Happy New Taxes Day!

Well, is everyone enjoying the new “higher taxes day” holiday? You folks who live in Ontario, Canada probably know it better as “Family Day”. Let me run the numbers for you. This is important stuff. Whenever the government introduces a new holiday, it is actually introducing a new tax on the people through industry. Here’s a practical example of the most extreme case:

Transalta pays its employees forty three dollars an hour in Sarnia, On. That is the regular pay rate. That is the rate the employees used to get. Now, when an employee works on “Family Day”, he or she gets triple time for a twelve hour shift. That equates to fifteen hundred dollars, five hundred of which goes right into the government coffers. Does everyone get the math? Transalta is a power generating facility that never shuts down. These people have to be there and the government knows it. “Family Day” was just another power grabbing oportunity for big government and that’s all it is.

Not only that but it forces industry to pay people to do absolutely nothing. It is welfare, plain and simple. It is also legalized robbery. People can expect someone to give them something for nothing and they have the force of government to back them up. The classic Robin Hood syndrome; socialism at its most forceful ugliness. The reward for laziness magically produced to ensure the results of the next election.

Look at GM for example. It has become a retirement home which just happens to make cars. In 2005, General Motors payed out almost thirty million dollars for, get this now, erectile disfunction piils. This according to Paul Harvey news and comment. Now, isn’t that amazing? Where is GM now? Well, there’s talk of chapter 11 bankruptcy isn’t there.

Listen, folks. The encroachment of persons interested in taking over your life is all but complete. Enjoy family day.

Ariane Sherine: All aboard the atheist bus campaign | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

This latest nonsense out of the UK: advertising the non existence of God. There’s a fool around every corner these days it seems. By fool I mean the Biblical definition of fool: “A fool says in his heart there is no God”.

Now the advertising is making it’s way across the US and Canada, which means the Biblical “fool” is on the march; spreading his foolishness into the hearts and minds of humanity. The soil is ready to receive the foolishness, I’m afraid. I just hope the church is ready when the religion of atheism lets humanity come crashing down to humiliating defeat when the reality of the existence of the almighty sets in and atheism is shown for the foolishness it really is. Read the whole story here…

Ariane Sherine: All aboard the atheist bus campaign | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Why is the Canadian taxpayer being forced to pay for a “celebration” in honor of the inauguration of the President of the United States?

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation(CBC) is using it’s 100% taxpayer funded Radio 2 arm to launch a contest of sorts to produce a list of uniquely Canadian songs to send to the White House to, in their own words, “celebrate” the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama. WHY? Why use Canadian money to celebrate the inauguration of AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT?

There’s something creepy about the whole “president of the universe” expectation the world has put on Obama. In some corners of the globe he has reached messianic heights. I’ve seen articles in world news declaring him “President of the world” and T-shirts with the slogan “in Obama we trust”.

Talkshow host and political observer Rush Limbaugh has shown evidence that Obama’s people may be directly responsible for the current economic meltdown as a sort of “October surprise” to secure the election win. Michael Savage  has evidence that Obama couldn’t even pass the FBIentrance exam and would not qualify to be his own body gaurd due to his ties to known terrorist William Ayers.  The Americans may have proven the David Rockefeller claim that most people are too ill informed to vote.

I am a Canadian who loves and appreciates the American example of constitutional freedom and I’m honored every time they allow me in. I think it’s time to end the Obama worship however. Or at least stop expecting me to pay for it.

A Picture Can Tell A Thousand Truths

Go Harper Go

Well, it seems we’ve gotten an early Christmas present from the government here in Canada. Steven Harper managed to get Parliament shut down til late January. Right on! Now that’s how government should operate. When it comes to government intervention, less really is more. No intrusive laws will be passed. No more growth and power grabbing by the Liberals. Free enterprise will be allowed to exist a little while longer. The CAW won’t be getting a bailout; as least not right away. Stephan Dion won’t be Primeminister (thank God).
As for the automotive industry, Toyota opened a brand new plant in Woodstock, On today. Good for them. As for the other three, listen, going bankrupt doesn’t always mean going away. Just ask Donald Trump.
Expecting taxpayers who make as little as $9/hr to bailout people making $35-$70/hr is wrong. It’s big government intervention gone insane in their lust for power. The free market knows how to deal with this stuff; that is if government can stay out of it.
Primeminister Harper may have fallen on the political sword to protect his country from making a huge mistake in propping up a trio of losers with your money and make no mistake, it really is your money.

The Peaceful Transfer of Power

The Canadian stock exchange (TSX) saw it’s greatest single day overall loss ever yesterday. It was the greatest percentage point loss in two decades. Why? One of the key indicators of a healthy democracy is the peaceful transfer of power following elections. Canada, thanks to the two Liberal Parties and one separatist party, has been in a state of political turmoil since its recent federal election. Jack Layton, leader of the ultra left wing NDP, said yesterday he would “bring down the government at the earliest possible opportunity”. They may manage to do it with the three stooges hooking up.

The stock market reacts negatively to such comments from stupid people with power. People with money, and I mean real money, do not invest in countries who can’t make up their mind who’s going to run the show. Unstable governments, talk of separation, taxing carbon footprints, war mongering. All of it is no different than the tinpot dictators rattling swords in africa and the middle east. Who invests there? No one.

People need stability. It anchors them. The Liberal parties own this one. The market freefall is theirs. The economic woes? Theirs. The conservative tax cuts have been working. Canada is not in a recession. The economy continues to grow. The Liberals are destroying this country. Any future recession will be their doing. Shame on them for holding this country hostage for the sake of gaining power. Shame on them.

