XPost: can.politics   
   From: alangbaker@telus.net   
      
   On 2015-03-17 00:00:43 +0000, holytrinity said:   
      
   > On 3/16/2015 9:53 AM, gregcarrsober@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jobs Minister Shirley Bond said she's working to better define a list   
   >> of priority tuition programs, but gave the example of office   
   >> administrative support staff as one possible choice. Photograph by:   
   >> Les Bazso, Vancouver Sun VICTORIA -- Single parents on welfare can   
   >> get free tuition and child care as they train and start a new job,   
   >> the government announced Wednesday.   
   >   
   >   
   > "The NDP" would have had a dozen programs in place to help the lower   
   > income groups - and in their first year of power.   
      
   Give some examples of this actually happening in the past and the outcomes...   
      
      
   > You only find this a news-worthy article because it comes from the   
   > government that has done nothing but cut programs to people most in need.   
   > And teachers.   
      
   What "cuts" have teachers had to endure?   
      
   You DO realize that education is a PROVINCIAL responsibility, right?   
      
   >   
   > And now they're admitting to sitting on a huge surplus of our dollars   
   > they've collected through taxes.  Someone tell these bloody rightwingers   
   > - Harper included - that tax dollars are meant to be spent on programs   
   > and infrastructures for its citizens - not to use for wars or to flaunt   
   > at election time.   
      
   You mean like every other government has done (except that the left   
   wing ones use borrowed money more often to do it)?   
      
   A "huge surplus" being how much, BTW? What percentage of the federal   
   budget is this "huge surplus"; what percentage of the accumulated debt   
   is it?   
      
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