Conservatives in the United States’ toughest crime-fighting jurisdiction — Texas — say about the “Omnibus Crime Bill”
and Canada will spend,
Stephen Harper Conservatives - Too ideological and extreme right wing for Texas.
The CBC doesn’t have a political agenda, which means it’s not a Conservative outlet, which means to Conservatives the CBC is AGAINST them and should be treated like everything else “against them”, punished, slandered, defunded till it no longer works, then scrapped.
Conservatives: The Persecution Complex Party - If you’re not with us, how long have you been a Commie and/or in Al Qaeda?
I think it’s really great that with the Conservatives new crime bill someone that grows a pot plant goes to jail longer than someone who sexually assaults a child. #dumboncrime
Although I do think it’s really smart to make the provinces pay for your moronic crime bill. That way you don’t get blamed for the massive deficits this will cause.
I don’t understand why every government continues adding more and more austerity programs and tax cuts to stop this depression. How does stealing from the poor and giving to the rich helping in any way at all?
And now I have a fictional conversation with Stephen Harper using actual quotes:
Steve I wish you’d stop telling Brazil “Canada is in good shape and other countries can follow its example if they also adopt a disciplined fiscal agenda.” The previous government had years of surpluses, you wiped them out and ran a large deficit BEFORE the collapse.
“We must aim to make Canada a lower tax jurisdiction than the United States.”
- Stephen Harper, Vancouver Province, April 6th 2004.
Now the deficit is just out of hand, largest in our history, but keep cutting taxes for corporations and the extremely rich, that should get us caught up to the US.
Any plans for the unemployed?
“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don’t feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don’t feel bad about it themselves, as long as they’re receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”
- Stephen Harper then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy
Can we just agree that the right wing in the US has become too extreme not able to compromise or negotiate?
“Your country (the USA), and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.”
- Stephen Harper then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy
Oh.
I see.
Cool fact; since the US has been downgraded to AA+, all countries with AAA credit have Universal Healthcare.
“I know this is a dangerous subject. My advisors say don’t talk about it, but the fact is sometimes provinces have allowed in the past few years, they’ve brought in private services covered by public health insurance… Why do I care and why do we care as a federal government how they’re managed? What we care about is whether people can access them. This is just an ideological agenda.”
- Conservative leader Stephen Harper at the leadership debate, June 15th 2004, conceding that he shouldn’t talk about his positive view of privatization of health care.
I agree that people should have as much access to healthcare as they need but, don’t you think it’s about more than just access? Maybe it’s about everyone being able to use it, even people who aren’t rich?
“It’s past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.”
- Stephen Harper, then Vice-President of the National Citizens Coalition, 1997.
“What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options.”
- Stephen Harper, then President of the NCC, 2001.
“The establishment came down with a constitutional package which they put to a national referendum. The package included distinct society status for Quebec and some other changes, including some that would just horrify you, putting universal Medicare in our constitution, and feminist rights, and a whole bunch of other things.”
- Conservative leader Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.
Please no one else tell me that the Canadian Conservatives are closer to the Democrats in the US than the Republicans. Don’t force me to look up more quotes to have another fictional conversation. I don’t like listening to/reading what that guy has to say.
Police will be soon be able to track every e-mail sent, every website visited and every comment left on Facebook - all without warrants or judicial review.
“Canadians do all manner of business and personal pursuits on their cell phones and online,” said New Democrat Privacy and Digital Affairs Critic Charlie Angus. “These provisions would force local phone and internet providers to spy on Canadians.”
Conservatives have indicated that “lawful access” provisions will be included in their omnibus crime legislation this fall.
With the crimerate dropping for the last 20 years I guess we don’t have to guess how they’re going to fill their soon to be built mega prisons anymore, do we?
Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011. Including short-term paper would bring this total to half a trillion dollars, enough to pay off the national debt (i.e. accumulated deficit).
