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GENEVA — The World Health Organization convened a meeting of an emergency advisory group Saturday to discuss the outbreak of swine flu which has infected people in Mexico and the southwestern United States.

WHO Director General Dr. Margaret Chan said the group would advise her on whether the worrying disease outbreak, which is reported to have claimed at least 20 lives so far, should be deemed a public health emergency of international concern.

NAPOLITANO SAYS US SHOULD SHOULD PREPARE FOR NEW FLU OUTBREAK SOON EVEN IF THIS ONE FIZZLES OUT (Reuters, 2009).

The world scientific community, including many disease research organizations, and scientific experts have been predicting an over due appearance of a pandemic similar to the Spanish flu and the black plague for many decades now. The former was responsible for the death of some 50 million people worldwide in the first half of the 20th century (1914) and was so deadly that the victims’ corpses were quickly and effectively destroyed due to fears of re-emergence. The death of 50 million people devastated world economies because of both human capital loss, but also mass protectionism due to quarantined borders. A pandemic would deal a major blow to a world economy already knocked into its worst recession in decades by the crisis in financial markets.
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History suggests a new pandemic is long overdue, but has been delayed by accidental discoveries of anti-biotics. Politicians can ignore it, like they are effectively doing concerning the economic crises, but eventually it comes around full force, hitting victims devastatingly hard. The three pandemics of the 20th century were all linked to birds, but the new emerging viral disease has spread to humans, pigs, and other species; effectively crossing species gaps. The worry here is that viruses and bacteria have been quickly adapting to conventional medicine’s arsenal of anti-biotics and anti-virals, respectively.

Countries Prepare for Next Pandemic

The top EU health official urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to the United States and Mexico because of the swine flu virus, and Spanish health officials confirmed the first case outside North America.

When the next influenza pandemic strikes, New Zealand’s borders are likely to be closed to all incoming travellers. The lock may be on for several days, says a pandemic planning guide for businesses. All passengers may be quarantined for at least eight days, says the guide, published yesterday by the Ministries of Health and Economic Development.

The United States, however, has no plans on closing borders for the current bout of swine flu that has infected thousands of people worldwide and killed hundreds. Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) said the border should be closed until the threat is resolved.

“The public needs to be aware of the serious threat of swine flu, and we need to close our borders to Mexico immediately and completely until this is resolved,” Massa said in a statement. “I am making this announcement because I see this as a serious threat to the health of the American public and I do not believe this issue is receiving the attention it needs to have in the news,” Massa said.

It appears as if the cheerleaders of the re-emergence of such a deadly flu similar to those described above is making headway onto the human race. Indeed, academics and scientists such as Dr. Pianka, formerly of Texas University, was a large proponent of the re-emergence of a deadly flu to advocate killing off 90% of the human population in order to save the planet. “He then showed solutions for reducing the world’s population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” writes Mims. “War and famine would not do, he explained (WND, 2006).

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It looks as if Dr. Pianka will get his wish, as there are four manifestations, commonly used by God in The Bible, for executing judgment upon people who reject Him and His commandments. These four are: the sword, famine, wild beasts and plague (see Ezek. 14:21). These are repeated over and over and are also mentioned in conjunction with the plagues of Revelation. Humanity has many sins to pay for indeed. The strange thing here is that Dr. Pianka is not the only person or group of people who have advocated for the extermination of a large segment of humanity, or the “useless eaters” as Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying. Henry represents the collective interests of the New World Order chiefly spoken through groups like the Council of Foreign Relations.

A New Plague?

The global pandemics that the 21st century encountered 6-8 years ago such as SARS and the outbreaks of bird flu in China have been the contemporary outbreaks that worried global scientific communities and spurred tremendous amounts of conspiracy theories. Infections like the bird flu encountered in China were suspected as being the proof that the influenza virus was on its way to spreading to humans; crossing the barrier from species to species. Indeed, this was the case with the H5N1 virus that did spread to humans, but was mainly contained in areas like China thanks to quick quarantines. he World Health Organisation has warned that H5N1 could seed a human pandemic that could infect one fifth of the world’s population, and hospitalise 30 million, of whom some 20 per cent would die (WHO, 2006).
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In a strange series of coincidences, President Obama, while visiting Mexico during his trip in April, 2009, came into contact with a man infected with the suspected emergence of the next major flu pandemic spread by contact with swine. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported (Bloomberg, 2009).

Pandemics encourage protectionism?

Pandemics, if they were allowed to flourish, would easily do so even easier than the outbreaks of the early 20th century because of the increased mobility of humans. Increasing trade between countries with diverse cultures and standards, courtesy of the so called free trade agreements amorously pushed by the world’s elite, make it easier for people and transport to easily spread disease. To curb outbreaks, governments of the past have utilized border restrictions and outright closures of them to halt outbreaks, but the World Health Organization (WHO) believes there is no need to close Mexican border despite over 1,000 cases of human infections with swine flu registered in the country, Mexico’s health minister said Friday (Xinhua, 2009). The caveat here is that they say this because they do not wish to spur even further protectionism that the financial crisis of late has been encouraging.

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The media and business community has been feverishly hyping and trumpeting the economic crisis that started in September as if they were blindsided by it like a drunk crashing into a crowd full of people on a friday night drive. What God commands Christians regarding alcohol is to avoid drunkenness (Ephesians 5:18). The Bible condemns drunkenness and its effects (Proverbs 23:29-35). While the common person may be fooled by the economists and mainstream media gurus, the knowledgeable person knows that this economic crisis has been a long time in the making.

The reliance on credit, loans, mortgages, and imaginary money was not always so prevalent as it is in today’s society. Back in the day, people actually used to save, nations used to produce and consume at a somewhat level rate, and countries were composed of somewhat homogeneous populations accounting for a relatively stable society and economic system.
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The problem the world finds itself in now was mainly caused by government intervention in economies through the introduction of central banking in the early 20th century after the tragic “war to end all wars.” These interventions were offbeat solutions proposed by the socialist politicians of the time; many of which were brainwashed by socialist and communist propaganda — remnants from the great World Wars. The common man saw the idea of collectiviziation of resources as a pseudo tribal activity. The problem now is that government has run rampant with power usurped from decentralized actors known as states and provinces.

