29 Replies to “Not that it matters”

  3. Free the market.
    I don’t understand why healthcare dollars aren’t portable in Canada. If hospitals never got a cent unless they treated a patient they would be falling over themselves to provide good service. Same with schools. If the parents controlled the dollars, they would also control the agenda.
    Even with universities, instead of giving a $10,000 grant to the university up front, give the same grant to whatever university the student attends. If a low cost school charges no additional tuition, the kid gets a free education. That would be good.

  4. That would make it easier to know exactly what these services are costing us instead of being buried in general revenues and debt – which is why they don’t like that idea.

  5. The next U.S. president will be, without question, a Republican. The question then is: which candidate fits the times we live in?
    I like Scott Walker, too. If Walker was a breed of dog he would be a Labrador Retriever. A beautiful dog, nice, safe, dependable, won’t bite the neighbours or the kids. But, answering my own previous question: Is he the right man for the times?
    Personally, I like Trump. But he’s no Lab. He’s a risky choice, no question about that. He’s just as liable to bite someone as not. However, Americans have been ravaged by wolves for the past seven years, and knowing the damage they have already caused, I think Americans would be better off with a pit bull between them and the enemy.
    Trump’s story is a tremendous success story about getting things done. But, part of the risk is that he is politically inexperienced. For those of you who are old enough to remember: Walker is like Bradley and Trump is like Patton. The former was a superb administrator; the latter was a superb battle field commander – even though he was often an embarrassment.
    It all comes down to these questions: How do the voters appraise the times? Is Trump worth the risk?

  6. The private system in America has one huge problem. The Health Insurers are notoriously corrupt. They don’t pay all the Claims & the “insurer of last resort” is the individual.
    They will habitually reject the first application of a claim, without a valid cause, hoping claimants will not re-submit or seek legal advise. Sleaze operators.
    The Government could enforce the operating ethics of the Health Insurance industry by monitoring performance standards and requiring a posted “Bond” that provides a “Insurer of last resort” fund…Much like Bank Deposits & Auto Insurance.

  7. “They will habitually reject the first application of a claim, without a valid cause, hoping claimants will not re-submit or seek legal advise.”
    Sounds like WCB in Alberta.

  8. Unless the den opponent is truly unelectable – iow someone other than Hillary – walker has almost zero chance of becoming potus:
    Can’t deliver his home state
    Boring in the same way Paul Ryan is boring
    Not from Ohio or Florida.
    And if the dem non isn’t Hillary the GOP will have far more freedom to nominate the candidate it wants – a more conservative option. And that likely means Cruz.

  9. Gov Walker has a great performance record as a hard working politician dealing
    with the tough dirty issues plus being thoroughly hated by the left which is also
    good. What seems incomprehensible is none of them seem to be ready to push a
    national/state sales tax regime like those of all other advanced industrial nations.
    This means that low or no tariff foreign goods from abroad enter the US and compete
    with American manufactured products which must pay a fed manufacturers tax.
    A VAT tax applied to almost all goods at point of sale would certainly be a help to
    even things out and provide a huge revenue backstop to any new health care plan.

  10. It’s one thing to praise someone for his record of “getting things done”, but it’s quite another to consider what things he has managed to get done. When one considers Mr Trump’s many accomplishments, it is clear that he has become much richer for it; it is far less clear that America has become richer for it.

  11. Gord tulk Walker can’t deliver his home state.
    Scott Walker has been elected governor THREE times in Wisconsin, even though the gov’t unions and the teacher’s unions were rabidly against him.
    He has lowered the taxes and pushed successfully for school choice and CHARTER schools.
    He has delivered on his promises.
    He may not be flashy, but he gets things done.

  12. Still won’t deliver it. He won th governorship by slim margins and the voter turnout for potus is far higher – read: leans more democratic – than it is for governor.
    Meanwhile essential states like Ohio – kasich won every district except one – and fla – both bush and Rubio would carry the state easily has candidates that will carry them.
    If the race is competitive – Hillary is the nom – all that matters are three states – fl oh and co. the ticket will Have kasich paired with either Rubio or bush.
    The outsider – trump has a ceiling – about 25% – that he has reached. As the campaign arcs towards more in-depth discussion of the issues he will weaken. His fringe position on the fourteenth amendment is already hurting him.
    Walker is a worthy candidate. But it’s not his time. The potus whoever he is should appoint him to lead the repeal of obamacare and the introduction of the reforms that will replace it. That would be the perfect springboard for a 2024 candidacy.

