A Billion Here, A Billion There for...Whatever, PM--Use $ to Retain/Rehire RCMP -&- Cdn Terrorist -&- Giveaways

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Auditor General: Report 2005--PDF downloads -- also html files

Before getting to a news item -- the AG's Report 2005 and the part about the RCMP, it might be useful to think of the following:

A Billion here, a Billion there & soon you're talking real money . . . whoever said it.

Did [Everett]Dirksen ever say, " A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money"?. . . . He spoke often and passionately about the debt ceiling, federal spending, and the growth of government. Yet there is no authoritative reference to the "billion" phrase. [. . . . ]

The closest documented statement came at a joint Senate-House Republican leadership press conference on March 8, 1962, when Dirksen said, "The favorite sum of money is $1 billion – a billion a year for a fatter federal payroll, a billion here, a billion there." [EMD Papers, Republican Congressional Leadership File, f. 25] But the "and pretty soon you're talking real money" is missing.

In another close call, the New York Times, January 23, 1961, quoted Dirksen: "Look at education – two-and-one-half billion – a billion for this, a billion for that, a billion for something else. Three to five billion for public works. You haven't got any budget balance left. You'll be deeply in the red." [Cited in Byron Hulsey's "Everett Dirksen and the Modern Presidents," Ph.D. dissertation (May 1998, University of Texas, p. 226] . . . .

If PM & Team have $$$ for Votes, how about some $$$ for the RCMP?

Auditor general says Mounties need better recruitment, training policies -- "training facilities can't produce the number of recruits needed, the auditor general reported" John Ward, NP/CP, Nov. 23, 05

[. . . . ] The report also found that when the RCMP lacks officers to meet its provincial and community police duties, it routinely pulls people from national police work - including drug and organized crime investigations - to fill the gap. And the national police force has to improve its training. [. . . . ]

On the RCMP, Fraser said the force will need to train 1,400 cadets a year over the next four years, but its Regina recruit depot can only turn out 1,200 a year and can't boost that number quickly.

How many RCMP officers are studying or upgrading at any one time? How many are on language training? How many are about to retire but might be enticed to remain--think money--until more young men are trained? How many love the job and might just want to be asked?

Appeal to their pride, to their love of the force and their love of country. That might be the best appeal. Most people near retirement have all the worldly goods they want or want or need -- whether to drive or power about a lake -- to keep body and soul together at home--to dust, to move or to store. Most people simply want to be appreciated. Perhaps the PM and the administration of the RCMP could give them recognition that their contribution has been valuable enough that the force wants them to stay on.

PM & Team: Instead of allowing them to retire with flowers or a gold watch, keep them with $$$ -- At least Canadians would get a return for their taxpayer dollars.

Retain or re-hire RCMP officers--the older and well-trained ones, the ones well-versed in the system, the ones who have the hard-won experience--before they're lost to the RCMP and to Canadians.

Related:

Paul Palango: two books
Above the law - ***** stars
The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP - and Canada **** 1/2 stars


Canadian Terrorist(s)

U.S. jury indicts ex-Canadian resident -- Along with dirty bomber Padilla Beth Gorham, NP/CP, Nov. 23, 05

Canadian Kassem Daher and U.S. citizen Jose Padilla [a Brooklyn-born Muslim convert] have been charged with conspiring to "murder, maim and kidnap" people overseas as members of a North American terrorist cell.

[. . . . ] "These defendants also allegedly took steps to disguise their fundraising and recruitment activities by speaking in code and using non-governmental organizations as a front for illegitimate activities."

Search:

sent money, assets and recruits to
fighting violent jihad
CSIS director Jim Judd




Mackenzie Pipeline deal by noon today?



Feds ante cash for residential schools abused NP/CP, Nov. 23, 05

[. . . . ] The deal, which must be approved by the courts, is open to more than 80,000 former students.

Each eligible former student who applies would be entitled to $10,000 plus $3,000 for each year spent in the schools.

Former students over age 65 can apply for a fast-track advance payment of $8,000 [. . . . ]

Search: further legal liability



Today's Photo Op: PM Team & Chiefs

$4B for native school abuse -- Truth-and-reconciliation commission to get $60M Allan Woods; with files from Richard Foot, CanWest, Nov. 23, 05

The package, which was agreed upon and signed Nov. 20, is expected to commit an immediate $2-billion for lump-sum payments to individual native victims of the schools, as well as $60-million for a truth-and-reconciliation commission to examine, between the next two to five years, the decades-long scandal of abuse, according to a copy of the agreement obtained yesterday. [. . . . ]

The organization says about 86,000 people who attended the schools are alive today.

The $60-million truth-and-reconciliation commission is intended to give "all the survivors ... their chance to tell their stories," said a source close to the deal. [. . . . ]

Taxpayers pay. . . pay. . . pay. . . pay. . . pay. . . pay

At least give Canadian taxpayers security and proper policing.

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