Budley Doright
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So yes that’s all true. But I was talking about a 27 billion dollar investment by a government supposedly championing renewables. Seems a tad hypocritical and foolish. Just sayin lol.
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Budley Doright
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That’s exactly what I told the realtor
DIY-HP-LED
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Nugnewbie
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Freakshow! Stir up more shit. Ffs.
Nugnewbie
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The more I see what Danielle Smith is doing in Alberta ( moratorium on renewables, pulling Alberta out of CPP, totally reorganizing Alberta healthcare), it reminds me of the chaos that the GOP seems to employ in the US congress to prevent any progress. In that line of thinking, it's a no-brainer that Tucker Carlson would be coming to speak in January '24.
Budley Doright
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And unfortunately a portion of the population there see this as a good thing…….make Alberta great again
Nugnewbie
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Sheesh, don't even need to change the acronym letters.And unfortunately a portion of the population there see this as a good thing…….make Alberta great again
OldMedUser
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Not this portion I'll tell you what. Getting medical anything here is so f'ed up now. It's never been great but it can take 4 weeks or longer to get in to see the nurse practitioner we've been seeing for a while. Best damn 'doctor' we've had here in years and easy on the eyes too. I want her to do my next DRE for sure.And unfortunately a portion of the population there see this as a good thing…….make Alberta great again
Now they want to tear apart AHS and replace it with 4 different management branches like that's going to fix things. The road to privatization is what it is tho they'll lie thru their teeth about that.
Leave my CPP alone g-dammit! They just want to blow all the money on the oil patch to keep it going against all the evidence that it's a losing plan. And to think they're owed 58% of the CPP funds is laughable and proven to be way off base.
Screw these guys and I'll be banging my drum for the NDP again in a couple years when elections are coming. They gotta go!
OldMedUser
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Maga takeover going on in Alberta these days.
DIY-HP-LED
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DIY-HP-LED
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OldMedUser
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This ever expanding income disparity is total bullshit and these rich pricks need to be held to account and bloody well forced to cough up their fair share so hard working people can live the decent life like I grew up with.
We were lower middle class. Dad worked at a meat packing plant all his life and mom worked full time once all us 3 kids were in school. Even before she went to work we never wanted for any basics and dad had a nice modest 16' cabin cruiser and there were two cars, used, in the driveway. Always had new clothes to start off the school year and a good lunch every day. Plenty of good food in the fridge and mom always had a big garden and canned plenty of fruit and veg so the pantry was big and always well stocked. I was only 5 when they built a big addition onto the house and a year later got leased property on a small lake and started building a cabin on it that we still have. The lake property, half acre, was purchased about 10 years ago so no 99 year lease to worry about in less than 40 years. I loved spending most of my summers up there as a kid and wish I wasn't so far away so I could go there more often.
No way most working people with families can live as well these days and job security sux for most. Too much of the high taxes we all pay is wasted on bloated ministries that don't provide the levels of service such expense should be covering. Crack that whip and lets get those gov't layabouts putting half the effort in that people working in the private sector have to put out to keep their jobs and that would be a big improvement. Some do work their butts off so they're not all bad for sure.
I'm sure glad I'm not a lot younger with kids to support these days. I was a single dad for 10 years and know how tough that was then and it's even harder now. My mom was a huge support both financially and morally but many don't have that so I don't know how they manage especially the last few years. 96 and still motoring along like the Energizer Bunny.
Shit has got to change.
We were lower middle class. Dad worked at a meat packing plant all his life and mom worked full time once all us 3 kids were in school. Even before she went to work we never wanted for any basics and dad had a nice modest 16' cabin cruiser and there were two cars, used, in the driveway. Always had new clothes to start off the school year and a good lunch every day. Plenty of good food in the fridge and mom always had a big garden and canned plenty of fruit and veg so the pantry was big and always well stocked. I was only 5 when they built a big addition onto the house and a year later got leased property on a small lake and started building a cabin on it that we still have. The lake property, half acre, was purchased about 10 years ago so no 99 year lease to worry about in less than 40 years. I loved spending most of my summers up there as a kid and wish I wasn't so far away so I could go there more often.
No way most working people with families can live as well these days and job security sux for most. Too much of the high taxes we all pay is wasted on bloated ministries that don't provide the levels of service such expense should be covering. Crack that whip and lets get those gov't layabouts putting half the effort in that people working in the private sector have to put out to keep their jobs and that would be a big improvement. Some do work their butts off so they're not all bad for sure.
