400 Million for Tech Jobs

Economy

So Stevie boy has announced part of his election platform, at long last, on how he plans to help our struggling economy. Kind of makes you wonder why he has waited until now, just a week before the election, when he is the one who called the election. I mean seriously, think about it for a second. He is the one who called this election, so you would assume he’d have a platform in place, wouldn’t you? Instead he keeps dodging the issues, until now, a week before the election itself.

So is it that full of holes, that announcing it earlier would show those holes? Is it even a practical plan, or is it just more typical Bush style offers of tax cuts, free loans or more aptly put, bailouts?

Harper, speaking to the Canadian Club in Toronto, said the Conservatives would add $200 million to the Automotive Innovation Fund and another $200 million to the Strategic Aerospace Defence Initiative.

The Tories would also abolish tariffs on a wide range of imported machinery to bolster manufacturing efficiency, he said. (source - CBC News)

So let’s see, how does adding $200 Million help all those laid off auto workers in Ontario? I mean seems to me this is just throwing money away, sort of like his rebate scheme for the auto industry that was supposed to further development and sales of energy efficient vehicles. Hasn’t worked very well, now has it. Then the extra $200 Million to the aerospace industry, you know that sector where Volvo just laid off 500 people, so they could move their operation into the United States.

Here is the deal. If you have to bring stuff in from outside the country, how the hell is that supposed to help your manufacturing industry? I mean so he is going to cut tariffs to machinery being brought in, which is basically saying to FOREIGN COMPANIES, you get some tax relief, and hopefully you will charge less to those buying your stuff. It does ZIP really, to spur investment into Canadian Industry, other than they can buy abroad.

Why hasn’t he instead agreed to the BUY CANADA INITIATIVE that all of the other parties, including the Bloc, support? You know, have Vancouver Shipyards build the new Navy Frigates, instead of South Korea? I mean that would create some jobs, would help steady an actual industry in Canada, that would have spill over effects into other segments of the CANADIAN ECONOMY.

Harpernomics is really an interesting study. It takes Canadian Tax Dollars and spends it abroad, in foreign lands, to help foreign businesses sell their products cheaper to Canadian Businesses. Now that is rather novel, don’t you think? I mean here is our tax money, being spent everywhere but within Canada, to help other nations steady their manufacturing sector, instead of ours. The goal is that our remaining few industries, will then buy these foreign machines to upgrade their equipment, so they will be more competitive abroad.

Isn’t that special?

To begin with, if Harpernomics hadn’t gutted our industry in the first place, we’d not need to have tariffs lowered, because we’d be producing most of the equipment ourselves. We’d be buying steel from Stelco, a Canadian Company, if Harper hadn’t allowed it to be sold. We’d be building Navy Frigates instead of having Korea build them, and let’s not forget everything else from uniforms to guns, being bought abroad, in place of Canadian Manufacturers.

ALL BECAUSE STEPHEN HARPER HAS GUTTED OUR INDUSTRIAL BASE.

Now he is going to add $400 Million dollars to funds to keep jobs in Canada? Like how has that worked so far? I mean yes, Harpernomics has created a lot of jobs, in fact a net gain of jobs. Course the jobs lost were high paying tech jobs, high paying industrial jobs, while the one’s created were in the Hospitality Industry. You know, like what George Bush has done in the States, that has helped fuel this economic crisis. Now Harper wants to mimic that entire plan here in Canada.

Truth is, if Harper or any leader truly wants to stop the bleeding in our economy, Here is a novel approach. FREEZE OIL PRICES, DROP THEM BACK TO PROPER LEVELS and then let the market sort stuff out. I mean when oil first hit $90 a barrel, it rose to under a $1 a liter. SO NOW THAT OIL IS ONCE AGAIN AT THAT LEVEL, WHY ISN’T THE PRICE AT THE PUMP?

Energy costs have caused a lot of the the increases, a great deal of the problems, we now face in our economy. Putting them back to the same levels they were are will reduce the cost of shipping, the cost of transport, of manufacture, and can give our industrial base a chance. Least what is left of our industrial base, that hasn’t been allowed to be shipped out of the country, under HARPERNOMICS.

“If we choose to stay the course, [with] lower taxes, lower debt and prudent spending, Canada will come out of the current economic downturn stronger, better and more prosperous than ever before,” Harper said. (source - CBC News)

Sound Familiar?  IT SHOULD

It is basically identical to a few hundred speeches by our Stevie Boy’s hero, George W. Bush. It is the basic same approach, same style of words, that George Bush has used in a failed attempt to stem the economic recession that his country is in, that is now bringing the entire world into. It is the same trite phrases used by a political hack, that has sold out to corporate interests, that has mired the American Middle Class into unbelievable debt.

THIS IS THE REAL HARPER PLAN.

Ian @ October 8, 2008