We can only hope. The Greek crisis once again shows that socialism does not work. How are the overspending Europeans trying to fix this problem, by spending even more money.
Yesterday, the subprime government debt crisis, the direct product of the above-mentioned summits and other meetings of the world’s economic and political leaders, produced another threat. The European Union, its members sliding into stimulus debt and losing market confidence, would again do “whatever is necessary” to end the crisis, restore confidence and protect the euro.
Whatever is necessary turns out to be more of the same. The amazing European and IMF economic stimulus machines will tackle their debt crisis with a new strategy: More debt! Already racked with rising deficits and debt loads that are in...
So iffy wants other people to raise children and state expense. The better to indoctrinate them to vote grit. The grits are not a centrist party at all and have fully made the journey to the left. Iffy has become dion.Kelly McParland: Ignatieff heads down same path as DionPosted: February 03, 2010, 10:30 AM by NP EditorFull Comment, Kelly McParland, Canadian politicsLiberal leader Michael Ignatieff pledged that he would spend the days before Parliament resumes announcing Liberal policies and making clear where the party stands on the issues of the day.It's never too late to tell voters what you believe in, even if Mr. Ignatieff has waited a curiously long time since taking over the leadership a year ago. Even with his activities this week he's still being economical on detail: His latest...
This is from the ndp really really socialist wing. Its all pretty nutty, but this caught my eye. The workers don't want people to work.17. Share the Work, Shorten the Work WeekWhereas the Canadian work week is among the longest in the industrialized world, a situation proven to cause increased stress, illness and lower productivity;Whereas tens of thousands of new jobs would be created if the work week was reduced appropriately;Therefore be it resolved that the following be added to Section 1.12 of the Policy booklet: "The NDP will actively campaign to reduce the work week throughout Canada to 32 hours, without loss of pay or benefits to workers, and to outlaw mandatory overtime."...
Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) is considering a name change. Founded in 1961 as the New Democratic Party, the party’s use of the word “new” in its name has been fodder for a lot of jokes over the years. But if a motion is carried at the party’s annual convention in Halifax in a couple of weeks, the party will finally drop the odd adjective and be known simply as the Democratic Party. To most people, the real motive behind the name change is quite clear: in an attempt to ride the coattails of the success of Barack Obama and......
Glen Beck tells the classic tale....
A great piece on the socialist miller and his mismanagement of Toronto. This is now the end of the third week of the strike with no sign of it ending any time soon. miller and his fellow dippers on council have already spent all the money. There will no choice but to beg from the province or the feds or increase taxes. miller will do both. Mayor Miller says that the city’s budget is in crisis. Because of this, the city can’t make ends meet without major concessions on the part of its 30,000 workers.And yet, when a contract agreement was reached with workers at the Toronto Community Housing in April, there was no confrontation, and no demand for major concessions. Instead of sending a signal that the city needs belt-tightening, it was business as usual. Also consider that four...
Pravda is now calling the US socialist. Good work obamessiah.The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe....
Charles Krauthammer discusses what obamessiah real socialist agenda will take the US.Obama has far different ambitions. His goal is to rewrite the American social compact, to recast the relationship between government and citizen. He wants government to narrow the nation's income and anxiety gaps. Soak the rich for reasons of revenue and justice. Nationalize health care and federalize education to grant all citizens of all classes the freedom from anxiety about health care and college that the rich enjoy. And fund this vast new social safety net through the cash cow of a disguised carbon tax.Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission....
When a major international organization like the OECD speaks, everyone, including prime ministers and presidents, is well-advised not only to listen but to actually follow the advice thus received. In a recent report, the OECD left no doubt as to what governments should do in view of the current economic crisis: Stimulating the economy is a good thing, but “aid to specific sectors should be resisted.” Why, then, are we still wasting precious time trying to decide the fate of failing/failed companies such as the Detroit Three? Anyone can see that the experts at the OECD know more about these......
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In attempting to explain the current economic crisis, economists, politicians, sociologists and many others have come up with a myriad explanations. The most common theme, however, is that it is capitalism that has failed us, and free markets, of course. Nothing could be further from the truth. The crisis began with the implosion of the subprime mortgage market, which in itself was the product of non-capitalist ideology. Lefties had been pushing for affordable housing and helping the less fortunate, and providing mortgages to those who would never be approved under normal circumstances was one way of silencing the constant screaming......
Socialism from obamessiah and the dems....
I like this quote. It explains why I oppose socialism. This quote has been atributed to Lincoln but it was written by Rev. William J. H. Boetcker.You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift.You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.You cannot establish security on borrowed money.You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves...
by Werner Patels The global financial crisis has caused a lot of hardship and despair. But one group of people is relishing the ravages wrought by the economic downturn: the hardcore left. To them, the crunch embodies everything they have ever hoped for, that is, proof, if that is what it is, that capitalism and free market economics simply do not work. That they would use this tragedy to push their own misguided and failed ideology is not surprising. What makes things much worse, though, is that even politicians of the right have jumped on this bandwagon – most...
