Break the Back of the Ontario Austerity Fraud!
May 8, 2014 -
How can a province of high productivity, abundant
natural resources,
a skilled workforce, advanced infrastructure, public services and
social programs, and modern industrial and farming technology and means
of production become beset with austerity? Did all the factors for
producing wealth suddenly disappear?
No they did not! Austerity is a concocted crisis generated from a
neo-liberal political line to transfer wealth from the Ontario working
people to owners of capital.
The ruling elite handed over billions to the parasites
to save their
skins during the 2008 crisis yet now wave deficits and debts in the
face of the people, as if they agreed to pay the rich for their crimes
of excess, their counterfeit schemes and reckless gambling.
The ruling elite in Ontario have bowed down to pressure
from the
monopolies and their powerful ownership groups to launch a campaign to
steal what belongs to the working people by right. They are stealing
our pensions to pay the rich; they are stealing our public services and
assets through privatizations to
pay the rich; they are destroying our social programs to pay the rich;
they are stealing our wages and benefits to pay the rich; they are
destroying our good jobs to pay the rich; they are stealing our money
through individual taxes and user fees to pay the rich; they are
stealing our natural resources to pay the rich.
The recent budget of the Liberals is considered
"progressive." What
does this mean? Will it open a path to progress? Of course not. Waving
the phony banner of austerity to pay the rich, the Ontario ruling elite
want to hand over $2.5-billion in grants to the monopolies in an
absurdly named "Jobs and Prosperity
Fund"; they want to give $29-billion to the construction, engineering
and finance monopolies to build mass transit and other infrastructure.
What a joke! The same monopolies and finance capitalists refuse to pay
for the value generated from the infrastructure that already exists,
value which they happily consume.
Take for example, the value produced by mass transit workers which the
monopolies and finance capitalists put in their fat coffers.
These workers bring the monopolies' and finance capitalists' workers to
work, their shoppers to shop and increase their real estate values a
hundredfold, all without these elites
having to lift a finger or pay one penny!
The rich parasites want to skin the ox twice on the
backs of the
workers who produce all the value. First without any shame at the
corruption of using public funds to make private profits, they take
billions out of public sector projects and then consume the value of
those projects without paying for it in a fair
exchange. The entire fraud of austerity is to fatten their wallets at
the expense of the people and their needs, and at the expense of
society and its general interests.
To consolidate their positions of class privilege in
Ontario and
their degenerate lifestyles, the rich parasites are screaming for the
working class to work harder for less, to work longer for less, to work
and work yet face insecurity in retirement and see their children
saddled with student debts to the same parasites
who scream austerity for the people and filthy opulence for themselves.
The fraud of austerity must not pass! The neo-liberal
fiction of an
Ontario working class that has suddenly lost its capacity to produce
value must not pass! The rich parasites are simply out to steal what
belongs to the people by right and that must not pass!
Don't let the rich parasites steal a penny more of what
the workers
produce! Reject with contempt the budget of the Wynne Liberals, as well
as the proposals of the Hudak PCs or any other champions of austerity
and retrogression.
Organize for a working class alternative and new
direction for the economy!
Working class concessions are not solutions! Stop paying
the rich!
Increase investments in social programs and public services! Keep the
rich parasites away from our public services and the people's assets!
Ontario belongs to the working people not the rich!
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