A new way?

[Deb]

That previous comment was tongue-in-cheek by the way!

Why don't you think organic farming practises can work? Anything works if it is done properly. There are lots of successful organic farmers in Canada. There are thousands of successful organic farmers around the world. They feed their families and their local communities. They don't need a lot of extra cash provided the International Monetary Fund and other global money-lenders stay away and they can ignore the commercial advertisers that tell them they need to buy more useless stuff to be happy.

[cowman]

Deb:You missed my point...the idea was ,hopefully, that organics wouldn't work! Then we would have a shortage and the prices would go up! Not only that but we wouldn't have to work as hard. I mean no fertilizer, no spraying why worry about tillage(and just think of all the oil and gas we'd save!).
I do understand you are a crusader and thats okay, the world needs people like you. And I sincerely believe that!
And as an aside I'm not against the bums and drunks in the homeless shelters. I always figure "There but for the grace of God..." I do believe they need a hand up/not a hand out. And sometimes a little "tough love" ala Ralph is a good thing! I mean consider this Deb...if Ralph is a drunk and he can be premier like what is their excuse!!!

[wilagro]

Tough love? You want tough love, check out the new budget that this 'progressive' gov't brought in. Chop the senior benefits, chop the childrens' services, increase health premiums...and on and on ad nauseum. This gov't couldn't run a hotdog stand. When will the people of Alberta get it through their heads? This gov't has to go.

[cowman]

Well lets not forget $408 million for health(read that higher wages for doctors and nurses). $208 million more for education(read that teachers salaries). An increase in school taxes of $45 million.
In total $616 million added expense for health and education, $750 million in new taxes, and a decrease in roads and infrastructure of $600 million!
It may not be pretty but you can be proud that now we have the highest paid parasites of any province! Oh except for our homeless drunks and bums...they never got one more red cent!
Do you think this government will ever figure out you can't increase spending by 22% a year? Because that's what it went up in 2001!

[Deb]

Thank you Wilagro for you honesty. Yes, the emperor not only has no clothes on, he also does not have a real economic plan other than let the foreign corporations take our resources for next to nothing.

We'll work harder to vote him and his cronnies out next time. Ken Nicol is an economist and a farmer and is very intelligent. I think the Tories won by default. Can someone advise me - I don't think Klein won the popular vote, I think the Tories won because of the way they set up the constituancy borders, so they'd get more votes. Is this correct?

[cowman]

Oh I think they won the popular vote. Maybe not in Redmonton and Calgary but definitely out in the boondocks. I mean look at the majority? The other parties were basically wiped out. But you know Deb you are right in one aspect...that they won by default! I think a lot of people had no one else to vote for. I was hopeing, desperately, that I would get to vote for the seperatists but they never ran anyone in my riding. And now they are toast(well there is another little group starting up proposing Alta. become the 51st. state). I have voted for Ralph twice. Once after he slashed the budget in the early nineties and last time. I am proud to say I have never voted for those dogs, the liberals, in my life. And I guess we don't even need to mention the NDP?
I guess people like me are basically becoming disenfranchised. When the tories become socialists like the liberals where do people who love the free enterprize system turn? I mean look at Kleins policies...tax and spend...just like Nichols!

[cowman]

Deb: Wheat is cheap as well as rice because of politics not because of supply and demand.

Every farmer that I have talked to in North America sells every bushel they grow every year. Don't tell me supply and demand is the problem, price is the problem.

People get fat on any food because it is cheap and they don't have to get off their lazy ass an work harder to beable to afford to eat.

Policeman are getting fat on donuts, I don't think it is the glaze.

End of lesson. The Kernel