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Topic: There's unemployment, lots of it.
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bruce_the_vii
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posted 06 April 2008 07:05 PM
I’ve been reading government reports and I was perusing Statistics Canada’s “Labour Force at a Glance”. It details how the employment rate varies all over the country and is not captured by the official unemployment statistic but states that they think only 1% of the missing workers are thought to want a job. That is very conveniently for the government as people in the regions where there are no jobs don’t actually want a job. Survey says. It admits that little is known about these missing workers. The situation in Canada is bad as the employment in best cities is about 10% above the biggies of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. However the real cesspool turns out to be Europe. France and Germany employment is about 10% below Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver while Italy is about 10% below France and Germany. The percent of working age people with jobs (the "employment rate") would be 71% in Calgary, 62% in Canada, 53% in France, 52% in Germany and the bring up the rear is Italy with 45%. The data is for 2004. I checked my files and Nfld and Labrador's employment rate is 50%. That's some thing like Germany and France. Italy is well behind. The news media on N. Italy is they have a robust economy, equivalent to Germany and Nfld and Labrador. [ 06 April 2008: Message edited by: bruce_the_vii ]
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Fidel
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posted 07 April 2008 10:01 AM
quote: Originally posted by bruce_the_vii: I don't see why the concern with Gobal Warming instead of the world population. The point with that is that with funding birth control programs is effective so this is really a priority for everybody.
And the industrial-capitalist model has never worked well for the vast majority. We are using up resources at rates which will guarantee absolute poverty for hundreds of millions of human beings down the road. 25 years ago, there were 500 million living with chronic hunger. Today the number is 850 million and anywhere from four to 13 million human beings dying of the capitalist economic long run each and every year like clockwork. It's planned and enforced genocide. Nouveau Liberal capitalism is the disproportionate sharing of misery and unspeakable human suffering in order that much can have more. Capitalism has managed to breed compassion out of the gene pool over the course of centuries. Capitalism is a monstrous ideology. Socialism or barbarism? That was decided long ago behind closed doors by shadowy, megalomaniacal figureheads possessing neither souls nor basic human decency. [ 07 April 2008: Message edited by: Fidel ]
From: Viva La Revolución | Registered: Apr 2004
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Fidel
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posted 17 April 2008 04:55 PM
This story from Foreign workers leave mussel farmer in the lurch is a laugher. quote: Stewart paid $21,000 in air fare, renovated a house for them, and bought a van for them to get around. In all, it cost him about $50,000, and in return they signed an eight-month contract.The workers arrived on May 6 and a month later, Stewart believes they hired two taxi vans to take them to Ottawa. Paul Snow, an immigration official in Charlottetown, told CBC News Tuesday he can't comment specifically about the case, but he said it is a very rare for temporary foreign workers to leave before they have fulfilled their contracts.
Our stoogeocrats and industry friends are so good to foreigners. HA HA!
From: Viva La Revolución | Registered: Apr 2004
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