My last rant on government waste for at least…. a week…

Dear Liberal Party leader
Please understand that I don’t think you are stuffing your pockets with my tax dollars (anymore).

As I look around and watch you give our tax dollars to the rich (Bombardier), children who don’t pay taxes (subsidised daycare) and everyone else who is not Canadian (waiving of loans through the United Nations.)

You can’t be getting any money for yourself because we are shutting down health facilities in place of home care which is not getting any additional funding; our military is walking in old boots and flying old helicopters. All the military has are promises of help to come in the next 3 to 5 years. Sure hope the U.S. doesn’t figure out that we have oil, uranium and clean drinking water before that because we will be invaded next and Paul, just ask Sadam, about how hard they looked for those weapons of mass destruction. But I digress.

All I am asking is can you please prioritize, if your going to throw money away on something like the gun registry change it up and make it the homeless registry, so as soon as shelters come available we know where to find them.

Instead of waiving the loans to our sister countries, do what I do with my family members, I give them an interest free loan, but only if I get free food rights to their fridge, and in your case we get free mineral rights to the land. That way we can rape and pillage their land and still meet some of our Kyoto commitments, but only some.

Maybe if a country doesn’t have any real land value we call it a bad loan investment; but still demand that until they pay up, they have to make boots for our military and once we got all the boots we need start making some tents as we are still using the same crap from the 70’s. After all it was probably our peace keepers that defended their soil in the first place.

Instead of subsidised daycare, give those tax dollars back to the working public so they can afford their own daycare, and those of us who don’t have to pay for daycare luck out and get our taxes reduced from 48% to 47%. You would probably hear a cheer from Bay Street on that day. Better yet, flat tax us 20% no matter what a person earns. There are no exemptions as everyone would pay the same rate based on income, there would be fewer taxation workers, simpler audits, and happier tax payers. All I am asking is; Think about it?

Lastly, stop giving money to the big companies, if you really need to spend our money on stuff like that, to make yourself feel better, then start a program for entrepreneurs, and sink the same amount of cash into it. From this we might get fresh ideas, the little business person gets a chance to start “the next big thing” and who knows, watching all that Star Trek might spark an idea or two.

In closing, people hate paying taxes, but worse than that they hate seeing their hard earned tax dollars pissed away.

Sincerely
The Urban Druid

Money for nothing and your loans for free

Not too long ago there were students on Parliament Hill pan handling for $30,000, and $60,000 from the Canadian tax payers. Now I am hearing that the United Nations is helping countries that borrowed money from Canada, to get Canadians to forget the debt, and let them do the equivalent of going bankrupt.

When Commerce students don’t understand a concept like how loans work is one thing. A country giving away tax payers money, and then just ignoring the source in making the decision to turn loans into charity, is another.

To me it’s the equivalent of getting your friends money to offer a loan to someone else, and then say “oh forget about paying”. It’s only a loan if you can’t pay it back. Ask for charity. Don’t ask for a loan.

I see part of the problem being that people don’t want the stigma that goes with charity, just the money without the need to have to repay it.

Our government continues to give money to businesses, students, and other countries without asking us what we think because they know if we are asked we will tell them to give the money back to us, the people, who they mug with every pay check, and every purchase.

Urban Druid

Star mangled maple leaf

There are many things I don’t like about the American government. When I compare it to the Canadian government I wonder why we couldn’t have taken a few more hints from them.

As an example, this week on the CBC radio there was a piece about a California school where kids were sent back to the poor school districts.

At first I was thinking that sucks; people fought in the US in the 60’s and 70’s to ban school segregation. The president of the school board stated that during the school board elections residents who lived in the posh area wanted to reduce school taxes by limiting the students to only those who lived in that area. I still think that those people are being extremely selfish but the fact is their opinions mattered enough to make it a reality. We might think it is petty or selfish but we don’t live there and really shouldn’t get a say in how their affairs are run.

In the USA their judges are voted in, not appointed. If a soft judge lets a few career criminals off easy you can bet that after the next election they will be back working as a lawyer. Up here our judges screw up and we just look and say “hey what can you do?” We are right to do so because the buddies of the politicos, who get appointed to these positions, are in there for life.

School boards, judges, and various other important positions are voted upon. Not only positions people get to voice their opinion on important issues. During the last election a highway in Florida was voted down by the continuants a highway that both the government and industry advertised and lobbied hard for, but the people got their voice.

In Canada we get to choose from the left wing liberals, left wing conservatives or if you’re really in the mood for left wing NDP.

As far getting a voice together if someone even tries the media defines them as a capitalist crack pot.