Majeres' Musings

Ok, still waiting for the dates of this Poll and as to how Ontario fairs.

Pollara :  Libs 38,  Con  27,  NDP  19,  Bloc   13,  Undecided  15.

So far just the same trend but without the dates I do not know if it has taken into account the Grewal Tapes.

With the Undecided sitting at 15% I am still looking at a Liberal Minority.

A scary muse follows:

A soft view of these numbers still indicates that the Conservatives are still not trusted as to maintain the status quo (comfort zone of the electorate) and still do as they claim which is to impliment a smaller government with tax cuts.

I bet if you took a Poll of Ontarians and asked which Party is more American Government friendly, they would say the Conservatives.  Now not to be Yank bashing but their Patriot Act allows for the Government to appropriate ones home without compensation.  Now here in Canada the Government can appropriate ones land for Electrical Distribution Lines etc with a very weak compensation plan in place.  My thoughts are that Ontarians know this and the Patriot Act is not just for the appropiation of supposed terrorists homes but of any American citizens land and home it sees fit to carry out its duties.  Big difference and Harpers' Conservatives supports the American Government.  A fuzzy logic of a fuzzy one plus a hard one equals 2, albeit just a slightly fuzzy logical  2.  Its this grey area thats in the back minds of the electorate.

If Harper would just come out and say that we want free trade with the Americans as long as there is  ........

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CONgress Selling You Out Again

We draw your attention to the article in the Bangkok Post about the huge battle about to begin over the miss named (deliberately) Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Area Agreement.  That's corporatese for "If you still have your job after NAFTA, we'll get you on this round."

 

As the People's Economist sees it:  There is nothing wrong with barrier-free trade - as long as all the parties are playing with the same currency such that workers make the same in purchasing power parity.  However, in case you're blind or unbelievably stoopid, the crap pawned off as "free trade" is nothing more than corporations paying fat cats to play the labor spread between the have's and the have nots. 

 

If the workers in China were paid the same as workers here (e.g. a big screen TV worth of income in a month) then there would be virtually no trade with China.  But they are not making that kind of income and so they get the jobs.  Worse, because corporatists are nearly always miserly sots, they will hide the sausage by preaching free trade without preaching equality of purchasing power.  Dishonest to the core. yet do you see the high brow think tanks talking about "labor and wage spreads"?  Nope.  They're on the take from the corporatists who write the checks to keep the discussion limited to the kind of 10-second talking head crap that rolls out of Cyclops in the Living Room.

 

That of course leaves us where we are now - about to further screw American workers out of decent wages and benefits because you can bet your ass that someone in the DR-CAFTAA area will do your job cheaper than you will and without benefits if you have held onto those.  But still, it's a GOOD corporate police state.  Just keep tell'in yerself that.

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AND WHICH PARTY BROUGHT IN FREE TRADE???????  Which Party is the Pro-Corporation MBA CEO's know better Party?

What tells me that non Conservative voters know this?

Now why would a Western Conservative voter go for this?  Is it that their home is about 1/3 the cost of an Ontarian Urban home?   Is it that Ontarians speak of 40 to 50 foot frontage of housing lots costing 100,000 dollars plus while in the West they speak of Sections of land where an Ontarian lot would be substantially less than the 100,000 plus dollars?  Perhaps the Ontarian would have more to lose.  I left MooseJaw about 6 years ago and was paying 410 dollars per month utilities included for an extremely large 2 bedroom appartment (end of 12th or 13th street, can't remember off the top of my head) while I ended up paying 750 per month for a smaller 2 bedroom here.  The landlords in MooseJaw just bought a smallish 3 bedromm home for 55,000 while the same price here is 140,000 dollars.

These thoughts are not overt but are covert feelings in the subconscience.  It is an accumalation of these subconscience feelings that cause the Ontarian electorate to vote in the way that they do. 

It is up to the Political Leaders to chip away at each of these that make up each and every electorate.  Each region has their very own regional subconscience, it is not overt.  Perhaps Harper believes that this is on the forefront of everyones brain and can be confronted as a matter of fact.  Not so.

Harper as intilligent as he is portrayed might be a good economist, which I doubt, but Ontarians know what they want to protect.

Perhaps Harper does not want to protect and advance, but force and advance?

cheers  :)  majere