I could not say it better Morris W. Dorosh, President & Publisher of Agriweek is truly one of the best most politically astute publications ANYWHERE!!!
"THE BIGGER THE LIAR THE BIGGER THE LIE
Lies and deception go together in elections like the horse and carriage. But the current campaign has already fallen through the bottom of every previous standard for integrity and responsibility. So many false, misleading statements and claims are being thrown around in sound bites, tweets and local speeches that even if the lazy, Liberal-loving press wanted to it could not track down even one in a hun- dred.
However it did do so once. Someone at Canadian Press last week decided to look into a claim by the NDP Mulcair in the recent lead- ers’ debate to the effect that the United Nations asked Canada to admit 47,000 Middle Eastern refugees, a request ignored by the heart- less Harper government. No such request was ever made, for any number from anywhere, of any country. The UN does not makes any such requests. It was complete fabrication for the purpose of keeping the fire of the refugee controversy burning the feet of the govern- ment.
Thereafter talk about the plight of the displaced Muslim horde abruptly stopped. Opinion polls by all parties showed that the public is not even remotely as eager to accept huge numbers of unverified and unidentifiable refugees, less than a third of whom are fleeing the horrors of war, than the bleeding-heart set and the media. A small majority or large minority in the polls agreed that what the Harper government is doing is about right.
Last week also brought the biggest corporate deception of modern times, in the stunning case of the Volkswagen electronic control system that suppresses diesel exhaust pollution only when emissions tests are being conducted. This unprecedented ploy had to be at the core of the entire corporate strategy to sell more “Clean Diesel’ cars. This undeniably clever but spectacularly crooked innovation could not have reached reality without the consent at a very high level of management.
Volkswagen has just tarred every major company in the world. Generations will pass before anti-corporate, anti-globalization fanatics and agitators stop using this amazing incident as evidence of pervasive, predatory, corrupt corporate conduct. Volkswagen owners, dealers, employees and shareholders have just been royally screwed.
These are exceptions, but ‘honesty is the best policy’ is clearly no longer the default code to live by. Lies become truths if they are not discovered, or if enough people believe them.
Then this!:
If you ask me . . .
B A C K G R O U N D E R / Morris W. Dorosh
Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.
That could be the number of times the word is mentioned every five minutes in the current election campaign. Tired of it yet?
This is not about who may or may not or who should or should not win the election. It is about the way that the ridiculous notion has become engrained that governments or prime ministers can create employment, or fail to create it. No office-seeker is innocent of outrageous claims in this regard. A politically sophisticated population would so easily see through them that they would not be made. But polling shows they resonate with voters who think govern- ments can make it unnecessary for them to take responsibility for themselves.
The only entities which create jobs, except for those in the civil service, are private sector, profit-making, tax- paying employers. The only reason they would hire anyone is to fill the demand for their products or services, after all other measures with a possibility of doing so have been exhausted. In today’s world adding employees is a last resort. Employment and unemployment are reflections of the part of domestic economic demand that is being met by domes- tic activity instead of imports and the part represented by exports.
Economic demand grows when the economy grows and disposable income increases. It may be augmented by bor- rowing, especially when credit is readily available, lending criteria are lax and borrowing costs are low. It is the case that Canadian consumers are in debt to their respective hilts.
For its share of economic demand every business must compete. To compete it must have attractive products or services at prices that are perceived as reasonable by consumers. In practically all industries labor costs are the first, second or third-largest expense category after the cost of materials or other physical inputs. Labor must be reasonably and fairly priced relative to its productivity.
...
The drive for higher minimum wages, even though the federal government can mandate them only in federally- regulated industries that account for 3% of all employment, is the fastest known employment killer. Most provincial governments are itching to rise their minimum rates if others do. No matter how many studies purport to the contrary, higher minimums force all low-end wages higher and create a strong tendency to hire better-skilled employees. Em- ployment opportunities to those who have the fewest are further reduced.
Government public works as means of employment creation are so inefficient, have failed so many times and suc- ceeded so seldom that it is appalling to see this brought up again. Building a mile of urban road costs $1 million and creates about 450 man-hours of work for highly skilled operators of gigantic machines.
No party in this election is offering a platform of limited or lower-cost government or reduced interventionism. There is a faint hope that significant, predictable and extended-term wage subsidies for new hires, hires of trainees or the long-term unemployed might stimulate some small number of new jobs for the least employable, including abo- riginals. No one has proposed that. In this economy, which is boom-time compared to most others, those who cannot find jobs are unemployed for good reason. No politician or government can convert the under-motivated, under- educated and under-skilled into productive members of the national workforce."
AGRIWEEK (ISSN 0228-5584) is published for the exclusive use of subscribers by Century Publishing Co., Division of CANVESCO Inc., P.O. Box 444, Winnipeg, Canada R3C 2H6. Toll-free 1-800- 749-2350. FAX 1-855-423-5018. Morris W. Dorosh, President & Publisher (mwd@aginreview.com); Elaine Richards, Subscription Manager (erichards@agriweek.com); ... Please visit www.agriweek.com for daily updates.
