Political Parties Throw Money At Big Business –
All of the political parties are talking about throwing huge piles of our money at auto makers and infrastructure projects to save businesses and peoples jobs – how much money are they putting towards projects that save peoples lives?
Homeless woman burns to death after lighting fire in shopping cart to stay warm
VANCOUVER — Joselyne Rogan and Vicki Dugdale sat against a wall, with two tiny candles and a blanket as their only sources of warmth in the unusually frigid conditions.
Hours earlier and a few blocks away, a homeless woman had burned to death on a downtown street. She had apparently lit a fire to stay warm as temperatures plummeted far below normal.
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And since when did we start describing a homeless elderly man freezing to death in a park as “natural causes”
Frozen body of homeless man found in Montreal park
MONTREAL — As late-night revelers scurried early Saturday morning from bars to cars and cabs to escape a punishing cold, a Montreal man with no home to go to was found dead in Viger Park near the downtown core, his frozen corpse draped in a shroud of freshly fallen snow.
Montreal police said there were no signs of violence on the 61-year-old homeless man found by officers at 1:30 a.m.
He’s believed to have died of natural causes, Const. Raphael Bergeron of the Montreal police said. An autopsy is being performed. No name was released.
Let’s call it what it is, partisan priorities – doing something for people who freeze to death on the streets is no where near the vote getter that doing something for big business is now is it?
Remember, its important that auto companies that make crap no one wants and are managed horrendously be given billions in tax payer money, in order to keep
votersworker making crap no one wants.It bribery of one group for votes with money stolen from the rest of us.
Maybe the homeless ought to get a union…
Disgusting.
It’s hilarious Buzz Hargrove talking about the number of auto sector jobs in Canada having to be retained at its current level.
People don’t want to buy the vehicles that the Wee Three are producing. Is that factored into the “we must save auto jobs” mantra? ‘Course not.
Actually, Chris it is my understanding that the 3 auto producers are still top producers. I agree with you that they have been badly managed and ignored consumer “wants” such as better fuel efficiency, smaller cars, and or electric car production. But it is also my understanding that they actually produce some of these lines.
That said, I would prefer a Canadian made company that the CAW could produce their vehicles for rather than an American owned and poorly operated company. I would like them to also produce streetcars, trains and so on for mass transportation.
People who do not live in cities cannot actually work without a car or some form of convenient transportation. Also forms of transportation are not viable do to weather conditions in our Northern chimes.
I find class warfare quite disgusting in all it forms – particularly when it is amongst ourselves. Elites, they just all the way to the bank.
I’ve always wondered why Layton’s indignation over “corporate welfare” doesn’t include industries with unions that donate money to the NDP.
Jan, my point is that, in this changing climate – both environmentally and metaphorically -, preserving the current number of auto sector jobs makes no sense. Experts have said that the height of auto ownership has passed. There is an increasing push to provide more and better public transportation, to replace or reduce the number of single occupancy vehicles.
Just b/c someone says auto sector jobs must be reduced, since as many of those jobs aren’t going to be needed, doesn’t mean she’s saying jobs, per se, should be reduced. That’s where retraining comes in, hopefully for jobs that are in demand and will be for some time to come.
PS. My name is Chrystal Ocean, not ‘Chris’. The latter was the pseudonym used for a WISE project; it gives me the shivers each time I see that name in print.
The merits of the big handout to big business get discussed, and the dead people get forgotten – are you guys federal politicians?
Rather my point SL
Ooops — my comment didn’t include Mike — should have said that shouldn’t I?