Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A15 May 2000 comeback Queen Hillary hits Campaign lottery by Sandy Grady if i were Hillary id run Over to the race track and bet big on a 301 then tool up to Atlantic City and the then Roll the bundle on some Farouk internet no Way shed love her or loathe youd to have to agree Hillary Riding a hot Shes in a gamblers dream if she were a Slot shed cough up Silver Shes the comeback never Overlook the Luck of the Clin once Hillary was americas wronged a figure of pity and her run for the Senate in new York seemed a ploy to change the subject or distance herself from scandalous she was ridiculed As a betting was 5050 she make the new York Hillary All she was glow ing in the Albany spotlight in a Jonquil yellow accepting the democrats nomination As Hillarene when Clinton turn she make no this election int about me or my its about the people of new who she kidding what opponent Shes running against Shes in a on horse once there was Rudy then came the mayors big time midlife Cri Sis prostate the new girl the outraged Clinton spoke for 39 minutes at the democratic convention and did not whisper the name of Giuliani she Fol Lowed the political axiom do not inter Fere when your enemy is running around with his hair on although in rudys Case the foliage is Hillary lavished Public affection on her husband the who played the beaming cheerleader behind her i would not be standing Here tonight if it not for Bill and All Hes done for the new York soap opera will have More plot but at the moment Clinton is touched by a Golden the door to the Senate has swung blame the first couples four Leaf marital tumblers they May be marital but Hillary and Bill Are politically kissed by Happy Bills always been blessed in his plagued by Gennifer and draft scandals in the 92 he Only had to Brush aside ill fated Paul in the 92 he faced a George Bush disabled by a bum he breezed against dour Bob Dole dont forget the perfect foil Newt a blowhard chased from even in his Clinton lucked out with Ken easy to demonize As a Hillary endured humiliation to stick with Bill but the payoff is that she shares his Knack for hitting the Politi Cal with Giuliani it would seem that Clinton has broken from the Gate on the inside republicans were exasperated that Rudy riddled so Long making up his griped one big Apple Consul this int the Duke of Windsor giving up his throne for the woman he his admirers claim Giuliani could have had advantages by sticking in the race an illness exemption Hillary attack a sick Man and a courage Bonus voters would swoon Over his but even before he decided to concentrate on defeating his had abdicated the moral High Hillary marriage would have been a Campaign but then it became rudys love once Monica would have been a Campaign then it became Judy and with Rudy that pairs Hillary against Rick a Long Island con Gressman who is Young and As whole some As one of the n sync the anti Hillary Money will gush his but Hes an unknown with a rightward voting Hes 20 Points behind Clinton in a Hillary Lazio debate would seem As mismatched As mag Gie Thatcher Leonardo its de mutely not a cakewalk for argues York Mario but Hillary improved fast As a shaking off the wary stiffness with reporters and she seems to relish flying Hillary come through a mud storm and hit the pottery Sandy Gamdy is Washington columnist forthe Philadelphia War Ontario budget gimmicks Ontario politicians replace citizen with taxpayer v not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be Albert Ein Stein the inability to realize there Are things that count that cannot be counted goes to the heart of the problem of the Mike Harris government of which addresses the problem by raising or dealing with no issues and Gim this was illustrated with its latest it works for a the headline was the tax refund of to almost every taxpayer in the your Cheque is in the enthused several of the provinces to analysts were likewise impressed and for several hours talk radio turned away from the other momentous government announcement of the school kids in Ontario would have to stand every morning to pledge Alle Giance to the this will make schools safer just As it has in the United states where students pledge glance before the shooting sooner or reality asserts at one time the government decided nursing didst count and defined nurses As obsolete As Hula hoop that exacerbated a crisis in Hospital services caused by ill considered funding now unruly kids and stupid teachers distract from the cuts at education scapegoating teachers As if they were an education frill sets the stage for what is becoming the ritual of september lockouts and to cover cuts in pos secondary the government now dictates that Liberal studies and the humanities count it justifies funding shortfalls by establishing a series of unknown and probably unknowable performance indicators for universities and for individual teach everything gets Cut from Environ mental Protection to social from private private toll roads and Pri vate every asset is for govern ment has a voracious appetite for Why is this so in a booming Economy with unprecedented growth in government income these issues Are not addressed in the the refund is an attention distracting less noted was the corporate tax passed off with barely a comment was the on third Cut in the capital gains while treasurer Ernie eve rhetoric mainly praised the balanced budget and the booming econ he simply ignored the Cost of the balanced and the real problem