Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night open music show, here are The Clovers performing Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash (3:19).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
If the Iggy attack ads are out of context, please put them in context.
I won’t hold my breath.
The U.K. government is printing money at a rate equivalent to 65% of their annual government budget. The author of the article pointed out that this is a greater percentage than what was seen in the Weimar Republic.
Bathroom Boy* is scouring the stalls again for “evidence”.
I-Iggy’s BB says, flushingly, he has a nooseful.
(NNW)
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“NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND KENNEY’S NECK?(sic)
*Kinsella: We have the fascinating postings below, taken from a “nanny” chatroom. They’re very interesting – particularly, I think, the degree to which Kenney worker Melissa Bhagat was involved in coordinating attacks on Dhalla and two provincial cabinet ministers.”
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*Warren Kinsella has taken to snapping pictures of graffiti in washrooms to illustrate the need for s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
I suspect Warren and I might agree the little shit who scrawled this deserves a spanking or, if he is a bit older, a few well aimed punches from his more enlightened team mates not to mention an hour or two scrubbing out every stall in the bathroom to remove every bit of graffiti which is what a coach of mine demanded when I simply drew a mildly naughty picture on a wall.”
“A Wide Stance”
http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/a-wide-stance/
DON’T BLAME IT ON THE ECONOMY
Out-of-control spending is the real culprit
Terence Corcoran, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Earlier this year, National Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn launched an advertising campaign to promote the Conservatives’ various tax credits, including the $1,350 home renovation tax credit, also known in some circles as the Home Depot bailout.
The message was that Ottawa had created all these great tax deals that stimulate the economy and put cash in pockets. The ad slogan was: “You’ve earned it. Claim it.”
News that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is projecting a budget deficit this year of “more than” $50-billion suggests Ottawa needs a new advertising campaign and some fresh language to bring the message up to current fiscal conditions.
Recommended new slogan: “We’ve borrowed it. Now you pay for it.”
There are roughly 18 million income-tax filers in Canada, which means Mr. Flaherty’s new deficit will put the average Canadian taxpayer about $2,700 deeper in hock by the end of this fiscal year. Add in the deficits running up in places such as Ontario, and the total average debt load per income-tax filer could run to $5,000.
That’s a lot to pay for the thrill of “stimulating” the economy.
How many Canadians will get $5,000 worth of benefit out of what is quickly becoming a major national extravaganza of spending and borrowing? Canadians who spent $1,350 on home reno materials this year will be in debt for three times that amount….”
Stimulating, isn’t it?
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=f98a4010-9f7e-46c9-aa18-bc05674b610b
DON’T BLAME IT ON THE ECONOMY
Out-of-control spending is the real culprit
Terence Corcoran, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Earlier this year, National Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn launched an advertising campaign to promote the Conservatives’ various tax credits, including the $1,350 home renovation tax credit, also known in some circles as the Home Depot bailout.
The message was that Ottawa had created all these great tax deals that stimulate the economy and put cash in pockets. The ad slogan was: “You’ve earned it. Claim it.”
News that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is projecting a budget deficit this year of “more than” $50-billion suggests Ottawa needs a new advertising campaign and some fresh language to bring the message up to current fiscal conditions.
Recommended new slogan: “We’ve borrowed it. Now you pay for it.”
There are roughly 18 million income-tax filers in Canada, which means Mr. Flaherty’s new deficit will put the average Canadian taxpayer about $2,700 deeper in hock by the end of this fiscal year. Add in the deficits running up in places such as Ontario, and the total average debt load per income-tax filer could run to $5,000.
That’s a lot to pay for the thrill of “stimulating” the economy.
How many Canadians will get $5,000 worth of benefit out of what is quickly becoming a major national extravaganza of spending and borrowing? Canadians who spent $1,350 on home reno materials this year will be in debt for three times that amount….”
Stimulating, isn’t it?
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists
RE: LIBERAL SUPPORT FROM CBC AND RADIO CANADA:
A word of caution. While it’s no secret that the CBC and Radio Canada are in bed together, be extremly cautions about going on CBC.CA.
Your comments are voted on by the viewers, given a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” As is often the case, the use of multiple computers can allow a viewer to cast several votes. Liberals watching this popular site tend to get too much wind in their sails. My advice to my right wing extremist friends–don’t turn your back in the Liberals! The same applies to “online surveys.”
