Pooning is a hobby, not a necessity. If you couldn't afford to go bowling, you wouldn't bitch and moan at the owner of the bowling alley to lower his prices, you simply wouldn't go. Perhaps, pending loss of LOTS of business, an owner would lower prices, but that would entirely be up to the owner....and there are probably MANY others besides you that are willing to pay the price to go bowling...
And for all those who choose not to bowl? Because the bowling alley owner notices a decline in league registrations he offers a special to entice more bowlers into his alley. A car company when it struggles offers incentives and cuts its pricing because of decreasing sales. Jana I'm not expecting a blue light special from anyone. But you have to do more than usual to drum up business. There is an agency in Toronto called Once Upon A Time in Toronto and they are doing 90 minutes for the price of 60, $260.
There are more and more posters on craigslist increasing the competition for the pooning dollar. And if you really believe that economic stimulation will be as effective here in Canada as in the US, you're drinking the cool aid. The G20stated that spending in the stimulus package in Canada would have to equal no less than 2% of our GDP. The US went beyond that and is spending 3% of their GDP. Little Stevie Blue Vest and his Conservatard Band are only willing to spend 7 tenths of one percent of our GDP. The math at this point does not add up to a rapid turn in our economy in 2010 but more like late 2011 or 2012 if the current braintrust spend at this projected rate as stated in their budget. The only ones who are going to be helped by 0.7% spending are the Conservatard cronies. So when Exxon whines that it made $90 billion in profit last year and cuts jobs because they will only make half of that this year, should we have pity on them? How many will they have to lay off due to their greed? We all have hopes and dreams and plan to save and spend in the future. You and others of the same mindset may have to push those dreams back three, five or even more years at this rate. Offer a little incentive here and there and keep the money flowing in and the bills get paid and the dreams don't get derailed, just slightly delayed.