Comments for Scott's DiaTribes

Comment on Olive: Time to play hardball with Caterpillar (but you can bet the Conservatives won’t) by Al

Al — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:56:23 +0000

@ Fred from BC. Caterpillar never had any intention to remain open when they are receiving huge incentives to bring jobs back to the USA under Federal legislation passed by the Obama administration. You’re the sap if you believe otherwise.And no, $34 an hour is not too much to pay skilled tradesmen like millwrights and welders. Calling them simple laborers in an insult.Do a little research…

Comment on Olive: Time to play hardball with Caterpillar (but you can bet the Conservatives won’t) by Fred from BC

Fred from BC — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:08:17 +0000

The union tried to play hardball when they refused to let their members vote, and they have now paid the price (although no one ever seems to point out the fact that the union executives are never in danger of losing *their* high-paying jobs, only the poor saps who actually work for a living and pay their union dues monthly). Paying laborers and janitors 34 dollars an hour is ridiculous, and the thought that the government of Canada could (or should) intervene is equally daft. Economic reality strikes again, I’m afraid…

Comment on Olive: Time to play hardball with Caterpillar (but you can bet the Conservatives won’t) by Jon

Jon — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:07:01 +0000

This is Canada. We don’t take back what’s ours when foreign powers lie to us, break their side of the agreement and in general act in bad faith. We take over and wreck what Canadians have a stake in instead. Like destroying income trusts. Or nationalizing the Wheat Board. Or giving up and paying off instead of fighting spurious NAFTA challenges.

If we let foreign interests walk all over us enough, then maybe they’ll stop hurting us…

Comment on Olive: Time to play hardball with Caterpillar (but you can bet the Conservatives won’t) by Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:17:46 +0000

Nationalizing industry and annexing private property? Where are we, Venezuela? As for the oilsands angle; punishing one industry for the sins of another makes zero sense.

How can a government encourage investment with a track record of flying off the handle and punitively damaging individual companies when they don’t like an executive decision?

Absurd from start to finish.

PS. I don’t know what kind of work these employees do but comparing it to “high-skill work akin to auto-making” is silly. Most auto-workers sit on an assembly line installing the same couple of parts over and over again. When machines took over the hard stuff all that was left was the menial tasks. Why do you think the American car companies went through the sh!tter. You can’t pay the “light bulb” guy what a non-unionized accountant makes.

Comment on It’s time to step on a Caterpillar, Premier Mcguinty by stan

stan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:52:37 +0000

55% pay cut?
Only if you beleive the union lies:

http://paulsrants-paulsstuff.blogspot.com/2012/02/emd-workers-agree-to-100-pay-cut.html

Comment on It’s time to step on a Caterpillar, Premier Mcguinty by kjmartin

kjmartin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:12:24 +0000

So the company makes a profi world wide. So what
Companys are supposed to make profits. Guess what>>if this plant is not profitable then they have the right as a private business to make decisions to return it to profit. There is greed on both sides here. Most are skilled labour there which through union negotiations have over priced the skills they have. To ask a government to interfere…and of course scott always will throw harpers name on top..
harper…mcguinty have no right to dictate to a private company on how to run the business
i know one person who is working there as a unskilled labourer and he lives in a 500000 home.
perhaps he should live below his means just in case something like this does happen. I do.

Comment on Getting into the spirit of things, post-Liberal convention. by Stan

Stan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:52:11 +0000

The liberals want to jail farmers for selling their own wheat but want to legalize pot?
Interesting…

Comment on ‘Canada is becoming a jingoistic petro-state’ by Stan

Stan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:51:05 +0000

The so called greens are radicals, they have no logical agenda and are dupes of the real petro states.
And they lie constantly.

Comment on Harper to First Nations: Bother my MP’s, not me, with your issues. by Stan

Stan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:48:50 +0000

Poor Scott is getting more pathetic every day.
His socialist greed and progressive hate has destroyed his brain….he just can’t think straight anymore.

Comment on Public backlash forces Harper to back down a bit on OAS cuts by Stan

Stan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:47:10 +0000

Basic arithmetic is incomprehensible to greedy socialists?
What part of the arithmetic were you having trouble understanding?
And when did Harper say any of the things you accuse him of?