Debate with NDP MP Chris Charlton on Corporate Welfare & Protectionism

Global News debate between the CTF’s Derek Fildebrandt and the NDP’s Chris Charlton, MP on if the federal government should enact protectionist measures and provide bailout cash to Nortel.

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December 23, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content, TV & Radio  Comments Closed

A Deep Forest of Bailouts

Two for you, one for me, and if by chance we don’t agree, bailouts for everyone and more taxes and debt for me.
We naysayers who warned long ago that bailouts for one corporate welfare bum would inevitably lead to bailouts for every Tom, Dick, Harry… Moe, Curly and Larie, are right, again.  It was therefore [...]

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June 17, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

Corporate Welfare to Patt & Whitney: $1.5 Billion. The Look On a Politician’s Face When He Hears of 500 Lost Jobs in Lay-Offs: Priceless

Corporate welfare giant Pratt & Whitney demonstrated today what a great “investment” our taxdollars are making, by announcing the planned layoff of 500 workers in it’s Montreal plants.
P&W recieved $1,495,509,079 in “financial assistance” between 1982 and 2005, with that number climbing steadily since.  I can’t wait to see what our investments in GM and Chystler [...]

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April 10, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  2 Comments