tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post4767042013308958998..comments2009-10-12T15:45:29.467-04:00Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740ben@eagle.caBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-75192159518408337772009-10-12T15:36:21.960-04:002009-10-12T15:36:21.960-04:00Ben,<br /> <br />A blueprint for your future?<br /> <br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12communicator.html?_r=1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-74411444530832872032009-10-12T11:19:55.434-04:002009-10-12T11:19:55.434-04:00Answering from home, this skilled machinist is not employed as a machinist or anything in Cobourg because of local resistance to BB and I&#39;ll say no more. But on the other hand I choose to drive as a temp because I can afford to. I don&#39;t have to take the first thing available, TH or any other thing a very lucky option available to very few others.Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-69653635227774401772009-10-12T09:17:48.054-04:002009-10-12T09:17:48.054-04:00Why are skilled workers serving coffee at a Tim Hortons? Why are experienced workers being sidelined? Bringing it right home: Why does a qualified machinist have to drive a truck on midnights between Ottawa and Pickering -- as a *temporary* position?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-24716637709090498802009-10-11T11:53:14.932-04:002009-10-11T11:53:14.932-04:00If our unemployment rate is not rising, as suggested by the first poster, why are more and more local people using food banks? <br /><br />Why did United Way give away hundreds more school back packs to children this year? <br /><br />Why is the waiting list for subsidised housing growing? <br /><br />Why is the emergency shelter bursting at the seams?<br /><br />Why is the welfare roll up by 40%?<br /><br />Or are all those people just too lazy to grab all these jobs floating around? That&#39;s it, we&#39;ll just blame the unemployed for the problems and then we can ignore them all. <br /><br />It&#39;s a strategy well used by the federal tories, who don&#39;t want to improve unemployment insurance to include their version of the &quot;undeserving&quot;.Deb Onoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-50263796079562403752009-10-11T10:11:24.835-04:002009-10-11T10:11:24.835-04:00Tell that to the Kraft workers and now the Viceroy people. Even one job loss is sad. The region may be large but the stats are really large and all the unemployed don&#39;t live in log cabins by the lake!Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-11107106277608296452009-10-11T10:04:38.007-04:002009-10-11T10:04:38.007-04:00Yes, but the Muskoka-Kawartha Region is very large, so the statistics probably have little relationship to Cobourg or Northumberland County.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com