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Raise the
Rates Hunger March Toronto
Ontario Liberal
Premier Dalton McGuinty is a green
alien kitten eater who steals from the poor. Check this photo evidence and
you’ll be sure. Can such a horrifying thought be true? It is. Folks on welfare
and disability are making 1,000 dollars a year less under Dalton than they did
under the dastardly Mike Harris. Harris cut rates by 21 percent and with further
erosion under the Liberals and through inflation it led to a loss of 40 percent
of income for unfortunate mothers, children, the disabled and others who are
falling through the cracks. How can Dalton get away with it? A couple reasons here. A politician is a person who wants to be seen to be doing good things, but only by those with the right social stuff. They see themselves as catering to big business, homeowners, taxpayers and other clean social groups. The poor aren’t clean
and that’s why there weren’t any politicians in today’s hunger march. Take a
look, do you see any politicians holding the banner in this shot They wouldn’t dare show; their opponents might even use it against them. Most of all they would have nothing to promise. The Ontario Liberals deal with poverty issues through tokenism and outright cuts. They talk of a token 3 percent raise when people are 40 percent behind. The average monthly rent is more than a hundred dollars higher than a full welfare cheque. McGuinty adds nickels and dimes to a minimum wage that is too low, so he can claim that he’s given an increase. It's not a living wage. Tokenism is a
politician’s lie because Ontario’s poor need a Genuine Raise. Substandard welfare
rates and a low minimum wage are the fuel of homelessness and the shelter and
food bank systems. People on the streets, in shelters or under stress from
mounting bills and a poor diet get sicker and it gets costlier when more people
are either disabled or running up medical costs. Hunger is there, even the food
banks give much smaller packages now, and it is mostly rejected products from
the cupboards of the well-to-do. What they call a month’s supply of food lasts
about a week. Aside from the tokenism we get outright cuts like Sandra Pupatello’s chop of the special diet allowance. It’s now cut so low that a special diet means folks with serious medical problems get tossed ten bucks to buy a big bag of rice. Apparently the cut was also designed to be an insult from a woman who couldn’t go one day without special luxury hair care products. We will always have
people with disabilities and the unemployed, but we won’t have genuine social
benefits when the hidden sickness of our society is largely one of politicians.
They have become a separate class. They want to be seen tearing down Regent
Park, yet they don’t want to
create any new social housing. When social housing is gone they don’t want to
supplement people so they can pay market rents. The hunger march people note that our politicians’ random acts of kindness are things like transferring 120 million out the poorer downtown and into Rosedale or tossing out tens of millions for elite projects like the new opera house. As one guy said, “They made decisions to make people poorer.” They are the green alien kitten eater’s who steal from the poor. They are the Robin Hoods who give to the rich. They do not believe in social justice or a humane state, but more in throwing the dog a bone and the poor some scraps. End Hunger ===================== Info on the Hunger
March Coalition Upcoming Event Links to files on Other Older Poverty Protests http://frightlibrary.org/citizen/ocfront.htm http://frightlibrary.org/citizen/rally.htm http://frightlibrary.org/citizen/squat.htm http://frightlibrary.org/citizen/june15.htm http://frightlibrary.org/citizen/return.htm http://frightlibrary.org/citizen/ocapgg.htm http://frightlibrary.org/citizen/act2001.htm#ocapc ================
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