I'm sure glad I'm not a lot younger with kids to support these days. I was a single dad for 10 years and know how tough that was then and it's even harder now. My mom was a huge support both financially and morally but many don't have that so I don't know how they manage especially the last few years. 96 and still motoring along like the Energizer Bunny.
Shit has got to change.
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My uncle worked at the packers, a decent wage back then as compensation for the type of work. My dad worked as a welder for the railroad, walk through the shop without touching anything and when you leave you have a layer of soot on you. Also a decent wage for unskilled labour. Our families also grew vegetables, canned or frozen, 30 sacks of potatoes for the year. Mother made bread on Mondays for the rest of the week. Probably cut our food budget in half. One aunt used to say we were fed cheap food but many years later realized we might have ate better not having a lot of processed foods. I do not remember ever going out for dinner rather than eat at home (other than holidays at relatives place or a church dinner).This ever expanding income disparity is total bullshit and these rich pricks need to be held to account and bloody well forced to cough up their fair share so hard working people can live the decent life like I grew up with.
We were lower middle class. Dad worked at a meat packing plant all his life and mom worked full time once all us 3 kids were in school. Even before she went to work we never wanted for any basics and dad had a nice modest 16' cabin cruiser and there were two cars, used, in the driveway. Always had new clothes to start off the school year and a good lunch every day. Plenty of good food in the fridge and mom always had a big garden and canned plenty of fruit and veg so the pantry was big and always well stocked. I was only 5 when they built a big addition onto the house and a year later got leased property on a small lake and started building a cabin on it that we still have. The lake property, half acre, was purchased about 10 years ago so no 99 year lease to worry about in less than 40 years. I loved spending most of my summers up there as a kid and wish I wasn't so far away so I could go there more often.
No way most working people with families can live as well these days and job security sux for most. Too much of the high taxes we all pay is wasted on bloated ministries that don't provide the levels of service such expense should be covering. Crack that whip and lets get those gov't layabouts putting half the effort in that people working in the private sector have to put out to keep their jobs and that would be a big improvement. Some do work their butts off so they're not all bad for sure.
I'm sure glad I'm not a lot younger with kids to support these days. I was a single dad for 10 years and know how tough that was then and it's even harder now. My mom was a huge support both financially and morally but many don't have that so I don't know how they manage especially the last few years. 96 and still motoring along like the Energizer Bunny.
Shit has got to change.
You will not see too much of that sort happening now days. Takes too much time out of our lives. I have heard people complain, they will not get to go on vacation this year. My parents did fly to Europe once, the trip of a lifetime. save the rest of the time. Could people do the same today? When I bought my first house I had my bed, stereo, old couch and chair my parents had since before I was born. I bought a kitchen table, fridge and stove. That was it until I paid off the house. But I grew up with the mindset of not wanting to owe anybody anything as that was a loss of freedom.
OldMedUser
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I used to love coming home from school and finding fresh baked bread, cinnamon buns and other goodies waiting for me. We rarely ate out either and then it was usually the White Spot where they brought your food out on those long trays that sat across the windows in your car. I was an ADHD kid so it was less stressful on mom if we did that rather than eat in the dining room.
It's not that you might have eaten better but you did eat better than today's kids for the most part. Unless the parents are food conscious most of their diet is highly processed franken foods. Even the fresh fruit and veg from factory farms only has half the nutrition as the stuff our mothers grew in the family gardens because the soils are so depleted from decades of use. We always had a big compost heap that got tilled back into the garden at home every year. We never used weed killers on the lawn but I remember using one of those sticks full of weed killer to spot squirt a little on each dandelion as they popped up. Dad would pay me a penny for each dandelion flower I picked off the lawn too so I wasn't very thorough with the spray stick.
All our vacations were road trips and camping until we got the lake property then we'd spend most of the summer up there. Dad would go home for work during the week and leave us there for 3 or 4 weeks. I'd take a friend up but after a week they were itching to go home so dad would take them back and bring a different friend up the next Fri. I loved it and never had a problem staying for most of the summer. A lot of trips to Stanley Park in Vancouver a half hour away or beaches where the only expense was gas money and maybe an ice cream but we took food for the day. My mom's sister and hubby had a cabin at Pt. Roberts we could go to fairly often then bought the one next to them for a rental so when there was nobody using it we could scoot across the line and stay for free. It's US territory but attached to BC so the only access by car is from the BC side thru Tsawwassen by the big ferry terminal to go to Victoria on Vancouver Island.
