tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939394230981495684.post5227799550663233932..comments2011-11-11T10:15:50.575-07:00Comments on The Burgeoning Curmudgeon: OCCUPY THISTerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11977525910542381847noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939394230981495684.post-67528868327048142272011-10-16T16:04:17.785-06:002011-10-16T16:04:17.785-06:00Thanks for your excellent stupid comment Rosa. :)
...Thanks for your excellent stupid comment Rosa. :)<br />I know there are mistakes in that Iceland link.I first read it a month or two back and followed a number of links to the corrections. <br />As I understand it, the men of Iceland quit fishing to become investment bankers. This worked very well for a few years, until the bubble burst. Now the women are going to save Iceland. Knowing you as I do, they are in good hands. History is on your side. While the Viking men were off raping and pillaging, the women looked after the country. ;)<br />The banks in Canada are regulated and deposits are insured, but that doesn't mean we are free from collapse. If the EU defaults on their loans, we will likely follow, right behind our southern neighbours.<br />I don't disagree with the passion and the enthusiasm of the Occupiers, I just think it's lacks focus and is going to become a terrible drain on municipalities which are already stretched financially. <br />The main thrust of the protest here, is that they are unhappy with the results of the last election. We have new generation here who feel that if they cry loud enough they will get what they want. It might have worked with mom and dad, but not so with democracy. No amount of protesting will change that.<br />They see what's going on around the world and think it's cool or exciting and want to be a part of it. I get that. I was there once too.<br />Now I realize the best way to change a system is from within. Despite our lame duck elected official here, we have still managed to secure millions of dollars for several big projects. We did so without one phone call to our Member of Parliament.<br />So you need new blood in Iceland? I was checking the cost of flights the other day. It's cheaper for me to fly there from Edmonton than it is for me to fly to Inuvik. You might be seeing me soon! <br />Thanks again for writing. Miss you too and I <3 Iceland! *hugs*Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11977525910542381847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939394230981495684.post-40153926668535260932011-10-16T14:18:45.735-06:002011-10-16T14:18:45.735-06:00I support the Occupy movement and hope it will con...I support the Occupy movement and hope it will continue on a global basis, I am glad however that you don't seem to have the need for it in Canada.<br />Poor, sweet Iceland :) We did get the government we deserved too you know :p There's a few flaws in the link you tagged, actually quite major ones; for one we never went bankrupt, we recapitalized and de-privatized the banks and took loans by the support of IMF and will have to repay those loans for generations to come. Envy us much? <br />We are NOT members of the EU and hopefully never will be. We don't have a new constitution yet, although it has been drafted, likely it will get through Alþingi and a referendum next year though. We did not refuse by referendum to pay for the failure of IceSave, we refused to pay on the terms given to us, nay forced upon us. Thankfully the icelandic people don't respond to threats as well as our so-called leaders do. It is our view however that the normal hardworking taxpayer should not have to pay for the failure of a private bank, the amounts repaid will depend on what can be gained by selling the assets of said bank. As it stands now, it looks like the demands will be fulfilled 100% so in retrospect, the whole deal, the attacks from the leaders of Britain and Netherlands on Iceland have been highly unfair, well of course they were as they were mostly done in interest of their own political gain... seems they had little success in that respect though :p <br />Anyways, things are definitely not as great here as the foreign media seems to believe, we've never had as much debt, we've had major welfare cuts, at least 10k have migrated to Norway, Canada and other countries which leaves the rest of us with even heavier burden in the years to come and we have a general uncertainty about the future, mainly due to our application to join the EU. We have 2 more years of a government half made up of brown-nosed EU followers, the other half are confused cowards who have forgotten why we voted for them (yeah a complete waste of my vote) and the opposition is useless and most of them quite actually the people that got us into this mess in the first place. We need new blood and higher ethic standards in politics, we need people with courage, we can't depend on a usually non-political President to step in every time our government makes foolish deals and agreements with foreign countries on our behalf. <br />But just so you don't think I'm crying in my pillow over this every night, I do believe we have a reason to be optimistic, after all things can't get much worse and we have the means to do great things when we start playing our cards right. That hope is more than many countries can say they have, I fear for the well being of the people of USA, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and just about every country that has yet to fall into the vortex of the economic crisis without the independence and freedom to work their way out of it themselves.<br />Anyways, that was my stupid comment, sorry for it to contain little response to your actual blog, but hey you put the link there, I had to clear things up :).<br />Miss you Terry, hugs<br />RosaRósanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939394230981495684.post-45279443610285715782011-10-15T09:28:00.984-06:002011-10-15T09:28:00.984-06:00I was first going to congratulate you on your cann...I was first going to congratulate you on your canny efforts to keep the lefties out. But then I grew concerned. What if, instead of staying away entirely, they decide to throw a charity gala to get you funding to change the font colour? That could be fatal. And we'd have to watch them on CBC.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17013847036123410760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939394230981495684.post-11435391932642745462011-10-14T21:11:39.507-06:002011-10-14T21:11:39.507-06:00Okay, I made it a pretty teal, just for you, Megan...Okay, I made it a pretty teal, just for you, Megan. ;)Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11977525910542381847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939394230981495684.post-68368147402499924622011-10-14T21:07:09.667-06:002011-10-14T21:07:09.667-06:00I went to great pains to edit that white text on a...I went to great pains to edit that white text on a white background. I'm glad someone appreciates it!<br />That was one of the reasons I made this page black, too. It uses less juice than a white bg.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11977525910542381847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939394230981495684.post-27506545985523819452011-10-14T20:30:16.581-06:002011-10-14T20:30:16.581-06:00You'll be pleased to know that your environmen...You'll be pleased to know that your environmentally sustainable white text is even white in my RSS feed. The whole post appears empty inside Google Reader except for the links. You have managed to save countless pixels of type! You should be able to get some sort of award for this.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17013847036123410760noreply@blogger.com