By Joe Thornton May
27, 2016
The US Republicans, The Libertarians, the Canadian
Conservative/Reform/Alliance Party, The UK Tories are all frauds. They promote the ideal that social welfare is
somehow evil in and of itself, that empathy and compassion for ones fellow man
is abhorrent and must be eliminated at any cost, that it drags the country into
debt and poverty itself.
Now think about this for a moment. Every one of those political parties support
corporate tax cuts, corporate subsidies, almost non-existent resource royalties
where the unarguably rich are allowed to steal the resource wealth of a country
for their own gain – in essence they are all for corporate welfare.
The hue and cry is: Who will provide the jobs if the
corporations are not given the right breaks? Hmmmm… following the money here. If the governments of the countries involved
are giving those kind of massive business and tax breaks to corporations so
that they will be the job creators – isn’t that the government creating the
jobs, not the corporate structure, or even the rich?
What’s the difference between that and the ruling party of a
country creating job making incentives directly? Or even doing roadwork and public construction
projects through the public works department and putting the workforce directly
on payroll? It would eliminate the middleman corporations who seldom pass along
the promised jobs and what is supposed to be a literal money flow from the
government to the citizens of the country.
To make matters worse most often these days corporations
keep the bucks and offshore the tax liability then they further offshore the
labour for product production, shipping the goods back from India and China
with no net gain of any jobs to the country who provided the breaks in the
first place. Where in this scenario are
the poor a drag on the system?
There is an implicit promise by the corporations to be good
citizens and help the country grow and prosper – the old “what’s good for
General Motors is good for America” is an adage long gone.
Regardless of political stripe people have to wake up to the
reality that governments have ALWAYS been the job creators regardless of the
political party involved. Eliminate the
middlemen. Hire direct.
