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After seeing the clusterf*cks that are occurring in Upper Midwest states like Minnesota and Wisconsin, what with country club conservatives trying to bust unions or slash taxes for the rich, I'm quite happy I live to the Northwest of those places.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/201110 ... it-111005/

I prefer a place where issues like this dominated the campaign:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQn04K-tooM&[/youtube]

I just want to see John Ibbitson sit down and eat a huge, steaming plateful of the (ahem) material he has been spewing.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opi ... le2119969/

A solid NDP reelection in Manitoba, Hudak in the wilderness, a shift to the center in Alberta. From where I sit, it's the "conservative" premiers who are in the minority, not the other way 'round.

Their busting unions that make it difficult to produce and export stuff at a profit is a good thing. One happens to be state employees... but unions in general are an economic thorn on the side of northern states with a manufacturing hub.

It costs Ford an additional 6-8 dollars an hour per employee then at Nissan, Toyota, Honda, BMW, or VW. That is 6 multiplied 31,000(just a rough estimate, I've heard they employ up to 54,000 in the US) employees multiplied by 8 hours multiplied by 4 weeks multiplied by 12 months.

Whether you use the larger number or the smaller number, that is over 70 to 100 million dollars a year in benefits that Toyota and Honda and VW BMW don't have to pay. They can afford to build vehicles here in the US profitably and export them as well at a profit but unless Ford, GM, and Chrysler can get those costs down, it will be very dificult to compete.