According to statistics Canada ,the population of my community Cape Ray fell - 19.7 percent from 1996 to 2001. The population in 1996 according to statistics Canada was 928 and down to 745 in 2001. ( i actually think those numbers are to high! I suspect a typo by the census there.) A few weeks ago we decided to start a Come Home Year event for July of 2007 and a head count held at that time showed just 288 people still in our community. That account was accurate and done by a lady who has worked for Census Canada in the past and also on our local service district. It looks like the downturn of the fishery and the governments decision to close the local school a few years back has sealed the fate of Cape Ray. Im wondering by 2007 how much more that number will drop? Each year in June we see a few more families leave,seeking employment elsewhere and at times their homes simply placed in mothballs because they're next to impossible to sell. Each year we see an American or two come, buy up the houses and land at a ridicously low price and speak of how wonderful it is to live in Newfoundland. 2007 will be our first attempt at a Come Home Year event and were the last community on the Southwest coast of the island to have one. I appreciate being a part of a committee to try and organize such an event and know it will be a success. I also wonder will this be the first and last Come Home Year for Cape Ray? What will the future hold for my community? Will it just be a retirement village for some of us who decide to stay and the occasional American who makes it his home? Only time will yield the answers.
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Hey Wayne what happened over at the kitchen?? looks like one of the fine people might have made a post and ole' Grant shut the place down....My guess it was the one about the General and the nice pic that someone put in there...where was the King JR Canning at on this one.
i think it got hacked,someone gained admin status and started changing the avatars.i suspect it won't be up and running for a week or more this time.
I'm sure it's a differen't scenario, but my city's pop had been steadily on the decline too. All our manufacturing jobs are gone thanks to the Bush Admin not giving a shit about jobs moving to Mexico and China. In the last 5 years the unemployment rate went from about 4% to 12%. When there isn't any work, one must move to where there is.
Myth #6: Outsourcing is a one-way street.
Fact: Outsourcing is a two-way street.
There are currently 6.4 million jobs in the U.S. in which the employer is a foreign company. The rate at which these “insourced” jobs are growing is faster that the rate at which jobs in general are being lost. According to the Organisation for International Investment (OFII), “Over the last 15 years, manufacturing ‘insourced’ jobs grew by 82%—at an annual rate of 5.5%; and manufacturing ‘outsourced’ jobs grew by 23 percent—at an annual rate of 1.5%.”[18]
Moreover, insourced jobs are often higher paying than those that are outsourced—e.g., the 4,300 workers at the BMW factory in South Carolina and the more than 14,000 employed at Honda plants in Ohio. Senator Mitch McConnell (R–KY) brought these facts to the Senate floor on March 4, citing data from the OFII and pointing out that every state has thousands of insourced workers. Michigan has 244,200. Ohio has 242,200. Even Idaho has 13,900 insourced jobs.[19]
Indeed, the nature of economic development means that while some lower-paying jobs may move overseas, higher-paying jobs move in. A study by the Institute for International Economics (IIE) found that:
[O]f the 12 IT occupations that earned more than $50,000 in 2002, 75 percent increased their employment from 1999 to 2002. IT jobs earning more than $50,000 expanded by 184,000 from 1999 to 2002, of which computer software engineers earning approximately $75,000 per year accounted for 115,000 jobs.[20]
Tell that to the 12% unemployed in my town. All our manufacturing jobs have left, mostly to Mexico and a few to China. None have been replaced with what your copy and paste job says... higher paying jobs. They haven't been replaced with even lower paying jobs, hence the 12% rate.
Don't believe everything you read.
Hi Wayne ...
Keeping busy .
I love Father Ted.
Hope the Kitchen is up soon.(Smile)
Big Sis
i suspect it could be april before the kitchen comes online again.going to be some changes this time around for sure
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