This powerful comment, by SDA regular Ken Kulak, was read by Charles Adler on his radio program today:
Well said Charles.
Like Charles’s family, both my wife’s and my came here for freedom and never mooched a dime of taxpayers money. Some had enough funds to pay their passage to Canada and some had travel debt owing Canadian Pacific. Some even lived in granaries in the late 1920s and early 1930s with rats running over the bunks, but never took a dime from the taxpayer. They were just grateful to be in a free country. They did not get on their feet until enough children were old enough to work on farms to help provide. They never took a dime from the taxpayer. Some of the children fought in WW II, some of the older ones had rented and then bought farms. Others worked in factories. A few of the real young ones went to university. By the 1950s all children and grandchildren were successful members of society in various occupations or business. None ever took welfare.
Sorry to go on, but I get so sick of the entitlement mentality that is so pervasive these days, especially when it touted by a lying political party whose radical members with veiled values that would put us back to the hell hole that we came from.
I repeat, well said Charles and repeat what John said @ 3:29, God Bless Canada and Canada is the best country in the world.
ET has a remarkable grasp of the workings of the various farm programs.
Et don’t know her arse hairs from celery shreds as far as farm programs go, or farming for that matter. She’s only regurgitating what google told her.
Farming is no different from any other business. Most prairie grain is for export. It is just another commodity.
Back in the 80’s there was a program called Nisa, wherein every dollar put in by the farmer was matched by the gov’t(taxpayer) with the gov’t paying a 4 percent bonus interest rate to boot. If that ain’t welfare, I don’t know what is.
Wonder what kulak sucked out of the taxpayer on that scam?
Now in the early 90’s when farmers were blocking highways and occupying legislatures it was revealed that there was over 2 billion dollars socked away in Nisa accounts while welfare bum farmers were blocking the roads demanding more handouts.
That egregious program was revived recently under the AgriInvest moniker.
What does it have to do with farming? Not a thing. Just welfare for welfare bums. Same with subsidized auto insurance. Subsidized fuel. Preferential tax treatment.
All for rural welfare bums that cost all Saskatchewan families over $2000.00 every year.
And Et, I know many farmers who make $80,000.00 plus in off farm income. Grain farming is a part time endeavor.
You don’t have a clue.
@ Black Mamba, you said “his regiment surrendered to the Italians (I know, right?)”. Don’t be ashamed, as many Austro-Hungarian Empire troops were conscripted men from ethnic minorities within the periphery of the empire who felt no loyalty to the Hapsburg monarchy of Franz Joseph and deserted or surrendered to the Russians or Italians as soon as possible.
In fact, 40 to 50 thousand Czech (also Austro-Hungarian troops) prisoners of war and deserters were formed into an army which fought for Czar Nicholas II in what is now Ukraine and in the area you mention and after the Bolshevik took power helped the Whites for a while in Siberia. They were in the villages where my paternal grandparents lived for a while in 1919.
The survivors of the Czech Legion later were repatriated through Vladivostok to the now free country of Czechoslovakia and formed the nucleus of the country’s army.
“Because communism never really worked out so well.” That is an understatement by far.
Ken – not remotely ashamed. My teenaged grandfather had no reason to die for the Kaiser.
ET, look up “obtuse” in the dictionary…there is a picture of you next to it.
Black Mamba – Your Baba left the Ukrainian Orthodox or Catholic Church and converted to Baptists on a pier? Whew, talk about cultural shock! To each their own when it comes to religion, but that must have caused some whip-lash, I should think!