I'm on my second house now and the biggest thing we've bought for it was a brand new bed just a couple months ago. $1500 worth but damn it's a nice bed and we both sleep so much better and wake up rested. Less than two years left on the mortgage and we only have that because we borrowed against it when we had serious financial problems 20 years ago. Only $125/mth now but we're paying double to get rid of it faster. I have been racking up some bills on the CCs but screw it. I want to enjoy what I have left of my golden years and pay a little extra to have the debt life insured so the wife so the wife isn't stuck with it if I drown my ass out fishing. Got some 'sudden death' insurance thru the bank too for both of us. $52/mth for both and get 100G each if one or both of us die suddenly for any reason other than suicide. If it's both of us, like a car wreck, then her daughter gets it and the house. My sons will get any inheritance from my mom if and when she passes.
Totally different world than what I grew up in these days. I'm glad we didn't have all the gadgets kids grow up with these days and lived life in the real world. Sure would have loved to go to the moon or at least up in space at least once but if a lotto ticket pays off, who knows.
printer
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I had a buddy from work who I brought a bag of green and yellow beans that I grew. I got a phone call hours later from him. He said him and his wife thought I was behaving strange bringing them some vegetables. Then they ate them, they never imagined that beans could taste so good. Growing up we definitely ate well. No electronic devices back then, three channels on TV. Read a lot of books though, taking 3-4 books home a week from the library. Where I learned how things were made and maybe I can make some of it myself.I used to love coming home from school and finding fresh baked bread, cinnamon buns and other goodies waiting for me. We rarely ate out either and then it was usually the White Spot where they brought your food out on those long trays that sat across the windows in your car. I was an ADHD kid so it was less stressful on mom if we did that rather than eat in the dining room.
It's not that you might have eaten better but you did eat better than today's kids for the most part. Unless the parents are food conscious most of their diet is highly processed franken foods. Even the fresh fruit and veg from factory farms only has half the nutrition as the stuff our mothers grew in the family gardens because the soils are so depleted from decades of use. We always had a big compost heap that got tilled back into the garden at home every year. We never used weed killers on the lawn but I remember using one of those sticks full of weed killer to spot squirt a little on each dandelion as they popped up. Dad would pay me a penny for each dandelion flower I picked off the lawn too so I wasn't very thorough with the spray stick.
All our vacations were road trips and camping until we got the lake property then we'd spend most of the summer up there. Dad would go home for work during the week and leave us there for 3 or 4 weeks. I'd take a friend up but after a week they were itching to go home so dad would take them back and bring a different friend up the next Fri. I loved it and never had a problem staying for most of the summer. A lot of trips to Stanley Park in Vancouver a half hour away or beaches where the only expense was gas money and maybe an ice cream but we took food for the day. My mom's sister and hubby had a cabin at Pt. Roberts we could go to fairly often then bought the one next to them for a rental so when there was nobody using it we could scoot across the line and stay for free. It's US territory but attached to BC so the only access by car is from the BC side thru Tsawwassen by the big ferry terminal to go to Victoria on Vancouver Island.
I'm on my second house now and the biggest thing we've bought for it was a brand new bed just a couple months ago. $1500 worth but damn it's a nice bed and we both sleep so much better and wake up rested. Less than two years left on the mortgage and we only have that because we borrowed against it when we had serious financial problems 20 years ago. Only $125/mth now but we're paying double to get rid of it faster. I have been racking up some bills on the CCs but screw it. I want to enjoy what I have left of my golden years and pay a little extra to have the debt life insured so the wife so the wife isn't stuck with it if I drown my ass out fishing. Got some 'sudden death' insurance thru the bank too for both of us. $52/mth for both and get 100G each if one or both of us die suddenly for any reason other than suicide. If it's both of us, like a car wreck, then her daughter gets it and the house. My sons will get any inheritance from my mom if and when she passes.
Totally different world than what I grew up in these days. I'm glad we didn't have all the gadgets kids grow up with these days and lived life in the real world. Sure would have loved to go to the moon or at least up in space at least once but if a lotto ticket pays off, who knows.
DIY-HP-LED
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printer
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I put him in the same category as Trump.
Budley Doright
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The city council close to me (Kingston) voted to dismantle the present small tiny home community (basically garden sheds) by March, but no plan to house the folks. I’m not sure of the details but it cost over 1 million for a year for 17 sheds. Is it just me, is there not a better use of a million that could house a tad more?
printer
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I'll make you 17 sheds for $1M.