Celebs who lean right: a photospread of people whose movies/tv/CD/sports stuff to buy.
Some of the names surprised me.
http://cbs11tv.com/slideshows/Conservative.Celebrities.republican.20.828253.html
“Canadians who spent $1,350 on home reno materials this year will be in debt for three times that amount….”
~hardboiled at May 27, 2009 12:31 PM
You have to spend $9000 on home reno or materials to get the $1,350 tax kickback.
If you spend less than $9K, you get less of a kickback.
The kickback is 15% of what the home owner spends on reno or materials up to a total of $1,350 if you spend $9000.
It’s a spending incentive to help kickstart the economy.
O’Narcissist*: It’s here in black and white.
“This is his [Obama’s] sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”*
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“SHOCK! News Media Shows Black Woman Criticizing Obama While Praising Pres. Bush
Video Report here
In a rare episode of the mainstream media reporting on citizen frustration with Barack Obama, Central Florida News 13 broadcast footage of a young black woman praising former President George W. Bush for his response to Hurricane Katrina while sandblasting Barack Obama for his failure to respond to disastrous flooding in Volusia County, Florida.
Volusia County, which includes world famous Daytona Beach, was devastated by several feet of rain which fell within a few days last week from a weather system that parked itself over Florida and drenched the state with drought-ending storms.
Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who has become Obama’s BFF since the November election, has asked Obama to declare parts of the state a federal disaster area to start the flow of disaster aid.
Obama has ignored Crist’s appeal. The situation is reminiscient of Obama’s slow respone to widespread ice storms in Kentucky shortly after his inauguration.
Flood victim Shannon Jackson was shown in the CFNews 13 report by Mark Jenkins that aired yesterday evening voicing her complaints directly to Obama:
“Even, um…they had a lot to say about George Bush, but at least George Bush was on the scene during Hurricane Katrina when everything was going down, you know?
“So therefore if he wasn’t going to declare a disaster area so we could get immediate action then he should at least come and show his face so he could see for himself what we’re going through.
“Cuz we would like to see you after everybody campaigned for Obama and worked so hard to get Obama in the chair. You got to do something.”
According to CFNews 13, an estimated 1500 homes were damaged in the flooding. There are growing concerns for mold and mosquito-borne encephalitis in the wake of the flooding.
FEMA has not been activated by Obama yet.
Alternate indirect link to video. Choose story entitled Crist Talks With Flood Victims”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259174/posts
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*”The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/71124
Cut off a man’s head and then be secretly released into public less than a year later.
Only in Canada đ
Robert, read the laws – it’s all there. The criminals have rights, while the victims do not. Isn’t that so obvious, for example from the press release of Peel police that I linked above – the 19 year old gangster’s identity will be protected under YOA!!! He may be walking around the playground where my children are playing and I am having no clue. Puke at Canadian justice!
GG Jean and her Haitian Voodoo* ritual.
“Their services include symbolic or actual rituals of sacrifice and consumption of flesh and blood,*”
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“GG crossed line with seal-snacking incident, British critic says
CBC.ca – â2 hours agoâ
Gov. Gen. MichaĂ«lle Jean sparked an international controversy by cutting out part of a seal’s heart and swallowing it raw.”
http://news.google.ca/
*”Haiti: Possessed by Voodoo”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0707_040707_tvtaboovoodoo_2.html
This poll could easily go terribly wrong:
http://www.globecampus.ca/poll/are-social-sciences-and-arts-being-underfunded/
Less than zero
By Andrew Coyne – Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Great news! After many years, sales of Bombardierâs much-vaunted â and much-more-subsidized â C-Series regional passenger jet are finally off the ground, with Lufthansa finally commiting to buy the first 30 of the planes.
So letâs see. Governments have put, what is it, $780-million into the project? That means as of now Bombardier is into the taxpayer for roughly $26-million per plane sold, or just over half the sticker price. But itâs all right: itâs a ârepayable loan.â Bombardier only needs to sell several hundred of the things and we get all of our money back, ie we earn a zero per cent rate of return. Until that day, weâre in negative territory.
