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PERVERSE 2009 (federal and Ontario) stimulus-spending budgets are certainly NOT! FAIR for the JOBLESS", says the President/Party Leader of the ÉPC (Égalité Party of Canada) a. Background =========== 1a. The NUMBERS!!! ================ The Toronto Star newspaper Monday April 29th page B3 article, "EI claims hit record numbers", reports that 1.4 MILLION! Canadians are UNEMPLOYED, but ONLY! 43% (610,000) (LESS THAN HALF) are NOT! getting EI (employment insurance) benefits according to United Steelworkers Union economist, Erin Weir. He said that in Ontario only 32% collected EI because the benefits are harder to get and did NOT last as long due to regional variations in the EI program. What has the Government done? Extended EI by a MERE five (5) weeks. However, the SENSELESS 2-week WAITING PERIOD REMAINS! Michael Ignatieff, the new national Liberal Party Leader wants people to qualify with 360 EI hours, but only during the economic crisis. Those qualifying with 360 EI hours are NOT! going to get that much $$$ to live on. That's TRAGIC! 2a. Tragic Dilemma =============== Many before being laid off are FORCED! to work **REDUCED** HOURS. This *negatively* AFFECTS their EI benefits. This happened to me when I ended up working variable hours at $10 an hour. In August 2004 I got $648 in EI benefits and the Justice Department took 1/2 of that in family support payments leaving me with only $324 to pay my food and rent: $200 less than someone on social assis- tance. I went directly to the Office of the Minister of Justice on the 3rd Floor of the West Block and handed him a letter of complaint in English http://eh-ok.ca/GOOGLE/justice-now. and French http://eh-ok.ca/GOOGLE/justice- His responded with a 300 page document saying that what the Gov't did was LEGAL. Perhaps in a FASCIST Police State like Canada where the Gov't is RUN BY CROOKS! (in the view of the ÉPC) that conduct their affairs IN SECRET behind closed doors, but it's **DEFINITELY** NOT! RIGHT. It meant going to the Shepherds of Good Hope soup kitchen in Ottawa's Lower Town to eat with the home- less and having to put up with undercover cops that plying them especially if they were from out of town with questions. 3a. WHAT! Adjustments ================== Prime Minister Harper said at a press conference regarding the economic situation of the country on his April 2009 visit to Jamaica: "... we will make adjustments where necessary." WHAT! adjustments? EI adjustments? Apparently NOT! Human Resource Minister Diane Finley (former ultra-right-wing Financial Post columnist) said mid-April that fixing EI was NOT! a Government priority: " ... everyone has agreed that this is NOT the time to overhaul it". Everyone? WHEN! will be a good time to overhaul EI? She's afraid the JOBLESS MIGHT abuse THE SYSTEM. Gov't employees doN'T abuse THE SYSTEM? The auditor generals point out all sorts of abuse committed by Gov't employees. And the auditor general STILL doN'T monitor two (2) cost areas that are *continually* OUT OF CONTROL: 1. health care costs; 2. judicial, policing costs. 4a. DECEPTIVE! Budgets ==================== BOTH! the federal January 27th 2009 Budget and the March 26th 2009 Budget of Ontario are based on a PROJECTED mid-2010 economic recovery with 2.3% economic growth. On January 22nd 2009 (prior to the January 27th 2009 federal budget) Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, said that the "real GDP is expected to rebound, growing by 3.8% in 2010." NOT! possible with 1,000,000+ JOBLESS and A LOT LESS $$$ circulating in the economy? 5a. The Jobless BETRAYED! ====================== BOTH! the federal January 27th 2009 Budget and this Province of Ontario March 26th Budget BETRAY! the JOBLESS. NEITHER offers INCOME SUPPORT NOR do they create very many jobs. The so-called "stimulus spending" that does NOT BENEFIT THE JOBLESS is A **senseless** WASTE OF MONEY. 6a. 3-stage Economic Contraction ========================== This *unprecedented* ECONOMIC CONTRACTION is STRUCTURAL because it *negatively* affects MAJOR THINGS like bank accounts, investments, stocks, housing, cars, and jobs. The ÉPC sees this economic contraction happening in three (3) STAGES. 1st stage the jobless let go of their homes, cars 2nd stage the jobless stop paying on their credit cards 3rd stage small businesses quit due to loss of customers. The ÉPC is forecasting an economic recovery starting and in 2011 over a protracted 5-year period. 7a. MIDDLE-CLASS Jobs: GONE! ========================== The most significant factor of this economic contraction is the LOSS OF GOOD-PAYING PERMANENT (middle class) jobs that have BUOYED the global economy in the past. 8a. Part-time, Variable Jobs: THE! Trend =============================== More and more jobs being created are for SHORT periods of time (contractual) and therefore, VARIABLE. Many are PART-TIME offered on a ON-CALL basis depending on the WORK VOLUME. 9a. GOVERNMENT ABUSES! Temps ============================= Far too many Gov't ministries, agencies, departments routinely use temps from temp agencies in order to avoid hiring full-time and having to providing benefits to LOW SKILL EMPLOYEES. (The cleaners at the Toronto Reference Library who cleans the washrooms are a good example of that.) Far too often temps are used as office fodder and as a supply of FRESH MEAT for philandering bureaucrats. It's NOT! UNUSUAL that THE! CONDITION for the renewal of a female temp contract is to accept to be some philandering bureaucrat's girl friend. This activity occurs against a backdrop of a a non-consenting culture of sexual exploitation of women in the Gov't where the abuse of the Public Purse is especially bad (the major ministries) in the view of the ÉPC. (On Parliament Hill sexual exploitation was ALWAYS *WITH* CONSENT: young University girl consents to be an MP's secretary and mistress for example.) 10a. PRECARIOUS! Latino Economic Model ================================== With
THE LOSS OF MIDDLE CLASS JOBS we
become a 2-TIER **Latino-like** SOCIETY divided economically into two (2) groups: i) those with PERMANENT JOBS (public, para- public sector SYSTEM WORKERS, business owners, religious personnel); ii) those with VARIABLE JOBS (contractual, part-time workers) who will experience JOB SCARCITY during periods of LOW ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. With NO! INCOME SUPPORT and TOO LITTLE $$$ circulating in the economy, there's a RISK of ECONOMIC COLLAPSE when value of the currency is reduced to ZERO. This happened to Argentina. 11a. Poverty and Rental Payments ========================== The RULE OF THUMB regarding rent is that it is supposed to be NO MORE than 1/3 of the net monthly income. To be obliged to PAY MORE than 1/3 is to LIVE IN POVERTY. To apply THIS MEASURE OF POVERTY might put THE MAJORITY of Canadians living in poverty in one of the RICHEST nations in the world. What happened? 6% rental increases surpassed 2% wage increases over the decades making rent LESS AFFORDABLE over time. In 1977 I was paying $200 on a 1-bedroom apartment and $700 in 2007. Many people in my apartment building in downtown Ottawa were paying $850+ for a 1-bedroom. The MINIMUM WAGE certainly did NOT! go up 6% every year. Who got HURT THE MOST? The WORKING POOR with families. Should the Gov't IMPOSE rent controls? For sure. The ÉPC will ensure rents don't up more than 2% a year. See http://eh-ok.ca/egalite.htm# (Incidentally, I noticed that the City of Vancouver offers RENT SUBSIDIES to those earning LESS THAN $28,000 a year.) 12a. Poverty = Starvation =================== A VERY! RECENT university study confirms that 2/3s of the Poor are NOT! eating adequately: in other words they are starving themselves to death. POVERTY in Canada leads to STARVATION. Often college/university students living away from home will survive on pop corn and cereal towards the end of their school term, but once they're back home they eat regularly again. I, myself, was SO POOR that I ate one meal a day in my first years in residence at the University of Ottawa: in fact, in my 1st year I even ate dog biscuits to deal with hunger pangs. When I spent six (6) days out of seven (7) in Eastside Vancouver from mid-April 2007 till July 2007 I learned that after 24 hours the Poor forget to eat and only remember to eat on the 3rd day. This HABIT of IRREGULAR EATING causes the mind to go and leads to starvation, sickness, IMMOBILITY due to a lack of energy, and INDUCES SLEEP. People living in CHRONIC POVERTY are FORCED TO SAVE MONEY by surviving on tea and biscuits and drastically LOSE WEIGHT. They CAN'T GO ANYWHERE because they don't have the $$$ to pay for public trans- portation so they remain HOME BOUND. After a time they become EXTREMELY FRAIL: their health goes and they die. This results in the :LIFE EXPECTANCY of the Poor in Canada is significantly REDUCED! Who's to BLAME? The GOVERNMENT!. In Europe the Poor get **MORE** THAN DOUBLE what the Poor get in Canada. And Canada is ONE OF THE RICHEST COUNTRIES. THE PROBLEM is THE GOVERNMENT! 13a. The Poor DRUGGED! ==================== The 1st THING a person is given on social assistance is his/her DRUG BENEFIT CARD. Though the Poor are **LACK** $$$ for THE ESSENTIALS like food and rent, they are GIVEN **A LOT** OF FREE MEDICATION that keeps them docile and COMPLIANT with a CROOKED! SYSTEM that DEHUMANIZES them by reducing their quality of life. The Gov't spends a lot of $$$ on medication for them so they can deal with their DEPRESSION. The DEPRESSED! POOR go to Emergency several times a month: this costs the tax- payer a lot of $$$ needlessly because it can be avoided by giving the Poor the necessary $$$ so they can LIVE DECENTLY. One (1) in three (3) persons in our hospitals are there due to poverty: giving the Poor the necessary $$$ to LIVE A DECENT LIFE will easily reduce hospital costs by 1/3. 14a. Income Support NEEDED! ======================== Those with variable and part-time jobs need INCOME SUPPORT from the GOVERNMENT. The NEED FINANCIAL HELP to buoy them through periods of low economic activity when they canNOT find a job or when they can only work at a part-time job until they can get full-time work. INCOME SUPPORT is GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY because it buttresses the economy against economic collapse. The more $$$ circulating in the economy, the STRONGER the economy is and vice versa. 15a. Social Assistance Budget Dilemma ============================== Any money earned is taken off the NEXT MONTH'S social assistance cheque. This makes it IMPOSSIBLE for those on social assistance to work part-time. How RIDICULOUS! is that? It's PERVERSE. b. The March 26th 2009 Ontario Budget ============================== 1b. BEWARE! =========== In this budget there is almost NOTHING! for the JOBLESS. NO! INCOME SUPPORT. The GOVERNMENT has a long history of: - NEGLECTING the Poor; - NEGLECTING the youth; - NEGLECTING 1st Nation Peoples. NEGLECTING THE JOBLESS just accentuates this INNATE **oligarchical** Police State TENDENCY of SERVING THE ELITE: THE RICH, GOVERNMENT (SYSTEM) employees (*especially* the Police), elected officials, and their children. This tendency by Police State Governments to look after THE ELITE is quite COMMON in Latino countries. This budget clearly NEGLECTS the JOBLESS. YET! The Toronto Star calls this budget which has been a long time in coming - two (2) months after the federal budget - a "bold document for tough times". BOLD??? Let's see. 2b. PRE-BUDGET Announcements =========================== On March 23rd the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty in reference to the $27.5 *infrastructure* stimulus budget, ($9 billion of which will go towards trans- portation projects, $7 billion towards health care projects, 4 billion towards education projects) said that this would create 146,000 jobs the 1st year, 168,000 jobs in the 2nd. "Obviously, we're going to be as rigorous as we possibly can be to ensure that the taxpayers are being served well, the money's being used wisely, and it's creating the jobs we want to have created." HOW did he arrive at THOSE SPECIFIC! numbers? Real or IMAGINARY? MYSTERY! 