Month: November 2008

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November 27, 2008

My feedback on ‘the defense of marketing’

I read this article and got very frustrated. Here’s my response: So … you want your cake and you want to eat it too? I read this and realized you’re not really defending marketing.  You’re trying to justify giving my cash to someone else when they haven’t earned it. As a taxpayer, the question is ‘why’.  Why did these companies get so far down into […]

Canada disaster capitalism economics tax issues
November 27, 2008

Putting a Face on Harper Economics

A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a radio show and a woman called in to describe how she and her husband had lost a massive part of their personal savings because of the elimination of the benefits with income trusts when the Conservatives took power in 2006. This family had to sell their house.  They are retired.  They are broke.  They are […]

Canada disaster capitalism economics financial crisis Steve The Corporation
November 26, 2008

Harper’s Plan: Death to Canada by 1000 Cuts

There’s something about the Harper Administration that I can’t quite understand. I’ve never seen a more passive government. The world is falling to pieces and all these people can do is react in terms of cuts.  Thousands of cuts that will bleed Canada to death. Tomorrow, Jim Flaherty will release his long anticipated Economic Statement, but the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has already released […]

The Corporation US economy
November 26, 2008

Bill Moyers With Benjamin Barber on Consumerism

I’ve admired Bill Moyers since seeing his interview iwth Joseph Campbell a long, long time ago.  Since then, any time he comes up, he seems to come as being someone who’s not quite radical, but certainly someone who wants change in the progressive sense of the word. Anyways, I wanted to save this link for Buy Nothing Day (Friday, November 25), but have decided to […]

economics Politics US economy
November 26, 2008

Buy Nothing Day – November 28 – Take Action

I’ve always had difficulty buying in to buy nothing day.  There.  It’s out there.  For 17 years, I’ve enjoyed the concept from the sidelines. But it’s not for ethical or moral reasons.  It was considerably more of a functional issue.  For example, if I drove my car to visit a friend’s house to eat home-made soup, would the gas consumption be considered ‘consumption’?  I suppose […]