Jobs still haven't started and costs are going up

darin

- January 17, 2013 at 19:32:34

well,i am sitting here having a beer....feel like i am toasting the death of any little rights and freedoms i , as a canadian citizen might have once had. i cant believe we as a people still wonder why so many of us suffer a stress from just trying to live while the wealthy few live like kings and make us feel guilty if we dont work for them for starvation wages. when will the general population realize that the wealthy few finally control,if not own the"government" theres no jobs here for us , or our sons and daughters as every politician has promised ,to get elected because they will not let you work unless its for very little ,or nothing.they say it costs 50 to 85 k to keep a prisoner in a jail cell but want us to serve them ,support a family,pay our TAXES and feel thankful and proud on $11. an hour while they use up the resources that belong to us all

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Ned

- January 15, 2013 at 20:31:50

Always suprises me when folks from N.S. complain about moving to Alberta to land a job and get a decent wage. Moved here 30 years ago because of high unemployment in Pictou County and life is great. Also, you don't want pipe-lines, don't want fracking for oil- exploration, don't want coal mines etc. but wonder where the jobs are. Duhhh !

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Can't make a living

- January 14, 2013 at 10:35:59

Well i kind of agree with all the comments. I currently work a full time job and i am on the verge of getting evicted. Although i do work full time i still can't manage to pay rent bills but food on the table and cover my kids basic needs. What am i doing wrong, i don't go out or waste my money. Full time work here is nice but the Pay is to little. The cost of rent is too high and some of these landlords need to be looked at. WHAT DO WE DO TO LIVE AND NOT STRUGGLE.

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  Johnny smoke

  - January 15, 2013 at 13:12:32

  Yes I hear your plight, shared by many in the county. However it did not stop or slow down the building of a Taj Mahal over by the exit 23 did it. i am surprised that you were not invited to the latest meeting with Prince Peter MacKay et al where the latest tax giveaways were the hot topic of discussion, I would think that Prince Peter would be interested with the plight of the common man or woman as they are the one's who vote, as they saying goes there are more of them than there are of us. But fear not better times are just ahead, I got that from none other than our local M.L.A.'s, they are pushing for more money to be given to the food banks to cover increased demand, now isn't that heart warming or what?

Concerned Single Parent

- January 10, 2013 at 23:22:22

Hit the nail by the hammer on this scenerio! When will this ever end the government filling there pockets with the tax dollars they recieve three times! We get taxed on the stuff we buy, get taxed for when we work are asses off and taxed again when income tax rolls around! I just don't understand its like a mofia coming in grabbing our money and leaving us high and dry to defend for ourself! With the little petty wages we make if so lucky too have a job, still have to think where to find more money to put food on the table! But food only consist of pasta cause to buy any meat, dairy, or fish! To get the proper balanced food that the canadian food guide suggest you have is lack of but yet After paying the outrages power bill amd rent/ mortgage there is nothing left! But here the politicians go to dinner, travel, stay in hotels, have company vehicles paid for and a $150 -$300 hundred thousand or quite possibly more fpr salary a year to decide how to screw over the working man and make promises that never full fill! Tells lies just to get in and make a cushy living for themselves! Something wrong with this picture! When will this ever end, this has been going on for thousands of years when you look at history! Why are we so hopeless in changing history? Maybe someday all of us will stand up and just not vote! Cause even regardless if we do whats the point its just lies anyways and nothing ever gets done! So tired of the lies !

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Johnny smoke

- January 10, 2013 at 09:39:52

Once again Lloyd you are dead on regardless of the smirkers ,no doubt died in the wool N.D.P. supporters . I too have questioned when the "Jobs start here" train is to pull into the Pictou County area. Have you been by Maritime Steel lately? It certainly has not pulled in there. Have you been by Dawoo in Trenton lately, it certainly has not pulled in there either. Let's be blunt if it was not for Sobeys, Michelin,and many small business operations as well as all of the government agencies that spend and do not produce a penny of revenue, this place would be treading water, no under water. But do not be disappointed the illustrious M.L.A.'s who run this flash in the pan as as we speak about to reward themselves a hefty raise in salaries and benefits. I guess just announcing that "Jobs start here" is sufficient in their minds at least to trigger a bonus payment in salaries and benefits. Sort of mirrors the same operation at N.S.P. does it not, just sit back do nothing and demand more, these two organizations are like two peas in a pod. Maybe they should just join forces and clean out whatever is left, they seem to think that it all belongs to them as it is right now.

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Derrick

- January 10, 2013 at 08:47:18

I would also like to know where all these jobs are at. I don't really understand why Nova Scotians have to keep leaving their friends and family's to go out west and make the money they can't make here. I also don't understand why the government would promise us more jobs but not give them to us. I think it is pretty bad if u hve to leave here to go make the money to support your family's

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Ed

- January 10, 2013 at 08:12:55

First column, Lloyd?

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