[mtpockets]

Where have I ever asked you for money Ziggy? Keep your money man. Take your backhoe, dig a hole and bury it. You're gonna need it when the bottom completely falls out of your oil industry.

[Brenda]

mtpockets mtpockets:

Brenda Brenda:

mtpockets mtpockets:

Yeah but are you f*cking immigrant? There's a difference apparently.

Is there? I don't know Do I care? Nope. Call me whatever you want, and let me laugh about myself. Whining Princesses are not what made this country the awesome country it is. I don't care if you are born here, your ancestors were, you came by boat, train, plane or automobile. We have to do it together. Complaining is not helping to keep this country the awesome place that it is. Doing something is. Separating is not.

What more do you want Newfoundland to do? You already have the majority of our population spread across the land, you have decimated our fishery to the point of extinction, you have forced us to sign a shitty deal with Quebec on Churchill Falls, you have made us the brunt of your lame jokes, you have a disproportionate number of our young men and women dying in Afghanistan, you have sucked any chance of economic prosperity from the oil industry into the federal coffers....we're running out of ideas. How else can we help?

You think you are alone in your "mysery"? World economy is shit now, not just that part of Canada's...
YOUR population spread across the land... This is CANADA. YOUR population as in Newfoundland is kinda... bullshit, imho.

How else can you help... Change your attitude and consider yourself Canadian.

[mtpockets]

raydan raydan:

mtpockets mtpockets:

Hey no fair Raydan. Geez, bumped again by Quebec....

Finally, I think I got him laughing.
Doesn't that feel better?

Haha...I'll give you that one. Only because I see the brilliant sarcasm in your comment.

[ziggy]

mtpockets mtpockets:

Where have I ever asked you for money Ziggy? Keep your money man. Take your backhoe, dig a hole and bury it. You're gonna need it when the bottom completely falls out of your oil industry.

I bet you would like that.

Good thing we are diversified,oil isnt everything.

Now were getting your gas industry going so what more do you want?
Check the companies doing the drilling,infrastructure and pipelines in your neck of the woods.
Mostly American's and Albertans.

You can thank us later.

[mtpockets]

So Brenda, ignore all those issues I pointed out and suck it up right? Gotcha...

[ziggy]

I had Ukranian relatives interned in a prison camp here in Alberta during the war,when do I get my cheque?

[sandorski]

RUEZ RUEZ:

sandorski sandorski:

Ottawa ought to stop Regional Developement. Quebec gets $$ and wants to leave, Alberta gets $$ and wants to leave, Newfoundland gets $$ and wants to leave. It's as if they all think they did it themselves when something pans out.

Well to be correct, few people in Alberta want to leave.

True. Made the comment for the few who like to bring the idea up at times.

[mtpockets]

ziggy ziggy:

mtpockets mtpockets:

Where have I ever asked you for money Ziggy? Keep your money man. Take your backhoe, dig a hole and bury it. You're gonna need it when the bottom completely falls out of your oil industry.

I bet you would like that.

Good thing we are diversified,oil isnt everything.

Now were getting your gas industry going so what more do you want?
Check the companies doing the drilling,infrastructure and pipelines in your neck of the woods.
Mostly American's and Albertans.

You can thank us later.

Enlighten me on Alberta's diversification. Without oil and gas you'd be back to the breadbasket of Canada. Not much money in that I'm afraid with super farms on the rise while the mom and pop operations are on the decline. No I don't wish Alberta any ill will at all. On the contrary, Alberta has been good to me over the years. As much as you try to paint this as a Newfoundland vs Alberta discussion, you are falling flat I'm afraid.

Well hey, you're welcome. Nice to be able to help with providing much needed jobs to Albertans. Just another in a long list of contributions we're making to Canada. See Brenda, we're doing our part.

[ziggy]

Well if you think were just about oil then it shows your more ignorant then most so I'm not going to waste my time telling you what it's like because you have your mind made up.

Dont die of old age waiting for sympathy or a cheque cuz it's gonna be a long wait.
I have no sympathy for anyone who crys the poor me rhetoric,get off your ass and do something instead of bitching about what would have happened if Hitler landed on your shores.

[mtpockets]

And with that Ziggy, I shall crawl back into my hole and never be heard from again...schmuck. To be fair though, you asked earlier for an explanation on a comment I made and I provided further information to help you understand. Now, when I ask for further info from you I get the cold shoulder. I feel so used.

[ziggy]

mtpockets mtpockets:

And with that Ziggy, I shall crawl back into my hole and never be heard from again...schmuck. To be fair though, you asked earlier for an explanation on a comment I made and I provided further information to help you understand. Now, when I ask for further info from you I get the cold shoulder. I feel so used.

Ya,poor you.

I have no sympathy for someone who constantly whines about how hard they were done by many years ago.

Get over it,Hitler didnt invade and we didnt raze Newfoundland.
We also didnt kill all your fish,maybe do some research on that part first.

[mtpockets]

Ziggy, I'm ok now. I spoke to my therapist and she told me to suck it up.

When you say 'we' I take it your talking about the ROC and not Alberta. Given that, let's explore the fishery a little closer and see where that leads. How about this little article for starters. I'm not sure how you create a link so you might have to do a little work and copy it into your browser. Can you do that at least?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9011

In it it states:

"Canada has recently expressed interest in a wider FTA (Free Trade Agreement) type agreement with the EU, and at their Summit in June 2007 the parties agreed to undertake a Joint Study to examine the existing barriers - especially non-tariff barriers - to the flow of goods, services and capital between the EU and Canada, and to estimate the potential benefits of removing such barriers.

At their Summit on October 17, the EU and Canada agreed to “work together to define the scope of a deepened economic agreement and to establish the critical points for its successful conclusion”.

During all of this the EU has continued to allow fishing vessels from its member nations to sail across the Atlantic in order to commercially harvest threatened fish stocks on the fringes of Canada’s 200-mile limit. They’ve done this while ensuring that harmful trade tariffs imposed against Atlantic Canadian shrimp exports to the EU remain in place.

On Monday, March 2, 2009, the European Union voted in favor of a complete ban on all humanely and harvest seal products from a fully sustainable Canadian seal harvest, a move that is almost sure to kill the industry and severely impact on low income families in rural Atlantic Canada.

The federal government of Canada, including Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, has since side stepped any questions put to them about imposing trade sanctions against the EU over their actions.

In the wake of this recent actions by the EU, new trade talks between the EU and Canada are still slated to proceed as planned."

This is more of the same support NL has gotten from Canada on the fisheries issue. They allow the EU to continue overfishing in the name of better trade relations. It was this very same oversight that contributed to the decimation of our cod stocks. If you don't see the injustice here than you are blinder than I thought you were.

[Brenda]

mtpockets mtpockets:

So Brenda, ignore all those issues I pointed out and suck it up right? Gotcha...

How can you work on all those issues if you don't consider yourself Canadian? How can you blame a government for all your shit, that you don't see as yours?

[Brenda]

$1:

I spoke to my therapist and she told me to suck it up.

You realize I charge $ 250/hr?

[mtpockets]

Brenda Brenda:

mtpockets mtpockets:

So Brenda, ignore all those issues I pointed out and suck it up right? Gotcha...

How can you work on all those issues if you don't consider yourself Canadian? How can you blame a government for all your shit, that you don't see as yours?

I am working on it. Do you think I'm blowing steam up your behind? I've never been more serious in my life. Either this attitude towards NL stops or get ready to face the music. See my post above on the fisheries for one of the reasons I'm pissed.