3b. MISDIRECTED! Ontario Budget Highlights ============================== --->The $37.5 BILLION ($32.5 BILLION+$5 BILLION from Ottawa) in INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING over 2 years for building, repairing roads, hospitals, schools, ... . This creates jobs in the construction industry, but does NOT help THE MAJORITY! of the JOBLESS, 50% of whom are WOMEN. According to a April 9th 2009 Toronto Start newspaper article entitled "Harper boasting Canada leads in stimulus plan", Prime Minister Harper said during a stop-over in Moncton, NB: "We want to make sure we are putting people to work in this construction season." Sounds sincere, but is it? The infrastructure spending also includes money for TRAINING PROGRAMS that will be USELESS! IF there are NO JOBS. 4b. Ottawa's $5 BILLION: CONDITIONS! =============================== Municipalities received the project criteria MID-April 2009 and the deadline is May 1st 2009. Why SO LATE? Is the federal GOVERNMENT PLAYING GAMES? To be eligible the municipal projects need to meet these conditions: 1. they must be NEW! projects; 2. the construction work must be completed by the end of March 31st 2011; 3. HALF of the spending must be in the current fiscal year ending March 31st 2010. Ironically, there is NO "official" DEADLINE for Ottawa to processing these municipal project proposals. 5b. Chinese Head-Tax Compensation: a Repeat? ============================== Remember when the Government decided to finally compensate for the Chinese head-tax. The Chinese-Canadian community after a 10-year period of deliberation period found 4000 deserved compensation. The Gov't added EXTRA eligibility CONDITIONS reducing that number to 400, 10%. Was the GOVERNMENT being NASTY or SMART? --->Lowering the business tax rate to 14%, July 1st 2009, (12%, July 1st 2010; 10%, July 1st 2013) This HELPS CORPORATIONS financially. It does NOT! HELP to the JOBLESS who NEED JOBS. --->Lowering small business tax to 5.5%, July 1st 2010 (4.5%, July 1st 2011). This helps small businesses stay afloat. It does NOT! HELP to the JOBLESS who NEED JOBS. --->Lowering manufacturer's+processing taxes to 16.7% July 1st 2009 (12%, July 1st 2010; 10%, July 1st 2011). NO! JOB CREATION here. Therefore, NO! HELP for the JOBLESS. --->Tax harmonization. HOW! does this help the JOBLESS? It doesN'T! Instead it makes them POORER! --->$3 MILLION towards the creation of "community hubs" in LOW INCOME neighbourhoods. Is this NECESSARY? The Poor are already OVER POLICED. WHAT! does it do for the JOBLESS? ZIP! It just makes Canada a MORE! FASCIST Police State where the Poor have always been the SCAPEGOAT of a CROOKED PERVERSE! SYSTEM OF behind-closed doors GOVERNMENT. --->The $750 in COMBINED provincial and federal HOT WATER tank rebates. Does this help the JOBLESS? NO! It helps those that have a job like SYSTEM (Government) employees that doN'T **need** this MISDIRECTED! financial help. HOW MANY jobs will this create? FEW! and just for the duration of the rebate. --->1-time payment of $1000 in three (3) installments starting NEXT! year (NOT! now), but between June 2010 and June 2011 for families whose combined income is $160,000 or less. That's LESS than $100 a month over a 1-year period: PEANUTS! It's USELESS! for families on social assistance because they have to declare it and it then gets DEDUCTED! off their NEXT MONTH'S social assistance CHEQUE. WHY! does the GOVERNMENT help those who doN'T need help, people with jobs, and NOT! HELP those that NEED! financial HELP, the JOBLESS? Where's THE LOGIC? The GOVERNMENT is CLEARLY being PERVERSE! --->Individuals earning $80,000 or less will get $300 NEXT! year June 2010 (NOT! now): PEANUTS! This is USELESS! for individuals on social assistance because they'll have to declare it and it then gets DEDUCTED! on their NEXT MONTH'S social assistance CHEQUE. --->The Child Benefit will be phased in over a 2-year period going from an initial $600 to $1,100 a year: PEANUTS! WHY! over a 2-year period? The reason for this is ... ? 6b. Toronto Social Housing CRISIS! =========================== Habitat Canada states that there are 66,000 FAMILIES waiting for social (affordable) housing: 66,000! http://www.torontohabitat.on. 30% live BELOW! the POVERTY LINE: 200,000 are children. 