Robert Chernomas

The Conservatives' stealth strategy to undermine medicare

policyfix — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:03:54 +0000

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Class warfare: Successful economic strategies

Council-of-Canadians — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:27:25 +0000

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." -- Warren Buffett

Class warfare: The U.S. economy

Council-of-Canadians — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:29:31 +0000

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." -- Warren Buffett

The United States fiscal cliff -- if they fall off it is because they are cutting taxes and spending on the wrong things.

Class warfare: An economic primer

Council-of-Canadians — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:22:08 +0000

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." -- Warren Buffett

When I hear the word austerity, I think of something else: class warfare.

It is not really about budget deficits or government debt; it is about cutting workers' wages, taxes, social programs and environmental regulations. And, last but not least, it is about selling off the commons -- our public goods like hydro, hospitals, schools and roads, often in the form of public-private partnerships.

This is done all in the interests of corporate profits, regardless of the impact on workers, citizens and the environment.

Hewers of toxic oil -- carriers of a paper thin economy

Robert Chernomas — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:56:16 +0000

According to Russell Investments, Canadian corporate cash balances have risen 18 per cent since the end of 2007 -- an increase that the investment firm calls "staggering." Companies are now sitting on $340-billion in cash and short-term deposits.

Representing Joe 6 pack-hockey mom or Trojan Horse

Robert Chernomas — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:36:19 +0000

$3 trillion in tax cuts

Cutting corporate and upper income taxes means they are free to spend more of their unearned income on things most important to them. If we are corporations we can take this money and invest it in China or buy hedge funds with it. If we are wealthy individuals we can get on line for one of those new private submarines so hot in the upscale market or put it in a bank, stock or bond somewhere on earth where we can get the highest return.

Top ten reasons for thanking conservatives

Robert Chernomas — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:33:12 +0000

1. You can find Walkerton, Ontario on the map.
2. You know that Listeria is not a street where desperate housewives live.
3. You now know a word, Vioxx, with more than one X in it.
4. You know how many zeros there are in a $700B
5. You don't need to remember how to pronounce Kyoto.
6. You finally know whom they are talking about when they say, "the meek shall inherit the earth."
7. You understand how dinosaurs and humans could occupy the earth at the same time in B movies.
8. Liberals sound more like Trudeau than Bush.
9. You can understand why gravity requires Canadian oil to flow south instead of east and west.
10. You finally understand the idiom, "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."

The fundamentals of the U.S. economy are strong -- can I borrow $700 billion?

Robert Chernomas — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:24:28 +0000

A crisis brought to you from the people who ask you to vote for tax cuts (mostly for the rich and corporations) deregulation and privatization. Our job as citizens is to free the corporate world of any responsibility other than to provide us with the opportunity to work for them and consume their products. When necessary they must be protected from their own excesses, in the current U.S. case, by potentially handing the corporate sector a sum of taxpayer dollars equal to the entire GDP of Canada.

Deregulation began in the United States in the 1970s. Some two decades (2002) after it began, Consumer Reports (CR) evaluated deregulation in the US. According to CR consumers have lost ground since deregulation began.

The cancer epidemic as an election issue or how free trade gives you cancer

Robert Chernomas — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:18:33 +0000

In 2001, Canadian industries reported the release of 18,455,237 kilograms of known carcinogens into our air, soil and water. This dumping of carcinogens into our environment enables corporations to lower (externalize) their costs and maybe our prices as consumers (Wal-Mart), but not as citizens or workers who suffer the costs of lost labor and leisure time and costs to the health care system, not to mention the suffering and premature loss of loved ones and friends.

How to give Medicare a terminal social disease?

Robert Chernomas — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:13:37 +0000

I recently received an advertisement from my incumbent Conservative MP asking me to check off the box as to which leader will do a better job of fighting crime. He went on to tell us of the new tools of repression that Harper and company had brought to bear on this social disease to ensure I had the information I needed to answer the question properly.

So I thought to myself, what information (to be fit on one page) would I provide if I wanted to ensure that past and future crimes against Medicare would see the light of day?