- It has been interesting to observe how the left-lib leaning MSM in the US and Canada have covered the performances of beloved liberal president Obama and scorned conservative prime minister Harper during the past four years while they were in office at the same time.
- The general approach of the MSM in both countries has been to highlight good US economic news and fail to report or at least bury on the back pages bad US economic news and to ignore good Canadian economic news while giving at least some coverage to bad Canadian economic news.
- Rarely in the MSM has there been any sober and objective comparative analysis of the performances of the two economies historically and at the present time because to do so would make The Messiah look really, really inept and Harper look comparatively heroic.
- The November jobs data is a good case in point.
- The US and even the Canadian MSM have trumpeted the news that there were 146,000 net new jobs created in the US in November and that this resulted in a reduction in the unemployment rate to 7.7%.
- Hardly anywhere was it noted that the net new jobs created in the preceeding two (election campaign) months now have to be downgraded by 49,000 jobs, that the chances are considerable that the November jobs figures will also be downgraded as has been the trend almost every month this year in the US and, that the majority (upwards of 70%) of these new net jobs were in the net tax consuming rather than net tax creating public sector.
- Meanwhile, Canada with a labour force of about 10% of the US labour force had a net new job creation in November of 59,000 jobs, primarily in the actual producing and net taxpaying private sector of the economy. This would be equivalent to there being 590,000 net new jobs created in the US or more than four times the rate that the liberal MSM is getting all giddy about. The Canadian unemployment rate also fell .2% to 7.2% and the Canadian dollar rose slightly to above par with the US dollar (100.91%).
- Naturally, this comparatively astounding news was buried by the MSM.
- And don't expect to see any comparative historical analysis of the two economies.
- For example, don't expect to read about how Canada's unemployment during the Trudeau years was 2-4% higher than US unemployment or about how the Canadian dollar in the Chretien years was worth at one point just 62% of the US dollar or about how Obama has pissed away over 6 trillion dollars to achieve the weakest recovery of the nine post WWII recoveries while Canada was the first country out of 2008 recession and spent, proportionately, less than a quarter of the obscene Obama debt in getting out of the recession and now enjoys the lowest debt to GDP ratio of the G8.
- Don't expect to see any of that, just more Obama worship and Harper hatred.
- I liked it better when the MSM functioned as objective reporters and analysts instead of partisan cheerleaders.
- It was better for democracy, too.
- The general approach of the MSM in both countries has been to highlight good US economic news and fail to report or at least bury on the back pages bad US economic news and to ignore good Canadian economic news while giving at least some coverage to bad Canadian economic news.
- Rarely in the MSM has there been any sober and objective comparative analysis of the performances of the two economies historically and at the present time because to do so would make The Messiah look really, really inept and Harper look comparatively heroic.
- The November jobs data is a good case in point.
- The US and even the Canadian MSM have trumpeted the news that there were 146,000 net new jobs created in the US in November and that this resulted in a reduction in the unemployment rate to 7.7%.
- Hardly anywhere was it noted that the net new jobs created in the preceeding two (election campaign) months now have to be downgraded by 49,000 jobs, that the chances are considerable that the November jobs figures will also be downgraded as has been the trend almost every month this year in the US and, that the majority (upwards of 70%) of these new net jobs were in the net tax consuming rather than net tax creating public sector.
- Meanwhile, Canada with a labour force of about 10% of the US labour force had a net new job creation in November of 59,000 jobs, primarily in the actual producing and net taxpaying private sector of the economy. This would be equivalent to there being 590,000 net new jobs created in the US or more than four times the rate that the liberal MSM is getting all giddy about. The Canadian unemployment rate also fell .2% to 7.2% and the Canadian dollar rose slightly to above par with the US dollar (100.91%).
- Naturally, this comparatively astounding news was buried by the MSM.
- And don't expect to see any comparative historical analysis of the two economies.
- For example, don't expect to read about how Canada's unemployment during the Trudeau years was 2-4% higher than US unemployment or about how the Canadian dollar in the Chretien years was worth at one point just 62% of the US dollar or about how Obama has pissed away over 6 trillion dollars to achieve the weakest recovery of the nine post WWII recoveries while Canada was the first country out of 2008 recession and spent, proportionately, less than a quarter of the obscene Obama debt in getting out of the recession and now enjoys the lowest debt to GDP ratio of the G8.
- Don't expect to see any of that, just more Obama worship and Harper hatred.
- I liked it better when the MSM functioned as objective reporters and analysts instead of partisan cheerleaders.
- It was better for democracy, too.
