19 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. Regulation and taxes…
    And wayyyyy too many pencil-necked pencil pushers, stamp lickers and staple pullers (my neighbor), DEI Fat Chicks, Fat Safety Chicks on construction sites, Fat Chicks with too many kids and no father on welfare, people on “disability”, yearly/constant EI drawers, refugees, immigrants here for welfare, mental health time-off-woe-is-me life-is-tough “adults” on anti-depressants, foreign “students” on welfare, drug users, lazy fcks and criminals.
    Who did I miss?

    1. Not too many. I was going to mention all the useless fart-suckers sitting on/employed by hundreds upon hundreds of regulation-churning Authorities, Boards, and Commissions, but upon reflection I’d say your descriptors have them adequately covered.

  2. If a Thanos-like occurrence happened to 50% of municipal, provincial and federal government workers who worked in offices versus “on the line” (like snow-plow drivers, garbage men, cops who actually patrol a neighbourhood)…I’d bet very few (if any) Canadians would be impacted. The money-lenders and stockbrokers would be impacted but the rest of us would continue on with our day not realizing that half the government bureaucracy disappeared.

  3. I think productivity can be measured as:

    productivity = (revenue – expenses) / number of workers.

    Revenue is generated by primary, secondary and (some) tertiary industries. We’ve been shutting down our primary and secondary industries (our revenue generators) and increasing out expenses (debt and social services) and the number of “workers”. It seems a pretty predictable outcome for what has been going on over the last 10 years.

    The real interesting part is how they managed to add more and more people to an ever shrinking pie.

    1. jgriffin: “The real interesting part is how they managed to add more and more people to an ever shrinking pie.”

      That’s being financed by IOUs to be paid by your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren… and their kids.

      Notice that’s long after those who are spending the money have taken their cut and are no longer around to be held accountable.

  4. Going to work every day and doing the job was something to produce real results.
    In the 1990’s then new generation was not as keen to work as to socialize.
    When you were a designer in an engineering company, you had to instruct drafting person over and over and over with complete ignorance of your effort.
    Been out of work for some decades now and from general observation, the current generation of working people is mostly not interested in accomplishing much, mostly pretending and being smart asses.
    The productivity is kind of, sort of secondary to water cooler.
    This is in fact fault of the management, they bend over backwards to please instead leading. They rather would just hide in their office.

  5. The elected Jacobins and Bolsheviks have been more interested in green theocracy, deindustrialization, and cultural Marxism than the economy and have driven out or diverted capital that would otherwise have been invested in machinery, plants, whole industries, construction, essentially all forms of enterprise except rent seeking of governments pissing away looted taxpayer’s money. Capital has fled Canada since 2015. Add the scam of socialized human importation and welfarizing immigration, and its easy to see the results. The New Zealanders have an expression for it: It’s the “dead hand of government” on everything.

  6. New Canadians doing the jobs Canadians won’t, like carjacking, supplying drugs, robbery, defrauding the government, delivering Amazon for shit pay or telling you on the government information line that you need to learn English, said with a foreign accent so thick it was barely understandable.

    I still remember going to the bank more than a year ago to get the 2024 bank calendar and the bank teller who spoke English fairly well didn’t know the word “calendar”. When I described it to him, he got one for me from the counter right behind him. He asked me to write it down so he could learn it. I suspect he was Libyan.

    Of course the politicians insist we need to import more because of our aging population, but when you take into account all their relatives they sponsor here (particularly parents, grandparents, et cetera in need of a lot of healthcare), in spite of all their children, they actually average just over 40 years of age and lower our per capita income in spite of the huge expansion of government which counts as things that increase our GDP. Then there is the huge loss to our economy, not just by replacing Canadian workers and putting them out of work, but due to the billions of dollars they send out of the country to benefit their relatives and their homelands.

    But don’t worry, Cargill and Maple Leaf Foods say that their Somalis are the most enthusiastic butchers they can find!

  7. “due to the billions of dollars they send out of the country to benefit their relatives and their homelands”
    I saw an estimate that went as high as $30 billion and that was many years back.

  8. It used to be that those doing pretend work in a make-believe job could only be found in government. But nowadays the private sector too is chock-full of the useless buggers.

      1. Or he can take his recently found wealth to buy Little Saint James Island that had been owned by Jeffrey Epstein and have it renamed: Trudeau Island for Little Wayward Boys?

  10. The Germans have 20 ‘sick days’ per calendar year. Who gets sick enough that you need 20 days off in a year? Little wonder German productivity is languishing near zero.

    Canada – take note

  11. Every worker in Canada carries a higher per capita burden of non-productive government debt than in the US, particularly when you include provincial debt.

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