{"id":6953,"date":"2010-12-20T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2010-12-20T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T12:51:52","slug":"the-typical-budgeting-strategy-of-most-canadians-is-1-get-paid-2-spend-it-all-3-borrow-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/the-typical-budgeting-strategy-of-most-canadians-is-1-get-paid-2-spend-it-all-3-borrow-more\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The typical budgeting strategy of most Canadians is 1. Get paid 2. Spend it all 3. Borrow more.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/12\/20\/kelly-mcparland-canadas-wishful-thinking-pension-program\/#ixzz18ei1qWWU\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly McParland<\/a> looks at the efforts of the Canadian and provincial governments to come to some sort of agreement over pension reform:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you want a hint of the difficulty of winning agreement on an issue like Canada\u2019s creaking pension system, consider this carefully considered statement from Finance Minister Jim Flaherty:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a multi-jurisdictional challenge to get a consensus on the CPP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>If you speak politics, you realize that \u201cmulti-jurisdictional challenge\u201d means that getting the country\u2019s federal and provincial leaders to agree on anything beyond what time to quit for lunch is beyond the power of mere mortals. It is especially hopeless on an issue as fraught with electoral danger pensions, which, after all, are all about old people and their money.  Who votes in far bigger numbers than any other demographic? Old people. What gets them more excited than half-price fares to Florida? Their money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly McParland looks at the efforts of the Canadian and provincial governments to come to some sort of agreement over pension reform: If you want a hint of the difficulty of winning agreement on an issue like Canada\u2019s creaking pension system, consider this carefully considered statement from Finance Minister Jim Flaherty: \u201cIt\u2019s a multi-jurisdictional challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,53],"tags":[71,544],"class_list":["post-6953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-politics","tag-debt","tag-pensions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1O9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}