Dwight Duncan gets it right while Andy Barrie and Michael Hollinga are idiots

It really is unbelievable that taxpayer money is going toward funding the socialist agenda of CBC radio. On Oct. 23rd, Andy Barrie of CBC’s Metro Morning show in Toronto interviewed Ontario liberal finance minister Dwight Duncan. On the recommendation of CBC money {expert}, Michael Hollinga, Barrie suggested the finance minister should increase the price of gas by five cents per liter and have a one percent fee on healthcare. Barrie, in typical flaming ignorance, said Canadians are unfairly protected from high gas prices, citing England’s higher prices. Duncan held a reasonable ground saying Canadians already pay market prices for gas and introducing a tax increase right now would not be in the public’s best interest. Barrie countered with, “it’s not a tax increase. It’s an increase in government revenue”. The bosses at CBC must have completely given up on anyone with any intelligence at all listening to CBC radio.  Otherwise they would, and still should, get rid of this absolute idiot.
There could be a hidden agenda here, though. The CBC has always slanted left (liberal). It could be that the question was put to the minister to prop him up. To make him look like he’s for the people; the little man. Maybe Barrie was just looking for job security. Afterall, his job depends on tax revenue.
Either way, the whole Heather Malick nonsense along with Andy Barrie’s incomprehensible stupidity should cause great concern for the average, informed Canadian and if the government needs more money, perhaps they could take a look at CBC’s billion dollar budget and they could start with Andy Barrie.

Public/Private Partnerships. The future of global healthcare.

Canadians infected with the disease of liberalism are fighting against it, to little or no avail. Here’s a great example of the direction healthcare is going in Canada, for example:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/080922/canada/calgary_calgary_copeman_health_clinic

There you go. How much do you want to wager that the clinic in this story has the best equipment in the country. Why else would they be protesting? Why else would they be so outraged at the cost of membership? Do you think anyone would care about not getting in if it was a Patch Adams dump in an old farmhouse somewhere? Of couse not.
So, why is the clinic so prosperous? The answer is simple. There are no politicians in there to screw it up. Politicians who’s sole concern is reelection. Who would use the proceeds for pork and earmarks instead of MRI machines and CAT scanners. Politicians who would spend a billion dollars to fund a lousy radio station (CBC) while local hospitals have to raffle off dream home tickets in order to purchase equipment that saves lives.
Then you have those fanatics outside protesting the clinic. A clinic that will only end up raising the bar for medicine in this country. These fanatics would rather see the place shut down than reward greatness. They demand equal treatment for all Canadians. Well, here’s one Canadian who says, “Well Done Alberta”. A few more clinics like this scattered around the country and maybe my wife wouldn’t have to wait two months for a critical treatment.
Profit is the motivator that drives the world economic system. Not greed. Not envying other people’s success. Not protecting the lowest common denominator, but rewarding greatness. The more government intervention we allow, the more Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG’s we as a society are going to face. Each one of those entities were so politically entrenched they had completely lost their self sustainability and were doomed to failure.
As the great Ronald Reagan once said: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.

Michael D. Shoesmith
Author of “Fallen From Grace”
And “Fast Track To Freedom”

 

www.prosperousindividual.com

Heather Mallick does not speak for this Canadian

 

 

I haven’t exactly been giving a ringing endorsement for the choice of Palin for V.P. Coming from a strictly Christian point of view it seems an unlikely moral choice to ask the mother of five children, one of whom is only five months old (or there abouts) to give so much of her time to a job that will rob an equal amount of time away from her kids who, in fact, actually spell mom: T.I.M.E.

Heather Mallick wrote a piece for the CBC about Mrs. Palin that is an absolute abomination. Here it is (plug your nose cause this one really stinks):

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html

Well, there you go. This Canadian believes that Heather Mallick should be fired. It won’t happen. The CBC is in the tank for every liberal candidate in the world. Liberalism is the primary source for funding at the CBC. It represents the group think that dominates the liberal mindset. It is against the rugged individualism that made both the U.S. and Canada the great nations they are, although Canada has long ago slipped into the socialist abyss. Roger Gallaway, a former prominent member of the federal Liberal party, spoke out publicly against the use of tax payer money to fund CBC radio. He hasn’t been heard from since.

I love my country. It grieves me at the core to watch Canada erode from within. There’s an election coming up in Oct. Maybe things will change for the better. We can only hope that it does.

Until then we can console ourselves with the undeniable fact that liberalism is a mental disorder and is the philosophy of the deranged. I hope you recover soon, Heather.

Well Done, America

Today is Sept. 11th. I am a Canadian. I am also a frequent visitor to the U.S. I’m grateful every time they let me in. They don’t have to. I know that. My career would be over if they, for whatever reason, refused to allow me to enter. I am grateful.
Quite coincidently I had to make a trip across the border today. I must admit I was a little worried about the time it would take to cross so I gave myself lots of extra lead time. It turned out to not be necessary.
When I got there (Bluewater Bridge between Sarnia, on. and Port Huron, mi), it was “up and over” as the truckers say. A five minute delay and that was it. I was in the good ol’ U.S. Of A.
Here is my point to writing all of this. If the terrorists had won the psycological battle over your hearts and minds and managed to strike a permanent fear into the American culture, then the border would have been backed up several miles and commerce would have been halted due to fears of an aniversary attack. There wasn’t even a hint of that today. Sure, there certainly was in the beginning. And sure, there is a tremendous amount of security that exists at the border today. But let me be a witness out there to the terrorists that America does not fear you and if my hunch is right… They never will.

Michael D. Shoesmith
Author of “Fallen From Grace”
And “Fast Track To Freedom”
www.prosperousindividual.com