  13. Allowing interstate completion would solve that problem. Currently it’s 50 virtual monopolies operating in the U.S.

  14. Trump, Cruz, Walker, Paul, Fiorina. one of those will be the next president of the united states of america.
    Choose wisely myself i am in Trumps camp he is his own person, no one controls his message, and he is a shrude business man and THAT is exactly what america needs.
    Someone who will negotiate from a position of power on all things not just jobs and economics but from hostages, to muslims. Someone who is not afraid to spill SOMEONE ELSES blood and money for once. someone who will defend america and american intrests.
    I know he is a donor to this and that but he is literally crushing the media elite he is eating hillary’s lunch. he is controlling the narrative not the media. Here is proof!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKuYhKanao
    Something so simple so blah but yet i cant see anyone else responding like this.

  15. Campaigning that you will bring in a GST is political suicide. I should think that to be pretty obvious.
    A GST would be a federal tax on every transaction in the U.S. Americans are fed up with the amount of federal involvement in their lives already and you want it even moreso?

  16. I would love to see a Walker/Rubio ticket.
    Walker:
    He used to work at McDonald’s so he’s got an understanding of every day people’s lives. He’s tough as nails. He has showed he can win and he doesn’t ever make mistakes on the campaign trail and in the governor’s seat (ala Mitt Romney 47%). He has all the right policies and is considered a solid conservative and solid small-govt. I think his policies can help him take Ohio, he can get the voters that Kasich can, and that Romney could not.
    Rubio:
    Best orator out there. Can deliver Florida. Solid voice for freedom. Has an appeal to Latinos. Also has showed he doesn’t make mistakes on the campaign trail.
    Other than those guys, I would love to see Cruz and Paul (although Paul cannot win the nomination). I don’t want to see Bush, Carson, Fiorina, Trump. I especially don’t want to see Bush. Kasich can deliver Ohio. But if Kasich can, so can Walker.

  17. I like that ticket as well.
    What a novel concept to have a campaign of ideas rather than image. Walker has delivered at the state level and Rubio is highly likely to be POTUS one day as well.
    Even with the poll success of Trump, Americans do discuss issues in a semi serious
    manner at some point. By contrast the Canadian election campaign leaves much to be
    desired.
    Perhaps as the world economy collapses, progressive spending and thusly debt, will come
    home to roost and they will be held to account.

  18. Maybe,but there’s plenty of “question”. Remember how in 2008, most Canadian conservative bloggers were convinced it was going to be McCain/Palin, and then in 2012,all Canadian conservative bloggers predicted a Romney/Ryan WH?
    Didn’t happen,and I doubt any of the above posted Republicans are about to win this time around either. Donald Trump has successfully hijacked the GOP campaign,and will hold the media in thrall until the inevitable day he is defeated by the GOP establishment,who hate everything about him. But the damage to the GOP brand will have been done,and fatal.
    Meanwhile,back at the Democrat Ranch, Hillary has lost precisely NO voters of the 30% or so who will vote Democrat despite any negative on their candidate.
    Republicans are swayed by revelations, truth and logic,and will toss a candidate if they perceive his unsuitability, the Democrats,like our Canadian Liberal foundation, will never admit they were wrong in choosing their candidate. Never.
    Hillary in 2016.If she’s really on the ball,she’ll ask Michelle Obama to run as her VP, but then she’d have to watch her back and hire a food taster for the next 4 years.

