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Old 03-10-2007, 01:02 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by Flames in 07 View Post
Not, cut back on expenses, freakin move to where the jobs are. Clearly that region cannot support that population that is there. Rather than artifically prop up an entire region and subsideize everyones quality of life, just encourage everyone to move where the jobs are. Makes for a more productive country. Every economist on earth would tell you that is about as simple a concept as 1+1.
here's the neat thing about human beings, there are other factors in life other than economics.

My family is in the Maritimes, ergo I want to be in the Maritimes. Should I deprive myself of the people I care about because there's more jobs in Calgary?

That doesn't seem to make too much sense to me.
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