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mom

- June 15, 2012 at 21:22:30

There are a lot of hard workers who deserve a living wage. With the increased cost of living people just can't afford to work for minimum wage and no benefits. It is time to change the attitude of employers.

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Blake

- June 15, 2012 at 12:01:00

Canadians shouldn't be pitted against each other in an economic race to the bottom; that is what the corporate and political powers are engineering with their disgusting agenda. Mitchinson is bang on - we should look after our own, first. All of this "prosperity" in Newfoundland today is concentrated in the hands of the few. The rest of us are left with grossly inflated living expenses to offset any wage or salary gains that are made. Meanwhile, we are feverishly extracting all of our resources in their raw form so that we simply ship all of the profits away to our multinational betters... Temporary foreign workers should be a last resort; there should be no financial benefits to using them. As for immigration, I don't think that is necessarily a solution to anything but addressing acute skill shortages. We have expanded far beyond that, however... Why don't we make a better attempt to integrate those Canadians we already have into our existing society? As far as I'm concerned, Canada is a badly fragmented country that has little sense of culture or community from coast to coast. What binds us? All I see are jarring differences... We need to do better in terms of education. We need to do better in terms of meaningful employment. We need to do better in terms of social cohesion.

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saelcove

- June 15, 2012 at 11:20:14

someone else who feels entitled

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David

- June 15, 2012 at 10:21:40

This is the Newfoundland work ethic is spades. I'll sit on my skill-free Rse, and when you selfish employers invent some better way of enticing me to grace you with my presence, I might consider it. Weep for Adam Smith.

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  alex

  - June 15, 2012 at 10:56:07

  "when you selfish employers invent some better way of enticing me to grace you with my presence..." How about paying living wages? Even Adam Smith knew that slavery wasn't economically viable.

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  David

  - June 15, 2012 at 12:24:16

  This post is a perfect example of Newfoundland debate: entirely predicated on complete nonsense, insulting hyperbole, and/or irrational claims. Everywhere else in the world, people take responsibility for their lives and make their own choices...not here. Here everytihng is someone else's fault, someone else's greed, someone else's problem that needs to be fixed...Alex, if you are immortal, by all means keep it up and see how it all works out for you. But if not, I can guarantee you'd be better off climbing off the high horse you share with a half million other lost souls and try coping with the planet you're actually on.

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  Lord Jarred

  - June 15, 2012 at 12:55:06

  I agree David. Alex was totally out of line suggesting that us noblemen pay living wages! Next the working class will want a vote! You're right, the lower orders are always on their high horses always blame someone else's fault or greed. How very uppity of them. If they would shut up and get back to work things would be fine for us. Drinks at the club?