Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Victims of Flaherty's Federal Budget

Now with Jim Flaherty's fiscal vandalism more coming fully to light with his Federal Budget, the casualties of what has made Canada have a better sense of humanity are being cut away by these blind ideologues.
  • The Community Access Program, which enables the poor to have better access to the internet and its online resources. So, Harper wants to try to silence the disadvantaged while local organizations and libraries have to pick up the slack as best they can.
  • Rights and Democracy: A decades old organization found by Brian Mulroney to promote human rights and democratic institutions around the world.  Considering how it dared to give some honest criticism about Israeli policies when Harper and the gang are slavishly deferring to that country's every whim, it was rather inevitable considering they don't respect democracy in Canada as it is.
  • National Council on Welfare: What do you expect from a government that doesn't care one bit about the fate of the poor and disadvantaged with their "out of sight, out of mind" mentality, it's not like they were paying attention to anything they had to say for years away.  
  •  Katimavik: A youth program devoted to helping young Canadians work on social projects around the country and learn about different cultures, the environment and leadership. Just the fact that it was created under Pierre Trudeau with his idealism already painted a big target on it. Besides, we're talking about a government that sneers at the basic point of real community in favour "every bastard for himself," so why not sabotage a well established program to promote a greater humanity?

The worst part is that this just the big stuff that we really hear about, what the more subtle cuts that threaten people in more subtle ways.  I can't name real specifics, but that is the point considering what we don't know.

Instead we have these bunch of greedy fanatics slavering to buy overpriced jet fighters other countries are dropping like a hot potato and lying about the price tag for them while they splurge on building prisons for a Law and Order agenda in a time when crime has been going down for years.

We've seen their priorities and now we have a rough ride even we must gather our forces while we harry Harper for the election years away


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