Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a15 winnow 2000 private network socialize russian income by Alvon Rabushka since living standards in Russia have fallen by 47 per the 1990s have witnessed serial currency and continuous con this for the first Russia is enjoying a 10 per cent increase in Industrial output and seven per cent economic tax and payroll arrears Are being for eign debt is being paid on a new president has pushed through a 13 per cent Flat a balanced budget and is working on land and regulatory has Russia turned the Cor Ner the jury is still out on this this years growth is largely attributable to High Gas and other commod Ity foreign the new network Exchange did not behave As enterprises do in Market enterprises began to russian eco nomic Active but True structural Reform has yet to for socialize the internal to the same Tion Almone us tar fund and degree As had other foreign occurred in soviet experts have Ruccia in advised rus Sia to follow they con the Trinity of fisc ated Public liberalization and privatization Russia has Clung faithfully to this the advice rested on the conventional Wisdom that these poli cies would transform Russia and other pos communist countries into Market but slip failed in these Why the russian Economy under Central planning can be likened to a single when communism the government lifted its economic controls Over foreign Trade and capital it rapidly privatized Howe these enterprises a coordinated network of suppliers and producers under communism quickly formed a network of their own outside govern ment the new network did not behave As enterprises do in Market enterprises began to socialize to the same degree As had occurred in soviet they practice tax no remittance on a Large collecting taxes from the Public but withholding a Large part from the in they confiscated Public to compensate for the fiscal the government printed Money to provide Banks with Cash to subsidize hoping to reduce tax the resulting inflation resulted in the confiscation of Public income and financial the autonomous network of enterprises transformed itself into a foreign Exchange what we can earnings Are Call Enterprise he Nina f ii network social i Pimp Zubi Enterprise russian is Are pc but True structural income is Reform has yet to socialized and Honan de9m the focus of the foreign experts who recommended slip to russian Young reformers was on the establishment of private whereas it should have been on the establishment of private they failed to see that private free movement of and stable fiscal and monetary policies do and did prevent the socialization of breaking up the network and privatizing income Are the keys to sustained if the network Russia will continue to suffer More defaults and Alvin a senior fellow at the Hoover works in the Public policy areas of taxation in the and and economic development in the Pacific rim and the transition economies of Central and Eastern notably ragtag system needed in City to reduce waste we Bury by Carolyn Garlych curbside introduced in brought Hope for a Sharp drop in residential after an Ini tial the amount of waste that Winni Eggers produce has actually been on the Rise since although Winni Eggers Are diverting per cent of waste through recycling and the tonnage of residential waste going to Brady Landfill now exceeds the 1995 obviously we Are not doing Well on the first r and the sad fact is despite the Opportunity to do we Are on the doing Well at the third r recycling waste composition studies show that 60 per cent of the material that could be going into Blue boxes and recycling is going straight to where it begins to give off greenhouse the tonnes of residential waste buried in a land fill each year eventually releases tonnes of methane to the to say nothing of the release of Carbon which is also a greenhouse potential not reached there Are several reasons Why the recycling program has not achieved its negative press at the time when the program was experiencing growing pains did not those who live in apartment blocks still do not have equal Access to Recy Public education has been ind in some people have trouble keeping Blue perhaps the most Basic problem is for too Many of recycling is not a the experience of bag tag programs elsewhere is that a visible Cost can get people to rearrange their Priori under the current system an individual pays no More for six bags of garbage than for but collectively we All those who care enough to sort their waste subsidize those who do a tag system for combined with improved opportunities to divert is a needed incan a Small visible Cost is often what it takes to get people to pay since two bags is the average set out per other than Yard the Cost to most families will be mini and other families will have the Opportunity to reduce their costs through recycling and composting Fol m customer hot Over heating Bill i received my Centra Gas Bill dated 8 to the grand total is gasp before the cold and taking a closer there Are in other charges and then the taxes Are calculated from my estimated usage is Only i live in a Home in Waverley Heights 1610 Chancellor to be i can afford my property and maintain a fairly Nice lifestyle for my two children and i cannot afford to heat my i do not run the Furnace hot and i main Tain a 27yearold Furnace to the Best of my we Are a single income family on a modest income and the utilities companies Are killing read your entire utilities Bills when they you will be flabbergasted at extra costs just for using their serv Ces Karen Bernard Winnipeg writer saluted for compassion thank goodness for people like Bradley i read his article Cesta Hope and agony in the stable 17 with tears in my of All the stories of War and human misery i found it almost a Shock to read something that would move me so deeply in this Christmas thank god for people As tender and humane As this Young he makes up for some of the Lack of love that is so present in this i think of All the miserable animals that Are chained in backyards or left to fend for themselves in horrible Circum stances and some of my Faith is thank you Bradley for your love and it May not be fashionable for a Man to show such extreme but for Salute Marjory Rhule Winni Eggers Send More waste to the Brady Road Landfill site than they need or Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press the solid waste division of the City of Winnipeg estimates that the cur rent diversion rate of per cent could be increased to approximately per cent if there were a limit of two free bags along with enhanced opportunities for recycling and com a tag system could Well be the most significant step that the City could take to reduce it is Esti mated that those living in single family residences would Recycle an extra tonnes annually and apartment dwellers an extra Yard composted at would increase from about tonnes to tonnes with curbside backyard composting would increase from about tonnes to tonnes with an enhanced Educa Tion program and a rebate system for if we can increase diversion to per the reduction of greenhouse gases would be the equivalent of Tak ing vehicles off the the amount of Energy saved reduced Energy needed for burying the mater Ial in a Landfill plus the savings from using recycled versus Virgin Materi als would be the equivalent of heat ing we should just do in Winnipeg made a commit ment to Cut waste in half by it is not going to happen this but we should not give up the goal of 50 per cent reduction from 1989 in 1996 the City of Winnipeg adopted a waste minimization calling for apartment Block recycling among other but has yet to act on sticking Point few thinking people would argue that we should do nothing to keep our paying for the pro Gram is the sticking the costs of enhanced recycling and Yard waste collection should not be added to our already High property the Council of women of Winnipeg sup ports an equitable partial cos recovery a tag system would not Only raise Revenue to pay for the programs but would also have the effect of reducing waste and environmental we Call on Winni Eggers who truly care about the environment to join with us in calling on City Council to move quickly to extend recycling to apartment to reinstate and extend citywide curbside pickup of Yard to improve Public Educa Tion on waste reduction and to bring in a bag tag program to pay for of course there will have to be consideration for Large families and for those least Able to of there will be problems at first when the pro Gram is introduced and Steps will be needed to deter but if we truly care about our Impact both locally and we need to act Carolyn Garlich is chairwoman of civic issues for the Council of women of 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 youth basketball breath of fresh air this week i turned to the sports Sec Tion of your paper and enjoyed Posi Tive local coverage of instead of finding whining multimillionaire professional athletes living their soap opera lives in the i saw a Young teen who lives across our Back Lane trying hard to get the basketball from another front Page coverage of youth basketball was a breath of fresh after teaching children values in sport is much More rewarding than trying to teach them Why they should not idol ize the millionaire brats in profession Al sport Richard Rempel Winnipeg free press support promotes local sports on behalf of the parents and Board of directors from the Winnipeg minor basketball Asso i would like to extend our gratitude to the Winnipeg free press and the University of Winnipeg for their tremendous support in sponsor ing the first free press Community classic basketball tournament currently in Progress at the University of Over the past the sports writ ers at the free press have taken a vis Ible role in prompting minor league athletics in the these stories speak about real life dedication to the children in our Community and our commitment As volunteers to encourage our children to become Good Citi Zens and to learn lessons from i thank you for your Dedi cation to this without the efforts of the University of Winnipeg and the free basketball in this Community would not have developed As quickly As it has to Michael Ruta president Winnipeg minor basketball association Winnipeg Hong Kong welcomes foreign students i read in your paper during the election that a Winnipeg candidate for the Alliance party claimed that Hong Kong had been closed Down in 1997 and objected to asians attending Canadian i would just like your read ers to know that Hong Kong is just As welcoming to foreign students As Canada i am a 47yearold Winnipeg Ger who last year completed a masters degree in linguistics at the University of Hong Only 18 put of 150 applicants were accepted in the program and three of us were foreigners from the and like those born in Hong paid Only 20 per cent of the True Cost of my univer sity the rest was subsidized by taxpayers like in i received a world class degree from an exceptional faculty recruited from around the Hong like values its International Outlook and Pau Paskewitz Hong Kong car insurance almost doubles i moved to Manitoba from the Toronto area this past along with my North american sport Utility vehicle my total annual Auto insurance Premium from a private insurance firm in Ontario for 2001 would have been along with another for licence the philanthropic Manitoba Public insurance folks who work so hard to spend their surpluses have charged me for insurance and my driving record and intended usage have not the incredible difference More expensive in Manitoba Drivers Are paying far too or am i missing something Gary Coy Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Hunt you know you ;