But after two months of campaigning, I am exhausted. So I am not back to regular blogging just yet. Give me a couple days.
-Dipper Chick, Thursday, October 30, 2008
Is there no end to the lying and broken promises? Sorry folks. I've been a terribly bad blogger. I will try to make it up to you.
So what has propelled me out of my laziness? It's none other than the audacious political maneuver that Harper and the gang have concocted while they should have been thinking up ways to save Canadian jobs.
I want the Liberal Party put out of it's misery as much as anyone, but scrapping public financing to political parties is blatantly bad for Canadian democracy and won't make much of a difference savings-wise.
The public financing that political parties get based on how many votes they receive in an election is the most democratic subsidy that the government could possibly give. It costs only $30 million (a drop in the bucket of the federal budget) and it ensures that Canadians get to hear from all popular political parties, not just the one with the largest number of well-off supporters who they keep track of in creepy detail with a Big-Brother-style database.
And the whole "set an example" nonesense? Give it up Flaherty. Canadians aren't stupid. We are all picturing you and Harper behind the scenes with your evil villain laughter and Mr. Burns finger-tapping thing ("ehh-xcellent"). This isn't about saving money.
Something that's been bugging me as we hear about the need to reign-in MP's travel and switch to lower-grade TP in the HoC (okay, I made that up): if we're all supposed to be tightening our belts, then why does corporate Canada still get to keep their billions of dollars in tax cuts? Just saying.
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4 comments:
Removing campaign funding combined with abuse of election spending
rules, Harper's in/out election spending fraud, destroys the ability
of political parties to compete fairly. And will destroy our fair
democracy and replace it with a corrupted democracy which is hardly
democratic.
Sensible political interests which attract the majority of common
people will not win in Flaherty's, Harper's path to corruption.
Instead political interest which make the rich richer will win because
they pay for the Party election campaign expenses. If anything the
current system does not reward sensible political interests which
attract the majority of common people enough.
This is a path to economic and political corruption and national destruction.
HOW MUCH has the private sale of the 407 cost the public through increased travel cost either directly or over crowding the 401?
The 407 was sold and is the gift that keeps giving. This corporate monopoly generates the kind of money that can buy a lot more advertising then families trying to make ends meet. But it cost us all and makes us less economically efficient.
Supporting a political Party can be a business/union/organization investment insuring an economic advantage.
Your title of this post was the FIRST thing that came to mind when I read the news yesterday.
great minds think alike (never mind the rest) :)
Good to see you back, too bad it took Harper trying to steal democracy to do it.
$300 million spent on the promise-breaking, unnecessary election, and now the Cons are saying 'Let's save $30 million here?'
Fuck off, Prime Minister Steve.
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