So itâs not quite true, even now, to say that Lufthansa has âboughtâ 30 jets from Bombardier. More like: the taxpayers of Canada have paid Lufthansa to take them. And Lufthansa has, after much deliberation, accepted.
The end of Canadian conservatism
How Harper sold out to save himself
Say what you like about the Tories: they donât do things by halves. When they spend, they spend. When they go into debt, they do it $100 billion at a time. And when they decide to finish off what remains of conservatism in Canadaâas a movement, as a philosophyâthey go out with a bang.
We can safely say that the strategy of âincrementalism,â at least, is a thing of the past. With this weekâs historic budget, the Conservativesâ already headlong retreat from principle has become a routâa great final leap into the void. Understand: there will be no going back from this, for the party or for the country. Whatever the budgetâs soothing talk of âtemporaryâ this and âextraordinaryâ that, and for all its well-mannered charts showing spending obediently returning to its pen, deficits meekly subsiding, multi-billion-dollar âinvestmentsâ repaid in full, we are in fact headed somewhere we have never been before. We are on course toward a massive and permanent increase in the size and scope of government: record spending, sky-high borrowing, andâultimately, inevitablyâhigher taxes. And all this before the first of the baby boomers have had a chance to retire.
Whether it will prove the countryâs undoing, and not just conservativesâ, will depend upon events. In its simplest terms, the budget is a âstimulus packageâ that spills money every which way: $12 billion over two years for infrastructure; almost $8 billion meant to kick-start housing and construction; billions more in forestry, auto and manufacturing aid. The much feared broad-based income tax cuts amounted to lifting the income threshold for the middle and lower brackets. If everything the budget foretells comes to pass, we might not come out of it too badly. A $34-billion deficit next year, after all, is barely two per cent of GDP, and even four years and $85 billion worth of deficits, if the budgetâs projections hold, would barely budge our debt-to-GDP ratio. But if they do notâif the economy fails to recover on cue; if inflation spikes when it does, and interest rates soon after; if all those billions in new spending, once in place, do not prove so easy to trim back; if the assets the government acquires with all of its borrowed money do not turn out to be worth what they costâthen we will head into the approaching demographic storm loaded down to the gunwales. Itâs a monumental, even reckless gamble….”
Read it all Oz…stimulus? Heh, heh. And the estimates (until 2013, tentatively of course) are now revealed as 25% too low. Stimulus? Heh. Depends who you are stimulating, no?
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/01/29/the-right-in-full-retreat/
Liberal ally praises Minister Flaherty’s moves:
“… the move represents a “positive development,” said Don Drummond, chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, as it provides further options for Canadians in the tail end of their working careers. He said pension arrangements have been an impediment for those looking to reduce work hours or shift to part-time, because of the hit they would sustain to benefits earned.”
A Conservative government at work with conservative principles at the forefront.
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“Ottawa to allow working people to draw CPP cheques
OTTAWA — The federal government said Monday it is going to allow Canadians to work and draw on their Canada Pension Plan benefits at the same time – a move that analysts described as a “sea-change” in pension policy.
The move was announced following a meeting between the federal Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, and his provincial counterparts, in which pension issues emerged as a significant issue.
Analysts say the changes proposed to CPP indicate policy makers are serious about the need to revamp Canada’s retirement-income scheme. “The more flexibility you build into pension arrangements, the better,” said Jack Mintz, public policy professor at the University of Calgary.”
urlm.in/cnhe (more)
hardboiled at May 27, 2009 3:08 PM,
I’m curious as to why you want me to read something that Andrew Coyne wrote on January 29 2009, serveral months before the present budget was passed?
It’s all past speculation and not altogether germaine considering where we are today and what the budget contained.
correction on the day the budget was passed.
More broadly, how in good conscience could the Liberals, or the NDP for that matter, vote against a budget they might have written?
~Coyne
Coyne has just made perfection the enemy of the good in this article you refer to.
It’s hardly “The end of Canadian conservatism”.
You fight the battles you can win.
Politics is the art of the possible.
~Bismarck
Wow.
Say tell me Oz, when exactly was the current budget introduced, and when was it subsequently passed by Parliament?
You can probably figure the rest of your question out from there. Or not.
Ignorance is bliss, no?
Ha, beat ya to the correction.
