Laugh of The Day Brought To You By The Green Party
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Priceless stuff. When you have no chance of being elected you may as well shoot for the stars.
The Green party has the best economic policies to deal with an economic downturn (or crisis). Marc Lee is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and chairs the Progressive Economics Forum: “Most good fiscal policy recommendations have started with the notion of getting money quickly into the hands of those who will spend all of it. In the short-run it would primarily work through EI, but one could also imagine souping up the GST credit, the Canada Child Tax Benefit and Old Age Pensions, not to mention provincial welfare systems.
That’s a great idea – encourage EI and entitlements.
- Fund a national housing program in order to build energy-efficient co-ops and affordable green housing units, and reorient Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation programs in order to provide credit and loan guarantees to non-profit housing organizations and cooperatives for building and restoring quality, energy-efficient housing for seniors, special needs, and low income families.
Sounds like all the makings of a Canadian sub-prime crisis.
- The Green Party commitment to provide massive funds to build public transit and bikeways will have a similar economic effect, a renewal of the economy, jobs, and real change to address climate change seriously. Another win-win-win solution!
With the warmer climate we’ll all be able to bike every day.
- Another Green Party solution to an economic downturn is our Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI) Policy. Poor people, homeless people can not participate in democratic decision making or economic activity when they have to worry where they will sleep at night or where their next meal will come from. The GLI would be set regionally above the poverty line. Combined with free public transit passes, it could eliminate poverty and allow social services to concentrate on problems of mental health and addiction. People would be much better equipped and mobile to participate in the economy and in their democratic responsibilities as citizens.
WOW. A new welfare system to generate voters for the party.
-Our flexible federally funded universal childcare program including workplace child care will also contribute to democratic and economic renewal, making it easier for many working Canadians to use mass transit. These policies demonstrate the comprehensive and ecological (integrated and relational) approach of the Green Party to both economic and democratic renewal.
How does childcare link with public transit? What’s with the economic and democratic renewal through childcare spending…
This all nuts really – and attracts Canadians looking for more handouts.
This from a Ms. May who calls Canadians “stupid”
I’m left wondering how long it will be before Layton drops some of this crap into the NDP platform.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I wouldn’t mind a “Guaranteed Livable Income” so long as it…
1. Wiped out dozens of other entitlement programs, big and small, including welfare.
2. Financially encouraged people at every income level to work.
It could make the entitlement system simpler, more efficient, more transparent, and more effective.
September 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
How about the questions of the day, for the Green Party?
September 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
And this is the pea-brain that the Nutty Professor decided to team up with in Nova Scotia to defeat Peter McKay. It’s a match made in heaven. This pair of twits deserve one another.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I really think that the libs,Dippers and greens would turn Canada into a third world country!