"THE BIGGER THE LIAR THE BIGGER THE LIE
Lies and deception go together in elections like the horse and carriage. But the current campaign has already fallen through the bottom of every previous standard for integrity and responsibility. So many false, misleading statements and claims are being thrown around in sound bites, tweets and local speeches that even if the lazy, Liberal-loving press wanted to it could not track down even one in a hun- dred.
However it did do so once. Someone at Canadian Press last week decided to look into a claim by the NDP Mulcair in the recent lead- ers’ debate to the effect that the United Nations asked Canada to admit 47,000 Middle Eastern refugees, a request ignored by the heart- less Harper government. No such request was ever made, for any number from anywhere, of any country. The UN does not makes any such requests. It was complete fabrication for the purpose of keeping the fire of the refugee controversy burning the feet of the govern- ment.
Thereafter talk about the plight of the displaced Muslim horde abruptly stopped. Opinion polls by all parties showed that the public is not even remotely as eager to accept huge numbers of unverified and unidentifiable refugees, less than a third of whom are fleeing the horrors of war, than the bleeding-heart set and the media. A small majority or large minority in the polls agreed that what the Harper government is doing is about right.
Last week also brought the biggest corporate deception of modern times, in the stunning case of the Volkswagen electronic control system that suppresses diesel exhaust pollution only when emissions tests are being conducted. This unprecedented ploy had to be at the core of the entire corporate strategy to sell more “Clean Diesel’ cars. This undeniably clever but spectacularly crooked innovation could not have reached reality without the consent at a very high level of management.
Volkswagen has just tarred every major company in the world. Generations will pass before anti-corporate, anti-globalization fanatics and agitators stop using this amazing incident as evidence of pervasive, predatory, corrupt corporate conduct. Volkswagen owners, dealers, employees and shareholders have just been royally screwed.
These are exceptions, but ‘honesty is the best policy’ is clearly no longer the default code to live by. Lies become truths if they are not discovered, or if enough people believe them.
Then this!:
If you ask me . . .
B A C K G R O U N D E R / Morris W. Dorosh
Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.
That could be the number of times the word is mentioned every five minutes in the current election campaign. Tired of it yet?
This is not about who may or may not or who should or should not win the election. It is about the way that the ridiculous notion has become engrained that governments or prime ministers can create employment, or fail to create it. No office-seeker is innocent of outrageous claims in this regard. A politically sophisticated population would so easily see through them that they would not be made. But polling shows they resonate with voters who think govern- ments can make it unnecessary for them to take responsibility for themselves.
The only entities which create jobs, except for those in the civil service, are private sector, profit-making, tax- paying employers. The only reason they would hire anyone is to fill the demand for their products or services, after all other measures with a possibility of doing so have been exhausted. In today’s world adding employees is a last resort. Employment and unemployment are reflections of the part of domestic economic demand that is being met by domes- tic activity instead of imports and the part represented by exports.
Economic demand grows when the economy grows and disposable income increases. It may be augmented by bor- rowing, especially when credit is readily available, lending criteria are lax and borrowing costs are low. It is the case that Canadian consumers are in debt to their respective hilts.
For its share of economic demand every business must compete. To compete it must have attractive products or services at prices that are perceived as reasonable by consumers. In practically all industries labor costs are the first, second or third-largest expense category after the cost of materials or other physical inputs. Labor must be reasonably and fairly priced relative to its productivity.
...
The drive for higher minimum wages, even though the federal government can mandate them only in federally- regulated industries that account for 3% of all employment, is the fastest known employment killer. Most provincial governments are itching to rise their minimum rates if others do. No matter how many studies purport to the contrary, higher minimums force all low-end wages higher and create a strong tendency to hire better-skilled employees. Em- ployment opportunities to those who have the fewest are further reduced.
Government public works as means of employment creation are so inefficient, have failed so many times and suc- ceeded so seldom that it is appalling to see this brought up again. Building a mile of urban road costs $1 million and creates about 450 man-hours of work for highly skilled operators of gigantic machines.
No party in this election is offering a platform of limited or lower-cost government or reduced interventionism. There is a faint hope that significant, predictable and extended-term wage subsidies for new hires, hires of trainees or the long-term unemployed might stimulate some small number of new jobs for the least employable, including abo- riginals. No one has proposed that. In this economy, which is boom-time compared to most others, those who cannot find jobs are unemployed for good reason. No politician or government can convert the under-motivated, under- educated and under-skilled into productive members of the national workforce."
AGRIWEEK (ISSN 0228-5584) is published for the exclusive use of subscribers by Century Publishing Co., Division of CANVESCO Inc., P.O. Box 444, Winnipeg, Canada R3C 2H6. Toll-free 1-800- 749-2350. FAX 1-855-423-5018. Morris W. Dorosh, President & Publisher (mwd@aginreview.com); Elaine Richards, Subscription Manager (erichards@agriweek.com); ... Please visit www.agriweek.com for daily updates.
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