I keep hearing about a mill every morning on the radio, how much money they plan to waste on its resurrection once again and I’m sick of hearing about it. Ever wonder why guys who have worked there for 30 years and are making $50, $60, upwards of $100,000 a year suddenly have to sell their trucks, boats, four-wheelers and houses immediately after it closes its doors? Greed, and sadly it doesn’t stop there. I used to live in Cape Breton and I also worked at the mill so I have witnessed firsthand the kind of damage the workers themselves do to the place they work and then have the nerve to cry about it when the business goes under. Anyone who is interested in buying the mill would puke in their fucking suits if they took a tour of even a handful of some of these guys’ homes and sheds because they are absolutely outfitted with paint, tools, electrical equipment, anything and everything a person can get their hands on that they’ve lifted from the mill. You may not think it’s a lot but take a lunch can full of stolen gear out of the gate everyday for 25 years then times that by 90 percent of the people who work there and trust me, it adds up! Hell, a local salvage owner even got charged a few years back for trying to smuggle out very expensive stainless fittings with the scrap he was taking on his truck! They’re taking the food right out of their own mouths by doing this but this and everyone else will have to pay the price. If they want to save $100,000,000 a year they just have to hire one person that’s not related to half the people working there and have them actually check every bag, every lunch can, every truck that goes in and out of the gate and do it every single day. —The Pipe Layer
This article appears in Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2012.
I believe you, OP – actually, Frank Magazine did a brilliant page on just what you describe – the sense of entitlement and nepotism – it’s a fucking sick culture that’s been around for decades. We do not need this goddamn mill, not unless they’re selling gold embroided arse wipe to Dubai.
And the lesson here is – it’s not just rap music that promotes crime >; )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHniL8MyMM
I’m betting that when, not if, this place goes bosoms up Stern will have it stripped and shipped to China before you can say Dexter is a dipshit. Furthermore, I’m betting they’ve got a clause in the contract that they get to keep everything and we get a big fat Sebastian up the stern tube
get on this story , timothy
these fucking fools don’t understand the concept of fucked, o.p., neither does the government. for to keep throwing cash at a place that is basically a fucking dinosaur.
in an age where just about everything is electronic, including paper trails, really. look around you, the only paper we really use day to day,, is bum wipe and paper towels. how many zillion trees does that take to make. newsprint is going downhill, and even magazines too. if you are reading this bitch and responses on here, that just proves what i am saying.
we don’t need any more dinosaurs or millstones in this country, we have polotitions for that job.
Government should stay out of running businesses because they run it for the employess not for the bottom line. They are the antithesis of corporate greed, they are just in there to maintain jobs and win support for the local candidate. We just spent $50 million on Bowater and that was just pure waste.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a conservative. One who thinks that government should stay out of everything. I just believe that history shows that government cannot run these companies. Do we remember the Sydney Steel debacle? After the tens of millions the taxpayers spent on that place, it would have been cheaper just to give each employee a million dollars and then close it.
I hope the present government is swept out on an orange wave of sewage next election. Worst provincial government EVER.
What kind of pipe do you lay, OB?
Wp
ttfn, so soon you forget the other 100 plus years of financial woe from the other 2 groups of crooks. something can’t be undone in a few short years. the others fucked n.s., and canada for a long time, and still are. the reds and blues are finally getting their just desserts by being low on the totem. and justly so. how many times have we heard about rodney fucking up, or hiding money, or any of the others before him. no, dexter had a hard go of it, and he still is. but newpage was and still is going under.
dexter tried to help the people down there out, remember he is for the people, not himself. if he was a greedy bastard that some like to think, there never would have been one cent given to newpage, to try and keep those people working. but it is a dead horse now, and we all know you can’t beat one to get it working or moving any faster.
he should really be concentrating on the crooks at the power company now, the ones that have us in a stranglehold.
Dexter is now turning his superior skills to the demise of Acadian lines and a lack of inter-city transit, this way past the 11th hour, quelle putz.
BLOW ME – the NDP have caused more financial harm and inflicted more fiscal carnage on the wallets of NS taxpayers in one term than the Libs and Tories took decades to do. When we last had a Finance Minister who was a real live economist and not a Social Worker, he said that in 2010 our debt was $13.1 B and guestimated that by 2012 it would be $13.7 B – just to service/pay interest on the debt is costing almost $900 million FFS. All this before Dexter went on a spending spree saving his base constituents, the union movement, to the tune of HALF A BILLION SPANDOOGLES!!!
Ron Paul isn’t busy these days… he should move here.
I’d vote for him. Putting ‘Republican’ aside, at least the fiery texan tells it exactly like it is and not like he ‘wishes’ it would be…
aka. pulling a double-D and saying ‘I will NOT raise taxes’ … and then raising taxes.
Damn right Fire, RP would make a fine Nova Scotian 🙂
I suppose it would be much better, Munny, if Dexter just sat around watching a bunch of tax paying citizens suffer with an “awww fuck it, they’ll survive” attitude. Two entire regions in a very small province with linited tax base and getting smaller because everyone is going out west, and I bet you’re the first to whine and complain about the high taxes caused by a dwindling tax base. Yeah…thats what we want, a government who doesn’t care about its citizens and lets entire communities fail without so much as a blink of an eye.
Apparently your memory isn’t too good, I seem to remember a certain concervative who sold our future offshore revenue for a measely 890 million, then wasted every penny on dumb unsustainable election promises, not to mention another conservative that sold our power company to a profit driven corporation. Hmmmm, now that you mention it, helping constituents and bolstering a tax base in their time of need seems like a pretty stupid thing to do. Maybe your right, a sell off of all things good in this region is a much better way to go, maybe you can chip in for the sign on the border that states “Closed due to lack of interest, cause when shit gets difficult we pack up and leave.”
Tar and brush anyone?????
“The NDP have caused more financial harm and inflicted more fiscal carnage on the wallets of NS taxpayers in one term than the libs and tories took decades to do”
Nope.
SHITD – Liverpool and Port Hawkesbury can just wither and die as far as I’m concerned. Rural Canada is fuck-a-doodle-done and the sooner they get off the public tit the happier I’ll be.
rural canada is done? who grows your food? should farmers drive 1000 miles to the nearest urban centre each time they need a prescription filled? a package of toilet paper? a hair cut? rural folks need services, and the people that work at those services need their own services, like gas stations, haridressers, fast food places and on and on. you cannot break a chain with a pat answer. everything is connected.
We must recognize the diversity that rural areas embody, and facilitate not dictate solutions. There should be incentives to help rural poor move to urban areas where there is a much better support structure in place. People don’t live in rural areas because they think they will have better access to public services. A host of solutions are needed. Spending hundreds of millions on dying towns and industries is vote buying in the worst way, no matter what party is in power. Those in rural NS may resent the truth, but Halifax is the driver and engine of the economy and always will be, regardless of how many government departments are shipped around to the middle of nowhere. Farmers should have tax breaks and incentives to do what they do, and I have no problem supporting that. At the same time, a choice to live in the middle of nowhere might just mean not having a future shop nearby. Or a pulp-mill. Boohoo.
break a chain with a pat answer…… WTF kind of drivel is that?