Canada's Job Growth Soars Past U.S.

The Globe and Mail ^ | January 10, 2004 | Bruce Little

[Eva]

Kerry is a Clinton in many ways, the main one being that he has no center and that will be his downfall because the biggest dissimilarity is that Kerry has no charisma, he's stiff and boring.

[mitchbert]

Want to compare economic growth Canada?

There really is no valid comparison. Canada didn't take the same hit after the dot com bust and we aren't in the same position vis a vis outsourcing that the U.S. is. Numbers in the States look good and I have confidence they'll continue to improve over the short and medium term. The U.S. economy is far more resiliant and fundamentally strong than the Canuck economy. You are far more diverse and innovative than we are, and that gives you the chance to gain greater ground faster than we can in good times. America isn't burdened by the huge statist element we have to deal with. We are also far more unionized and don't have right to work laws; this consistently works to our disadvantage, although our weak dollar does mitigate the impact somewhat. Recall as well that even in the lowest tax jurisdictions we enjoy we are still above U.S. levels in most cases. You have significant advantages in a strong economy, and that's a good thing for America.

[mitchbert]

the biggest dissimilarity is that Kerry has no charisma, he's stiff and boring.

Bingo. Not to mention that he wears thin very quickly. The more Americans see of him the less they'll like him, IMHO. He doesn't seem able to connect with the average person the way Clinton could, even if that was truly phoney as well. The man doesn't seem to have any polish, and that's required to hide arrogance.

I'm still calling Bush at 53% popular vote in November. More if Kerry blows up on the campaign trail. Probably not a Reagan landslide, but bigger than anyone's predicting at this point. I don't think 40 states is beyond the possible.

[CdMGuy]

This article does not make sense. The US and Canadian job market are in lockstep. If anything, Canada tends to trail US job growth. Something is wrong with the numbers, and quite possibly, it is that the US numbers are understated.

[F.J. Mitchell]

53,000 new jobs created in Canada in Dec? Big deal! Where will the snow shovel brigades find work when spring comes?

[Eva]

The man doesn't seem to have any polish, and that's required to hide arrogance That comes from his New England prep school background. The man has simply never willingly rubbed elbows with the working man, except for his short stint in the Navy, when he was the only officer aboard the swift boat.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Kerry's suit is far from empty, it is bursting at the seams from the BS it contains.

[mitchbert]

Kerry's suit is far from empty, it is bursting at the seams from the BS it contains.

So was Clinton's in 1992. I truly hope, and believe, that Americans will see through it. But then, I couldn't believe that folks bought into Clinton's deception back then.

Then again, as a Canadian, it's not like I have anything to say about this from a superior point of view :-)

My hopes are with President Bush. We need him, all of us, all who care about freedom and progress against the forces of evil, and those forces are very real.

Cheers!

[Paul Ross]

You think THOSE numbers, which are official, are bad you should see the chart being bruted about by the RATs which purports to show that job growth was fine during RAT administrations, but tanks in GOP. It makes me puke. We are likely going to be seeing a lot more of it soon.

Any rate, not to say he should, but if GWB had instituted a massive armed forces draft as did FDR, Truman, and LBJ, we could show great 'job growth' due to that artifical stimulus as well.

Personally, I believe GWB should not be afraid to 'Jawbone' the 'Bigs' into NOT firing people. Reagan wasn't. Just make sure they don't do anything until after November 3rd, 04. As Rush Limbaugh has observed, we know that RAT corporate honchos and bureaucrats will do everything they can to increase societal pain...i.e., unemployment (witness Teresa Kerry's outsourcing mania)... that they can. So we need to muzzle and whip the Free Traitors into line.