Most countries in the world now have central banks and heavy hands of federal government where power is wielded by power mad politicians. This power started to really take heed during the crises of wars like Vietnam where President Nixon imposed a totally fiat money, or government issued currency system whereby he took the US dollar completely off of the gold standard based on the Bretton Woods agreement established at the end of World War II. This quickly ended the government limitations to creating money, or credit, without a physical limmitation such as gold. Now all money is basically printed out of thin air from digital computer banks.

Governments are not the only entities issueing and utilizing credit. As you probably guessed, common people are now being suckered into using credit as a day to day living arrangement paying for such things as food, gasoline, and heat and has become increasingly prevalent as such. People have been using the first “plastic money” ever since its introduction in 1951 and it has been increasing ever since then. In a perhaps ironic arrangement, the first credit cards were issued for “Diners club” card holders and was made on February 8, 1949 by Frank McNamara, Ralph Schneider, and Matty Simmons at Major’s Cabin Grill, a restaurant adjacent to their offices in the Empire State Building. The very thing that keeps people alive (food; real), has become the very thing that will destroy them (credit; fake).
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Indeed, the current economic crisis has blatantly exposed the weakness of the “In God We Trust” slogan engraved on most of, if not all, American currency in the form of loss of consumer confidence in the economic system caused by engineered financial meltdowns such as the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac loan crisis. “The financial crisis provides our great opportunity to set the world on a new sustainable path, as many sacred cows, which have stood in the path of change, are being slaughtered by the day as the crisis unfolds” (Club of Rome, 2009).

in Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 25:35-36, Deuteronomy 23:19 and other places God’s Law forbids interest on money; “thou shalt not steal” is the Law. “Thou shalt not charge interest of your neighbor,” is the Statute. The Judgment or penalty for charging interest and theft by deception via a debt-usury banking system could be anywhere form making restitution all the way to capitol punishment.

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Once again, it was the Roman soldiers who mocked Jesus in Matthew 27 31 just as they are mocking Mr. Schiff in this video. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

The credit crisis is about to expand into other areas of the economy dependent on this imaginary bond and promise of payment: the credit card industry. Since 1951, when the first credit cards were issued, over 6 billion credit card offers were found in our mailboxes, an average of 6 offers per US household per month (2005 statistics). The average American household’s credit card debt in 1990 was $2,966. In 2007 it was $9,840. It is clear that another crisis is emerging; one that could very well be the final nail in the coffin of main street. Indeed, credit cards are shaping up to be the next chapter in the financial meltdown, promising to stymie consumer spending, drag on the economy and force a whole new wave of financial difficulty on Americans.

The US may be moving into the next phase of the mortgage crisis. It’s called the credit card crisis. Which means there may be more defaults, lower spending limits, and perhaps higher interest rates for the 75 percent of Americans who have credit cards.

When times get tough, you do what you have to do to pay your bills. For more people, that means maxing out credit cards to put food on the table and gasoline in the family car, even paying the mortgage. Financial experts say it’s a road to disaster.

Living off credit is not doing a lot of Americans much good as their debt and defaults continue to rise. “Well, this is going to be as bad as the recession of the early 90′s,” said Tom Davidoff, Asst. Professor at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Davidoff says we’re seeing the next phase of the worsening economy.

“Wages are lower. People make less money. That means, one, they can’t pay the bills they already have and, two, they’re feeling stretched so they’re not going to pay for stuff with cash. They’re going to pay with credit cards. That’s going to raise their credit card balance and make it more attractive to wipe out the debt by default,” said Tom Davidoff (ABC News, 2009).

Absolute Proof The Financial Crisis Was Engineered

Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. Some were misrepresenting the terms of loans, making loans without regard to consumers’ ability to repay, making loans with deceptive “teaser” rates that later ballooned astronomically, packing loans with undisclosed charges and fees, or even paying illegal kickbacks. These and other practices, we noticed, were having a devastating effect on home buyers. In addition, the widespread nature of these practices, if left unchecked, threatened our financial markets (Washington Post, 2005).

“Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” author John Perkins argues that the United states has created a modern-day empire through the use of economic blackmail and the undermining of foreign governments. Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption. John Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author, and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America.
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Then he made a decision: he would use these experiences to make the planet a better place for his daughter’s generation. Today he teaches about the importance of rising to higher levels of consciousness, to waking up – in both spiritual and physical realms – and is a champion for environmental and social causes. He has lectured at universities on four continents, including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton.

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Written by EconoChristian.com with various sources stated herein.

If there was ever a maxim that lived throughout the ages of investing, sticking with “what everyone needs” certainly rings true today as it did 1000 years ago. That is, what “everyone needs” is basic necessities such as housing, food, clothing, healthcare products, and such items that people cannot live without for more than a few days. In economics we call this kind of item “demand inelastic,” which means that the demand for these kinds of items remains relatively the same as income decreases or increases compared to other items like cars, computers, and other luxury items like televisions and so on.

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The problem the US and Canada are facing is that a large portion of their manufacturing base has been off shored or sent to other countries in the past 20 to 30 years as so called trade agreements such as NAFTA, World Trade Organization, and other so called free trade instruments have been established which gave companies incentive to send middle class jobs to other countries which effectively stripped the parent coutnries of their bread and butter jobs, which eliminated or significantly reduced the spending power of the middle class.

Countries like Japan have, since the 70s to 1980s, pegged their currency to the dollar to take advantage of the manufacturing sector which gave incentive to US and Canadian producers to relocate to Japan or to allow more imports from Japan to be dumped into the US. Now we have a different problem: China, Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam, but mainly China and its huge population base, extremely low standards, and manipulated currency.

