There it goes!
40 billion in money for this manufactured depression. It's really a magic trick as you can see.
very little of it is going to low income Canadians, the bulk of the populace
people aren't getting their EI back to the support levels it used to give
and that $50 billion surplus in the EI system, $50 billion in added taxes that low income people paid expecting to receive benefits from EI, like training and wage subsidies and such, it's gone.
We get a $2 billion dollar training promise, and the other $48 billion gets sucked into general revenue to pay huge corporations to help them get out of a state that their own mismanagement and corporate fraud scams put them in.
Rich people don't pay EI premiums. They're "contract" workers.
The EI surplus comes from the poor and the lower middle class almost exclusively.
We can't find jobs, we have shitty minimum wages, and our time we're allowed EI has been slashed by almost 30%.
Consider that at an over approximation of $25 million per province to pay 1980 levels of welfare it costs only 1/4 billion per year to give canadians a reasonable amount of Social Services support that actually will cover their rent, so for $10 billion we could have zero homeless, much lower prostitution and theft, for about 40 fucking years.
Harper shafts his people once again. A traitor to humanity and decency, in the name of his god who somehow thinks its right to freeze and starve the poor, make the working poor live to barely survive, while he gives the fat cats handouts to make up for the millions their executives have filched, and we all have to bite the fact that EI premiums have really been another tax, one that costs us more than GST does in a year. Fucker.