25% of these families have TROUBLE paying their rent. 7b. NOT! in the Public Interest ======================= The federal and Ontario budgets are NOT! in the Public interest. They doN'T help the JOBLESS. Is the GOVERNMENT competent enough to keep the economy of Canada afloat? The ÉPC thinks NOT! Can the GOVERNMENT be TRUSTED to keep the economy afloat? The ÉPC thinks NOT! given the PERVERSE THINKING of these budgets. c. Power ======= 1c. NO! STRUCTURAL CHANGE ========================= Small business creates 80% of the jobs. The budgets needed to do three (3) things: 1. create jobs 2. help small business 2. reduce government costs. They did NOT! 2c. Canadians: POWERLESS ======================= Canadians are powerless when it comes to finding out WHERE the money in these budgets are going and WHO is benefiting? Bay Street organized crime? Perhaps and QUITE LIKELY. How can Canadians know for sure? THEY CAN'T. That is *THE* PROBLEM. Canadians are HOSTAGES to SECRETIVE behind-closed door system of CROOKED GOVERNMENT in the opinion of the ÉPC. The ÉPC sees Canadians as VICTIMS OF BLIND! TAXATION by a CROOKED self- serving SYSTEM of GOVERNMENT that canNOT be trusted to act in the Public interest. This kind of government is FASCISM! 3c. FOR EXAMPLE =============== For example, what percentage of the City of Toronto contracts go to U.S. companies or Canadian companies owned by U.S. companies? How can Canadians FIND OUT? THEY CAN'T. That is *THE* PROBLEM. The Americans seem to be draining the Great Lakes; they could they also be draining the City of Toronto. How can we measure the RATE of the Americanization of Canada? CAN'T! How can we buy Canadian when nearly everything Canadian is owned by the Americans? That seems NOT to be a concern of any other political party other than the ÉPC. Molson Canadian was bought by American Coors on 14 March 2005 and shortly after RETIRED! the "I Am Canadian" slogan in favour of the new slogan, "It Starts Here". Molson Canadian was the 2nd oldest Canadian company after the Hudson Bay, BOTH are now AMERICAN OWNED. Now, the Government of China has become the largest condo builder in Vancouver and Toronto and operating a VAST ARRAY OF BUSINESSES and encouraging a mini- Chinese invasion of Toronto and Vancouver. This is THE GOVERNMENT OF CHINA. WHAT! is exactly going on here? How can Canadians find out? THEY CAN'T. That's *THE* PROBLEM. Ironically, according to the ÉPC the Toronto Police Force has MANY! CIA African-American and Mainland Chinese undercover cops who have Canadian citizenship. Should Canadians born abroad be working on any Canadian Police Force? The ÉPC thinks NOT! Yet, the Vancouver Chief of Police is a Mainland Chinese person. Will Chinese-Canadian criminals be going to jail? NOT LIKELY. Is CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Services) concerned about this? What are the chances? (Interestingly, CSIS was designed by the Americans and its MIND SET seems to controlled 100% by the Americans. Are they USELESS or what?) 4c. POWER 2the PEOPLE ==================== POWER 2the PEOPLE is the "official" slogan of the ÉPC. Why? The ÉPC will REDESIGN the GOVERNMENT so that Canadians will be able to financially MONITOR THEIR! GOVERNMENT just by using the Internet. Canadians will be able to find out WHO are making the financial decisions, WHO they are associated OUTSIDE the Government, WHO are benefiting and WHO they are associated with. FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES will be reported at the Canadian Information Agency (CIA) website and forensic accountants with Police enforcement powers will report back WEEKLY what is being done about the matter. The ÉPC calls this CLEAN GOVERNMENT BY DESIGN. It's REVOLUTIONARY! 5c. Solution: ÉPC ============== For CLEAN Government whose TOP! PRIORITY is JOB CREATION, you want to join the ÉPC and become an EH!-revolutionary. The ÉPC will REDESIGN! Government so that its TOP! PRIORITY will be helping Canadians create their own small business so that, if successful, they will become independently wealthy and CREATE JOBS FOR THE JOBLESS. The ÉPC, there to SERVE! YOU. Kenneth Selin (say'leen) B.A.(Psychology), B.A.(Spanish), B.Admin., B.Comm.(Honours), B.A.(Italian) "magna cum laude" ~~~ President/Party Leader of the ÉPC (Égalité Party of Canada) ~~~ the ÉPC: 4 a bet-ter life le PÉC : pour une vie meil-leure http://www.eh-ok.ca ~~~ "talking about a revolution" (Tracy Chapman) http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v= |