"It must be true because I said it"
In a classic example of the title statement, our MP expects us to believe something because he said it. This story, tells of the C of C's breakfast budget meeting wherein Mr Norlock was asked to explain the statement that this Riding has produced new jobs This riding has net job gains: Northumberland MP - Northumberland Today - Ontario, CA. "Where are these jobs?" one fellow asked? "I'll get back to you." was the answer. So in the light of last months Statscan report where we showed that Unemployment has doubled in the economic region in one year here it is doubtful that he can prove what he said. New jobs: what are they and where are they? Take for instance the County's new ambulance depot. Peak construction has been working there for a few months did they or any of its subcontractors take on new people - I'll bet that they kept on their existing workforce. No new jobs but perhaps new work for old jobs. Until the Cons post stimulus figures on the web, as Obama does, then transparency is not achieved and we are left with the fact that official spokespeople can get up and say anything they want and expect to be believed because they said it.
8 comments:
Tread carefully, Ben. I wouldn't put it past Norlock to run out to the job bank and hire a couple of hundred down-n-outers to hand deliver the mountain of Budget Good News! flyers tumbling out of his constituancy office door as we speak.
Then, boldly proclaim 200 new jobs in Northumberland directly attributable to The Conservative Party Of Canada!
This must be a case of great minds thinking alike. As that insightful author Ben Burd was compiling this very post, I was typing up my letter to the editor of North'd Today concerning that same piece of bullshit emanating from Mr. Norlock on alleged job gains.
Don't you think if it was true he'd be shouting it from the roof tops and would know exactly how many jobs were created? None of this get-back-to-you crap.
It was also worthy of note that he declined to distribute copies of the budget, the one piece of literature that could be used against him by financially literate citizens. Maybe he was just afraid somebody would ask him a question he couldn't answer, which would be most of them.
We have to do something about Northumberland's dinosaur problem if we hope to get rid of this large but dumb Tyranosaurus Rex.
I asked him to stop sending mail to our house, and the reply was that it's not possible to stop it.
What's sad about the news clip you've provided here is that Valerie MacDonald, like most of the current crop of local reporters (many of whom have been around for far too long to serve the community effectively), fails to provide the balance that you, Ben, provided in your report. Until we see some daily reporting that challenges and exposes, and does not simply regurgitate what the local politicos state, those good ole boys and girls can retreat to their taxpayer-funded offices and not worry about a thing.
Almost 60 more high paying jobs lost or going to be lost in N. Couny this week alone through Cameco and the Hospital. All paying well over 20 hr. Wake up Rick.
Curious that in today's online edition of Northumberland Today, this article's title has been changed.
Now, instead of trumpeting "net job gains in riding" the title says "Norlock talks Budget over Breakfast".
Since it is essentially the same article, it's hard not to wonder if pressure was applied on the paper to change it to spare Norlock the embarrassment of being seen, again, to be unaware of the realities in his riding.
Let's hope not, but it sure looks that way.
I agree with Deb O very strange that what should have been an article showing how out of touch our M.P. with the realities so many are facing here there is such a sugar coating.
What, you people are a bunch of heretics ! Flaherty has said all the new jobs created over the next few years will remove the debt ( look for a winfall in increased tax revenues ), because " this is what Conservatives do ". That seems to be enough for a lot of Canadians. And,those photo ops of our sports-minded PM, unburdened of Parliament, at the recent Olympics have given the Tories a bump up in the polls it appears. Hell,it almost turned me off curling. The lost revenue through the Conservative-inspired 2 % chop in GST would look good about now. You have to wonder the form the next Conservative epiphany might assume?
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