of the current eco nomic the cliche that the rising economic tide raises All does not apply when most leak and Many for boo town the engine of Ontario has no Money to do anything about its declining with two Levels of government siphoning Money from it the City pays out billion annually to the Federal and provincial governments More than it receives Toronto is forced to consider placing tolls on its main downtown Access it is difficult to say How Many votes will buy in North Bay but it does nothing for Urban the tories know their base and Are Likely to be unfazed by the churlish letters from disgruntled taxpayers in the Toronto in the premiers pos budget message to Toronto was to quit Whin thus the budget becomes another wedge Issue so beloved by the As Many have has replaced Frank Dunn Canadian press Harris left applauds Eves As he delivers the 2000 Ontario citizen in common in the context of the current tax it is a vital Only those who can pay taxes get the there is nothing for the growing numbers of poor and Home less congregating in Ontario even within this restrictive definition of who deserves the benefits of citizenship and those who there Are taxpayers and there Are other tax while we or mostly will get the headline grabbing that is really chump change for the big Money makers in the Hugh research director of the United steelworkers did an analysis of who actually got what in the tax cuts and everyone knows that the highest income brackets gain the most from income tax what is less Evi Dent is How wide this Gap according to Macken Zies tax cuts Over the past budgets indicates the median taxpayer income saves the taxpayer in the top half of one per cent of those with incomes Over saves this Gap is not shown in any of the various exam Ples of incomes and impacts Given to explain the Overall effect of the budget on various this is according to none of the examples take into account the elimination of on third of the tax on capital capital gains really applies to a relatively minor segment of the population to paraphrase our pre Mier a tiny special interest in 58 per cent of capital gains Are received by per cent of taxpayers with incomes Over those with incomes Over receive 45 per cent of capital All of this helps explain that of the billion in personal income tax Over billion is received by the highest 10 per cent of taxpayers those earning Over a year now that something that can be Rae Murphy is a Toronto letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email . Keep in mind hidden risks in exercise Terence Moores Points Are Well taken experts have not free May Bike Riding triggered a heart attack even though my body should have fared better after Many years of compulsive being Over 50 did it nor my recently recognized family history of heart a for Mer i was the perfect sitting right Down to my denial prone trying to prove my natural Resis Tance to aging just about killed now i strive for consistency and leave White knuckle intensity to those diehards who think More equals bet Ter and put performance ahead of life exercise is indeed an individual matter and should be approached with due regard for the hidden risks moderation in All Mark Brown Winnipeg up right to oppose reporting ban the Legal action taken by the Winnipeg free press has been Well explained and Well argued by your editor Nicholas Hirst in his May 6 Coj Suim shield against according to the Universal Decla ration of human which Canada adopted without v and promote the Well being of the whole of their not just that of one institution or Indi this obligation presupposes a least three things that citizens Are informed about what their govern ments say and do on their Sec that citizens in logic and fact have a right to that this right to know requires the free flow of information and opinion through a vigorous professional free press and other As Mary United nations High commissioner for human rights expressed it on the occasion of world press Freedom Day May press Freedom is a Cornerstone of human rights and a guar Antee of other it encourages transparency and Good it ensures Over and above the Mere Rule of society enjoys the Rule of True the Legal submission to the supreme court of Canada by the Winnipeg free on whether police and prosecutors have the right to pre vent the press from reporting on Evi Dence gathered during a police sting seems Well justified in the interest of Rehbock Winnipeg shame on space Agency i feel i must respond to the account Given by Gordon Sinclair in his column of May 11 dealing with unwanted sexual advances perpetrated upon aspiring Canadian astronaut Judith Lapierre by the russian Crew com Mander during a 110day confinement research in the Canadian space Agency did not stand behind Judith Lapierre when she reported the Why she should be subjected to any Man sticking his Tongue in her Mouth particularly the russian Crew leads me to believe the Canadian space Agency is run by same kind of Horny men As the russian the incidents took place on Days 29 and 30 of the 110day project and had the harassment not been reported at the it would stand to reason that it would Only have she was there to do her Job and the Mission to Moscow was a giant step toward that rocket he obviously thought the Job he accepted came with it makes me wonder if the world will Ever and should Judith Lapierre career be destroyed by reporting what happened on this pro then i say shame on the Canadian space Muriel Campbell Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ;