Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The National Post Gets It...

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

The article is one of those equivocation pieces the main stream media is so fond of, and in true style it paints a picture of modern (Canadian) man as a petty, selfish immoral brute that needs to be told what can and can not be said.

That mentality drags us all back to the darkest Dickinsonian days of the industrial revolution, where abuse, exploitation and racism abounded. But is that the kind of world we live in today? Are the majority of Canadians predisposed to racism and hatred? It’s a basic question, are we moral creatures or are we just animals with utensils?

I can tell you how some would like us to answer those questions, for it has long been the joy of traditional media to cast humanity in the worst light. To twist our society into a caricature where one is either an oppressor or a victim, with a dash of “Yes Veronica there is a Santa Claus” thrown in for stark contrast.

This perversion has been accepted over time by populations and governments. It has led us to the garden path we are on, strewn with fabricated rights like potted plants, for because we are so evil and so predisposed to harm, abuse and degrade other men we must be constrained against ourselves.

We can’t rely on human nature because human nature is weak and evil.

We can’t appeal to compassion because we are only animals incapable of caring.

In truth, it is possible to look at our society and see all of that, but the premise is incorrect.

The reason we see our society in decline is because of these potted plant rights. Because of them we can’t rely on hundreds of years of liberal thought and the few basic and true rights like liberty, equality and property because the fabricated rights we’ve created have weakened those inalienable rights and rendered them impotent.

With every new right, with every caveat included in our national laws we weaken our liberty. And those fabricated rights, incapable of sustaining themselves need to be watered and nurtured by fabricated bureaucracies who’s sole purpose is to ensure that the fabrication is given due consideration. And having precious little to do these bureaucracies seek to ensure their survival by perverting the weakness that they themselves have created in our society. Soon the garden path is a jungle, a jungle in need of a clear cutting.

There is not one, single solitary complaint brought to the CHRC that could not have been resolved with pre-existing law.

Ernst Zundel didn’t need to be tried in a kangaroo court, he needed to have the full weight of existing law rallied against him. Furthermore he needed to face the honest and righteous wrath of ordinary Canadians, he needed to be ostracized, to be loathed, and held up to contempt by every honourable, moral Canadian. And what is more is that we Canadians needed to do it. We needed to stand up as individuals and as a society to be counted, to counter the idea that we don’t care, that we are immoral and that we need to be prodded to act.

We don’t need the CHRC we need freedom of speech, freedom to speak in unvarnished, blunt and forthright language. We need to speak up and out for our society against racism, against intolerance against fanaticism and against all those who would seek to silence such speech.

As Ezra Levant has said time and again “Fire them all”

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Connecting the Debt

The numbers from this old article are impressive.

"The accumulated surplus over that time has been more than $60 billion. The actual surplus's for the last seven years have been:
  • 2003/04 $9.1B
  • 2002/03 $7B
  • 2001/02 $8.9B
  • 2000/01 $18.1B
  • 1999/00 $12.7B
  • 1998/99 $3.1B
  • 1997/98 $3.8B"
But what caused me to dredge it up was this article.

"A group of labour unions from Quebec, backed by the Canadian Labour Congress wants the high court to set things right by belatedly declaring the diversion unconstitutional - and ordering Ottawa to return $54 billion to the EI account.

The money represents the surplus accumulated by the EI program since 1986, when legislation brought in by Jean Chretien's government tightened the eligibility rules for jobless payments."

Some simple math exposes the suspicious thread my brain has traced, and puts the lie to Liberal debt reduction.

60 billion - 54 billion = 6 billion

In 7 years, while the Federal Liberal government claimed to have repaid that 60 billion, they had really just reallocated (stolen) 54 billion from the EI account.

Two things leap out at me.

  1. If 54 billion can be taken out and the program can still function at full capacity we are obviously paying way too much in EI premiums.
  2. That the government's unrestrained ability to steal our money in taxes, do with it whatever they please, and then lie to us about how it is used is a crock!

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Shotgun

Because you just know you’re going to hit something…

If you won’t write it down, it isn’t worth the paper it’s not written on.

Nuclear Theft!

Because nothing says you’re sorry for something done before you were even born like 2.5 million in grants. Well at least it’s not a cheap vote buying scheme…

No honour among thieves, or socialists for that matter. Hey Dalton, keep right on spending and talk of Ontario as a have not province will be a self fulfilling prophecy. What a fricken doughhead…

Maybe if we weren’t sending the aid, maybe if the world ostracized the entire country, maybe if we made it abundantly clear that no one would get any help till the Junta stood down then the Burmese people would rise up en mass and kill their oppressors. Until then we are just feeding the regime.

So we can all stop watching the paint dry now? Thank you, thank you, than you…

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Words of wisdom

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are those who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power never concedes anything without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both."

Frederic Douglas

Wise words from one of the leaders of the Abolitionist movement leading up to the American Civil War. Canadians seem particularly prone to quietly submitting, to our great cost........

We'll either die free or we die trying.

A flat tax for Canada. It's your call

Canadians have once again undergone the ritual of sending in their tax returns, a yearly event greeted with all the enthusiasm of going to the dentist for a root canal. At least a root canal has some direct benefit to the patient, while it is often difficult to determine just what or how the various programs, credits and exemptions the government provides benefit the average taxpayer. The fact that a family which relies on employment income and has few or no investment vehicles needs to fill in a form with hundreds of lines of input is mind boggling in the extreme; if the average family is unable to fill in a tax return without professional help, how much more time and effort is needed by the self employed taxpayer, the small business owner or the person with somewhat above normal ambition who has small investments supposed to cope?

The direct costs to this madness are estimated to be about 3.9 billion dollars to the Canadian economy. Indirect costs from lost productivity and efforts to shelter income from taxation are impossible to calculate with any accuracy, but the reader can imagine it must be at least in the same ballpark. This almost 8 billion dollar hit to the economy in direct and indirect costs is the resources to create almost 160,000 full time jobs.

The Fraser Institute has commented on this for many years, the Toronto Sun recently published a piece, the Guelph Mercury and now the Montreal Gazette have also published interesting articles commenting on the issue. It is about time that you called, wrote or emailed your Member of Parliament and MPP about this issue as well. A simplified flat tax can collect the same amount of revenue as the current system with all its distortions and complexity, while freeing enough economic resources into the productive economy to employ an entire town's worth of Canadians. That is something worth fighting for.