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The Canadian Patriotic Retirement Plan

Had to share.. from a friend:

Dear Steven Harper,

Please find below my suggestions for fixing the CANADIAN economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to banks that squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about Ten million people over 50 in the work force.  Pay them $2 million each with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Ten million job openings – unemployment fixed

2) They MUST buy a new Canadian car.   Ten million cars ordered – Car Industry fixed

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage. Housing Crisis fixed

4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university. Crime rate fixed

5) They MUST buy $100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week… And there’s your money back in duty/tax etc

It can’t get any easier than that!

Also: Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.

• This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.
• They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d receive money instead of paying it out.
• They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
• A guard would check on them every hour and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.
• They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
• They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, and education.
• Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ’s and legal aid would be free, on request.
• Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.
• Each senior could have a TV, radio and daily phone calls.
• There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
• The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week.  Live in a tiny room and pay $400.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Think about this (more points of contention):

COWS:

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Goondiwindi almost three years ago, right to the paddock where she slept in the feedlot at Bony Mountain? And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

photo credit: Lone Primate

Media Lies and Union Logic on Caterpillar’s Plant Closing

An editorial by Coyne in the Montreal Gazette on the Caterpillar closing of the Electro-Motive Diesel locomotive plant in London, Ont.

The union and far-left media has been enraged and have taken a few liberties with the truth.. in fact their whole argument is based in outright lies.

1) Caterpillar was absconding with a vast storehouse of intellectual property developed at “London’s 90-year-old EMD” — patents, technology, equipment, trade secrets, manufacturing processes, the works.

EMD is not a Canadian company. Caterpillar bought it from American private equity firms who bought it from General Motors, who bought it from its Ohio-based founders in 1930. Since 1935 it has been headquartered in La Grange, Illinois. The London branch plant was opened in 1950.

Even if it were a Canadian company, and even if it possessed a Valhalla of patents, it still wouldn’t belong to “us.” It would belong to them: its Canadian owners, who shelled out good money for it, presumably in anticipation of selling it one day. Caterpillar didn’t steal the company: it paid for it.

2) “Only last year, a $5-million federal subsidy hand-delivered by Stephen Harper during a factory visit.”

EMD never received any subsidies from the federal government; certainly not since Caterpillar bought it. The Harper visit to which Olive refers was to promote a tax break for the purchasers of locomotives, not the manufacturers. The visit occurred in 2008, two years before the Caterpillar purchase.

3) It was nothing less than “highway robbery,” political columnist Martin Regg Cohn raged. Caterpillar had bought the plant purely in order to “harvest the technological know-how subsidized with government incentives and writeoffs.” But never mind the industrial rape: there are bigger issues in play. “Why underwrite our companies,” Cohn wrote, “if we willingly sell off our embedded brainpower to foreign bidders who leave Canada cash-rich, patent poor and jobless?” More »

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