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Since it is predicted that a large portion of the manfuacturing industry we have offshored in the past 20-30 years will return probable best way to attack this is to go back to Standard &Poor’s sector data for the time. However, it won’t be a very fine analysis as it would likely miss emerging industries. It is known that electronics were hot investments as the 1930s wore on– particularly radio, which was state-of-the-art at the time. Zenith Radio emerged as a leading producer: its stock languished until 1935 when it went from the range of 2-2 5/8 at the beginning of the year to 13 1/2 at the end of the year.

Many items, including stocks, reached a historic low in the early 30s.
Some never recovered, but others doubled from their low before the end of the thirties. Therefore we could be in a good buying position later this year, but it is assumed that large increases are unlikely from today’s position. Selling short would be smart before a crash later this year, but there is a fair chance weak prosparity will continue several more years, resulting in large losses for short sellers. So many things have changed since the 30s, and it is thought we won’t learn much, except that a disasterous crash is possible.

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Precious metals are where you can never go wrong since Canada has a large reserve of natural minerals, metals, elements such as uranium and paladium used in nuclear reactors and catalytic converts, respectively (not to mention other uses). Specifically, food and food production is pegged to become the next “big thing” in the United States as the world’s producer of food, or so the prediction goes.

In mainstream economics, the theory is that the primary sector is agriculture from where the development cycle begins for any country. After that comes the secondary sector (manufacturing) and then the tertiary one (services). USA is now sitting at the tertiary sector at the top of this value chain and China seems to be enjoying its manufacturing status. India just jumped from primary to tertiary because of its’ hopping on the information technology bandwagon.

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All one has to do is look at Canada and see fields of gold for there is tremendous potential in the prairies and the agricultural areas of the country including areas like Southwestern Ontario where there are areas full of tomatoe and other plant growing regions such as Leamington. In areas like this you will find millionaires already reaping the rewards of demand for quality produce that Canadian health standards enforce. It would be wise to agree with Mr. Roger’s views that farmers will become the next millionaires because as the previous paragraph explores, the economic theory is that the US and Canada are poised to shift back to an agricultural demand driven economy.

In addition to investing in commodities such as those found in the agricultural industry, the best additional bets would be to invest in essential metals like gold, silver, copper, and paladium because these metals will always be in need and will likely raise in price as the world consumes more of the latter two metals. Indeed, copper and paladium are increasingly being used in electronics and other modern applications.

Written by EconoChristian.com

It seems politicians are lying or being glib on their knowledge of economics: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff told a gathering of southern Ontario business leaders on Tuesday (April 14, 2009) that taxes would have to be raised to combat a growing national debt, local media reported. According to The Record, he responded by saying that to rein in the country’s $480 billion debt, a tax hike might be necessary in the future (Windsor Star, 2009).

Canada Tax Facts:

Taxes already confiscate 45 per cent of Canadian income. The government never point out that average working people pay even more. Smokers and drinkers probably lose 75 per cent of their earnings to taxes. CTF, 2009

According to the OECD, total government revenues for 2004–federal, provincial, and municipal–will be 41.3% of GDP, down from a peak of 44.5% of GDP in 1997 and 1998. This means that Tax Freedom Day is May 30 (since 41.3% of 366 is 151 days into the year.)

What do Canadian Taxes Pay for?

There’s a summary of all government spending for 2003 on the Statistics Canada website, broken down into categories.

To try to make them more comprehensible, I’ve translated them into per-capita numbers, based on a population of 31,629,700 in 2003. A billion dollars is about $30 per capita.

Roughly speaking, out of $15,000 in total spending per capita, there’s $5000 for social services, $5000 for health and education, and $5000 for everything else, including $1500 for interest on the debt and $1200 for protection of persons and property (meaning military, police, legal system, firefighting). Here’s the detailed breakdown.

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Given all of this, if you want to create jobs in an economy, dumping huge amounts of tax-payer cash benefits no one because it is just shifting dollars from one area to another without creating wealth. The “trickle-down” idea only applies to real economics like manufacturing and building; something Canada has had little of these past 30 years, but the end does not justify the means. Remember, however, that manufacturing was still doing well in 2000 and 2001. Since 2003, however, the decline in Canadian manufacturing employment has been the second worst of our peers (the U.K. has experienced more job losses) (PE, 2009).

The myth that governments’ using taxpayer funds is one of the only ways to stimulate private economic growth is rubbish. It was the ineffective hand of government (in collaboration with mega-business) that started the mess with the credit, automobile, wars, and just about any other crisis you can think of. Indeed, when the Conservatives were elected, they promised to do business differently. No more cronyism, no more backroom deals with party hacks. They were going to clean up Ottawa.When the federal government was patting itself on the back last month on the anniversary of the passage of the Federal Accountability Act, it failed to mention that two key components – the appointments commission and the lobbying provisions – have not been implemented.

“The lack of a public appointments commission seriously undermines any credibility that Mr. Harper is serious about cleaning up how business is done in Ottawa,” said New Democrat MPP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay) (TheStar.com, 2008).

However, critics say Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has appointed hundreds of people with Conservative ties – the kind of cronyism the Conservatives and their predecessors used to howl about.

Where does the money come from?

The government sees that for every dollar injected into the economy it must first be taxed or borrowed out of the economy. Thus, government spending only redistributes already-existing money which otherwise could have been created by a healthy manfacturing sector. Under President Obama’s “stimulus” plan, jobs will be created to weatherize buildings, construct schools and wind turbines, and repair roads and bridges. But outside the market process, there is no way to know whether those are better uses of scarce capital than whatever would have been produced had it been left in the private economy. Since government services are paid for through the compulsion of taxes, they have no market price. But without market prices, we have no way of knowing the importance that free people would place on those services versus other things they want (Creator’s Syndicate, 2009).

