Though this graphic focuses on the US vs. the EU, it’s very clear that the UK and Canada are in exactly the same boat as the latter. They’re all highly bloated, overtaxed, overregulated entities in which those in the public sector have convinced/coerced everyone else to pay for their lifestyles.
Home Depot is worth more than all the European start ups created in the past 50 years combined. Home Depot. pic.twitter.com/t8ebFrqy6G
— Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@DouglasCarswell) February 22, 2025
h/t ‘Lupus solos’
“those in the public sector have convinced/coerced everyone else to pay for their lifestyles”
VERY True. And I am always asking this with respect to Canada (although anyone can pipe in as regards their own jurisdiction)” Just HOW was this accomplished? And HOW is it maintained?
I’m genuinely curious and was hoping to start a thoughtful discussion thread on this question
Bueller…..anyone…….
Built – and maintained – by public ignorance, indifference, and cowardice.
Let’s not forget about the legacy media’s influence on public opinion.
A majority of Canuckistanians still get their news and info from CBC, CTV, Global, and the newspaper publications CP, PostMedia, etc.
And let’s also not forget that the government bought and paid the media to become their propaganda minions.
The power of the pen.
The Laurentian Elite rule the large oligopolies and duopolies, which own all of the legacy media save CBC Pravda. Said “elite” like things the way they are, and are extremely Miltonian in their outlook.
Peter: “Miltonian” meaning the author of “Paradise Lost?” If so, who is Satan, how did he fall, and who is the archangel Michael?
fc and Peter: Do you really thing that most Canadians get their worldview from the legacy media? As far as I can see, the main readers/watchers of the Globe & Mail, CBC, the National Post, CTV, Global etc., are the institutionalized – i.e., senescent oldsters drooling into their morning glass of prune juice, psychiatric patients (think Nurse Ratched’s TV room in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and the incarcerated. Does anyone under say, age 60 – not that people over 60 are irrelevant (they are, if act, a powerful voting demograhic) – even bother with the legacy media, have cable, or a newspaper subscription? Can’t imagine such a thing. But if what you are suggesting re MSM is true, as the older generation exits the scene, will things change?
Yes, most Canadians get their news from the legacy media. Among my friends and associates, that the CBC and BBC are absolutely objective arbiters of truth – unlike those right-wing corporate news outlets – is taken as gospel.
Daniel Ream, just how old are your friends and associates? And who signs their paychecks?
I didn’t forget about a majority of Canadians relying on the bought-and-paid-for media.
I did say “ignorance”.
While not in correspondence with the graphic above, the US government employs 2.4 million people with 4 million active credit cards. Surely that is symptomatic of something unhealthy.
The US economy is 14 times the size of Canada’s, so if public sectors were proportional, US 2.4 milliion/14 = 171,500. Canada should have roughly 175,000 civil servants, but we have 367,000 for a ratio of 2.1 Canadian federal employees vs US federal employees, everything you need to know about why the average Canadian is poorer than a hillbilly from Mississippi. Can you imagine DOGE turned loose on our federal government? It would make the US look like a paragon of virtue.
Canadian workers are essentially a life support system for our parasitic overlords.
According to “Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector 2020” 17% of our GDP can be found in the Charity Sector, of which $18.7 billion had official donation receipts, $204 billion from government, and the remaining amount of $81.3 billion wasn’t identified.
That one sector is bigger than Real estate at 13%, Manufacturing at 10.37%, Mining/Quarrying/Oil/Gas at 8.21%, finance or construction each at 7%. And largely funded via extortion from taxpayers.
Public servants in Canada used to be paid less than a corresponding worker in private industry.
Mid ’80’s?
Some of the very good reasons were job security + pensions.
The rise of the public sector union – I think, but wtf do I know – has risen in step with Feminism/equal rights:
“We’re ‘underpaid’ because a large percentage of us are women.”
There is more to it than that, including the perversion of the education system and its attack on the skilled trades and boys in general.
Now the neo-Marxists are loud and proud and the decline is accelerating.
Eric
Public Education.
And other institutional lies.
This collapsing kleptocracy is built on myth,misdirection and blatant dishonesty.
“Good Government”
“We are here to help you”
“You don’t want grandma to die ?
Do you?
All you needed was a lazy electorate willing to vote themselves other peoples money.
