No matter which country in the world you live in, the next time you hear government officials or public sector unions or special interest groups demanding more & more of your tax dollars, think back to when you listened to this. It’s an excerpt from the documentary, The Cartel, about the low performance of New Jersey public school students and the waste, and outright theft, of billions of dollars. Filmmaker Bob Bowdon carefully goes through example after example of corruption and incompetence and unaccountability.
Dismissing this as “only happening in the U.S.” or “only happening in New Jersey” is fine . . . if you’re an ostrich who prefers keeping his head buried in the sand. But for those who prefer to deal in reality, it provides a crystal clear example of the deep seated systemic problems with a bloated, unaccountable public sector, such as exists in every single jurisdiction in Canada.

For union leaders, that is. In New York State a health care union has to start charging 35,000 members a fee of $1,560 per year or else their health care plan will go broke. Here’s a snippet:

The FHP Employer Buy-in program was launched in 2008 under New York’s Partnership for Coverage initiative, the state’s road map for providing health coverage to 2.6 million uninsured residents . . . At the time, it was considered a model for other unions or employers. The state Department of Health opened the FHP Employer Buy-in program to all employers and unions in late 2009.

When will everyone realize that [essentially] unlimited demand and limited supply guarantees failure?

If asked at a dinner party in front of strangers, many Canadians would likely think twice before saying they disagree with Official Multiculturalism in Canada. Failure to answer that question “correctly” might very well cause a bullseye to be drawn on one’s forehead, followed by a series of “Racist” barbs soon after.
Stepping back a moment though, when someone says they support “multiculturalism”, what exactly are they actually stating they believe in? Many undoubtedly think they’re affirming “support for multiple ethnicities in Canada”. But that’s not what multiculturalism means whatsoever!
Official Multiculturalism proponents in our country firmly believe that all cultures around the world are exactly the same; no better or worse than Canadian culture. Furthermore, anyone who does not believe this baseline premise is tarred & feathered with any number of pejoratives such as: Racist, Bigot, Xenophobe, etc.
I, for one, think such Multicultural views are absolute nonsense. Turns out that some immigrants do too. In fact, some moving to our country don’t appreciate our federal government trying to guide them into the sub-culture of their homeland and much prefer being an unhyphenated Canadian.
This past weekend I had the great honour of being a guest on Roy Green’s radio program, along with two ladies, Carmen & Sara, who left Egypt to move here, plus a regular guest on the show, William Gairdner. You can listen to the entire segment here.