We need to invest in green industry, but the problem we face is unfair competition allowed under the auspices of the WTO; so the hope of making Windsor a green corridor is a pipe dream until countries like China and Korea open their markets. Only then can we have a real green revolution.

When are people going to do their homework and take a stand?

EconoChristian.com

Tue Apr 14 2009 08:44:54 ET

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

Perry continued: “Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas.”

A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.

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Canadian Government Continuously Growing in Size

In the middle of a major world economic downturn with millions poised to lose their jobs and way of life, while government bureaucrats, politicians, staff and the like enjoy and maintain a high standard of living through bonus payments, larger than inflation annual salaries and allowances, etc. All this at the expense of the over burdened Canadian tax payer.

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Is this fair? Perhaps governments should “feel the pain” with the rest of the poplulation. Perhaps some “down-sizing” in government departments is appropriate.

With roughly 1 in 5 Canadians working for various levels of government, public service size should be seriously reduced in numbers. It is recommended that some new legislation should be passed in Parliament, Queen’s Park and City Halls that defines some “limits” as to the “size & numbers employed” at all levels of government (TVO.org, 2009).

The Canadian government has passed new legislation which extends the foreign worker visa program from one (1) to three (3) years in the past 6 months. On December 15, 2008, professionals seeking to work temporarily in Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) can now receive work permits for up to three years, the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, announced today. Previously, NAFTA workers were required to renew their work permit every 12 months.

Below is a letter written by an EconoChristian.com writer who is dismayed with the Canadian government’s repeated attempts to displace and reduce the middle working class of citizen in that country. Indeed, it has already undermined middle class workers by its unfettered immigration policy which allows some 400,000 new immigrants into the country. Proponents argue that increasing immigration increases economic prospertiy, while critics argue it actually limits economic opportunity because a majority of immigrants granted citizenship are sponsors of highly skilled immigrants.

Skilled immigrants are what Canada needs, not the former type of person. Indeed, the reason so many immigrants are admitted is because a majority of them are sponsored into the country (often family members), but also because of humanitarian reasons. Essentially Canada is a dumping ground for all kinds of people who do not contribute anything substantial to the economy.

If one were to look at other countries such as Japan and other Asian countries, one will quickly discover that their economies are prosperous not because of increased immigration, but because of an export-oriented economy and a high savings rate that the Japanese have been known for and is ingrained in their cultural consciousness. Canadians, on the other hand, and Americans, have extremely low savings rates and are actually borrowing money from places like China. Take a look at the growing trade deficits and the US dollar holdings of treasuries the Chinese have because of these deficits.
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OUR GOVERNMENT’S OWN RESEARCH CONTRADICTS WHAT IT IS DOING

The federal government’s own research has told it that with regards to Canada’s economy, immigration consumes 99% of the economic benefits it produces. With regard to population decline, in 1990, when Canada had a population of 26+ million, Health and Welfare Canada’s demographic research told the federal government that Canada’s population would continue growing until 2026 with half (130,000) the immigration we have today, so population decline should not have been an issue to be looked at in 1990. The same Health and Welfare study concluded that Made-In-Canada alternatives (such as making use of 45+ year old unemployed males and encouraging more females to enter the workforce) are superior to immigration in dealing with a larger number of older people in Canada.

In other words, the federal government’s research contradicts what it is doing. (See highlights of the major federally-sponsored studies entitled “Charting Canada’s Future” and New Faces In the Crowd” in the “Research” section of this web site) (Canadian Immigration Watch, 2009).

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Dear Readers,

I am writing to protest my dismay to the changes in the Federal government’s immigration rules which now allow foreign workers to remain in Canada for three (3) years instead of one (1) year. I am writing you to halt your destruction of the labor force of our country, as well as undercutting the permanent residents of Canada by importing cheap labor from other countries.

The United States has taken similar steps to fill supposedly vacant positions for which employers “can not find applicants” for, particularly in the engineering, scientific, and information technology fields, by instituting the H1B Visa program. Much evidence, particulary from government studies, institutes, and numerous other think-tanks have found that there is indeed no such labor shortage (1) and that the only reason the government has instituted such “temporary” guest worker programs is to undercut the American working class.

There is strong evidence [2,3,4] from numerous think-tanks and institutions showing that a similar situation in Canada is developing, and that the real reason we are changing our immigration rules to allow more supposedly highly-skilled immigrants and foreign workers is just to undercut permanent Canadian resident citizens’ earnings. An example is the skills and labour shortage in the Eastern Canada region (2), where top University professors dubbed Nova Scotia a “low wage ghetto” due to the increase in productivity in the past 15 years, but an overall reduction in wages.

Why would someone stay in a Province that continually reduces wages, does not allow workers to easily unionize, or has an employer which does not participate in training and/or profit-sharing programs?
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I severely question why our elected representatives and those whom we pay taxes to continually try to undermine our way of life by importing cheaper labor from other countries instead of providing incentives to corporations/companies to train existing employees in “higher skilled labor” or paying them sufficient wages to perform “jobs that regular Canadians do not want to do.”

I am also very, very disappointed that you, our elected representatives, do not invest public funds or provide tax incentives for companies to train permanent resident Canadians in the the areas of the economy that need these workers.

Indeed, this kind of practice was largely shown to have been extremely detrimental to other countries in the past who have practiced completely open borders, such as the Corn Laws of Great Britain; the bracero program of 1942-1964 that is so often touted by immigration enthusiasts as the example of how well such things work; as well as a study in 1991 by the Economic Council of Canada found that periods of immigration were not directly linked to periods of high growth [6].
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A study by the C. D. Howe Institute, a conservative think tank, suggests that immigration cannot keep Canada’s population young and could possibly contribute to population ageing in the near term.[3] Employment statistics also bring into question whether skilled worker immigrants, with a 34% unemployment rate,[4] are successfully meeting existing labour market needs in Canada. Many developed nations have much lower fertility rates than Canada but have not embraced immigration (Japan, Korea, etc).

