ARE YOU HAPPY?

 There will be lots of people playing richy rich and people pretending to be poor. Deep inside they all are POOR! Maybe that's the trick and treats this Halloween. If you are truly rich and wealthy would you work? ARE YOU HAPPY? That's the ultimate question. 

Reminder: The rich people only have thick wallets full of credit cards! and endowed with bank loans!! Unless of course if they won millions of dollars in lottery  or selling drugs. The rest of them are just politicians and into graft and corruptions. The billionaires? Having AI Robots who are working non-stop without pay? That's added bonus to their empire.

YOU ARE TRULY WEALTHY if you are TRULY HAPPY! Otherwise you are just making a fool of yourself.

LUCKY OR NOT LUCKY?

Millions of people are complaining about being employed, working without pay! LOL. that's funny though. You know how long WE AT BLOGGERS/GOOGLE worked and working without pay? It is us paying for internet connection and electricity. For our visuals: photographs and images being posted are mostly with help with our digital camera. You wont believe how long some other blog writers are blogging... some of them worked here for over 20 years. 

How about me? I worked here since 2008. 17 years of Information Technology. Hard to believe that BLOGGERS are Information Technologists. BLOGGER.com or Blogspot is affiliated with Google. It was bought by Google from the original founder Mark Haughey. 

How other people work? How long and how much money they earned? How billionaires earned so much money? When those people have too much obstacles to earn  just minimum wages? 

Watch AMAZING RACE on how those contestants stopped and blocked other contestants not to reach their goals. The Amazing Race episode last night had Tucker and his brother winning the prize at the Pit Stop at the beach of Croatia where Phil Keoughan with the Croatian deep sea diver were waiting for them. Then Jag and Jas came in second. Rubina & Kristine (Filipina women) had been blocked by Adam & Joseph (are they Palestinians?)  in previous episode of the Amazing Race and that slowed down their quest. Unfortunately, Rubina and Kristine were eliminated at the Pit Stop. 

FIND OUT IF YOU ARE THE TARGET. Find out and check if you and your family is the target.

 That's right, in true real life, you can be blocked as you are a target of bullying or just random hate and violence or just that somebody somewhere you'll be asked to slow down or watch your step. Just like PM Carney warns Canadians of  "sacrifice."Darn it. Are we on recession? Too much sacrifices already since Trudeau and now PM Carney. TOO MUCH SACRIFICES NOT GOOD and doesn't resonate with Canadians! Sacrifices for ten years from stratospheric high cost of living? Then add more sacrifice? It is time to lessen the salary of those politicians who don't really work and just sitting on their ass.  Too many "watchers & listeners"  if you know what I mean.

A while ago after posting this blog, a scammer just phoned. What the hell.  That's what it is. A nurse once told me at the hospital, "Verna, you are no longer the target!"(Ha? I was a target before? Why?) I took it seriously! That whoever is targeting me I want to make sure that you wont be able to hide. 

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While in the USA, 42 million Americans are now recipient of Food Banks. There are less than 5 millions of Food Bank recipients here in Canada. In third world countries there are NO Food Banks. You guys are still lucky in Canada & the USA.

 

SUPPLY & DEMAND

 How honesty pays the price? Honesty the best policy? HIGH standard of living in  Canada and the US and the whole world knows that. That's why third world countries don't really know how poor some of the people here when they complain about the high cost of living. The complaints had something to do about how much bills are paid every month from utility bills to rent or mortgages. That's why BCGEU strikes and rally still in effect. Some workers for Canada Post are back to work. Then look at those teachers and health care workers on strike in Alberta. Teachers wont go back to work until their pleas been heard. 

For the Retirees and Seniors could only hope & pray for increase in their pensions. Pray for miracles!!

While the BLUE JAYS baseball fans prayed for another win for WORLD SERIES Game 3 ag. LA Dodgers, game to be held in California. UPDATE: For the first time in World Series, the game led to 18 innings. L.A. Dodgers winning 6-5. That was over 3 hours to 6 hours? Wow!! Neck to neck! And George Springer got injured and need an MRI. This is getting so strange and so weird.

PM Mark Carney made a deal with the ASEAN leaders in the TRADE SUMMIT in Malaysia. Trump didn't talk to PM Carney. They don't need. It's trade and commerce between ASEAN leaders. Trump is a difficult man to talk to with trade and deals of all kinds he changed his mind more often like an unstoppable train.  He doesn't think about economy and the crisis he created in the US and other countries with his demands. Making enemies instead of friends. It is un-American. It is not democratic. Is he sick? Right now, so many Americans wont have food on their table. Workers working without pay and a lot of complaints being aired on TV News Networks. HISTORY will record this presidency as the worst of all, when America's allies turned into enemies. More than century of American history will turn into dust? I hope not unless the Americans do something about it when it comes to fair trade and commerce. It's almost a year of deal and no deal with foreign leaders, what he thinks of being a president is a "tv host for deal or no deal show?"  Hmm, maybe he thought he is a television show host. People with dementia or a combi of schizo (with dual personality) they think of themselves as somebody else. They don't act their real self.

In Economics, what matter most is the LAW of Supply & Demand. That's the focus! What's in demand? What's in demand then there is  the rise of supply.

UPDATE: TORONTO BLUE JAYS the IN Demand now! Dodgers won last year and they made Ohtani their hero. Toronto had a galaxy of heroes in their team as if they are "Guardians of the Galaxy."

