Middling Political Musings

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."George Bernard Shaw

Watching Obama speak to the drones and his "This time it'll be different!" speech I offer the following: Things I know will happen under Obama:

1) No spending cuts.
2) Higher taxes for all Americans.
3) Sluggish employment.
4) Nothing on Kyoto or climate change.
5) More divisive class warfare.
6) A strategy of blaming the extremists in the GOP.
7) Gun control agency that will add up to nothing. I will apply my "Superhospital" theory here.
8) The maintaining of the military and drone strikes.
9) Blame Bush.

Yahoo! readers are having none of his "our journey is not complete" speech.

The government will take care of you alright; just like the Natives. Remember them?

I know we can do it! So long as the government tells you how!

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I don't get the annoying Manti T'eo story. Either he was a victim or he's gullible; like millions of people. Besides, didn't the President have fictional composite girlfriends in his books?

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And from Canada. Justin Trudeau is hammering on the "Harper has no vision" line. What would he do instead? "Reach out to Canadians." Wtf? Grown men with vision don't use vague terms like this.

How you gonna reach out to me, Justin? By bashing Harper?

In any event, be wary of people with "visions." They rarely end up good in the end. Liberty tends to be a casualty since having a vision generally means social engineering.

Nobody has visions; just illusions.

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I get nervous when I see poets and artists slobbing over political leaders as we've seen at the inaugural. Why? Because they're usually attracted to dictators and the like.

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Last the PQ want to add another 13 000 CPE spots in daycare. I thought the 15 000 just (crookedly) doled out were the last (since the government really can't afford it) for daycare. I guess not. Does it occur to them there are private daycares out there that have obligations to rent, mortgages and loans to pay off? Families are behind these enterprises.

They're going to put people out of business but boy they're going to want their tax money nonetheless, eh?

At this point, Quebec should just nationalize itself. It has no self-respect and self-belief anymore - like all of North America and we're gonna get four more years of "you didn't build that" and "you don't need that" rhetoric. The people have been conditioned to believe the government should take care industries of "national concern."

So be it.

Private enterprise and entrepreneurship is under severe duress on the continent. Unfortunately, the majority of voters don't seem to notice; or care.

It's a disease this addiction to progressive programs we have no money for.