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Steyn on Not So Great Britain

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This is the logical dead end of the Nanny State. When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the British welfare regime in 1942, his goal was the “abolition of want” to be accomplished by “co-operation between the State and the individual.” In attempting to insulate the citizenry from life’s vicissitudes, Sir William succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. As I write in my book: “Want has been all but abolished. Today, fewer and fewer Britons want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity.”

Replace “Britons” with “People” and you have 80% of the planet fitting that description.

Big Government means small citizens: It corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically. Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the earth’s surface and a quarter of its population. When you’re imperialists on that scale, there are bound to be a few mishaps along the way. But nothing the British Empire did to its subject peoples has been as total and catastrophic as what a post-great Britain did to its own.

There are lessons for all of us there.

Occupy that. I’m going to start reading Steyn’s columns to my kids at bedtime. Forget the stupid fairy books they make me read to them now.

Majority

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It is now with great happiness, I congratulate Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his excellent win tonight.

This is the results of the BRINW poll I was running over the last number of months. Conservatives have spoken and have given him the majority he asked for. Now it is time for him to deliver that badly needed reform.

52% – Scrap the CBC
32% – Kill the HRCs
10% – Lower Taxes

The other 6% was for other and most people wrote in “All of the Above.”

Goodbye Iggy. Goodbye Bloc. Layton, you can ask your question first now. Harper actually doesn’t need to answer.*

* Heard on CBC.

Please don’t Vote. If…

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I disagree with the notion of voting being compulsory or something that everyone should do. More people voting is not the cure as long as the people voting are acting like lemmings.

Everyone should vote. IF they have invested the time and energy to understand who and what they are voting for. The following list should disqualify be a guideline for people being involved in choosing who gets to run our lives.

Don’t vote if..

  • Your intellectual investment in this election involves change for the sake of change.
  • You have not read the actual policies of the party you are planning on voting for. Go beyond the glossy pamphlets with the broad generalized statements and read the fine print. The fine print is why there are policy conventions. {This may be too harsh, you should be able to at least go beyond talking points.}
  • Everything you know about the leaders, you know because you saw it on TV. This is true whether it is CBC or Sun News.
  • You are planning on voting for the same party you voted for last time, just because you voted that way last time.
  • Your union literature told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your church told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your parents told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your school told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • You actually feel that all parties are the same and it doesn’t matter.
  • Your going to vote for ______, because they offered to drive you.

Don’t spoil your ballot. I don’t think of spoiled ballots as anything other than wasting your time and Elections Canada’s time. We live in a country where every vote does count. Out of the people on the ballot, which do you want to represent you? Which do you want to make decisions, on your behalf?

I know that many will say that “none of the above” is their choice but that is not on the ballot. Apathy and intentionally spoiled ballots are the same thing. Both say that you don’t want to be a part of the decision.

How does one protest then? We all know that no party meets all of our desires, whether policy or implementation.

One, by withholding donations (this is why it is so critical that per vote subsidies are scrapped) and not renewing memberships. If I get called for a donation or am asked to renew my membership, I explain to the unfortunate caller that reasons A, B, C and D are why I will not support the party financially or renew my membership at that time.

Two, contact your current MP or person on the ballot. Explain where the party has deviated from its policies and/or made decisions that you don’t agree with.

Three, become a member of a political party closest to your ideals then work within that party to enact policies. You won’t get everything you want but that’s democracy in action. The difference here than at a general election, is that your vote carries a heavier weight.

Democracy at its heart, is giving everyone, not just elites, the ability to control their future. If you are going to vote, do so with understanding, not ignorance, otherwise you make the votes of the people that care, worth less (as a percentage.) People didn’t die in wars so people SHOULD vote, they died so people COULD vote.

Note: I understand that there is a historical feeling of spoiling a ballot as a means of protest. I just think it is pointless at this point in history.

This is just opinion, feel free to disagree or make your opinion known in the comments below.

