to the CBC reporter, who with a big smile, told me that private banks are getting 8-33% MORE in bonuses this year. FUCK YOU and your smile. you tell me that Canada’s economy is better, but for who? OVER 357,000 Canadian’s have lost their jobs this year, and those assholes want more money?!?! why don’t you just come right out and tell us we’re being royally screwed…
—unemployed trades person
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2009.
Which trade are you unemployed from OP?
Times are tough for everybody, dude. I just got laid off from my job at one of those banks, thank you very much. You don’t see me whining about it. Apply for EI (as little as it is) and pound the pavement.
Dr Fever – private bank in Halifax ???? Where and can I join ?
I think the CBC dude was referring to Goldman Sachs etc, although they are on NYSE.
Friggin banks, still in business, still paying dividends to pension plans and RRSPs and life insurance policy holders. Why are our banks so solid ? (Because they are not in America or the UK. In the UK they are still lending up to 125% of the value of a home and the government has said they will not stop the practice.)
its wrong, all wrong. times don’t have to be tough, but they are engineered to be tough. how in the hell did we get here? we said we would never go through another depression, yet here we are on the verge of it again, and what is going to be there to save us from it…..? WAR, we are going back to war, watch the news read the paper, the propaganda is starting up and it will be the only way to keep this economic bubble from bursting.
break away from corporate life start buying local, support local, grow your own food, give to the community some how. JUST because they are letting things go to shit doesn’t mean we cant stop it at a community to community basis.
Things have never been better for me.