The entire  world economy isn't working. It's in a death spiral.

while i do agree that canada is not perfect and there are so many things that we could be doing to improve, i think that the united states has it way worse than we do.

NOW HERE IS AN IDEA WORTH PASSING ON--from a fellow Newfoundlander: Forget Wall Street, Occupy Hollywood

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Hey hippies, why don't you occupy these people? They make tons of money for little to no work

Rex Murphy,  Nov 5, 2011, writes: You hear it in every little encampment in every city that has a franchise in the current “Occupy” protests: The righteous tent-and-yurt people are against “greed.”

They see greed as the demonic dynamo of a rapacious capitalism (and its maidservant, “income inequality”). And what represents greed better than mega-payoffs, dazzling bonuses and stock options, for very little actual work, and sometimes even when performance is far below par? It is only to be expected that the high-flying brokers, bankers and CEOs that cluster like flies around the honey pots of Wall Street, who waltz off with payoffs that would shame a Croesus, are the occupiers’ main targets.

I suggest, however, that by limiting their wrath to the sharks and swine of Wall Street, they are, if I may say, shortchanging themselves. There are many venues and theatres of greed other than the stock market. And they are tenanted by agents of ferocity and appetite equal to any gold-lusting shill at an investment bank. Greed has many McMansions, and they are all worth the “occupying.”

Has anyone, for example, apart from her jilted “husband,” thought of occupying … Kim Kardashian?

Of course, I mean “occupy” purely in its fashionable protest sense. Occupy her, not for being even more formidably vulgar and avaricious than Paris Hilton, a truly Olympic distinction. No — occupy her for running a tawdry TV spectacle called (hand over mouth, please) Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event, selling the rights, drowning in the publicity and then announcing the “divorce” a mere 72 days into the staged connubial farce.

Various reports — one from the New York Post, for instance — put the revenues from this mockery, the flow of cash to Kardashian Inc., at something over $17-million. Is it possible — yes I’m reverting to the great cliché without the smack of an apology — that we live in a world where children starve for want of a dime a day, while this bloated, vacuous ego gets to rake in $17-million for a gaudy, inane travesty?

If greed’s the target, and vulgarity a bonus, then Occupy Kim Kardashian. Occupy the whole dam clan of Khardashians for their shameless cupidity.

Alas, Kim and her clan are only emblems of a wider, deeper and equally deplorable phenomenon. Want to really talk excess rewards and ridiculous spending? Go find James Cameron. Avatar, the puerile 3-D eco-fairytale, was his latest and most expensive cinematic trinket, approaching $500-million to make, according to some estimates. Half a billion dollars — that’s billion with a B — to make a three-hour distraction. Occupy James Cameron for epic excess and pointless expenditure in a world of want and woe.

Speaking of which, is there not something appalling about paying $30-million to Jim Carrey to shriek at a camera while screwing up his face for a couple of days? Or $20-million to Cameron Diaz to chirp and smile for an hour. Or millions to Megan Fox for wearing tight jeans. Why then is there not an Occupy Hollywood movement twice as furious and twice as righteous as the Wall Street one?

Occupy the rap-music industry. This is greed on steroids. Is Fiddy Cent really worth millions for his thuggish persona? And occupy Lady Gaga while you’re at it.

The sphere of outrages, as you can see, is potentially limitless: pseudo-literature, art auctions, sports stars.

Limiting these delightful protests to the banal and obvious target of Wall Street is a failure of imagination and initiative. Greed has more high class venues and more outrageous exemplars by far. So there is no need to stick around in a cold park, next to an overcrowded yurt, and a mere mini-riot away from the police nightstick. Head off to Hollywood, or wherever bad music is made, gape at anything called Reality TV — greed, excess, and inequity leprously spot the entire landscape.

National Post

Rex Murphy offers commentary weekly on CBC TV’s The National, and is host of CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup.

well done--Rex Murphy is a smart man and I love his comments.

I just don't understand people's opinions on people who "have."

If a person has a good education and works hard and does well and makes a lot of money, there is nothing wrong with that. If they inherit a lot of money it's not your business either. Wealthy people donate millions of $ to charities and that is their choice but they do it.

What is up with all of you lefties that think somebody other than yourself should support you????????