The Jack! Preview

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If, for some reason, you feel an NDP led coalition would not be a bad thing for Canada, try the following to preview what it would be like.

  • For every dollar you keep after taxes, take 30 cents and give it to the guy living under the bridge. Don’t ask what he will do with it, that’s none of your business.
  • If you own guns, hand them in to the police, or better yet, just give them to the drug dealer that sells to the guy living under the bridge.
  • If you have own a business, hire the first person that walks in the door, regardless of whether it will ruin your business or not. Then pay them double. Then triple your EI & CPP payments.
  • Take the bus, or bike, everywhere you go, including overseas.
  • If you own a vehicle that has enough seats for a family, the next time you fill up for gas, multiply the cost by 2 and give the difference to that guy that lives under the bridge. By now, he’ll be filling up his VW van at the gas station beside you so it should be easy to find him.
  • Quit your job and live under a bridge (Equality!)
  • Get a job somewhere that you want to get promoted, and pretend you are in a union by turning down every promotion until everyone else that was there before you moves up.
  • Take your globe, atlas or map of the world, cross out Israel and write “Palestinianland.”
  • Go to your bank and withdraw your money. Send it to Hugo Chavez, c/o The White House, Washington, DC.
  • If you own stocks, cash them in now, they won’t be worth much soon.

There are more but we only have a few weeks before a Jack! led government could be a reality.

Get out and vote for a Conservative Majority. It may not be the optimum, but its better than the alternative.

OK. Now charge him rent.

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When can we shut down these Kangaroo courts?

A man who ordered a police officer to stand up before shooting him dead is now refusing to stand up for roll call in prison. And a human rights tribunal agrees, awarding him $9,500 in compensation. [NP]

Can someone with money in the bank please take this to the Supreme Court on behalf of Canadian taxpayers???

The Incoherent President

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While many poked fun at former President George W. Bush for mispronouncing words and stumbling through sentences, observers note that he rarely had to backtrack on his answers because he employed a simple and direct messaging approach.

The approach was more than simple and direct. It was honest and from the heart.

The problem with Obama’s messaging is that it is illogical. The more you try and convince people of a policy that doesn’t make sense, the more you’ll be going back to the start to try again. It’s like listening to a 4 year old explain why they deserve dessert when they didn’t eat their dinner.

To Greece with Love

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Radio Free NJ is hot. You HAVE to read the whole thing. Especially if you lean left.

Morons,
There is no money. There is no one else’s pocket left to pick. You can’t borrow anymore, you can’t print anymore, and you can’t steal anymore from anyone else. The people who will be paying the bill to keep you from reentering the 15th century are, unlike you, working very hard. They deserve better than you spoiled pampered children are giving them.

Via

Bailout from the Private Sector?

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Obama has seen the light?

“We don’t have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis. It is only when the private sector starts to reinvest again; only when our businesses start hiring again and people start spending again and families start seeing improvement in their own lives again, that we’re going to have the kind of economy that we want,” Obama said.

Personally, I think he’s just trying to find out who the smart people are with the good ideas so he can buy them off and make them czars.

Coinciding with the jobs forum, organized labor and religious leaders in several cities sponsored events featuring unemployed and underemployed people to raise the public profile of the issue.

Those wouldn’t be the people that voted for Obama would it?

Keep RESP Tax Shelter. Drop HRC Funding.

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“We can navel gaze about what this bill will cost today,” Mr. McTeague said in an interview. “The lost revenue would be gained down the road when kids get higher paying jobs.”

I agree. Which is why I also propose dropping the GST to five percent. Oh wait, already done. What did Dion say about that again?

“We are the party of compassion, the party of Kelowna for aboriginals, the party that wants to put the fight against poverty at the core of agenda. We want to invest in Canadians and families, seniors, in regions, and there is no good balance in this declaration of the minister of finance about investing in Canadians and tax cuts.”

Wait a second, won’t more money being saved by families to invest in RESPs for their children… Never mind.

Chop the gun registry or the HRC funding and keep this tax break.