Cash hoarding is a critical point in the debate about corporate taxes. If incremental after-tax profits are being deposited (rather than reinvested or paid out), lower corporate tax rates likely just produce higher piles of cash.
If corporate Canada already has half a trillion dollars more than it wishes to invest in physical or financial assets, there is no reason to expect that corporate tax cuts will boost investment. On the contrary, if the government collected more of this money and invested it directly, Canada would have more investment in total.
Not surprisingly, advocates of corporate tax cuts are trying to rationalize corporate cash hoarding as a normal and positive activity.
As Eric Pineault showed graphically and Statistics Canada shows numerically, corporate Canada’s overall approach for at least two decades has been to stockpile ever more cash through good times and bad (with only very rare and slight exceptions). Advocates of corporate tax cuts have not provided a consistent or convincing explanation of how accelerating this ongoing cash accumulation benefits the Canadian public.
More here:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2011/07/02/rationalizing-corporate-cash-stash/
The corporate tax rate decreased as follows:
Conservatives Voted into office 2006
Economic Crash 2008
If you look back further back you can see the Liberals raised Corporate Tax when they got into office relieving the Mulroney Conservatives during an economic crash. As Canada started recovering and having surpluses the tax rate slowly dropped. It took 2 years from taking office to start having growth in the economy and job market.
The Harper Conservatives take the opposite approach. Instead of people and Corporations each paying more to pay debt and stem the recession, we have Corporations getting a free ride. While are recording profits, the recession continues for the people.
During the time before the crash the Harper Conservatives were busy cutting other taxes such as the Capital gains tax (Tax on sale of stocks, bonds, precious metals and property primarily)
Almost 5 year of recession/depression and economists are predicting a “double dip recession” where it collapses a second time and with far less income our government is powerless to do anything about it except hope corporations start hiring and soon.
Summing up analogy: If your significant other loses their job you shouldn’t tell your boss you’d like to make half of what you’re usually paid and the company can add the other half to it’s money heap.
Without having access to actual numbers or the contracts offered or specific positions on anything, this is what I’ve learned so far:
Thousands of pages of newly released documents about Afghan detainees show diplomats were aware of widespread abuse, such as electrocutions, whippings and sleep deprivation, in Afghan prisons where Canada’s detainees were held.
The 362 heavily censored documents released Wednesday describe private torture chambers, squalid prisons, rumours of summary executions and officials losing track of Canada’s detainees.
Conservatives comment on this? Support the troops.
“Canadians have got a clear picture that our men and women in uniform fully accepted all of our international obligations and have done a heck of a good job representing this country,” Baird said.
Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/canada-in-afghanistan/Canadian+officials+knew+Afghan+torture+claims+Documents/4996583/story.html#ixzz1QAu1bMd2
(1)Tony Clement and a small committee of cabinet ministers, is responsible for finding $4-billion in continuing annual savings across government.
It’s a key part of the government’s plan to balance the budget by 2014-15.
What’s a simple way to do this, plus create jobs?
(2)Marc- Andre Gagnon, a Carleton University professor says a universal pharmacare program for all Canadians could result continuing annual savings of $10.7 billion a year.
Well that was easy. Almost $7 billion extra to spare.
(1)Public servants were called to meetings Monday afternoon at Public Works where the cuts – totalling $172.2-million and affecting 687 jobs over three years – were explained. 92 auditor positions across Canada will be terminated.
The decision to eliminate auditing jobs at Public Works is raising eyebrows given the department’s close connection to political contracting scandals throughout history. The department is in the midst of overseeing a $35-billion wave of military purchases – including new ships and icebreakers
Also more spending that should raise eyebrows but won’t without the purchases being audited.
(3)F-35 stealth fighter jets could cost Canada $29.3 billion, according to the parliamentary budget office — nearly double the government’s initial estimate of $16 billion.
Sources
(2)http://www.thenorwester.ca/News/2011-05-27/article-2539593/Report-recommends-universal-pharmacare/1
(3)http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/10/17563966.html
About Aggregated Eccentricity
