It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad …..

[WiltonRanch]

Nurses are great and work very hard and aren't the guys wearing work boots who receive free stuff but then complain about everyone else! LOL

Whoa pump the brakes my little Bolshevik. Free isn’t free and you know it like all this free money they give away to natives and disabled people. Explain how it is free. Have to admire your persistence. Lol

[chuckChuck]

Ask Case because he is the one who called it "free" .

But you don't mind getting taxpayer subsidies and support but everyone else should not receive subsidies and support? LOL

[Blaithin]

I see Chuck hasn’t got any new material over the summer.

Would you like to see my work boots Chuck? It would be wonderful if you could pay for them for me.

[blackpowder]

What's become sad is this forum.

[chuckChuck]

Yes very sad and pathetic! But we have known this about Agrislly for a long time!

[fjlip]

Yes very sad and pathetic! But we have known this about Agrislly for a long time!

Go the PHUCK away! How bad it must feel to be SO alone with those opinions!

[TSIPP]

Go the PHUCK away! How bad it must feel to be SO alone with those opinions!

Only a few on here make agriville silly, mostly a great group of people on this site, I guess not everyone can be a winner!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

[chuckChuck]

I see A5 is resorting to one sided propaganda again? LOL

Why not look at the entire economy instead of just imports and exports?

Naw, that would require admitting that other sectors including manufacturing also play an important role in our prosperity.

It's more of the same lame conservative argument that Albertans are the only ones who work hard and contribute to the country. Everyone else is just lazy if they don't wear boots! LOL

Some Albertans seem to think because they were lucky to be sitting on a pile of pile of oil and gas that somehow they are better and smarter than everyone else?

Yup oil and gas are very important, but that importance is about to decline in a lower carbon emission future and that scares the petro elite.

[blackpowder]

And you're full of spiteful glee even tho it's hurting you as well.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I see A5 is resorting to one sided propaganda again? LOL

Why not look at the entire economy instead of just imports and exports?

Naw, that would require admitting that other sectors including manufacturing also play an important role in our prosperity.

It's more of the same lame conservative argument that Albertans are the only ones who work hard and contribute to the country. Everyone else is just lazy if they don't wear boots! LOL

Some Albertans seem to think because they were lucky to be sitting on a pile of pile of oil and gas that somehow they are better and smarter than everyone else?

Yup oil and gas are very important, but that importance is about to decline in a lower carbon emission future and that scares the petro elite.

Perhaps you should have read the graph before spouting off about something you clearly have no idea about, as usual.

Manufacturing is included in the graph. And with the exception of aircraft and parts, all other manufacturing is a net loss, we import more than we export. Thanks in no small part to a prohibitive tax and regulatory environment.

So, lets follow your advice and look at the entire economy.

Since Agstar liked your post, I'll use you two as the example.
How does the rest of the economy contribute to our net exports, which is the only way money can come into the country to increase wealth and pay for government services?
If Agstar installs your Chinese solar panels, and you provide agstar with hairdressing services to maintain his purple hairdo, and he sells you a foreign made electric car made with materials almost 100% processed and manufactured in China etc., then you and agstar fly to the nearest BLM riot to destroy some property, and agstar buys you some buttless chaps to wear to the pride parade, etc. How do any of these activities contribute to our trade surplus?

How do you propose to fund your socialist utopia without the top 4 primary industries, which provide virtually all of our net exports?
Do you know what a trade surplus is? A trade defecit?
Where would we get the capital to buy your imported Chinese made solar panels, if Canada didn't export oil/gas, minerals, forest products and agricultural products?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I see A5 is resorting to one sided propaganda again? LOL

Why not look at the entire economy instead of just imports and exports?

Naw, that would require admitting that other sectors including manufacturing also play an important role in our prosperity.

It's more of the same lame conservative argument that Albertans are the only ones who work hard and contribute to the country. Everyone else is just lazy if they don't wear boots! LOL

Some Albertans seem to think because they were lucky to be sitting on a pile of pile of oil and gas that somehow they are better and smarter than everyone else?

Yup oil and gas are very important, but that importance is about to decline in a lower carbon emission future and that scares the petro elite.

This post just exemplifies the essence of the thread title. The level of gross ignorance of economics displayed by Chuck, would be funny if it was just him, but it is shared by a large segment of the population, and they vote accordingly, that is truly sad.

[Guest]

Yep
Absolutely amazing!

[rumrocks]

A lot of young liberal voters had a better understanding of grams and balancing the scale than dollars and balancing a budget.
They'll vote for the grams teacher every time.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

A lot of young liberal voters had a better understanding of grams and balancing the scale than dollars and balancing a budget.
They'll vote for the grams teacher every time.

And they're also more concerned about balancing The spoils of other people's hard work, and they are about balancing workload amongst each other.
For a great example, just see the resentment and jealousy indicated in Chuck's post above.