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Offline Pongo

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« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2003, 11:40:45 PM »
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If I'm hearing you right you are saying that this whole baby boom retirment thing is bad?????

 


What I am saying is that all western courtries will be hit with the same sitation. How they pay for it is irrelivant. Including how Canada will pay for it and not the others invalidates the graph.

Offline _Schadenfreude_

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« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2003, 12:27:28 AM »
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Originally posted by miko2d
Canadians have bigger problems to worry about than military. In fact, they would be lucky if someone invaded them and took over their fiscal mess



In the long run we are all broke

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Hah!! We're less broke than the rest of you sorry bums...still broke though...

Offline SLO

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« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2003, 07:38:51 AM »
I'm broke...

so I'm I bud...I'm broke too.

so I'm I,  says the other idiot....

well question is....WHO is MORE broke then the other:rofl

Offline Ripper29

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« Reply #33 on: December 05, 2003, 07:42:23 AM »
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Originally posted by sling322
So.....how long was that shot after the exchange rate?






:D


2,657.480315 yards  :p

or

1.509932 miles :eek:

Offline Chanter

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« Reply #34 on: December 06, 2003, 12:48:49 PM »
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Originally posted by Krusher
Canada's air force, as well as either the army or navy, will likely cease to exist around the end of this decade unless the federal government orders a massive infusion of cash, warns a Queen's University study to be released today.

If funding for new equipment continues to decline and is not increased, "then the air force will likely disappear through the 2008-2013 time frame, and either the army or navy will disappear in the same time frame."


http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id=E61A3349-665F-4798-B803-5CEF252A1D47


Golly Gee I hope not. :rolleyes:

I've got a contract until 2018. (Not to mention a mortgage, baby due in 2 weeks etc etc)

Unless of course they give me a sweet contract buy out like they did for Ottawa's City Manager. :aok
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« Reply #35 on: December 06, 2003, 12:53:25 PM »
The USA is still GODZILLA and that's all that matters :)

We are "broke" lol