Fairness For Every Generation

Alex Pierson– Blacklocks Reporter,” An astonishing figure because it’s double what debt ceiling was just 3 years ago. It’s almost equivalent to entire economic production of Canada in one year.” 

Francisco- What does that mean?

“Whatever your children’s tragedies and triumphs will be 30 or 40 years from now, they’re not gonna have the money. You can tell them it’s because of what was buried on page 638 of a Notice of Ways & Means tabled in the house of commons.”
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Listen to the whole thing. 

What You Can Do

National Post- Pierre Poilievre: Memo to corporate Canada – fire your lobbyist. Ignore politicians. Go to the people.

If you want to stop Trudeau’s latest tax hikes, don’t talk to politicians about it, talk to the people. If the tax hike is going to force doctors to leave Canada, the medical associations must ensure every patient knows that. If your factory will have to forgo expansion because Trudeau is taxing investment, assemble all your workers in the hall and tell them that. If his tax on venture capitalists is going to make it impossible for engineering grads to stay in Canada, make sure students (and their parents) in Kitchener-Waterloo know that.

Choo Choo Charles

Your days are numbered.

Spectator- Do many women want to be train drivers?

Personally, I had expected this diversity obsession to remain fixed on high-status professions. Because it was noticeable that, for example, while the vast preponderance of road-layers who mix the tarmac to sometimes fill in the nation’s potholes are men, there is yet to be an outcry along the lines of ‘none of us are free until women are made to lay more tarmac’. Now it seems that the age is indeed even madder than I thought.

The Modern State of Government

A recent public exchange in Santa Monica, California illustrated how obstinately deaf public officials are:

An eight-year-old Santa Monica resident caller, via zoom, said “there is something scary happening in our parks. Lots and lots of needles are left everywhere. They can make you sick if you step on them or touch them. I know people need help, but it’s making it scarier for people like me.”

When a Santa Monica public parks commissioner asked if the program could be moved out of a public park, Ferrer said, “We are not going to stop doing needle exchange, it is a proven strategy, it has decades of evidence. We’re not going to stop. I want to suggest that wherever we go with our mobile team there will be complaints.”

When queried if she had ever been to the Santa Monica Parks, Ferrer said, “No.”

Adam and Dr. Drew Pinsky dissected this in their most recent podcast.

Friday On Turtle Island

Blackie’s Canada:  Teachers for Hamas in B.C. (CBC).  Canada is a haven for terrorists.  Another church fire.  Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Toronto and Hamilton, to explain how wonderful he is.  Over 7000 Hamas supporters apply for visas.

Dementia Joe’s America:  Hunter got high.  Joe Biden’s reckless plan.

A history lesson:  The true horrors of the Soviet Union.

Your morning meme.   A cartoon.  Another cartoon.

 

Historical Figures

Having played Monopoly many times in my life, I had not realized that the inventor was a doctrinaire socialist who developed it in order to promote a jaundiced view of free markets. Nonetheless, the game stands as one example of how socialists effectively employ broad cultural narratives to promote their ideas.

Magie …wrote poems, performed in dramatic theater, taught college-level courses in her home, corresponded with Upton Sinclair, and studied economic theory. Her father was close friends with Abraham Lincoln. Both father and daughter were devout followers of the teachings of economist Henry George, whose 1879 treatise Progress and Poverty made the case for a single tax, on land. Like her fellow Georgists, Magie believed that ownership of nature was not possible — the earth was not something that could be owned. Land could, however, be “rented”, thus comprising the single tax. Magie designed The Landlord’s Game to teach and proselytize the principles of Georgism.

For those who are not familiar with Henry George, I like to call him a pre-Marxist Marxist.

Chain Reaction

In the final year in which both nuclear reactors were operational, the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) generated 16.7 terawatt hours of reliable baseload power from its 2.1GW of combined capacity—enough to meet roughly 25% of New York City’s total demand. By mid-2020, only one of those reactors was still running, but it managed to do so for the entire calendar year without interruption, turning in a perfect capacity factor of 100%. Not bad for a facility that sits on just 240 acres of land.

Not any more.

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