Kashechewan

[cybercoma]

What corporations influenced the bureaucrats in Indian and Northern Affairs to forget about the priorities of ordinary people?

Indian and Northern Affairs has an annual budget of almost $10 billion or about almost $8000 for each registered Indian.  Surely not all of that money goes to corporations.

err, you seem to have the belief that if we change the politicians, we'll solve the problem.  Layton is honest and cares about people whereas Martin or McGuinty are greedy and dishonest and in the pockets of corporations.

In fact, Layton - despite any good intentions he may have - won't make a difference.  To use a word that you might understand, the problem is systemic.

err, the Left always has solutions - on paper.  And when the solutions don't work in practice, the Left always has X, Y, Z reason to explain the failure.  On paper, it looks great and equitable to let competent government bureaucrats make decisions in the interest of all.  In practice, you get Kashechewan.

The Left in other countries has understood this basic lesson, and so the Left elsewhere refers to making government smaller but better, lowering taxes and so on.  Layton and the NDP appear to be old-style, "tax and spend", big government Leftists.

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$80,000 per registered person in the program? Damn. Why don't we just hand them a paycheck so they never have to work a day in their lives. I'm sure they'd find plenty of better things to do with $80,000 each than the bureaucrats.

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Indian and Northern Affairs has an annual budget of almost $10 billion or about almost $8000 for each registered Indian.  Surely not all of that money goes to corporations.

$80,000 per registered person in the program? Damn. Why don't we just hand them a paycheck so they never have to work a day in their lives. I'm sure they'd find plenty of better things to do with $80,000 each than the bureaucrats.

How did yhou get the extra zero from August's post.... Maybe we can excuse you, with a head full of zero (or zeroes), I can see how it can happen....