Posted by: Oz at May 27, 2009 4:33 PM
Wow^2.
So, if the ‘conservative’ party introduces a budget that could have been written line by line by the NDP or Libranos, it’s for the greater good?
I honestly don’t understand why Red Tory’s aren’t more comfortable in the Liberal party. I mean, honestly….
“Ottawa to allow working people to draw CPP cheques…”
Anyone ever try to live on only your CPP?
Ha, beat ya to the correction.
Posted by: Oz at May 27, 2009 4:38 PM
You did. Retraction of date question underway. Since you’re in quote mode….
I want to die a slave to principles, not to men. – Emiliano Zapata Salazar
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees – JosĂ© MartĂ
Well hardboiled, let’s look at this Harper quote from yesterday:
What we are not going to do is, every two or three months, come up with another economic policy, another budget until we need to raise taxes.
That was a dig against the Liberals.
Why?
Because the last Liberal government, the Paul Martin government, passed “mini-budgets” every “two or three months” because they didn’t stick to a BUDGET at ALL.
You see Harper may have passed at ” budget that could have been written line by line by the NDP or Liberals” but the difference is integrity.
The Conservatives are sticking to their budget, which is what having a budget means.
Changing the plan and passing “mini-budgets” like the Liberals did is the same as NOT having ANY budget at all.
Go ahead and die already, hardboiled.
Hope it works for ya.
By the bye, Latins are such drama queens.
So, Harper passing a budget that could have been written by the NDP and/or Liberals is “integrity”.
$120B in deficits (proj. through 2013 est) is for the greater good, and has integrity.
I’ll have to look that up.
btw – the quotes are simply ones I like, they weren’t in reference to our discussion per se.
I don’t think wishing death upon others is good form.
No, hardboiled, integrity is sticking to your proposed plan.
The Liberals/NDP could have written it….they just wouldn’t have had the integrity to stick to it.
Integrity is also believing in the quotes you make.
To be is to do.
~Socrates
To be or not to be.
~Shakespeare
Do be do be doo.
~Frank Sinatra
8^D
âWe’ll do what we have to do, so long as we remain economically prudent. We’re sure not going to run a deficit … We will maintain a surplus in Canada and we will continue to pay down debt.â
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty – October 8th, 2008
(addendum: Asked if running even a small deficit would be bad in these difficult times, Mr. Flaherty said flatly: âYes, it would be.â)
Indeed.
I agree.
Running a deficit is bad.
Would there be any way for any political party to run Canada at this time in these unforseen economic circumstances we are in without going into deficit?
No.
Say what you like about the Tories: they donât do things by halves. When they spend, they spend. When they go into debt, they do it $100 billion at a time. And when they decide to finish off what remains of conservatism in Canada â as a movement, as a philosophyâthey go out with a bang
Andrew Coyne, January 29, 2009
Do any of the liberal supporters remember blasting the gov’t endlessly for not spending enough to stimulate the economy?— This is simple,if you spend what you do not have,you end up in the hole. If you spend even more,you end up in a bigger hole. The libs and the ndp wanted the bigger hole,so STFU,the liberals would have given us the bigger hole.
If wishes were horses then beggers would ride.
Coyne, an Ontarian, wouldn’t know Conservatism if it bit him on the lip.
Conservatism in Canada isn’t dead.
Take it from a card carrying Alberta Reform Party member.
If we Albertans get tired of Stephen Harper or the CPC we’ll either build a new Conservative Party or a new nation that will be Conservative, in which case Coyne will actually be right, Canadian Conservatism will be dead if Alberta builds the new nation ’cause there won’t be any Canada.
We’re sure not going to run a deficit … We will maintain a surplus in Canada and we will continue to pay down debt.â
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty – October 8th, 2008
…On Wednesday, the finance minister again said that the government would not try to manipulate the numbers or take “cute steps” to stay in a surplus during these challenging times.
“So that may mean that we will run a deficit next year,” he said.
