Dalton McGuinty sits in a tractor for a photo op while visiting a Crosstown LRT construction site in downtown Toronto on Nov. 9.
What happened to the once-prosperous province of Ontario, now a quarter of a trillion dollars in debt? In a word, government — and not just any government, but eight years of an interventionist, social-engineering kind of government; one that last week, having been insufficiently chastised by the voters, delivered itself of a throne speech, essentially promising more of the same.
All governments are communist. Please, relax. What I mean is that all governments expect to be recompensed, not according to the value of their contributions to society, but according to their needs.
Marxist mythology defines progress as capitalism changing into socialism and socialism into communism. Under socialism, everyone contributes according to his abilities, and is compensated according to his contribution. This is an improvement over the vagaries of the market, but communist society goes further. While citizens still contribute according to their abilities, they’re compensated according to their needs.
How can society let people determine their own needs and undertake to provide for all? Marxist myth-makers answer that the elimination of capitalist profits increases wealth to cover everyone’s needs. How does society deal with people who think they need private jets or turreted castles? The answer is that re-engineered social conscience won’t let properly brought up communists make greedy demands based on false needs.
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CommieCap … yikes!
Jonas went after “McShifty” today and rightly so. The thing that boggles my mind is that lazy Ontario voters couldn’t bother to get off their sorry asses to stop him.
For the next four years we are going to hear all the whining and crying about his stupidity. My question is — “WHO (exactly) is responsible for that?”
I’ll give you one guess.
A very weak and ineffective campaign by the Provincial PC Party certainly didn’t help: Over confidence in good early polls and then trying to coast to victory, except that instead of a climb up it was a slow but accelerating climb down permitting a squeaker majority victory for ” MC Shifty “.
But yes the ultimate responsibility goes to apathetic, absent from the vote and clueless voters.
C’mon, be serious! Your premier is hell bent on using ROC money, just like Quebec and the Maritimes from
If Alberta separated from Canada what would be left would be a bankrupt ” LEFT “.
LOL.
OOPS, something weird there: …. as I was saying, from equalization to smooth out the financial bumps in the road. It’s just a matter of time before mcShifty starts yowling about “disparites”, “humiliation”, yadda, yadda, yadda, to filch money from the ROC, then go publicly whining when the cash isn’t forthcoming……3, 2, 1.
I also think that the Ontario voters will be fine with that and drag out the old saw:”we forked out cash to Alberta/Saskatchewan, way back when, before you got all greedy on oil”.
How do I know? I’m from Ontario and that is the POV of my damned family. They hate Mike Harris to this day. Rather viscerally, too and they woul never vote conservative even if that was the last political party available to vote for.
And yes, Jean you are absolutely right on that.