Canada’s productivity problem isn’t that big if we exclude oil

[WiltonRanch]

As a big Muppets fan, I take offense to you comparing Chuck to a muppet. Unlike chuck, they are intentionally funny and entertaining.
Their humor is highly intellectual compared to anything coming out of chuck.

Although I have said in the past that he does remind me a lot of doctor Bunsen honeydew. Always so confident, always so wrong, even as the science experiment goes horribly wrong and the world comes crashing down on him.

Don’t forget Beaker. Who’s Beaker?

[blackpowder]

Prof Bunsen Honeydews' assistant.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Don’t forget Beaker. Who’s Beaker?

I think all of us who engage with him are playing the part of beaker. Unwitting victims to his megalomaniacal pot stirring. Then when it blows up in his face, he's already receded a safe distance and hides out for a few days until the Carnage has been cleaned up. Rinse and repeat.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Prof Bunsen Honeydews' assistant.

Isn't Chuck's real life hapless assistant agstar?

[blackpowder]

No idea. But I feel like Statler and Waldorf

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew seems to have left the conversation.

Almost as if he doesn't want to answer some awkward questions.

[WiltonRanch]

Honeydew where are you?

[blackpowder]

Nothing but a ghost. A spook. Smoke.

[chuckChuck]

It seems as if the pretend libertarians are still struggling to say something of substance? Just more juvenile posts about nothing?

Norway saved like true fiscal conservatives. Not the rip and ship it types in Alberta who spend it all and saved none of the one time resource revenue.

And then leave a massive cleanup bill for the next generations of taxpayers?

Generous private profits then the public pays for the cleanup!

It's the Alberta UCP way!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Once again chuck, Norway is a sovereign country. In complete control of its own financial destiny, Alberta is a province within a confederation which implements income redistribution.
We have been through this multiple times before.

Run the numbers without transfer payments over the decades if you want to compare the two.

[cropgrower]

clearly too fixated on Danny to have a clue whats going on

[WiltonRanch]

It seems as if the pretend libertarians are still struggling to say something of substance? Just more juvenile posts about nothing?

Norway saved like true fiscal conservatives. Not the rip and ship it types in Alberta who spend it all and saved none of the one time resource revenue.

And then leave a massive cleanup bill for the next generations of taxpayers?

Generous private profits then the public pays for the cleanup!

It's the Alberta UCP way!

Yeah what did the Sask ndp with their resources. Oh yeah nothing. Yep keep it in the ground. You’re a dork.

[TSIPP]

Saskatchewan NDP pretty much shut down all resource revenue and exported the young people into Alberta, NDP is just a scourge for society.

[sumdumguy]

I was at a conference in Rocanville back in Roy Romanoe days. We were talking about the oil maps that showed the oil and natural gas under Alberta and ending abruptly at the Sask border and I said, “Do you really believe that the oil stops at the Sask border?” and the university “expert” quickly retorted with, “ Yes, it sure does.”

[blackpowder]

I was at a conference in Rocanville back in Roy Romanoe days. We were talking about the oil maps that showed the oil and natural gas under Alberta and ending abruptly at the Sask border and I said, “Do you really believe that the oil stops at the Sask border?” and the university “expert” quickly retorted with, “ Yes, it sure does.”

Just like the board guy who told me 20 years ago that if better yielding wheat were possible "they'd have found it by now."

Lots of land was bought around here with money made in the Kindersley area.
I worked in Estevan in 1990. Drove home every shift.
Driving there today you don't recognize Saskatchewan.
The only banjos left appear to be on Agriville.

None of Chuck's post is factual by the way. As usual.