42 Replies to “Har”

  1. “… we will cross that bridge when we get to it… or that bridge will cross itself… or something.”

    I’ve just decided I need to pick up more rum for my eggnog this Xmas, too.

    1. I picked up my eggnog ration, one litre, on Wednesday and got a new bottle of Lamb’s Navy, (750ml) last night. Normally a bottle of rum lasts me years because the onlyuse I make of it is seasonal, a teaspoon in a glass of eggnog to flavour. But depending on the next federal election I might have to invert the ratios for Christmas 2019.

      Please Santa, give us Gerald Butts caught DUI for Christmas.

  2. Canada will never have a balanced budget. Don’t matter who is running the show.

    To have a balanced budget:
    You would have to cut services.
    You would have to cut staff.
    You would have to do away with public sector unions.
    You would have to do away with defined benefit pensions.

    No one, is ever going to do that; because “that would make them unelectable” guy will pipe up.

    1. Your points are bang on. So much of the economy is driven by economic forces controlled by government. Public sector unions went after Harper in a major way in the last campaign. That said, the Harper government did not do a good enough job explaining the cost of government and why that cost had to be reduced for long term economic security.

      When the fiscal crunch comes, and it is coming quickly, the federal government of whatever stripe, will likely increase spending in a futile attempt to stimulate the economy. This is not done as a tried and true process. This is done to mask political failure and sadly as a vindication of the role government plays in the economy. If government cannot “save the day” then how can their consumption of “scarce resources” be justified? This is a philosophical divide between progressive thought(spending now) and conservative thought (deferred spending for long term gain).

      IMHO the only check left to reduce government is a fiscal collapse. Unfortunately we have had many previews of what that will look like. The most recent is what we see in Venezula right now.

      1. Turdeau will campaign on taxing the rich (the1%) and raising corporate taxes (so they pay their fair share).

        Marginal tax rates on income over $200k will reach 65%.

        A yearly wealth tax of “only” 1% for all those whose assets are more than 1 million. The campaign will say “A 1% tax on the 1% is fair and just. The rich can easily pay 1%”

        If elected we will wake up to an increase in the GST. In Europe their VAT (value added tax) rates are approx. 20%. Canada customs will collect this tax on all cross border shopping.

        I have not figured out what new freebies Turdeau will give to get votes, but free university tuition, free dental, and possibly a universal basic income come to mind.

        Just my predictions for 2019.

        Oh, I almost forgot, Turdeau will find a way to give more money to Bombardier. It will be disguised as money for aerospace research and development.

        1. A yearly wealth tax of “only” 1% for all those whose assets are more than 1 million. The campaign will say “A 1% tax on the 1% is fair and just. The rich can easily pay 1%”

          Any bets that he’ll be paying it? I think we know the answer to that one.

          Even if he pushes this through, the joke will be on him. Asset values vary with the market, so one year he and his gang of thieves will rake in more, while the next year, when prices go down, the take will be less.

          Right now, the market’s lousy, thanks to the idiotic intereste policies of Jerome Powell. I haven’t seen things this bad for 10 years and this was done on purpose. So, if Prinz Dummkopf wants to fleece someone for 1% of their net worth, he’s not going to get much.

          But, it all assumes that he and his morons in cabinet know anything about economics or, for that matter, follow the financial news. I think we know the answer to that one as well.

          1. If central banks like the FED and B of C did not exist, interest rates would be much higher with this amount of debt out there.

        2. Chretien had top combined federal/provincial rates for BC of 54%, but on half the income the latest Grits charge.

          So there’s lots of room for “tax reform.” Plus even more from greedy doctors, lawyers and home owners.

    2. To have a balanced budget, voters need to understand the danger of high debt. They don’t even understand the danger of high taxes.

    3. Right on, Kevin. Do you want the job because I would vote for someone with that platform in a heartbeat?

    4. The first step in balancing any budget, personal, household, municipal, provincial, or federal is to eliminate unnecessary expenses. The biggest unnecessary expense in the Canadian Federal budget is…..Ta-DA Foreign aid. Eight plus Billion dollars a year would go well on the road to balancing all budgets. After that how about the federal gift to maintain the propaganda machines in this country, that’s another roughly two Billion. So I’ve just saved the Canadian taxpayer ten billion in two minutes. Now lets look at the cost of our refugee saving program. We don’t know how much that is but I’ll bet Ontarians and Quebekers would be glad to save ten or twenty million each year, and as a famous Prime Minister once said “a million here and a million there, pretty soon you’re talking serious money”. How about including the money we could save on the multicultural programs that seem to propagate like dandelions on an untreated lawn, lets weed out this bi-cultural expense first, there has to be a couple of billion a year in that program. So you see some services are really just unwarranted expenses that we can all do without if it means we can balance the budget.

        1. Rather think that was back in the ’50s when Louis St Laurent was PM – I think it was in reference to C. D. Howe’s comments about the Avro Arrow project.

          It is interesting to note that Howe invoked closure on the Pipeline Debate as the Liberals of that day were in favour of same.

        2. “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”

          American Senator Everett Dirksen

      2. Take a page from Dustin’s cabin boy manifesto, to the minus-1 that is: reduce government for its own sake by reducing its take from, and thus control of taxpayers.

        By reducing government instead of services, the budget could actually balance itself.

        Wouldn’t that be deliciously ironic, along with saving the country from breakup?

  3. PM Pantsonfire will lie to his kids when they ask him why they are hiding in Quebec after the nation of Canada failed. He’ll blame Harper.

  4. When I first heard the year “2041” I thought “No, that can’t be right. The announcer must have made a verbal typo”.

    What a joke. It’s not pointless, not even rhetorical, to ask for a serious government with the Liberals around.