Addicts of OPM are the lowest and laziest drug abusers alive.
Then generations of pious helpers who will not see the crushing parasitic load they have become upon the productive.
Not Sees.
Whose income depends upon them not seeing.
Having Alberta and Saskatchewan as the Milk Cow of Canada allowed this idiocy to last 6 decades.
Now the OPM is over.
Wow. That graphic really hits – just as it should. Unfortunately it will either never be read by, or go over the heads of, the politicians and voters who are responsible. You can be damn certain it will never be shown on the CBC or Toronto Star.
I think that Canadians should eat some humble pie and not be puffing out our sunken Canadian chests where it comes to US tariffs. Would Canada even have a speck of fly shit on this chart if included?
As to those booing the US national anthem and souring on the “Great One”, pathetic and juvenile.
Where was Canadian pride when Sir John A., Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas and were being traduced.
Where was Canadian pride when dear leader called Canada a post-national country. Where was our pride when dear leader lowered our flag for months on end over the unproven blood libel of murdered indigenous children.
As a senior Canadian, born in Canada and living here for my entire life, I feel no urge to wrap myself in the maple leaf flag and bray about my Canadian pride. On the contrary, it makes me sick to see how far we have fallen.
Well it’s all just nonsense, we need to bash gays, mulims, and chinese. You know the important schiff, also protect corrupt lefty joos.
You people are pathetic.
Anybody else want to call out GYM’s hate-filled rhetoric? I’m taking the day off!
Why bother. He is a nobody and will die a nobody.
Why do you read it?
Scroll on by.
Why? I’ve answered that question here…
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/02/24/rufo-has-entered-the-chat/#comment-1995583
It’s the “takers over the makers”; graphically it would be an upside down pyramid, the cabal of mooches at the top, makers at the bottom. America is tapped out. What can’t go on, won’t go on.
USAID et Al; the dirty secret is that it’s financed by money the government printed, liabilities for the future.
Mission creep? Government employees have long term goals while politicians responsible for government employee remuneration work on electoral cycles. And, it’s not their money.
Apple CEO Tim Cook met with President Trump last week, and it looks like the board approved what was said as $500 billion seems like a major investment… I can’t see an investment like this occurring in the EU … as for Canada, (outside of any new investments here which are entirely dependent on massive tax credits as well as the bogus environmental reviews could take a decade) if the new American Admin lowers the real corporate tax rate I can’t see a real reason for a company to invest in Canada for anything larger than its “northern branch” … which will give the east some pause as to how they’ve treated western Canada for the past century. At that point, tariffs will be minor news, moot even.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2025/02/24/apple-to-hire-20000-workers-as-part-of–500-billion-us-investment/
*money is the greatest coward, something the various Canadian governments will never understand.
and I’m guessing that Tim Cook’s meeting was longer than the 10 minutes that PM Tusk of Poland had
Thankfully we have easy access to the American stock market.
They’ve past the tipping point where the private sector,
can no longer fund the public sector.
The 1990’s (Jean Chretien) saw the Liberal Party of Canada begin to directly encourage government ‘workers’ to vote Liberal: municipal, provincial, federal,
… “or else the mean Conservative people will lay you off”.
Effectively this is graft for the Left voter at no cost, and huge reward,
since it’s self-fulfilling: “non-Lefties need not apply”.
Thus all civil servants from the tax man to ‘first responders’
vote Left for their own personal interest.
It’s why cops have become blatant political Marxists,
they take it personally,
all these people have devolved into The Bureaucracy.
They are nothing less than fifth-columnists,
whose recent and sudden hypocritical patriotism doesn’t remove the odor.
The solution: since the ‘right’ to vote is lost when one is coerced, or under duress,
all government people must be rescued by revoking their suffrage,
replaced with the choice to work for government,
or vote for government.
But if you don’t help fund government,
you are no longer trusted to vote objectively.
If you are unwilling to acknowledge the role government has played in boosting the profits and success of companies like Home Depot, etc. then you clearly don’t want to fix some of the bigger underlying problems in our country.
But, but, but … Robert! As your ex-pat American woman living in Germany explained … Europeans get 10 weeks vacations! And free childcare! And free medical! Free donuts! Working conditions are sooooooo much better in Europe. Just ask the Greeks or Spaniards … the Kings and Queens of worker nap times.