In conclusion, I am writing to you to do your duty and lobby the Federal government to limit the amount of immigrants we admit each year, as well as reduce the amount of time temporary workers from other countries stay in our country; taking our positions when a fully-qualified or potentially fully-qualified Canadian could already take the job. I am very tired of paying taxes to our government when it does nothing to attract and retain quality companies to provide spending power to permanent Canadian residents.

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Canadians are not fooled by the government Public Relations material which is released to the media for consumption of the public. We do our home-work and experience these events daily and we do not agree with the increases in immigration or the need for longer-staying foreign workers when permanent resident Canadians could be trained to fill these jobs.

Sincerely,

Author

Windsor, Ontario

References:

(1) A study by the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University also found that there is no shortage of U.S. engineers. Eighty percent of respondents to a Pratt survey say U.S. engineering jobs are filled within four months, and 88 percent didn’t offer signing bonuses.

(2) Larry Haiven, a professor at Saint Mary’s University, said the report he wrote for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows while productivity has increased over the past 20 years, Nova Scotia’s wages are lagging far behind.

(3)No Elixir of Youth: Immigration Cannot Keep Canada Young, Backgrounder, C. D. Howe Institute, Number 96, September 2006, URL accessed 29 November 2006

The internet is rife with secularism and godlessness. This is part of the reason why EconoChristian.com was founded and frequented by many Christians, agnostics, and Atheists alike.

Pope warns of ‘a desert of godlessness’ in Good Friday address

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:13 AM on 11th April 2009

Pope Benedict XVI last night attacked the rise of aggressive secularism in Western societies, warning them that they risked drifting into a ‘desert of godlessness’.

He used his Good Friday meditations to compare deliberate attempts to remove religion from public life to the mockery of Jesus Christ by the mob as he was led out to be crucified.

‘Religious sentiments’ were increasingly ranked among the ‘unwelcome leftovers of antiquity’ and ‘held up to scorn and ridicule’, he added.

‘We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink,’ said the Pope at an evening ceremony at the Coliseum in Rome.

‘Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode.

‘Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’

The German-born Pope, who turns 82 later this month, prayed Christians would respond by growing in faith.

‘May we never question or mock serious things in life like a cynic,’ he added. He also condemned the oppression of women, saying there were ‘many societies in the world where women fail to receive a fair deal.’

‘Christ must be weeping for them,’ he said.

Inflation is on its way and we’re not prepared for it, says establishment shill economists and financial analysts Kevin Phillips and Nouriel Roubini, who both published books within the last 2 years predicting the rise of this insidious evil lurking around the corner in economies where government plays a nefarious intrusion in the lives of private citizens.

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For those green to the term, inflation occurs when the money supply is increased and “chases” prices of goods and services; much of which all people in countries use and consume on a daily basis. When this happens, prices often skyrocket but are not matched by increased sums of income for purchasing power. Essentially it hurts the savers, low income people, and those with high debt loads on their backs because these groups of people are not able to comfortably absorb price shocks as those with no debt and/or high incomes and large amount of wealth.

A year ago, Kevin Phillips, an ex advisor to the Nixon administration, warned of a the pending explosion of a 25-year “multibubble” that started in the 1980s, when the financial sector accounted for 10 percent to 12 percent of the U.S. economy had started metastasizing into an “arguably crippling” 20 percent to 21 percent by the middle of this decade (Reuters; Daniel Trotta, 2009).

Indeed, all of the government manipulation of the US economy — not to mention the governments and economies in the rest of the world — is starting to come home to roost. All of the overleveraging and “easy credit” was bound to create a disaster all of which can be blamed on U.S. Treasury Secretaries all the way back to the Nixon administration, but more prevalently during the Clinton and Bush regimes.

The fact is that central bank manipulation — government manipulation — is the prima facie for the financial bubbles which have been plagueing economies of the world for quite some time since the introduction of central banks in the early to mid twentieth century when the Federal Reserve (a quasi-private institution) was established by international bankers in the 1930s in the United States.

The US economy — already suffering from bank failures, insane trade deficits, and astronomical public debt — has not seen the full effect of these facts and is about to encounter further hardship from areas ordinary Americans rely on day to day; that being credit card debt and personal loans. Since the banking sector has essentially restricted loans to those with previously good credit ratings, many businesses relying on cheap credit are being held in the mud. In a corollarily to the housing bust that occured in the past year, the US economy has yet to witness the fruition of other sectors that have relied on previously cheap credit manipulated by the central bank, those being the commercial and industrial real estate markets.

What economists, politicians, and pundits do not mention is the poignant fact that the entire monetary system of the world — having been essentially taken over by the Federal Reserve through the forced creation of central banks in each country around the globe — has enforced the creation of fiat, or government issue money. This fasci of money has throughout history been the target of control and manipulation of all politicians, dictators, and despots. Convincingly, Rome fell mostly because of their issuance and debasement of their currency.

In fact, at the end of the Roman empire, their mercernary legions refused to take Roman currency. “Whenever a nation slips from wealth creation to wealth preservation, it becomes increasingly difficult to sustain the prior level of wealth. As the cost of maintaining the Legions went up, the ROI on having them declined. In order to pay the cost of preservation, Rome debased its currency multiple times. Debasement is a way to pay today’s bills with tomorrows worthless coins. That led to incredibly high rates of inflation. Payment in kind often substituted for worthless currency” (Newsvine.com, 2009). It surely seems the United States economy is on this very same route since the US dollar is bring printed out of existence as we speak to pay for a tripled debt (now currently approximately 15 trillion dollars) — a debt already unsustainable during and previously to the Clinton administration. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” is stated in the Holy Bible in Ecclesiastes 1:9.

