Our Wallets! HA. I love that commercial.
So, the federal government hands out 1 BILLION of our taxpayers dollars to help communities and people who have been laid off, do they get praised? Applause? How about a THANK YOU? Nope, this is what they get:
Prime minister announces $1-billion relief package
Liberal intergovernmental affairs critic Dominic LeBlanc said Thursday that the announcement was one big political ploy, ahead of an inevitable election.
"By tying this package to his next budget, Mr. Harper is engaging in a purely cynical political ploy -- designed so he can blame the woes of the forestry and manufacturing sectors on the opposition if they were to refuse to pass his entire budget," Mr. LeBlanc said in a released statement.
Liberals, hands in our pockets.
Other premiers reacted skeptically on the heels of the announcement. Ontario's Dalton McGuinty and Quebec's Jean Charest both questioned the validity of the announcement.
"I don't think forestry workers in Quebec deserve to be part of the election campaign," Charest told a press conference.
Charest also said the announcement -- worth about $200 million for Quebec -- equals about 10 per cent of what his province has already done for its forestry and manufacturing sectors.
While McGuinty thanked the prime minister for the funding, he said the announcement -- worth about $350 million for Ontario -- pales in comparison to the $3 billion Ontario has already invested in its ailing industries. He was also skeptical about the announcement's dependence to the passing of the budget.
More Liberals with their hands in our pockets.
Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, said the announcement was an insulting game Harper was "playing on the backs of unemployed forestry workers."
"Mr. Harper's announcement has nothing to do with saving the forest industry. It's not a Band-Aid for the industry, it's not even a stitch on the wound," Coles told CTV Newsnet.
He said the union had met with government officials to discuss what must be done to save the industry, but no one was interested in hearing their advice.
He said it will take closer to $10 billion in federal money to do any real good. That money should target research and development, develop new products, and invest in communities and workers hurt by the economic turndown.
"We're going ahead without the government, and they'd best get on board," he said.
Unions with their hands in our pockets.
This guy is a real work of NDPism.....He wants 10 BILLION! Didn't they just get 5 Billion back from the US? Now they need 10 Billion more? And his comment about "We're going ahead without the government"....Well DUH, and then a threat "they'd best get on board". Right, or else what, you aren't going to vote for them? Watch the video, he's a perfect union ahole.
And our favorite NDP/Liberal Union Guy:
Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, said Ontario's share of the $1-billion investment wouldn't be enough to help struggling manufacturers.
Hargrove said on Thursday that the money wouldn't even be enough to upgrade a single parts plant in Ontario.
Oh, so Buzz wants all the $1 Billion, and much, much, more!
So, from just one article, 3 Liberals and 2 union leaders have their hands in our pockets, and they want MORE!
Send me the $1 Billion, bet I could put it to better use. Do these idiots think we don't realize that there is only ONE taxpayer, and we are sick and tired of getting our pockets picked?
Speaking of pockets being picked, has Ruby "don't take your love to India" settled on a story yet?
7 comments:
I suppose Buzz will want us to supplement the porr autoworkers when they price themselves out of jobs!!!
The so called Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could always give up their billion a year in tax dollars ripped from our pockets to help these poor auto workers.
The forestry sector here in Quebec is a black hole. Plus he should stop sending money to Charest since the last time he helped Charest the guy just stabbed him in the back by announcing he would use the equalization money to cut taxes.
As for Ruby Dhallia, I await developments, for those photos of the kids sure looked they had been beaten up, which she apparently denied.
McGuinty was on CTV tonight saying, "My mother always told me to say Thank-you, but...".
He's got to stop talking like Norman Bates! It creeps me out.
Good one joanne!
Bates had nothing on McGuinty, murdering a whole province is right up there in my books.
canuck1955, Buzz could get 8 Billion tomorrow and still gripe, but never blame it on high union wages.
Anon, that 1 Billion would just fall into a black hole...speaking of black holes...
Canada Goose has a good point, you give the provinces money, they just sh$t it away on their own special projects. And they put their hands out for more, like Charest did.
Governments have an extremely bad track record of picking winning industries. They prop up the losers and tax the winners out of existence. The best think to do in this case would be to lower corporate taxes across the board and let the market sort it out. This is of course not politically astute as no politician gets credit for letting the market work.
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