Why Manitoba will remain a welfare province.

rosencrentz wrote:I still do npt understand the headline? Is someone saying that Manitoba would be a have province, if it tried to develop its mineral wealth??
That makes absolutely no sense to me! Companies develop what they think will be profitable!
We had a Conservative government for 10 years and I am sure that Manitoba was open for business!
Saskatchewan is in the money only because Potash demand and pricing has skyrocketed as well as the oil sands development!

Manitoba will be in the money if we can develop a market for mosquitoes, perhaps a renewal in the pet rock craze of a few years ago, and possibly exporting some welfare recipients!

FlyingRat wrote:If blue-green algae ever becomes a sought-after export, then we're in the money!

LivingDead wrote:

FlyingRat wrote:If blue-green algae ever becomes a sought-after export, then we're in the money!

Turning Algae into America's New Energy

Seriously.. read up on the subject.

And to you rosen. come on.. I started this thread to show people why we can't be a have province. Manitoba lacks people with VISION. Vision to move ahead, and take us into the future. Vision to see what Manitoba could do if we only put some hard thought and some elbow grease into getting ahead. Or we can all sit back and accept less, which seems to be what most Manitobans want.

grumpy old man wrote:Or until we discover oil like all those other really really really smart provinces...

rosencrentz wrote:Look at the change in the income in one year!
Alberta has gone from an $11 billion dollar surplus to a $5 billion dollar deficit, and the same in Saskatchebush with the Potash market dropping!

LennyJessop wrote:Manitoba will remain a welfare province until we assimilate our Aboriginals.

EdWin wrote:Evil Doer; suits him to a tea!

Donothing is living up to his name, he's doing nothing to help boost Manitoba's economic position out of a have-not province.

He has no brains and no balls to get the job done, the loser.

Can we please get someone in office who is the complete opposite of Evil Doer and actually cares about Manitoba's future?

usedtoliveinstb wrote:

LennyJessop wrote:Manitoba will remain a welfare province until we assimilate our Aboriginals.

Agreed.

Miz point wrote:

EdWin wrote:Evil Doer; suits him to a tea!

Donothing is living up to his name, he's doing nothing to help boost Manitoba's economic position out of a have-not province.

He has no brains and no balls to get the job done, the loser.

Can we please get someone in office who is the complete opposite of Evil Doer and actually cares about Manitoba's future?

If you are going to go after Doer at least articulate yourself in a sensible fashion...

Why is it that some conservatives make as much sense as a three dollar bill?

usedtoliveinstb wrote:

rosencrentz wrote:Look at the change in the income in one year!
Alberta has gone from an $11 billion dollar surplus to a $5 billion dollar deficit, and the same in Saskatchebush with the Potash market dropping!

That's just because so called "conservative" governments are balls when it comes to money and projecting revenue. Look at Harper, they've only spent 7% of the stimulus and they're already how many friggin billion in deficit.

The NDP may depend on transfer payments, but they're pretty good at getting the numbers right it seems, however grim they may be.

rosencrentz wrote:Remember this is the Liberals deficit program. The Conservatives presented a balanced budget, but the loyal opposition were going to force an election if they didn't change the budget.
The depression is over any ways , as the GDP was up .4 of 1% in the last quarter, ending 3 quarters of decline of GDP!

St Norberter wrote:People can sqwak on and on about how the conservatives ran up a deficit and they can't balance the books.

That's a stupid statement to make, because we all know that the last budget was influenced by opposition parties and the fact that it's a minority government.

If this was a majority and they ran up this deficit without the influence of any other party, then fine.

I'm always amused at how the other parties talk about how the Government isn't working with them when they don't get what they want. But when the Gov't runs up a deficit because they have taken into account a lot of what the opposition wants, their dead quiet and even go so far as to criticize the gov't for doing that.