Politicians and Whores (Is There A Difference?)

Here is my take on the budget deal between Layton's NDP and the Liberals.

Just as long as NDP leader Layton is able to get his way, he is prepared to lie in bed with the Liberals. And why should that be surprising? After all, an NDPer is just a Liberal in a little bigger hurry and with a slightly more loony agenda [Remember Alexa McDonough and "Everyone earning $60,000 per year is rich and should be taxed to death" (this is not a direct quote) - whoops! - that applies to most union bosses and many union staff].

Besides, the NDP is as much a pig as the Liberal and other parties are at the election reimbursements trough, all trying to grab as much taxpayers' money as possible for inflated election expenses. It obviously doesn't matter to the NDP that Layton and the NDP are, as a result of that deal, helping to support and condone the scandalous behaviour of the Liberal Party of Canada involving the rip-off of many millions of dollars of taxpayers' hard-earned money.

The NDP wants to prevent tax cuts to corporations [where most of our retirement funds are being generated] and spend that money instead on the unions [where do you think most social services costs go?], or throw it down the drain for foreign aid and Kyoto.

Don't get me wrong. If foreign aid money was spent wisely and carefully, if that is possible, it would be a good thing, but most foreign aid is administered so incompetently and blindly that it mostly makes the corrupt politicians and their friends in other countries rich.

China, for example, is beating our pants off on trade, but we are still wasting money on foreign aid to China. If money were wisely spent on environmental matters, that would be OK, but implementing the Kyoto Accord, based on faulty pseudo-scientific notions, will only serve to bankrupt this country and make us all poorer without having any appreciable or meaningful effect on global warming.

Canada is suffering from an inbound direct investment shortage because corporations that might have invested here are going elsewhere where tax burdens and union wages are not so onerous. Goodbye jobs, goodbye economic development, unless the government does something to reduce its take.

The government has now brought down several budgets with enormous surpluses. What this means is that taxpayers, including the corporations, have been grossly over-taxed in the first place. We should all be getting this over-taxation surplus back. It was our money until it was hi-jacked by Ottawa. This is, if not outright theivery, at the very least, a breach of the trust we place in our elected governments. Tax cuts right now would not be a gift or corporate welfare, but a re-imbursement of money improperly taken.

An election right now could sweep the streets clean. Lets see if another government and another party will change things for the better.