With Canada being such a close neighbor with the United States, and sharing such a huge amount of trade volume with its neighbor, it will surely experience a severe bout of inflation to match the economic pain being experienced in the United States. “Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday (April, 2009) the Canadian economy is likely to “accelerate” out of what he deemed a “mild” recession – although warning that the next problem policy-makers may face is inflation” (Financial Post, 2009). The primary problem, however, is not trade issues, but debt incurred by the “financial stimulus” that Canada’s political elite are pushing on the Canadian populous as the economic savior. Keynes himself would be so proud.

The Obama Administration will not save us

For those thinking the Obama regime has the answers the solutions, please think again for the same people who worked for previous administration are working for this administration. At the helm of the newly created “economic recovery board” is Paul Volcker, a Nixon and Carter-era economist who was the former Federal Reserve Chairman at that time. It doesn’t stop there for the Federal Reserve Chairman in this term is Ben Bernanke, a former Bush administration Federal Reserve Chairman. How can things change when things stay the same? Indeed, Einstein told us that insanity is when you do the same things and expect different results.

Government intervention is now in such an elevated state that the entire banking system is at risk of being nationalized. Many major banks have already been taken over by the US government and many more are in danger of being usurped as well. It is obvious the current ‘crisis’ has been engineered to put the economic reins of power into the hands of ‘dear government’ who will guide us toward a socialist paradise with a controlled economy.

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Article written by EconoChristian.com with references to various sources stated herein.

How often have you seen job advertisements stating that some type of degree, diploma, or certificate is necessary? Performing a job or task often requires an applicant to have the pre-requisite knowledge or at least some kind of affinity and ability for the task and work being applied for. If this is so, why are so many job positions asking for so many qualifications?

Students across the world are beginning to question the necessity and value of college education as the cost of such training has risen by 110% over the past 20 years, median family income has risen by only 27% (New York: The College Board, 2001)[1].

Have you ever wondered if the requirement of qualifications and credentials has always been so prevalent? The reality of the situation is that back in the post World War 2 economy of the industrialized countries (Europe, North America, etc) there was a shortage of labour (people to take up jobs) so the qualifications necessary for these positions was often waived or learned on the job, and the employer paid training option was often implemented.

Contemporary Tight Labor Markets

Indeed, as Wikipedia points out, labor shortages were felt in [during and after WW2] agriculture, even though most farmers were given an occupational exemption and few were drafted. Large numbers volunteered or moved to cities for factory jobs. At the same time many agricultural commodities were more needed for the military and for the civilian populations of Allies (Wikipedia, 2009).

Before the war, there were not enough jobs to go around, hence the depression. As America geared up for the war and then got involved, two things happen which would have a great effect on postwar America. The first, to produce what was needed for the war, America’s manufacturing began to grow at a fantastic rate. Secondly, there was rationing, so as workers started making money again, there wasn’t a lot for them to spend it on. So, they saved lots of money.

With this tremendous boom there was a severe need for employers to fill positions which now require “qualifications” that were often learned on the job. Also, many new industries were created along with new job titles, so naturally academia and the college industrial complex jumped on the bandwagon to cash in on the increasing numbers of people looking for work as the economy tightened and contracted with the crises seen in the late 70′s to early 80′s and has not stopped since then.

It can be supposed that a certain element of this preference for a University degree is related to the local labor market conditions (supply and demand of people with certain qualifications), but the reality of the situation is that many people who come out of colleges are more suited for the working world due to the fact that it is more vocationally oriented training rather than the pervasive theory taught in Universities. It is true that Universities purportedly produce workers more suited for managerial or “abstract” thinkers, but it is more likely a matter of class and status and the epitome of the specialized economy’s need to compartmentalize people into specific roles.

The Rise Of Credentialism

University degrees were, up until recently (50 to 60 years), strictly an affair for the wealthy and well connected in society, while those at the lower rungs were relegated to community colleges and technical colleges. As many professions became regulated and bureacratized, Universities came into the fold as the necessary qualification to be completed to qualify for positions such as Nurses, Lawyers, Doctors, and other traditional occupations usually occupied by the wealthy of society and their offspring.

Back in the 1960′s to early 1970′s, high school graduates were able to enter teacher’s college directly from their previous level without having to attain a University degree in a specific or general subject. They could just literally become teachers out of high school and were encouraged to attain a University level qualification during their teaching career.

Similarly, concerns about the commercialisation of universities began to emerge during the debate of the late 1970′s about the safety issues surrounding the then-new recombinant DNA technology. The concern centered on the potential influence of the commercialisation of university research on the university as an institution (Kenney, 1998 & Science in Africa, 2002).
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According to a Statistics Canada report released a day after the 1998 “students’ budget,” students are paying more than ever for their university education. After inflation, tuition fees have leapt 62 per cent since the beginning of the decade, while family incomes have dropped by 5 per cent. Fees for undergraduate arts students increased in all provinces but Quebec. With yet another rise slated for the 1999-2000 academic session, students can prepare themselves for fee hikes well into the 21st century.

The sharpest rise in costs occurred in Newfoundland where, on average, students paid 18 per cent more than in earlier years. By comparison, Ontario had a jump of 10.1 per cent. In other provinces, the tuition surge ranged between 1.7 per cent in British Columbia and 8.3 per cent in Alberta. The national average was 9 per cent. Employment incomes of those aged 20 to 24 have fallen by 21 per cent during this period.

At the same time, average loans from the Canada Student Loans Program remained constant and because it has not kept pace with changing realities, students are left having to do much more with less. But youth aren’t exactly foregoing the post-secondary option due to the fee hikes. The proportion of 19- to 24-year-olds enrolled in university grew consistently from 1975 to 1995. That growth stalled in 1993 and then dropped slightly in 1996, but it is once again on the rise. So who is paying for these changes? Check out the numbers: the average undergraduate debt after graduation in 1982 – $5,260; in 1990 – $8,690; in 1995 – $17,000; in 1998 – $25,000.

Academics, teachers, and other so-called “role models” keep chanting the “need for formalized education to get a job” mantra because our economy apparently needs skilled workers, they say, but is the connection between formalized education and just “getting a job” that clear? Most people in semi-professional roles require skills such as exercising considerable judgement and certain specialized skills.

