Regardless of how many Millennials still live with their parents (34%), the Echo generation, Boomers, the Silent Majority (when they were a majority), and the generation before that all stood by and let the Canadian economy slowly slide to into the toilet. At the outbreak of World War II Canada's military outnumbered and outgunned the United States. Boeing Aircraft Company in Vancouver led a litany of Canadian industries into the United States. A wholesale tax that included exports for too long sent entrepreneurs fleeing in a "brain drain". Pierre Trudeau canceled the "Canada Bank Act" and loaded provinces, territories and municipalities with as much debt as federal Canada that sits on the books today in most jurisdictions. A "rule of law" that federal Canada kicks, along with the Canadian Constitution, to the curb each time federal Canada uses federal money to influence provincial and territorial jurisdiction. Judiciary soaked foreign branch plants that had to follow the brain drain after exorbitant wage gains were handed out to union workers. At the other end of the political spectrum Brian Mulroney started trade treaties that guarantee Canadian retailers access to cheap and often slave labour overseas. And came all the characters, from the barefoot hippies to sleeping in the streets, pushing pilfered shopping buggies to rummage, and a wealthy immigrant class living off the avails of laundered fentanyl.
What is your vision of "success"
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"A wholesale tax that included exports for too long sent entrepreneurs fleeing in a "brain drain". Pierre Trudeau canceled the "Canada Bank Act" and loaded provinces, territories and municipalities with as much debt as federal Canada that sits on the books today in most jurisdictions. A "rule of law" that federal Canada kicks, along with the Canadian Constitution, to the curb each time federal Canada uses federal money to influence provincial and territorial jurisdiction. Judiciary soaked foreign branch plants that had to follow the brain drain after exorbitant wage gains were handed out to union workers. At the other end of the political spectrum Brian Mulroney started trade treaties that guarantee Canadian retailers access to cheap and often slave labour overseas. "
"Global economy" ??
What's this rule of law and when has it been used?
"Global economy" ??
What's this rule of law and when has it been used?
Success in life, is being unconditionally happy in ones own skin.
Think about that for a sec.
.......................QM'r
Think about that for a sec.
.......................QM'r
Having a manager to run my place for me.....as I sit on my front deck with my hounds, and sight in my rifle from the comfort of my rocking chair, while I make enough money to go to some tropical paradise for a month, and have some full breasted , Latin speaking young lady, hand me a Margarita, with sun tan lotion glistening on her body.
Interesting, wish you luck though the only Latin speaking young ladies I ever met in a tropical paradise, or anywhere else for that matter were usually nuns or were academics of a pasty nature from hanging around halls of higher learning or churches.
If she's got oiled up DD's.....I don't care what language she speaks.
You know I meant Spanish....that's what I get for posting after a week of fighting fires, and only getting 4 or 5 hours sleep a night.
Lol...... I knew a girl in highschool school with a fantastic body and cute as hell. She wouldn't play with the boys as she was saving herself for God.
She became a nun. When she came gave up the calling at the age of 30 she was one of the horniest women I've ever met. It was a total delight introducing her to the carnal world.
She wanted to make a bunch of babies and that wasn't for me. But, it was a lot of fun while it lasted.
French not Spanish but those previously untouched double E's we're amazing!!!
She became a nun. When she came gave up the calling at the age of 30 she was one of the horniest women I've ever met. It was a total delight introducing her to the carnal world.
She wanted to make a bunch of babies and that wasn't for me. But, it was a lot of fun while it lasted.
French not Spanish but those previously untouched double E's we're amazing!!!
just being happy, at peace,
for me and the people in my life,
there was an article from a neuro scientist the gist of it is
the brain has only so much capacity so much computing power,
devoting a lot of thought to one area of life, leaves other areas lacking
it explains in some ways why material wealth, does not always translate into happiness
for me and the people in my life,
there was an article from a neuro scientist the gist of it is
the brain has only so much capacity so much computing power,
devoting a lot of thought to one area of life, leaves other areas lacking
it explains in some ways why material wealth, does not always translate into happiness
If retirement gets so bad your eating cat food.....you may know a guy that can supply good steak to you once in awhile.
Friends of mine don't eat shit like that as long as I'm in the food industry....Curmudgeon or not.
Mighty neighbourly of ya, pardner.
Just hope I can gum it down through my old toothless hole.
But alternatively, steak tartare isn't too far off from Whiskas or Fancy Feast!
Yeah...I had kinda noticed that, but thanks for pointing it out.
The rest of you is pretty nice as well.
Suppose that the point that I was trying to make with the opening post was that 34% of Millennials, up from 26% since 2005, through no fault of their own, for economic reasons have to reside in their parents home. That's very telling, since 13 years ago in 2005 many Millennials were in their teens when you'd expect Millennials to live with their parents. The number has shot up to 34% while all Millennials are now in young adulthood and their early thirties. That also says something about the "Great Recession" of 2008 and the following "recovery" or the lack thereof. Seems that either there is not sufficient recovery from the financial crisis of 2008 or Millennials don't trust the economy enough to leave their parents home. Financial blogs have called it a "waiters and bartenders" recovery. The good paying jobs don't want to come back. One wage earner in a family can't buy and pay off a mortgage on a single family detached house anymore. Further back than that people had usable skills likely from the jobs that they held and could build their own house on weekends themselves on a vacant lot bought while working. Chartered account would build terraced landscape rolling waist high boulders from down the street with a neighbour's help. A gaoler built a wood frame house and lived in it with his wife and 2 daughters until the 1970s. A railway security guard reconditions the hull and engine of a small fishing boat on the boulevard beside his house, floats it and eventually sells it presumably for a profit. Neighbours in spare time build a house in the vacant property beside their home. Today two wage earners in the same rented home often can't qualify for a mortgage to buy a condominium let alone a house.
Where there is a will there is a way.
Always been that way.
"Millennials" can't afford to move out of the basement because of rising property values? Then find another location that suits you and your budget better. Lifestyle may need to be adjusted.
Current employment doesn't meet your economic needs? Then try another path or career- maybe even a trade. Lots of young guys I know with young families are busting their humps on jobsites to get ahead so they can buy a SFDH in the outer valley. Of course they'd rather live closer to the city and not commute, but that's not realistic for them. They don't bitch and moan and feel entitled. They step up.
Always been that way.
Not bloody likely- and don't fucking change Miss H. A level of ball-busting is quite healthy. Too many guys just haven't figured it out- or can't.
There are more than enough scatter-brained bimbos to go around.
Part of what makes her so hot, is the fact that she'd slap a 190 pound cowboy on the back of the head when he gets mouthy.....and mean it.
I admire strong women that don't take any bullshit...particularly mine.
Miss H....you know when I'm just joking around and when I'm serious...you have a sense for it.
So pout those lips, stick that chest out,... and carry on.
