Where are the jobs?
It is said that when something is repeated it will finally be believed.
I think this is the reason why GonziPN keeps repeating the myth about the “20,000 new jobs created during the last four years”. Finance Minister Tonio Fenech reiterated this claim during the launch of GonziPN’s first billboard – a carbon copy of a billboard used in the British 1979 election by the Conservative Party.
Mr Fenech was reported to have said: “The billboard reflected how the government had created 20,000 jobs in the past four years”.
Of course, the minister did not give a breakdown of the 20,000 ‘new’ jobs.
He just assumed that all those listening to him would believe him.
Unfortunately for Mr Fenech, the National Statistics Office pointed out that 9,922 jobs were created between 2008 and 2011.
Of these, only 3,276 were full-time jobs while 6,646 were part-time jobs. Fifty five per cent of those who found part time employment depended on their part-time job for their main source of income.
This is a far cry from the 20,000 ‘new’ jobs being claimed by GonziPN.
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Jonathan Camilleri
Oct 28th 2012, 05:49
Right said, fred, where are the jobs? and what are they contributing to disposable income after deducting water and electricity bills?
Jonathan Camilleri
Oct 28th 2012, 05:47
I was unemployed for 8 months, and, I did not get any unemployment benefit, because I resigned. This is what you get in this country, after spending 13 years paying social security out of ful time jobs. No I am not lazy I wanted to work, but I could not find work, like some 11% of the persons unemployed in Europe as of August 2012.
Carmel camilleri
Aug 12th 2012, 16:16
Your writing nauseates everyone who care to read it. Have you not yet realised that you are only harming your party by your writing?
C Cassar
Aug 12th 2012, 15:04
The PN were pro EU and PL against membership. Now that Malta is in the EU there is a huge jobs market available to the Maltese with tens of thousands of jobs for those who have a skill to offer. Without EU membership the market would have remained only in Malta unless one wanted to go through the laborious task of applying for a worlk permit for each country a job was available in.
Eddy Privitera
Aug 12th 2012, 19:19
C. Cassar: Can you state how many Maltese have grabbed these " thousands of jobs" in EU countries ? In the 1960s many more thousands went to foreign countries to work. So what ??
Jonathan Camilleri
Oct 28th 2012, 05:43
The job market was there even before EU membership. One can apply for a VISA and work in the States or Australia, or another country.
Now Malta has joined EU, and, it paying its membership for some advantages and some financial help.
Eddy Privitera
Aug 12th 2012, 11:55
Giovann DeMartino: I have just found out that the NSO statistics , on which based my letter, seem to have been mistaken. Today Dr. Muscat has disclosed that according to the pre-budget document announced by Tonio Fenech, ONLY 4246 jobs were created between 2008 and 2011. Whichever is the correct figure, both are very different than the 20,000 "new jobs" so often repeated by Dr. Gonzi !
By the way Giovann, have you read the survey in another Sunday newspaper, about the Gozitans' opinion on both parties and both leaders ???? Hope it hasn't ruined your Sunday !
Giov DeMartino
Aug 12th 2012, 11:30
Anything GonziPn can do, labour can always do better. In fact KMB could employ no less than 8000 persons in the public sector in a matter of minutes! A world record.
Eddy Privitera
Aug 12th 2012, 16:40
Those 8,ooo persons were already employed as members of the various corps ! They were labourites, nationalists and otehrs who were not interested in politics ! Besides, the wages paid to them went into the pockets of Maltese and Gozitan workers and not in the pockets of foreign consultants, or squandered on unneeded projects are we are seeing now ! ONE THING YOU CANNOT ACCUSE KMB WITH - DISCRIMINATING ON POLITICAL GROUNDS WHEN EMPLOYING THOSE WORKERS !!!!!
Giovann, check how many thousands have been employed by PN governments since then !
Giov DeMartino
Aug 13th 2012, 08:36
No Ed! The 8000 persons employed by CNI chief on the very eve of a general election were ALL PN tesserati! We have no doubt about that. But was it necessary to employ them on the very eve of a general election?
Mr Duncan Scerri
Aug 12th 2012, 11:10
And how many jobs were lost over the same period?
Eddy Privitera
Aug 12th 2012, 11:57
Duncan: Do you consider the thousands who leave their employment through age, boarded-out etc.. and are replaced as "NEW JOBS " ????
Gerry Cowie
Aug 12th 2012, 11:06
Once again it is necessary to remind one man party EP, that Dr Gonzi made it quite clear in his speech in the spring of this year that there is no such thing as GonziPN.
Please let MuscatPL fight its own battles!
Eddy Privitera
Aug 12th 2012, 11:58
Gerry: No matter what you stupidly keep repeating, as long as lawrence Gonzi leads his party, it will remain GONZIPN !!!!
Eric Soames
Aug 12th 2012, 13:50
Gerry Cowie: You must be responding to a different letter than the one I've just read [above, in case you're on the wrong page].
James Tyrrell
Aug 12th 2012, 14:38
GonziPN will only cease to exist when Gonzi has the sense to step down as leader of the party. Because he is too arrogant to do that he is dragging the party down and they will lose the next election.
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