Pundits’ Guide to the NDP Leadership Contest
[Welcome, National Newswatch readers!]
As a first step to covering the March 24, 2012 Federal NDP Leadership Contest, I've assembled a one-stop shop, social media and news aggregator page to track developments in the race.
Meet the "Pundits' Guide to the NDP Federal Leadership Race" found at: http://ndpldr.punditsguide.ca.
You can catch the latest news, tweets, and Facebook friend counts for all the candidates, whether declared or still mulling, and I've assembled a calendar of key dates in the race, a summary of the rules, and the latest party membership counts by province.
And of course, there's an index to all the blogposts I've written and will be writing on the issue of Leadership Contest rules, Leadership Finance, and associated data.
Stay tuned for further updates, as more candidates declare and register. But for now: load and refresh.
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Hopeless Hope
Know of a worker who once worked for a firm that paid the minimum wage. This owner went on to sell the business for a huge profit , this while your tax dollars where spent providing housing assistance and other social supports for the family!
Some have suggested that increasing wages is the answer , while the answer looks good , look at the price of goods that go up or the hours of work that go down for most workers who see no change.
So I would suggest this based on the experiences I found from those working in the area.
Questions to all Candidates.
1 Are you or your party pro helping reduce poverty ?
2 Are you ok with forcing some irresponsible business out of tax payers pockets books by getting their workers off needless social supports. (How)
3 or are you ok with tax payers subsiding profit take at the expense of workers and their family’s ?(dollar figure and length of time )
4 What level of profit take is ok with your party while social costs mount for tax payers and hurt the working poor.(comments on theme )
5 Is it ok for voters to call a business and ask that a worker be paid more in wages to a profitable firm ?
http://www.youtube.com/playlandnews#p/u/4/nXNDlt7eY0g
What gives , people in Canada are allowed to be terrorized
Any Candidate who would dare to answer yes to those questions would become unelectable.
Tell me Thomas… what additional risk did your minimum wage employee take on?? Invest his own hard earned money into the business? Work 12 hour days?? Or just show up for most of the 8 hour day…. most of it….?? were they the only employee? or were there lots of people working, contributing to the business?
working poor… lmao
My grandmother grew up poor. Once a month she used to walk 4 miles to town (walk. The horse was for working, they couldn’t afford the feed to have it for luxuries). But the walk was for a luxury. 4 cents of tea. That was my great grandmothers luxury. 4 cents a month.
When was the last time you saw one of your “working poor” friends reuse a teabag even once let alone for several days??
My grandfather grew up poor too. 3 kids, 2 adults and a hired man… in a house the size of your bedroom. That was after they moved out of the sod hut. School was only 2 miles away, but at 13 years old he became the janitor, cleaning before and after class so that his family would have a better life.
They went through years where he wasn’t allowed to shoot gophers with the .22, no money to buy extra bullets. You see they needed them for food, and Great-grandpa was a better shot.
That’s poverty.
Today people are hard done by if they don’t get cable. Running water, heat, power in every house and social programs to help you pay for them if you don’t make enough.
A first home should include granite counter-tops, leather furniture state of the art appliances… but others should pay for it. Laughable.
My neighbor back in Saskatoon… family of 4, welfare, both parents going to school and accruing loans,…. still had a 46″ tv. nice priorities.
Working poor??
Today we have the richest poor people in the world, ever anywhere.
Poor these days seems to mean that you can’t keep up with the jetsons,… but the joneses should pay for you to keep up with them.
Poverty is no longer about struggling to survive, its just a line used to garner sympathy.
And we are so busy paying for those that are whining for more… more that they could get if they bothered to try… the funds intended for those that really do need real help are so diluted that they can’t get the help.