Bud: PM 'Not' Playing Games, Immigration: Joe Volpe's Whopper, Bloggers Unite & Lose UN Chains
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Paul Martin--"I don't play games."
Well, your days are probably severely numbered, Paul, but you still have enough time left to play games. Your comment: "Let the opposition force you out into the raging blizzard to vote", is so Martin.
You could have said, "All right, you have me cornered; but I want to pass some legislation, which I have called 'crucial' ". I might try to sneak in some of this gravy before being defeated. Maybe buy the aboriginal vote, along with those so necessary immigrant votes. So I will accede to your demands for a January dissolution of Parliament." You could have done that, except you were so afraid of losing that you hoped the "blizzard scenario" would sufficiently resonate in the electorate's mind. Along, of course, with Santa Goodale's $30 billion give-away. Maybe you can squeak out another minority government and the toady NDP will suddenly be on board again. "What other hope have they?", must be in Martin's realistic thoughts.
Once upon a time we were a self-sufficient nation, whose citizens would travel hundreds of miles by canoe to trap beaver in a blizzard, but now we can't spend 30 minutes voting for a decent government? Besides, that $30 billion that Ralph Goodale has to lavish on Liberal re-election is still theoretically in the till. Perhaps the Conservatives have some ideas of how to better spend it.
And by gee by golly, there is this huge, huge surplus that Goodale has suddenly discovered. Enough to pave every pothole in Canada. And now, the only question is: Do you want yours to one of them? It doesn't help your cause if you start talking about the scandalous expropriation of the unemployment insurance program. For years, this fund has been used as a slush fund for whatever pet project the Liberals think is advantagous for re-election. Let the recipient beware. I will leave the last word on this to columnist Don Martin. In his National Post, (Tues. 15, A-6) column, he weighed the gamesmanship of the Opposition and the Liberals. Basically, he saw the Liberals snookering their enemies with this something-for-everybody mini-budget. However he concluded with these sage lines.
The Plan for Growth and Prosperity was aptly named by the finance minister--it's a Liberal scheme to fool voters into delivering seat growth and electoral prosperity.
© Bud Talkinghorn
Immigration: Joe Volpe's big Whopper
[Bud had written the L-word. Tut, tut, Bud. Should I call it Joe Volpe's big Misspoke? Misspeak? I think we're not supposed to use a pol's name and the L-word in the same sentence. NJC ]
When the Fraser Institute published a study, which showed that the immigrants of the last few (Liberal) decades were economically falling behind the average Canadian, Volpe launched an hysterical attack on its findings. He blatantly misspoke himself about studies his own department had done, which showed the same criticism. Volpe claimed that they showed immigrants catching up or surpassing the average Canadian after five years. The Toronto Star, generally left-wing and pro-immigrant, agreed with the Fraser Institute's numbers. Using the Immigration department's own stats, it concluded that the average was after ten years and large numbers never caught up. Common sense should tell us that "the family reunification program" was doomed to increase the poverty level. You can't bring in aging parents and even ill-educated siblings and expect otherwise.
The Star's James Travis wrote:
"To bring people here with empty promises is cruel. Canada needs new immigrants but they must be able to contribute more than keeping wages low and re-electing Liberals."
The entire re-unification program was simply a sop to the immigrant communities [for votes NJC]. Years ago it was revealed that too many immigrant sponsors were reneging on their promise of five years of relative support. Statistics from two years ago revealed that $800 million a year had to be spent by the government to support these indigents. That doesn't take into account the millions more spent to cure Granny of her ailments. To hide this shamefull fact, the government didn't push the sponsors. A billion dollar boondoggle that is ripe for exposing. The liberal media also have kept a conspiracy of silence about this fraud. In an already aged population do we need more citizens, who will produce nothing for the state, but will demand numerous health and welfare services? The hard-working immigrants I know are as incensed as I am about this travesty of justice.
That Volpe would fudge the statistics to gain the immigrant vote is classic dirty politics. For the investigative media to ignore the reality is despicable. The degrees to which this Liberal government will descend, in order to get re-elected, is near treasonous.
Has the Immigration Department learned nothing from the experience of the French rioting? When a country has a critical mass of unemployed immigrants, who are multiculted enough to believe that their regressive attitudes should trump normal Candian ones, then you have the tipping point to future alienation and unrest. Whether the cult of diversity here will produce the anarchy seen in the French immigrant slums remains to be seen. However flooding our cities with unemployable youth and the aged can only be seen as foolhardy.
The French never thought that they would see the naked hatred expressed by the Muslim slum dwellers. Nor did they believe that they would consider an average of 97 car burnings [ one day this week ] to be the past year's daily norm. The recent conflagration is only the ground fire of decades, suddenly getting oxygen from the accidental deaths of two kids. That flimsy excuse for rioting can easily be reproduced. As one French Minister admitted, "These slums are basically no-go areas, where gangs control the action. Even before the riots, the police would go in only in platoons, as they were often assaulted. Not only is Paris burning, it will continue burning far into the future.
Toronto already has areas which are gang-controlled. Decent citizens are totally intimidated, and most crimes go unreported. Witnesses remain mute out of fear of retaliation. Can we afford Joe Volpe's plan for more immigrants annually? Especially if most are from the family re-unification category -- obviously, not limited to the elderly. The Liberals however think that their "diversity is grand" propaganda has sunk in with the young. They hope that our youth's "whatever" mentality and the sacred cow status of cultural equality will carry the day. Despite being called "racist", the Conservative Party must address this issue. In the long run this issue, if not confronted intelligently, will come to define all others.
© Bud Talkinghorn
Bloggers unite! You have nothing to lose but your UN chains
As was to be expected, a large block of UN dictatorships wants to control the internet. Their meeting to discuss control of the worldwide information highway was held in Tunisia. How appropriate. Tunisia is on every human rights watch as a country that censors the internet and arrests opponents to their regime. The socialist-left states and their allies, the pure thug states, trot out the same old demands -- "We must end cultural hegemony", "respect for divergent cultural and gender attitudes", and the "rich/poor divide". Underneath this rhetoric is the desire to completely control the internet and crush any democratic or moralistic "invasion of ideas". Carried to its extreme, you have a North Korea, where people even caught with a short-wave radio can be imprisoned. The absolutely mindless dedication to a crumbling Orwellian state can only come with complete control of all sources of information. What you get from this control is the spectacle of starving, freezing citizens filling enormous stadiums singing the praises of their oppressor--a man who sees himself as the font of all security and succour.
Happily, Canada and the reluctant European delegates staunched the attempt to wrest control from the Americans. The Americans have not been trying to censor the internet through the Internet Corporation for the Assigned Names (ICANN). They have controlled this function [which is a technical ability, I think NJC], for a decade with no complaints. If the UN thug states got to control ICANN, there wouldn't be any complaints either. However that would be because they would have managed to stifle any method of their citizens to complain. It was refreshing to see the Liberals stop their genuflecting to the world's tyrannies.
© Bud Talkinghorn
Note: I think I read somewhere that this backing of the freedom of the internet and continuing with ICAAN is only for a period of time, Bud--perhaps until the planets align after an election and the right people get elected--and the bowing to the superior ethical and democratic norms of the UN thug states may be accomplished more easily. NJC
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, November 18, 2005
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