Austerity measures in a nutshell
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sabotabbyHaving already violated Attawapiskat's sovereignty, Harper and his merry band of fucknuggets are after what little money it has left. The federal government is forcing the reserve to pay an inefficient private consultant $1,300 a day for the privilege of having Jacques Marion tell them to bend over and take it. (Incidentally, Attawapiksat told Marion where he could stick it, but they still have to pay him. Because the Prime Minister said so.)
This will come at the cost of frills like, oh educational assistants for kids with special needs.
For the record, some facts on the cost of living in Attawapiskat:
* It costs $250,000 to build a house, and only the federal government is allowed to build houses on the reserve.
* It costs $50,000-$100,000 to repair a condemned house, of which there are many.
* It costs $150 and $200 a cord for firewood, which will heat a house for about a week.
* The price of 6 apples and 4 small bottles of juice is $23.50.
Instead, the reserve's money will go to making some rich white douchenozzle even richer.
This right here is why I insist that there is no such thing as fiscal conservatism. All conservatism is socially reactionary. When conservatives talk about trimming spending, they mean stealing from a bunch of people like this:
To give that money to someone like this:
(With absolutely no savings for you, the taxpayer, by the way, because if you're anxious about slipping out of the middle class, you're so much easier to control.)
It has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility, and everything to do with reminding the First Nations that we can still screw them even harder.
This will come at the cost of frills like, oh educational assistants for kids with special needs.
For the record, some facts on the cost of living in Attawapiskat:
* It costs $250,000 to build a house, and only the federal government is allowed to build houses on the reserve.
* It costs $50,000-$100,000 to repair a condemned house, of which there are many.
* It costs $150 and $200 a cord for firewood, which will heat a house for about a week.
* The price of 6 apples and 4 small bottles of juice is $23.50.
Instead, the reserve's money will go to making some rich white douchenozzle even richer.
This right here is why I insist that there is no such thing as fiscal conservatism. All conservatism is socially reactionary. When conservatives talk about trimming spending, they mean stealing from a bunch of people like this:
To give that money to someone like this:
(With absolutely no savings for you, the taxpayer, by the way, because if you're anxious about slipping out of the middle class, you're so much easier to control.)
It has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility, and everything to do with reminding the First Nations that we can still screw them even harder.
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Date: 2011-12-09 12:45 am (UTC)what
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that is not allowed, Harper. not. allowed.
/mails him to Mars
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Date: 2011-12-09 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 01:01 am (UTC)you mail him to Mars and you make him the sole citizen of the Ford brothers' completely self-contained space colony!
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Date: 2011-12-09 03:17 am (UTC)City of TorontoMartian Government investment, once we get rid of the unions.no subject
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Date: 2011-12-09 02:46 am (UTC)...
I want to go punch something.
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Date: 2011-12-09 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-09 02:52 am (UTC)No, seriously, I'm open to segestions here. What can I do other then chew my fingernails and scrounge up another $20 to send to the Red Cross?
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Date: 2011-12-09 02:57 am (UTC)They are able to get away with this in part because most Canadians are tragically uneducated about how funding to First Nations reserves work. Also because most white Canadians are racist shitbags (read the comments on any article about indigenous issues). So spreading facts and arguments is also important. (In order to build that mob with torches and pitchforks, among other things.
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Date: 2011-12-09 03:27 am (UTC)I miss my unfounded fantasy that Natives were treated better there.
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