...well, the thread's all about "149,000 manufacturing jobs since 2002; 100,000 of these in 2005 alone. Ontario manufacturing has lost 74,000 jobs since 2003"... Every productive job supports about ten jobs (no, that's NOT "trickle down economics") so the disappearance of "149,000 manufacturing jobs" eventually has an effect on over a million jobs. I was in the Ukraine in 2004, 70% regional unemployment, guess what, the teachers and nurses and cops etc on the public payroll weren't exactly living the middle class dream either, there's a tipping point where it all goes down down down... Print more rupees... I predicted the price of oil would be $80-$100 by the end of 2006 and I was wrong, it hasn't gone much over $70 so far.