JUST FAIR ENOUGH

 The Prime Minister of Canada Hon. Mark Carney addressed the ASEAN Plenary economic Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He said it "right." No other explanation to justify the cause. 

The ad about former US Pres. Ronald Reagan was true, correct and factual, just that  Trump doesn't want to hear and the whole world to know.

Former W. McKinley doesn't like tariff either but he imposed tariff too. It will hurt Americans more than it will hurt other countries. Other countries especially Asian countries would just trade with their own countries within Asia. European countries would do the same. 

Without tariff, American goods and other foreign goods or products were already more expensive compared with locally produced then add tariffs then that's the end of trade and commerce. Just what Ronald Reagan said it will hurt Americans more than it will  hurt the other countries.

If Trump continues with his demand for tariffs, no other ships will be coming and going in American dockyards. Americans have to rely on their locally produced stuff. 

When I was in the Philippines in 1995, I noticed that the Philippines supermarkets such as Shoemart, Landmark & Rustan's already were patronizing Canadian products. Then with one million Filipinos in Canada, of course we are consumers/buyers of Canadian products from foods, clothing, cars, housing, and whatever is produced here locally. It is a give and take, buy and sell in fair trade and commerce.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS WON FIRST DAY OF THE WORLD SERIES 2025

 CBC News Network had dedicated their special day on sponsoring the whole event leading to the first day of the WORLD SERIES in Toronto, Ontario. TORONTO BLUE JAYS Vs LA DODGERS. CBC news anchor and reporters interviewed those excited Blue Jays fans and there were so many of them in hundreds of thousands, sadly they wont be able to fit all of them in a 50,000 capacity Roger's Stadium/Arena. Of course millions of Canadians and other fans from all over the world want to see this world series happened because how long Blue Jays been stuck from their 1993 Championship? That was 32 years ago. 

So glad that Toronto Blue Jays won last night's game to the delight of the fans at the Roger's Arena and millions of viewers across Canada and in the US. However, after that game 3 more games to go. You can only hope and pray for the next game after this. 

I don't really know why this baseball game takes that long. It's the same with hockey game wherein there is playoffs and the battle takes longer period of time to end with winning the Stanley Cup. Patience is always a virtue watching all these games unfold and it put stress & pressures on those sports enthusiasts or aficionados.

In regular Blue Jays play time matches with other teams from the USA, you heard more often of Vladimir Guerrero, Schneider, George Springer, Bo Bichette, Varsho having home runs. Then all of a sudden TBJ had Kirk, Barger whose names are often been heard having home runs, of course George & Vladimir are still the best of the best of the TOP PLAYERS. Vladimir Guerrero won the MVP trophy. Congrats Vladimir!

In the 90's BLUE JAYS baseball players/team  that were top of the line were:  Joe Carter, Halladay, Roberto Alomar, Vernon Wells, John Olerud, Gaston, etc. Usually TEAM EFFORT to gain Championship.

Well, wishing them more GOOD LUCK and hope they win the 2025 CHAMPIONSHIP because they deserve this better than anyone else.

CANADIANS ARE DOING THER HOMEWORK!!

 "WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER" according to Premier Doug FORD of Ontario CANADA. Sure is. However, why Trump is sulking? Trump is upset about the Reagan ad frequently been seen on TV nationwide this morning. Canadians are doing their homework!! GOOD WORK!!

Consider that as BREAKING NEWS! So what is that old ad about? When president Reagan announced his disappointment with Japan's products overflowing in the USA: brand named products such as Toyota, SONY, etc. much economically cheaper than the American products which harmed America's economy, Reagan imposed necessary tariffs to help his fellow Americans although he doesn't like tariffs at all. 

What's really wrong with tariffs? Tariffs imposed on raw materials then additional tariffs on already made products! DOUBLE TARIFF as double burden for buyers and consumers! You should call them as CRUELTY TARIFFS by Trump.

Now what? Trump "lavishly" imposed exorbitant tariffs to all countries around the world to protect his "people." When he can just ask those billionaires to PAY TAXES they owed to the US GOVERNMENT. Plain and simple. Those TAXES are supposedly budget for every works of the Government and its Departments.

Now what? Let's go back to Canada's PM Carney. What "sacrifices" he warned Canadians? Are you to jump on the crater of the volcano? Are you to be his lamb as a sacrifice? Are you to be crucified on the cross? Or Carney as a sacrifice? That is so weird of him, right? He should clear what he meant by his "sacrifices."

MULTI TASKS

 NOVEMBER 4, 2025 date to table the Federal Budget according to the Prime Minister of Canada. Why it takes too long?

Too many problems in the government and part of it was the tariff threat imposed by Trump. 

Wait a second, is the Parliament Building in Ottawa already finished? The renovation project for that famous building started during at the time of former PM Stephen Harper... 12 years ago? 

You know how fast those condominiums are built in the city where I live? Less than a year!! It takes 2 months to built or construct a 3 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms, with double garage and manicured lawn. Everything's fast, including how days passed us by so quickly. 

What? Who is the Minister of Money? LOL. I hope that Minister is a billionaire. It is when there are too many millionaires and billionaires out there then that's when too many people are getting poor. It is weird right? Its because graft and corruption is part of the system. There are no rich or wealthy people if there is no corruption.

Hmm... where do you think I heard that? Ha ha! I am the "listener now and the watcher too." Thank God for TV.  The good thing is I am a multi- tasker!