One in three Canadians feels worse off financially than a year ago, poll finds
(calgaryherald.com)
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That's feelings.
The facts are every Canadian is worse off.
You can't travel.
You can't go anywhere
Depending on some politicians whim, You can't have people inside your home.
In a family, at least one person is under or employed.
So yea, every Canadian.
If you needed to poll people to find this out, you haven't been paying attention.
it's for the record....we are a civilzed nation which keeps records for the sake of history.
So 2/3rds are better off. Not a bad year at all.
How can I tell you didn't read the piece?
The only economy that comes out better off from 2021 is China's.
If you're commenting on the title alone, your comment is misplaced. 1/3 feeling worse off does not mean 2/3 feel better. Your comment doesn't account for people that feel no different.
Nevertheless, a stat like this is meaningless on its own. A stat like this needs to be relative to have any meaning at all. How does this compare to last year and previous years? If last year 1/10 feel worse off and now 1/3 feel worse off, that's really bad. If last year, 1/3 felt worse off, then this might be normal.
The article details the results.
Are you saying that your original comment is based on what you read in the article? Then your original comment is just dumb.
Fun fact...Trudeau wining another majority.
This has nothing to do with the conversation we had 3 days ago. You might be replying to the wrong person.
You'd best like your occupation, eh?
My grandparents retired in their early to mid 60's. They're currently 97. Since post-secondary education is becoming the norm, we are moving towards a society where a newly minted citizen is an economic drain on society until 18, produces nothing from 19 to 23 while going into debt, spends 24 to 34 paying off student loans, then then we have 34 to 65 in which he builds equity, raises kids, saves for retirement. 31 productive years during which the government takes 35% of everything you produce. Then he retires at 65 and spends the next 32 years existing. People are retired for longer than they were productively working. I understand that usury and speculation can fund this lifestyle, but that is ultimately a shell game. For a retiree to eat without producing, someone else must produce without eating.
We are going to reach a point where all these factors become obviously unsustainable and I suspect that birth rates will factor heavily in that conversation.
We’re already starting to see the effects of this. Health care is the biggest spending category of every province, and spending continues to increase as the boomers get old and sick. Deficit spending across the country is routine to cover this spending, and taxes is the only way to cover this. Birth rates are low since people are spending their fertile years clawing out of debt and trying to start “real life”, and ever increasing taxes to cover the new spending does not help this. So the government lies to immigrants, promising them prosperity, and then bring them in to work shit tier jobs and never advance to keep the bottom from falling out of the system.
People on CERB get the tax bill too!