    1. Didn’t you know that 2041 is the new 2019…. or is it the other way around? With Prinz Dummkopf, black is white, white is black, and diversity is our strength.

  7. It was definitely the Grinch that gave Canadians this government.

    That reminds me. How can you tell when a Liberal is lying? I’m not going to tell you the answer as you should know it by now.

    2. There might be hope for Andrew yet.

      Do you think it’s because he actually changed his opinion about the subject or that he figured out which way the electoral winds might be blowing?

      After all, didn’t he craft many of his statements and comments to resemble those of Prinz Dummkopf? (“Well, if it worked for him, why not do the same and maybe it’ll work for us?”)

      Sorry, but I’m not buying it right now.

    3. trudeau said in an interview in Quebec(in French) that the government will monitor deniers.. That generally most Canadians believe in climate change, but there are a dangerous few who don’t.

      1. trudeau said in an interview in Quebec(in French) that the government will monitor deniers.. That generally most Canadians believe in climate change, but there are a dangerous few who don’t.

        Hey, Juthtin. Haven’t heard? Die Gedanken sind frei!

      2. I believe in climate change; it’s been going on for 5 billion years.

        However, I don’t believe in doing anything about it.
        Maybe when Turdeau moves to a small house complete with solar panels, rides in an electric car he buys with his own money, and stops flying (he can use video conferencing), I’ll consider it.

        The vast majority of the climate change crowd support “action” as long a it affects SOME ONE ELSE and not them.

        1. No, it takes fossil fuels to make solar panels, batteries, plastics, rubber, …

          When Trudeau and Suzuki are living in lean-tos constructed from fallen tree branches, using flint tools (because iron and steel take fossil fuels), tanning their own animal hides from animals they have hunted with flint arrow heads, making their own clothes and shoes, taming their own wild horses, making their own saddles, using fire from trees they have personally felled, and doing subsistence farming in their spare time, then I will think about following their advice.

          Until then, they can all take a flying leap. When David Suzuki cuts the electricity and gas to his own house, and lifts water out of the well he dug himself with a bucket and rope he constructed himself…

          1. living in a cave dug with a stick,wearing leaves,furs killed with same stick.. yadda,yadda,.. been saying this for a while, because otherwise , their lives are hypocritical,etc…Thank you

          2. Does St Suzuki still have three houses? Or is it four?

            It’s like Leo dicaprio renting a big yacht with two helipads so he and friends could watch the World Cup in Brazil. Ya ever fly out to your ordinary yacht and find out you couldn’t land cause some one left their helicopter on the landing pad? Better rent a bigger yacht with two helipads!

    4. Flip flop sheer

      No thanks

      Sheer equals Trudeau two

      I’m voting Max

  11. Now if Scheer, on becoming PM, would only end CBC and give its licenses to the Rebel and protect their right to speak.

    1. The only thing to offer as a campaign plank wrt the CBC is to pledge to give them the choice of retaining funding but leaving the competitive market to those that don’t, or giving up the subsidies and moving completely to a free market model. The catch is that competitive would mean anywhere a private media operator exists and any content that is provided by the private operators.
      Then add that as a government you would get free open access to the US market by allowing the US media access to ours.

      Then stand back and watch the head explosions while those that want unfettered access cheer.

  12. Breaking News !! Weak Andy 2% changes his “mind”*

    *as recommended by two out of three focus groups, 4 out of 5 consultants and the Quebec dairy farmers.

  13. Polievre was my second choice for CPC leader,after Max, but I have to disagree with him on this video: Bacardi’s white rum is NOT a good mix with eggnog, Captain Morgan’s Spiced is by far the best, mixes with the ‘nog like it was planned by God hisself.
    2041, well,I’ll be 93 then,and as my Uncle Don lived to be 96, expect I’ll be here for the balanced budget. With Trudeau’s new Guaranteed Income, which I expect will be six figures,it ‘ll be a hell of a celebration. I might even buy some of that really expensive rum I can’t afford now to spice up the eggnog, and will drink to the health of Prime Minister Trudeau and his upcoming 70th birthday on the newly renamed Trudeau day.
    PM Justin will introduce his Son, Xavier James Trudeau, age 34, who will become the next Trudeau PM,right after the balanced budget.

    Our debt by then should be about 15 trillion bucks, but who’s counting? Drink up!

  14. I could write a thesis on the idiocy that is Trudeau and the liberal socialists in Canada, but I am far too intelligent to even try and find a way to cover his level of stupid. The average person does it everyday by accepting the crap that is shoved at them by all levels of government. It no longer surprises me that Canadians will accept anything shoved in their faces. 2040, what a great number. I am thinking Canada will indeed be Venezuela by 2040 with a much harsher climate and millions more deaths.

  15. Why do voters accept the empty promises of politicians?

    Trump has created an entirely new paradigm for our political leaders … one who actually DOES everything he promised. Has he accomplished everything yet? Of course not … but not for lack of trying. He is doing and pushing an agenda that EXACTLY matches his campaign rhetoric. Isn’t it time for the sheep herd voters to LEARN from Trump? That we the people should ONLY elect politicians who do EXACTLY what they promise, no bullshit. Fool us ONCE? Then NO second term. WE have the POWER to term-limit OUT politicians as surely as we DENIED … “HER turn” in the Presidency.

    Wake UP Canada, and DUMP that pile of twaddle named Justin Trudeau. If he doesn’t even TRY to balance the budget, then he LIED to you. Dump his ass. Why put up with LIARS as so-called leaders?

    1. “Trump has created an entirely new paradigm for our political leaders … one who actually DOES everything he promised.”

      Yeah, in your fevered imagination.
      Trump promised to build a wall and make Mexico PAY for IT. That happened in you twisted mind but in reality? Not at all.
      No wall and No, Mexico doesn’t pay for it.

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