We're doing something somewhat similar in the US: a tax rebate of between $300 and $1200 (depending on income) allegedly to stimulate the economy. Now, I'll grant you that that does start to be a fair chunk of change, especially on the top end, but will it actually help the economy enough to offset the foregone revenue (you will recall that the guy proposing this is the same guy who got us into the corrupt money-sucking black hole known as Iraq)? Or is this just another election-year ploy?
So young, and yet so cynical.
The coins are hysterical! Who knew...
wait, we should have seen it coming, shouldn't we.
At least your crazy decision maker isn't putting your country into irreversible debt while he alienates it from the rest of the free world.
(who me? opinionated? nahhh)
I dunno about those coins, don't give them ideas...
lol on the black squirrel. I did that for about 6 months after college; driving around spying on insurance claim cases. Kind of interesting in its way, and I got a few stories out of it, but I quickly determined that my life's path should go elsewhere.
GST: By the same logic, though, $48 x 35M Canadians is an awful lot of money that can now be spent on things that people actually want, and is likely to be a actual stimulation of the economy (unlike the U.S. "rebate" that is a sham since the government is already in so much debt that the money will just have to extracted back out of the people in some other way, thus cancelling any good effect it might have).
lol on the coins, too. I agree with many of y'all that Bush has been an absolute disaster. I just hope that we don't replace him with someone just as bad, and the currently leading choices (in both parties) don't fill me with any hope.
PhilB
I suspect that (and granted that I know precisely diddly-squat about Canadian politics) your Prime Minister is lowering your GST (which I'm guessing is a general sales tax?) to try and stem the influx of Canadians who are spending their shopping dollars in my fair state, and the other border states of our "fair nation." Every weekend, my town is bombarded with Canadian tourists talking up the strength of their (your) dollar compared to ours -- it's been the reverse for so long that they seemed stunned by the contrast, and spend truly astonishing sums of money on really unnecessary things...but I digress.
Anyway, ignore me if this is totally off the mark or makes zero sense.
I'm hoping that the influx of Tim Horton's over here is actually a takeover plan and we'll soon be part of Canada, which is likely to be better than the path we're on now in the States.
The hamsters didn't do a thing for me. However, I'm happy to say that I have scrolled through every single "I Can Haz Cheezberger" pic. Took me quite awhile to do that, it did.
Seriously. You know I'm killing myself over here trying to write a book and you give me the hamster thing? When I will already CLEAN A TOILET TO AVOID WRITING, YOU GIVE ME THE HAMSTER THING?
Just, Seriously.
LMFAO @ steph's comment.
The currency is a little too accurate to really be funny. Sigh.
BTW, you made my day.
Is there a Reality Show update post brewing Chez Seated View? I am addicted to Rock of Love which is really awful. I call it The Slutty Girl Show - it is amazing what people will do to be on TV.
If you hold a pigeon and gently move its head, do its little feet go? Kind of like when you scratch a dog in just the right spot and its back leg goes?
Hey Steph...no toilet cleaning here...I'll be spending the rest of my afternoon cleaning my screen since I was drinking tea while watching the beginning of the coin thing...too too too funny...thanks Lene...
National Public Radio (in the States, don't know what it's called in Canada) recently ran a story on what the brain does when it's bored. It seems that profoundly deaf people hear music in their heads because the brain cells devoted to hearing don't have anything to do, so they make up stuff. So, deaf people can hear music with full orchestration if that's what their brain cells make up. Those of us who can hear, and have less bored brain cells get stuck with the theme from Gilligan's Island and only half the words.
Ok I am sick and can not do much except knit on Cody blanket which I need to have done by his birthday (2/14) so what did I spend the past 2 days doing? Playing Flight of the Hamster. I say it is all your fault if I can't finish it = )
Hope you are feeling better!!
I always like your random posts.
Oh, that coin thing is... well, ouch! Man, I hate being the citizen of a country so easily mocked.
Also, my kids heard me playing the hamster thing and my cool quotient went way up, "Mom! You know about that game?" So thanks for that.
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