Taube drops the hammer.
According to 2003 figures in an Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity report, Americans are $7,200 per person better off than we are. The Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards revealed business sector output per man-hour in Canada has grown 0.9% a year since 2000, as compared to 3.5% in the U.S. And the C.D. Howe Institute discovered that the 2005 fixed capital investment per worker by American firms is nearly $2,700 higher than Canada's.
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I have worked and lived in the states and the fact is that your employer expects you put work first and nothing else matters, not family, not your sanity, nothing. Onetime, a fellow employee, from UK, and I left work at 5 pm, end of shift, and were berated for our lack of commitment to a mid-wage job, we were expected to put in unpaid overtime or we had a working class mentality. This is the reason for such stats, it looks good on paper but doesn't help the common person much.
Umm, you may be drawing a very wide conclusion from a narrow personal experience (provided this isn't some fantastic tale made up to scam NDP chicks). How does this sound?
" I have worked and lived in the states and the fact is that, because of a much lower unionization and tax rates, if you work hard you are likely to be rewarded with a promotion and keep more of the overtime you earn."
Also, shouldn't Canadians be more productive because of their well-balanced life and relatively stress-free work environment? If what you say is true, Americans must be 30 seconds from a nervous breakdown at all times. How can you accomplish quality work in that state?
Really Chad, give up the cheap anti-American crap. They aren't perfect, but they aren't the slavemasters you make them out to be.
So Shawn you have worked down south have you ?
That is your experience, well to some promotion is not more important then family and some social time. It wasn't the promise of promotion that was given, it was the lack of a job I would have had, if I didn't work unpaid ot.
Actually yes I have in the four years I lived and worked there. Not much better or worse than here in Canada. As to your experience, that is unfortunate, however crappy employers exist in Canada as well.
Methinks that Chad believes that the only good employer is a government employer.
You talk about investments like really you know something about it. You don't even drive a decent car. What is it a Geo? Who pays you to do this blog? How many little old ladies have you ripped off lately with your scams? You're a crook in a cheap suit.
Yo Archie, take it easy. Your envy is on display in a nasty way: its people like you that are turning SK into a socialist backwater.
I've just returned from Europe: Germany is in big trouble, in large part because of the socialist policies it adopted to deal with the Soviets. One cab driver, from Ghana, lamented to me the fact that he moved to Germany, and stated that this dearm was to escape to the States: meanwhile, who would want to move to SK, which resemble the places emmigrants are trying to escape?
Archie, take it easy: you are wrong. SK is decaying like an old man's body, and its your fault. And why do you support the socialists? You may consider yourself altruitic, but I think it's also fear and selfishness and envy that keep you in their fold.
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