obamessiah wants to spend $150 billion on green jobs. This article rightly points out the job losses from other sectors will overwhelm any good effects of these statist moves.This week, both the leading candidates for Mr. Dion’s Liberal leadership job — Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae — sought to put as much distance as possible between themselves and Mr. Dion’s vote-loser (which even he was trying to shove down the memory hole by the end of the recent federal campaign). Although Mr. Dion’s plan was claimed to be too complex, perhaps his main mistake was to be too honest. Instead of concentrating on that bright shining new high-tech Emerald City on a hill, Mr. Dion started with the painful bit: the cost, specifically a carbon tax. Mr. Obama by contrast promises to create 5 million...
okay, so a brief post, posited off a discussion i've been havig over the last few days with various people who continue to bandy about the term 'socialism' in the weird way it started to be used in the last few days of the election campaign."Obama is a socialist""The Democrats want to bring socialism to America!!""Obama and the Democrats want to make America like socialist Europe!!!"Well, let me clarify something. As someone who hails from so-called 'socialist' Canada and who has lived in 'socialist' Europe; can we just, as people with common sense and a dictionary, agree that European countries, Canada, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and every other advanced economies in the world are, not, in fact, socialist countries?Can we just agree on that?If you want socialism look...
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by Werner Patels If you were to try to pin a specific political label on me, you might just as well be blindfolded and attempt to hit a piñata with a toothpick from a mile away. I do not believe in rigid ideologies, and for good reason: with all the issues and challenges we face today in the 21st century, it is clear that each problem requires a different approach. Not one single ideology can provide all the answers. Follow the arguments among newspaper columnists, or those among bloggers, and most of the verbal jousting comes down to the...
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Something on Steve Janke's blog caught my eye and reminded me to write this post that I have been meaning to write for some time now. Steve writes: [...] Mrs Harper (who unlike Stephane Dion's wife Janine Krieber, does not pretend to be a de facto party spokesperson) [...] This is why voters should pay closer attention to Janine, because her ideology, which she doubtless feeds her husband, could be quite controversial – and if Stéphane, who has devoted most of his scholarly endeavours to the study of Marxism in all its forms, were ever to become prime minister,...
I wrote a reply to this letter claiming that conservatism was dead. This misinformed letter writer was replying to a picec by William Watson entitled Conservatism is here to stay.Conservatives liveLetterPublished: 1 hour agoRe: "Conservatism is dead" (Letters, May 28).Nigel Spencer ignores the many new centre-right governments in Europe, even in the socialist Scandinavian countries. In Britain, new Labour has done very little to change Maggie Thatcher's much-needed reforms, and the French have recognized that they need the same reforms and have elected a centre- right president.The Liberals continued all of Brian Mulroney's policies. Remember free trade and the GST? As for U.S. President George W. Bush, he did free Iraq from a terrible dictator who had slaughtered tens of thousands of...
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Terence Corcoran writes about Statscan correcting its data. Would that the socialists at the mop and pail, red star and CBC could do the same.Yesterday's StatsCan report drew comment from at least one union. Erin Weir, economist with United Steelworkers, said StatsCan was using "more optimistic" language to offset its class-warfare spin last week. Why would StatsCan do that? Mr. Weir blamed the all-powerful National Post. "The political right critiqued coverage of last week's release for emphasizing individual rather than family income and for not capturing the tax-and-transfer system's equalizing effects."Weir then laid a charge, and then withdrew it. "It's almost as though Statistics Canada has responded to pressure from the National Post (or perhaps the Prime Minister's Office). In the...
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This article in the red star would be amusing , if it wasn't so scary. The authour claimsthere was a time we all loved taxes and aspired to some socialist utopia. In these tax-loathing, reactionary times, they're a necessary evilMar 30, 2008 04:30 AMCHRISTOPHER HUME In a perfect world, there would be no need for public-private partnerships. Government would have all the money it needs to pay for all we need, and everyone would be living happily ever after.In the real world, however, government is chronically short of funds and we, the voters, aided and abetted by the media, would rather not pay the taxes we should. And so we elect leaders who tell us what we want to hear even when we know it's a lie.And in these conservative times, not only are tax rates under fire; so is the very idea of...
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Published in The Varsity on February 28. To many Cubans, Fidel Castro is the father of their country, a strong, charismatic leader who overthrew the shackles of the corrupt Batista regime of the 1950s and ended American control over the island. To parts of the developing world, he is a symbol of self-government and justice in opposition to political and economic imperialism. Cuban troops and military aid have flowed to revolutionary movements from Angola to Nicaragua. Cuba has sent doctors and other professionals around the world to provide social services in regions that desperately need them. Even in the developed world, Castro has been the darling of the political left, helping to assuage the guilt for enjoying the fruits of an unjust world economy.Since his retirement last Tuesday,...
Tyler Cowen is always a pleasure to read:A simple checklist would start with the question of whether an apologist has visited both the Dominican Republic and Cuba. And a non-communist Cuba could have done much better than the DR. It is a fascinating place for visitors, but right now the quality of life in Cuba isn't close to that of the DR or for that matter Honduras, the second-biggest Latino mess in the hemisphere. While we're at it, let's not forget northern Mexico or even central Mexico. It's time to stop apologizing for communist dictatorships; are you really so taken with the idea of confiscating property as to overlook decades of tyranny, impoverishment, and human misery? Yes I am familiar with the UN social indicators; I say you need to visit each of these countries, preferably...