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Dec. 8th, 2011
Austerity measures in a nutshell
Dec. 8th, 2011 07:03 pmHaving 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.