Corporate Welfare In The Billions

Posted on Monday, January 15 at 09:12 by jensonj
The CTF found that almost $10 billion of the $18 billion paid out was basically free money -- grants and contribution that never had to be repaid. That's scary enough, but the report notes that "these numbers do not include handouts and loans made through Ottawa's regional development agencies" such as Western Economic Diversification. So the actual amount of corporate welfare in this country is even higher than $18.4 billion. The top 50 recipients of cash from Industry Canada comprise a who's who of corporate Canada, and those companies are not only highly profitable, but they account for one-third of all assistance. Is Stephen Harper listening? http://www.winnipegsun.com/Comment/Editorial/2007/01/14/3362145.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on January 15, 2007]

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  1. by Deacon
    Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:59 pm
    Anyone here remember back when former NDP leader David Lewis called these guys exactly what they were?

    It was about 1974-1975.

    The term he used was "corporate welfare bums".

    The more things change, the more they stay the same, or to paraphrase Butt-Head: "The more things change, the more they suck".

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    "and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

    "The Weapon" - Rush

  2. Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:24 pm
    When I get into "conversations" with people who slog those on welfare and how those on welfare are sucking up "their" tax dollars and what a drain on the "economy" welfare is, I wait until they have a full head of steam them ask them about corporate welfare, they s.t.f.u. these are the same educated idiots Ed Deak refers to as having Dip-low-mass (I pun)papering their walls.
    Corporate Welfare CEO blinks and made $38000
    a single man on welfare gets 500 per month approx
    It takes the welfare recipient 6 years thee months to receive what the corporate welfare bum makes in a blink.

    The CWB get a golden handshake
    The welfare recipient is aheartbeat away from homelessness.

    My frienr Karl Eisbrenner the disbarred lawyer(deseest) recieve
    $180 dollars a month to exist on. and had close to a million dollars on the books that the BC legal society prevented him from getting.







    ---
    [juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]

    it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights"

    lex ferenda

  3. Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:45 am
    Tax money is money that is forcibly stolen away by armed and dangerous thieves, therefore it is money that can be spent however the thieves see fit.

    Voting and all that nonsense is just there to give us the impression that we have a say. However after decades of voting, it should be obvious by now just how much of a say voting actually is.

    The only thing stopping the thieves from doing whatever they want is the potential for an armed rebellion.

  4. Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:39 am
    Hey? You talkin home grown terroristing, to verb a noun.<br />
    <br />
    "The under ground economy and when seen through the eyes of this cynic, blessed be his name, criminal activities ARE acts of sedition to an unjust state" (c)Dio<br />
    it is through their law(s) we are trapped and then hamstrung by our own hand. <br />
    Non participation in how we are governed is a capital offense. (c) Dio<br />
    <br />
    all this letter writing campaigns poo has not and will not create the kind of society governed by Natural Law, the law enforce prior to the built up Corporate protectorate now in place.<br />
    Get hip to William the Bastard's trip and the significance of, after the raping and pillaging was allowed by Slick Willy, the real raping and pillaging began<br />
    Law in Britain forever changed to go from law prior Willy's coming. <br />
    1066 was about the Vatican's expansion!<br />
    <br />
    <a href="http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm">http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm</a><br />
    <br />
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law</a><br />
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    a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinks it may best be preserved.<br />
    <br />
    There are nine Laws.<br />
    The first two are expounded in chapter XIV ("of the first and second natural laws; and of contracts"); the others in chapter XV ("of other laws of nature").<br />
    <br />
    His first<br />
    <br />
    Law of nature is that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.<br />
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    The second Law <br />
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    of nature is that a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth, as for peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.<br />
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    The third Law <br />
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    is that men perform their covenants made. In this law of nature consisteth the fountain and original of justice... when a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust and the definition of injustice is no other than the not performance of covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust is just.<br />
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    The fourth Law<br />
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    is that a man which receiveth benefit from another of mere grace, endeavour that he which giveth it, have no reasonable cause to repent him of his good will. Breach of this law is called ingratitude.<br />
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    The fifth Law<br />
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    is complaisance: that every man strive to accommodate himself to the rest. The observers of this law may be called sociable; the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable.<br />
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    The sixth Law<br />
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    is that upon caution of the future time, a man ought to pardon the offences past of them that repenting, desire it.<br />
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    The seventh Law <br />
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    is that in revenges, men look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.<br />
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    The eighth Law<br />
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    is that no man by deed, word, countenance, or gesture, declare hatred or contempt of another. The breach of which law is commonly called contumely.<br />
    The ninth Law is that every man acknowledge another for his equal by nature. The breach of this precept is pride.<br />
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    I'm in! Where is this available?<br />
    <br />
    What's that you say? Its not!<br />
    <br />
    Is everybody here wise to what has had to of taken place between then and now, to get what we now got?<br />
    <br />
    Put National sovereignty on hold until Personal Sovereignty is fixed back in place before it got hijacked with assistance from Hegel, Machiavelli all the Popes, the Zionists, The super wealthy ( Rockefeller, Rothschild and such amd anybody else having a hand or interest in running others lives.<br />
    <br />
    This ain't rocket science stuff!<br />
    It ain't "technical"<br />
    Calipers nor slide rules are required<br />
    <br />
    The major requirement is the ability to act out of reason<br />
    reason via critical thinking.<br />
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    <br />
    <br />
    <p>---<br> [juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]<br />
    <br />
    it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights" <br />
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    lex ferenda

  5. Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:34 am
    Ah, the joys of "free enterprise", "self-made men" and "entreprenureship". Capitalism is the state socialism of the rich!

  6. Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:13 pm
    "You talkin home grown terroristing, to verb a noun."

    What the difference between insurrection and terrorism?


    Winning.


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    "I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

  7. Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:24 pm
    The figures are disgusting, while people have to wait years for medical services. They may, or must be true, but we have to remember that the CTF is a "free enterprise" outfit, against all governments, unions and welfare spending.

    The figures are little more than an eyewash to divert attention from the real thievery. They're collected and used, as propaganda, against the Liberal years. I'd doubt that they would publish any such figures against the Harper govt.

    We also have to remember that the biggest government subsidies to big business are not the monies, which are pittance, compared to their overall thieving from the public, but deregulations, tax cuts and the so called "free trade" treaties, licencing unlimited exploitation and long term enslavement.

    Canada's government is not who, or what we elect, and hasn't been for 20 years, but little Tom d'Aquino's Chief Executives, who give the orders to shyster politicians.

    By the way, the word "shyster" is derived from the German
    "Scheisster", with a completely different, but the real meaning when applied to the corporate mafia.

    Ed Deak.

  8. Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:46 pm
    Good of you Ed D. to point out what the CTF is actually about. My apologies for not doing the same thing as I usually try and do. <br><br> Below is a link to an interesting read, but it is Wikipedia (not the word of absolute truth) wich means you have to read it with a grain of skepticism (like anything else). <br><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Taxpayers_Federation">Canadian Taxpayers Federation</a> <br><br> What the CTF is really about should not undermine the fact that what we call "our taxes", amounts to nothing more than stolen loot that is no longer "ours", therefore is may be spent however the thieves see fit, which is why there's so much of what we call "waste". (as Ed points out, the tax waste is only the tip of a massive iceberg of waste and corruption) <br><br> For the record, I don't have a problem paying taxes, so long as it's not stolen from me and I am given a real say in how the money is to be spent.



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