  19. “Hillary in 2016.”
    You kidder. I thought for a moment you meant she will win the presidency. Ha, ha. Good joke. But, of course, you meant by “in” that she will be “in” jail.
    As for other comments:
    Gordon Tulk: “Fringe position on the 14th amendment”? Tell that to Mark Levin, Jeff Sessions, Andrew C. McCarthy and, even, Ted Cruz himself, and others.
    “The outsider – trump has a ceiling – about 25% – that he has reached.” According to today’s Breitbart poll Trump is already in the 30%+ range and climbing.
    Roseberry: “it is clear that he [Trump] has become much richer for it; it is far less clear that America has become richer for it.” Does paying hundreds of millions in taxes and creating tens of thousands of man years of work count for nothing?
    As an aside to the above: I like Ted Cruz a lot. I believe there is a Trump, Cruz, Fiorina axis that has yet to be revealed. Cruz and Trump confer regularly. Cruz’s PAC recently donated 500K to Fiorina’s PAC.
    I report, you decide. 🙂

  20. I hope Trump doesn’t win the nomination. But he does one thing that is a big help for the GOP – he brings eyes and ears to the debates. People who wouldn’t necessarily watch debates. Even if they are watching just for the specatcle that is Trump, there is the possibility they may pick up on something the MSM wouldn’t show. The GOP isn’t as “scary” as has been reported over the years.

  21. I like Walker,Cruz, Rubio,Fiorina,Carson, any combination for Prez/VP, but will be astounded,amazed,and dazed and confused if Hillary doesn’t manage to slide outta the trouble she’s in NOW,with 14 months to go until the election.Her constituents have VERY short memories,and the rest of Americans are not much better (or Canadians for that matter).
    It would make my heart sing high opry to see the wicked w/b/itch of the USA,Hillary Clinton, the worst psychopath to ever run for Prez,and I include Obama in that mix, convicted and actually be sent to prison.
    But then Obama would just pardon her after next November.

  23. I like that ticket as well, but also like Fiorina and Cruz. We know what they stand for. Carson seems to have an anti-firearms side to him. However as we have seen lately, pizzazz like Trump might carry even though his conservative credentials are suspect.

  25. This is the same Scott Walker who went to Canada and joked about how he could drink the water there? That Scott Walker? Just checking. Oh, and the one who has restricted press availability since he blew a photo-op with David Cameron? Walker and his consultants would be creamed in a national election, just as in 2012. The Romney (I mean, Walker) campaign has done an excellent job, like Romney did, of planting these types of articles in the conservative press that purport to be analysis but are actually pure campaigning. Sorry, but I have seen too many Romney fundraisers switching immediately to Walker right after Romney announced he wasn’t running, using almost identical language as they did in 2008 in announcing their support for Romney. Caveat emptor.
    On the substance of the piece, I’m against Obamacare, too, but let’s be honest: HSAs help the financial services industry. Even the Wall Street Journal noted that one has to make something like $130,000 for an HDHP to be worth it. Note, too, in the article, the implicit contradiction between saying the plan “would repeal every last word of President Obama’s signature legislation” and that it “will help pave the way to full repeal.” Which is it? There are some other policy issues here, too, but I won’t bore people with them.

  26. The corupt to the core unions poose anyone who suports the Right to Work becuase it means a worker can hold a job without having to belong to some union and pay union dues

  27. Trump is the antidote to the “YOU didn’t build that!” Democratic Party campaign (Obama, Warren and other rabid Marxists.)
    Trump is a PR marvel, a BIG New York and America booster, a champion of veterans, his kids respect him and appear to have good values (“no cigarettes, no drugs, no alcohol and no tattoos!” – Trump), he is a philanthropist (skating rink in Central Park) and most of all, he recognizes the key issues that hit Americans where they live. As opposed to Obama, who is rushing the clock to get the job done, THOROUGHLY, before this term is up, according to Valarie Jarrett…”fundamental transformation” of the USA, Trump is an American patriot. He wants to build UP, not knock down.

  28. If you like Scott Walker, your brain is broken. There’s more to being president than your dislike of Obama care.

  29. First off, those who talk about the theory of electioneering just lose me. They are the same folks who ignored Trump from the beginning. I don’t trust them a bit for multiple reasons.
    I am, at present, a Cruz supporter; but I am very close to becoming a Trump supporter. He is attacking the number one issue right now, immigration. Read Ann Coulter’s book and you may end up agreeing with me.
    None of the other candidates are attacking this issue like Trump.
    Still, Trump needs more meat to his platform before he gets my support.
    Something smells fishy about the opposition to Trump coming from establishment Republicans. It brings out the nasty conspiracy nut in me. I REALLY LIKE the fact that Trump owes NOBODY in politics ANYTHING. The only one telling Trump what to do is Trump – and, hopefully, the average US voter.

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