It would seem that before enrolling in and barely scraping by to complete a life draining 4 year degree, it would be more advantageous and cost efficient to offer more University or community college programs 2 years in length rather than the former. Indeed, many community colleges already offer 2 year programs that should be sufficient to compete for positions such as those offered in the business field such as marketing, business analysis and so on. After all, most of what you’re going to need to know is going to be learned on the job anyway.

The statistics and facts seem to be falling on deaf ears with childrens’ role models, teachers, and parents because in the last 30 years the percentage of positions/jobs requiring college/University education has more than doubled while the job responsibilities and tasks have remained the same or have been deskilled (ie. eliminated or replaced by new, argueably less skilled) by technology. Indeed, according to most “role models,” if students do not plan to pursue college education, they will often be threatened with flipping burgers for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately now that the degree obsession from employer human resource departments has expanded into society, lack of a college education often not make it past human resource departments’ clerks’ eyes (or computers).

Why would this be? Well, according to his book Executive Blues, G. J. Meyers warned of the “academic stench” that can often label an applicant “over-qualified” for many of the jobs available in today’s economy. Maybe what attracts employers to college graduates is their ability to sit for unbearable lengths of time at a desk staring at computer screens, or maybe it is the fact that after a college education that many students run up debts to which they will likely never repay in their lifetimes.

Where is the accountability?

In the Ontarian schooling system (in Canada), the Universities, colleges, and post-secondary institutions are empowered under an enabling act and are bound by provisions of different provincial statutes (ie. The Expropriation Act). In addition, because these institutions receive public funds directly in trust (by way of endowments), there are therefore restricted by the rules of accountability. This essentially means they are accountable to the public for demonstrating where the public funds were spent for the goals intended, and to see that it is spent in an efficient and economical manner. However, as all pundits of economics know, and what the economic and historic models show, is that government is not capable of being effective when power is taken away from individuals.
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This means that University administrations are supposed to be responsible for the management of the public funds they receive for collective purposes (very broadly for education and research), but who watches the watchers? Supposedly the board of governors serve this function, but the reality of the situation is that this board is largely a controlled aspect of University Chief Executive Officers’ preferences with no real stated process for reporting their effectiveness to taxpayers. Indeed, the MUSH sector (Municipal, Universities, Schools, and Hospitals) does not guarantee public accountability of funds with regards to University effectiveness (or lack thereof). This fact is so credible that even the Ombudsman of Ontario admitted it:

“Ontario has fallen behind in oversight of non-governmental organizations providing critical public services referred to as the “MUSH” sector – municipalities (except for the ability to investigate complaints about closed meetings in some cases), universities, school boards, hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities, police, and children’s aid societies (Ombudsman, Ontario, 2008)

It would seem that the problem in education starts much earlier than previously thought; it starts in earnest during the grade school education paradigm where students are socialized into specific patterns of social and scholastic thought. The education system has been patterned after the “outcome based” education model where it promotes curricula and assessment based on constructivist methods and discourages traditional education approaches based on direct instruction of facts and standard methods.

Though it is claimed the focus is not on “inputs”, OBE generally is used to justify increased funding requirements, increased graduation and testing requirements, and additional preparation, homework, and continuing education time spent by students, parents and teachers in supporting learning. (Wikipedia, 2009). Could the outcome based education model be preparation for the post-secondary treadmill racket we call Universities and colleges? All signs would point to “yes.”

Some solutions

In his famous presentation, “The problem with rock tumblers: Why Canada’s education system is in urgent crisis and how to fix it,” Tod Maffin outlines the need for education reform from a system where students are encouraged to have their individualities nurtured, developed, and focused into specific areas of study and vocation. Under the current system of outcome based education as outlined above, students are thrown into a public school with over crowded populations, assigned over worked teachers, and expected to come out of this Marxist factory with direction in life.
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What Mr. Maffin compares this system to is a “rock tumbler” where “you take all the students at the beginning of the cycle and toss them into a rock tumbler. You turn on the switch and tumble them for about 12 years.” Essentially this system is meant to form all students into generalists who do not have the chance to develop their individual skills as they should. The nice stones that come out of the tumbler are like the students that come out of the current education system, which he believes creates a bunch of generalists. “Everyone comes out being able to do everything generally well … Few people come out doing one thing extraordinarily well” (Leader Post, 2006).

Parents realizing this disturbing trend are increasingly enrolling their children into private schools, or in many cases, are teaching them at home in an individualized, nurturing environment — guided by Christian or other religious teachings — often not offered in public schools where students of marginalized situations often find themselves ostracized by fellow students, which ultimately defiles their educational experience and dooms their educational future.

Indeed, the US Department of Education’s report “shows that approximately 1.5 million children (2.9 percent of school-age children) were being homeschooled in the spring of 2007, representing a 36 percent relative increase since 2003 and a 74 percent relative increase since 1999.[2] One private researcher estimates that as many as 2.5 million school-age children were educated at home during the 2007-2008 school year.[3]”
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Jesus calls on Christians of all denominations to call into question the current public education system that their children attends as secular schooling has been stripped of all value and meaning when He has been taken out of the curriculum. Without God or Jesus, students become lost in the wild of secularism and often adopt secular ideals. Phil Brennan of Newsmax.com has exposed this secularization of the schooling system stating that “”government schools must stamp out love of country and the family must be viewed as the enemy: ‘As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism’”" (Newsmax, 2003).

References:

(1) The College Board, Trends in College Pricing, 2001 (New York: The College Board, 2001).

[2]U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, “1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007,” December 2008, at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009030.pdf (January 6, 2009).

[3]Brian D. Ray, “Research Facts on Homeschooling,” National Home Education Research Institute, July 2, 2008, at http://www.nheri.org/Research-Facts-on-
Homeschooling.html (January 6, 2009).

