.

I know what the cattleman went through. Did they need a hand out - of course. But so did the rest of agriculture at the same time. And they had surplusses to do it. But what they gave ag compared to what the coalition is talking about is pennies.

Give the money to ag and the economy will take off. WHY? Because farmers will spend it on real goods that drive an economy. Creates and maintains jobs. These eastern pee-ons have net worths of less than a load of grain with salaries of 100000.00 per year. They piss their money away.

[TOM4CWB]

sumdumbguy,

Ever heard this one?

"When the Communists show up to protest the Nazis, you're supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a favourite."*

The farther we can keep government away from picking winners and losers... the better!