It is that easy, it is that do-able. Most aren't prepared to, preferring to knock those that have as fat cats.

I have absolutely no respect for those that complain, yet do nothing - about anything!

That's a very strange stance for one that complains about liquor laws in BC to adopt

No it isn't. It's exactly the stance somebody who complains about BC liquor laws would adopt.

You have two companies producing widgets:
Company A in Canada produces them for cost $100
Company B in the US produces them for $90, because it pays it's staff less or has a more efficient process.

Fair enough. Company B sells more widgets and/or makes more profit.

But if you have:
Company A in Canada produces them for cost $100
Company B in the US produces them for $110, but receives a subsidy from the government at $20/widget to bring the net cost to $90

Unfair. Company B is more profitable because it's being propped up by US taxpayers. Company B's widgets that are imported into Canada should be taxed at least $20 per widget.

Widgets are subsidy exempt

I thought we were talking lower hourly rates.

I defer to your greater expertise

Now you are just taking the piss

I seem to recall that a man called Adolph had created a lot of jobs for British workers around that time.

Finally the Thatcher legacy comes home to roost. Everyone who ever voted Tory is paying the price.

London's burning with boredom now.

Poverty and disparity is a dangerous thing. Just a matter of time til it comes to Canada, especially under people like Harper, Hudak and Ford.

Even my Canadian girlfriend noticed that the politicians, police administrators and reporters don't look or sound like the protesters.

Give them Maggie and Cameron. This is the arab spring of the UK.

Oh, Boris too and the rest of the Bullingdon Club...

I trust you are more objective in your academic life than you are on this board. I thought that there were 13 or so years of Labour between the personalities you mention. What about those years or do you simply ignore facts that don't support your theories? University of East Anglia and all that

I don't think the 13 years of Labour improved things, but the blame still lies with Thatcher.

I don't understand the notion of objectivity. my research is unapolegtically subjective.

Every Prime Minister of the UK since WW2 with the exception of Callaghan and Major were Oxbridge educated. Not terribly representative of the wider populace.

How does the blame lie with the conservatives? Every time they have been in power they (eventually) reduce unemployment. When Major left office the country's economy was in the best shape it had been in for decades, a fact which Brown tried to claim credit for. Then Labour came in, sold off the gold reserves for nothing, spent and spent without restraint, pouring huge amounts of this money into welfare, breaking the economy in the process and created a disgustingly unambitious benefit scrounging generation that since the beginning has created nothing but misery for respectable citizens who are trying to make a living. These riots are just that corrosive culture taken to a new height, the occasional band of chavs you saw on the street are now one giant angry gang with nothing better to do then smash shops and steal plasma TVs.

Brown?

Not that there is anything wrong with being Oxbridge educated, just don't be a twat if you are.