Politicians, businessmen, and media conglomerates working together have been touting that they had no knowledge of the current depression and economic trouble. Somehow this should be hard to believe given the way in which the economies and financial systems of the world were slowly manipulated throughout the years. It has been in the making for decades, made worse since Canada and the United States’ politicians signed away their respective economic sovereignty to the unelected World Trade Organization and NAFTA; not to mention the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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This pipe dream of stabilizing Canada’s economy is not to be solved by shipping its manufacturing base, already less than a quarter of its economic activity, to countries where they utilize slave labour and manipulate their currency. It also is not to be solved by the proliferation of Casinos and gambling houses which destroy the moral fabric of communities and eventually countries. Here is a brief history of how gambling came to be common practice in Canada:

A 1969 amendment authorized provincial governments to manage and conduct lottery schemes and authorized charitable groups to do likewise under license – the federal government still had control, however, and even had their own lottery. The provincial and territorial governments soon negotiated provisions that led to the introduction of further gambling options in Canada such as province-run ticket lotteries. Governments began to generate substantial revenues from their virtual monopoly on Canadian gambling and became interested in diversifying their gambling offerings. (University of Alberta Study)

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Why would a country with decent, primarily Christian people, decide to open state-run Casinos thoughout its lands without any thought of consequence? You can bet your bottom dollar the policy makers knew the harmful effects that gambling would have on a population, but were desperate for solutions to declining public revenues due to de-industrilization (loss of manufacturing industries; backbone of the economy) and were under the influence of powerful people hell bent on destabilizing the middle class industrialized people of the world. “Canada experienced a dramatic increase in legalized gambling in the 1990s, primarily because of governments’ need to increase revenue without additional taxation” (CMAJ, 2000).

The industrialized world is steadily losing its manufacturing base to countries with low or non-existent labor, environmental, or financial laws. China is such an example of a country where they regularly manipulate their currency, condone limits on speech, disallow private sector unionization, and have poor or non-existent labor laws. Workers work 12.5 hours per day, spend 16.5 hours in the factory, and have to work all night during delivery rush. “There is no overtime pay. Workers are paid on product count. After all kinds of deductions, the average salary per hour is 13 cents” (China Labor Watch, 2001).

How could this come to be?

There should be no misunderstanding here. No one should be opposed to fair trade, but it’s time to recognize “free trade” is fiction because every trading relationship is managed in some way. Indeed, in an ideal world there would be no governments and therefore no need for representative government and public collectivization which all countries eventually become when people of similar values and morals come together in common cause. Indeed, Jesus fought for human freedom and did not give up even after he was crucified and nailed to a cross. As Jesus Christ said to Luke, “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his palace, his possessions are safe” (Luke 11:21).

One has to wonder if the de-industrialization; loss of manufacturing industries (and the subsequent decimation of the middle class); increases in drug trafficking and rises in crime mostly caused by a purposely faulty judicidial system; the increase in gambling and sinful behaviours such as prostitution (being legalized in some countries) and homosexual marriage; and the general acceptance of lies and deceit were deliberately planned out. Indeed, John Coleman, a famous historian and Christian, has stated this is the goal of the elite, satanist cabal steering planetary affairs. Indeed, he states point number five:
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“To bring about the end to all industrialization and the production of nuclear generated electric power in what they call “the post-industrial zero-growth society”. Excepted are the computer- and service industries. US industries that remain will be exported to countries such as Mexico where abundant slave labor is available. As we saw in 1993, this has become a fact through the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA. Unemployables in the US, in the wake of industrial destruction, will either become opium-heroin and/or cocaine addicts, or become statistics in the elimination of the “excess population” process we know of today as Global 2000″ (Educate yourself, 2000).

Who is responsible for this?

The respective governments of Canada, USA, and the other industrialized and developing countries of the world — supposedly represented by their respective politicians — rammed the World Trade Organization’s agenda down the collective throats of their respective peoples through the incremental global trade agreements settled on shortly after World War 2. If one were to do their research, they would find that there were no public consultations regarding the need for so-called free trade rather than the much needed “fair trade.”

The World Trade Organization’s website states that the WTO agreement was ratified in member nations’ parliaments and consultative bodies, but what they do not mention is that nine in ten (90%) Canadians believe that politicians are “likely to lie” when they make statements in the media about important issues (60% “very likely” and 30% “somewhat likely)* and therefore agree that government does not represent common peoples’ concerns. Where is the democracy in that?

What Jesus calls his followers to do is emulate the way he lived his life. That is, to emulate his love for humanity, God, and the ability to question what rules and regulations authority has put upon mankind. Jesus was a revolutionary teacher. “His ideas shocked and frightened the people of His day. He would probably do the same to us today were He here in person. The sad truth is that the teachings of Jesus are just as revolutionary today as they were when He was here, but we have overlooked their importance. Or, we have failed to make application of them to our lives” (The Examiner).

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I call upon all Christians of all denominations to print out and cast their signature(s) as well as persuade their community members and families to sign the following petition in WORD format.

PETITION

to the House of Commons

in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following:

THAT manufacturing jobs are important to Canada’s national economy,

THAT Canada is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs every year,

THAT each week more manufacturing companies shut their doors,
THAT losing manufacturing jobs in Canada affects millions of Canadian families, who either work directly or indirectly in the manufacturing sector,

THAT the loss of these jobs will negatively impact the future economic prosperity of Canada,

THEREFORE your petitioners call upon Parliament to immediately develop and implement a plan of action to protect Canadian manufacturing jobs in consultation with all stakeholders including labour and the business community.

Special thanks to Mario Silva for the petition document.

* These are the findings of an Ipsos-Reid poll conducted between October 22nd and October 24th, 2002 on behalf of The Comedy Network. The poll is based on a randomly selected sample of 1,000 adult Canadians. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within (+/-) 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult Canadian population been polled. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample’s regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual Canadian population according to the 1996 Census data.