November 12, 2008
“Relatively speaking this is a mild economic recession. â – Flaherty, April 3, 2009
”We’re in the middle of a serious recessionâ – Flaherty, April 8, 2009
“When we published the budget at the end of January this year — the earliest budget in modern Canadian history — we laid out what the private-sector economists said was going to happen, and then we discounted that, because we, quite frankly, thought they were being a bit optimistic about what might happen,” Flaherty said. – April 11, 2009
“We will run a (substantial) short-term deficit this year which I would estimate at more than $50 billion,” Flaherty said. – May 26, 2009
Integrity is also believing in the quotes you make.
Oz, May 27, 2009
Say Oz, which one should we/he pick to believe? Unforseen economic circumstances?
From November 2008:
I present this Statement at a time of unprecedented deterioration in economic and financial systems around the world. Without a doubt, here in Canada and around the world, these are difficult times that will require difficult choices.
It is important to recognize just how quickly things have changed, Mr. Speaker, and how dramatically – Flaherty, Fall Economic Statement, Nov 27, 2008
Reform? You? I didn’t know there was a Progressive Reform branch in that Party…
“Relatively speaking this is a mild economic recession.” – Flaherty, April 3, 2009
Relative to what?
The Great Depression, that’s what.
“We’re in the middle of a serious recession” – Flaherty, April 8, 2009
So it’s a mild recession, relative to the Great Depression, and it’s a serious recession.
Yes, the private sector is still overly optimistic.
Did you know there are 600,000 foreclosed houses in the U.S. that the banks are hiding from the market? Did you know that 3 out of 5 homes that are being foreclosed on, right now, are not sub-prime mortgage homes but prime mortgages that are in arrears because they home owners are unemployed?
No problem with any of it. It’s all true, and at all the same time.
Would there be any way for any political party to run Canada at this time in these unforeseen economic circumstances we are in without going into deficit?
No.
If you can’t answer this question in the affirmative and tell me the way then you’re just being obtuse and bashing the Conservatives for being pragmatic.
Would there be any way for any political party to run Canada at this time in these unforeseen economic circumstances we are in without going into deficit? Posted by: Oz at May 27, 2009 7:38 PM
My answer is no as well. EI is going to eat $15B itself in a major recession, that’s a known number. A deficit was/is inevitable.
Flaherty knew that 2 days after the Cons blew their shot at a majority – against the weakest wet-nose academic that could ever have accidentally come down the pipe.
My point is that our Little Leprechaun hasn’t had this right for 8 months. Or he wasn’t honest about what was coming.
In either case – the quotes speaks for themselves.
Now – what was that about integrity – and standing by your quotes?
More importantly – if the Leprechaun was a Librano – you, and most of SDA (aside from Ted) would be all over this guy, and the Finance Department.
Partisanship is for the weak. Free your mind. Think for yourself.
My point is that our Little Leprechaun hasn’t had this right for 8 months. Or he wasn’t honest about what was coming.~hardboiled
I’ve just demonstrated that none of the quotes you show @ May 27, 2009 6:50 PM are incorrect or conflicting.
I don’t see where Flaherty was wrong at all.
The recession is mild compared to the Great Depression, but it’s a serious recession as Flaherty says.
That covers quotes 1 & 2.
If you see a conflict between what Flaherty said in quotes 3 & 4 you’ll have to explain it to me.
I don’t see any.
Flaherty knew that [EI is going to eat $15B itself in a major recession] 2 days after the Cons blew their shot at a majority – against the weakest wet-nose academic that could ever have accidentally come down the pipe.
Where do you get that premise?
Show me.
I say you pulled it out of thin air and if you didn’t it’s just some wonk’s unsupported opinion.
If I were Prime Minister, and had a majority, I would have cut all taxes very deeply and axed many programs, then borrowed the tax revenue shortfall letting Canadians keep their money and sort out the places that the money should best be spent.
There would have been no bailouts of any kind and EI expenditures would have been only slightly above normal, except for the loss of the Union Auto makers.
Chrysler and GM are dead men walking. There won’t be any political appetite for another bailout in my lifetime and they won’t last to the end of Obama’s term anyway.
But there was no majority.
The welfare junkies in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Toronto that the Liberals created saw to that.
No welfare junkies in the Reform paradise of Alberta, right Oz? What about them plough junkies?
That’s right, philboy, there are no welfare junkies in Alberta.
Plough junkies?
Never heard of that term before.
Google search for this exact wording or phrase: plough junkies-comes up ZERO.