Month: May 2014

The same cuts to services are ongoing everywhere that “austerity” is holding sway, which I mean to say, everywhere neoliberal or conservative politicians are out there saying they are gonna cut taxes by God.

Just like deregulation, these things are memes that infect governments, “do more with less” “more efficiencies” “like a business” never really understanding that Government is not a business and as such doesn’t need to do things like turn a profit. The “profit” of Good Government is Good Governance, not saving a few dollars.

People as a whole, and by people I mean the voting public as a body, don’t seem to understand this. They vote for “Me” and “Mine” and as such only the candidates who serve the voters own goals or wants get voted in. A truly public minded egalitarian candidate and party couldn’t be voted in, there would always be some idea that someone, somewhere else was getting something that someone, somewhere else didn’t believe they deserve and we can have that; can we?

Then people suffer and those same self-serving, venal, navel gazing idiots blame the government that they helped make, they abetted by demanding things be run ever more cheaply and save themselves so little taxes, then they demand more “efficient government” which as I’ve said before always seems to translate into shoddier and more slapdash efforts than before.

In the minds of this selfish voter, this is evidence that Government has failed.

As it’s Government’s fault when the Government is made up of people who don’t believe in real Governance, of course.

We’re just individuals, but together we can really destroy a place. Can’t we?

Me

“I guess Democrats just worry about money in their pocket, what they and their friends are doing. They’re not worried about us small people,” Miller said.

“The Republicans, they are the ones that know… raised up like we have, you know. Know what it’s like, what we need, what shouldn’t been taken away,” Miller added.

“If there weren’t government programs, it would be a ghost town,” Miller said. He gets $380 on the sixth of every month, and with that he has to support himself and his girlfriend.

WHERE DID SOMEONE PUT THAT CRAZY PILL IN MY FOOD, DID I READ THIS WHOLE CHUNK OF TEXT?

“One of the main reasons I came down here was to find workers,” Mr. Guimond says. “A lot of that has to do with Alberta, with young people in New Brunswick moving out West where the better money is, and so there is a dwindling population.

“But then when you can also get $400 a week back home for doing nothing, why would you go to work for me for an extra hundred bucks? That’s the mentality back home. And it is a shame. But that is what it is. There are some really great workers there, but the unemployment rate during winter — it’s got to be north of 20%.”

Mr. Guimond got $1.4 Million in Corporate Welfare from the state of Maine to move his business there. He only paid minimum wage in NB not $12 and the only reason he can do this is because he is using US taxpayers money.