Page 24, April 11, 1979 - North Shore News it s. your money | _by John Bi “The uncanny thing thing about the Liberals is that they have . sixth sense of when to jose.” - — Anonymous Broadcaster NnveEe = . The Diefenbaker years are @ case in point. After he poisoned events, ignited hopes and crushed some ‘aspirations, the former Prime Minister promptly embarked on a voyage of Our friend with no name is exactly right, of course. a rederally. the Grits have always own the precise time to fumble. Then, when the smoke has cleared, they have always roared back and run away with all the marbles, usually just after the Tories have screwed up nearly everything. GARDEN GOODIES a) IMPULSE SPRINKLER Full or part circle, adjustable. Cause to prejoice? You must be kiddin were, if you know what I mean. If this theme is taken to its less than logical conclusion it has enormous ramifications for the science discovery, re-writing reality as he went. The rest is history, or his version of it. This is not to demean the man or his place in our nation’s development. It is merely to point out that things are not always what _they seem, or even as they GET LUCKY and—art—of—economics,—the revealed unemployment measured 7.9 per cent of the . labor force~on a seasonally- adjusted basis. There were 954,000° souls out there " actively looking for work they couldn't find, which, it | says here, is a sad com- mentary on a whole system and the way it works. And what was the national reaction? Rejoicing, if you can believe it, mostly because the rate fell from 8.1 per cent the previous month. | This has tobe the only nation in ‘the western world in which an ‘unemployment rate of that level can prompt - cheers, and if it isn’t, it should be. Ff nations get the governments they deserve, then somewhere in our past we commited a heinous sin, focus of today’s diatribe. It means Canada’s economic development will be largely determined by a group over there on the political left, a strain of crazies brought to full flower by this country’s particular and peculiar economic circumstances. Unemployment, for example. Recently it was tantamount to that per-— formed by Mr. and Mrs. Adam that time in Paradise. Mind, the rise, fall and denouement of the Canadian economy is not exactly on the same level of getting turfed out of Eden, but you know what I mean. On the other hand, since most of us have to eke out a to these matters. This is why overall- economic development is often more important than the day-to- day bumps and wrinkles in the economy.- Big trends - influence (and often control)’ little ones, after all. Thus, if. you follow. the argument, the. current unemployment news is less im: t than what the unemployment rate will be a. year from now. A large intellectual and philosophical leap must be made in order to hurdle that _ conclusion, but trust: me. ‘After all, if you can’t trust your colymnist, who can you trust? = '. living one way.or quother i it. behooves us to pay attention | that. Canada’s unem-_. ployment problem “has — become chronic. — : We hear constantly of people — mostly young, mostly male —- who simply | cannot find work. These-are | not laggards. These are folks “who cannot: find gainful employment in any profession, never mind. professions of theirchoice.. - Last week a lad of 26 . called and asked how he © could become like me. He - wanted to write for a - newspaper. any newspaper, anywhere. Our - advice was to go to a small — -market and make all his _ mistakes there. Then, if push came to shove, he could _ crack the Big Snowball. ~ Meantime, we were not at-< —Ehe point is that this man all chuffed to learn that “only” 954,000 Canadians. are pounding the pavement. 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