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Be Careful Of What You Wish For

IF Obama wins today, we’ll quickly start to feel the “change” in Canada. The move to socialism in the US will have an impact that most left wingers couldn’t imagine due to their “Hate Bush Syndrome”.

Here’s how it will play out:

By being a capitalist driving force worldwide, the US has driven the economies of the world. A move to socialism will alter the world’s economy dramatically.

1) With a US government totally under control of the new breed of Democrats (the Moveon.org Liberals) the problems of the past month will compound. They will raise taxes and will increase social spending. With no check on them, the left will be able to pass all the programs the current congress were veto’d on. I was hoping Americans would have discussed how miserable the current congress and senate really are. The subject managed to stay hidden through the campaign. Nancy and Harry - nice.

2) The US economy will slow even more due to increased entitlements (paid through hidden payroll taxes). Not that Obama will be sending every poor American (less than $250K income) a check - although a lot of America believes this - the costs of his promised social programs is astronomical. Government spending on this scale usually improves the economy when it’s targeted to programs businesses take part in. But when the money is spent on entitlements, the impact is blunted dramatically. As much as they hate companies like Haliburton, the company sure impacts a lot of lives.

3) Business will be taxed more - this will mean either raising prices - impossible due to recession - or cutting costs. We all know which costs are easiest to lower. Less employment means less spending. Less spending means less imported goods… on and on.

4) Business investment will decline - due to higher taxes on capital gains and profits. This impacts all business globally.

5) A move to domestic social spending means America will have a lot less to spend internationally. Disaster relief and military spending are certain to be cut. This money flows to almost every country in some fashion.

So why would this matter to Canadians and the rest of the world that seems to desperately want Obama?

We’ll sell less to the US. Less wood, less oil, manufactured products, toys, services… less of pretty much everything.

Meaning less opportunity, less profits and income to tax.

So for all you Obama cheerleaders - remember the change you hoped for isn’t going to be quite as you imagined it. You may be re-electing the worst Congress and Senate ever (recent approval ratings of single digits), and electing the most inexperienced and left-learning president in history.

For those with conservative values - it will be time to hunker down. Get liquid and be ready to weather the storm. If McCain loses - it will be 4 long years of a social experiment that could likely decimate world economies. Patience will be needed - it’s all we’ll have to combat the lunacy.

I have faith that America’s entrepreneurial drive will win out in the end. I also have faith that Obama won’t actually come through on his promises… at least I can hope.

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Someone Needs To Bring Him Up To Speed

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy this weekend:

“Frankly, if someone would like to tell me that the world today needs an additional division, we do not have the same reading of the world,” Sarkozy said Friday in Quebec City.

We normally don’t care what foreign leaders say about our internal affairs, but this is different, because it comes from France. France’s view of Quebec has a mythical significance to separatists.

Except for one thing.

Quebec has used separation to ride through each recession the past 40 years - and have always succeeded doing so.

The reason the Bloc gained isn’t because they didn’t want Harper or the Liberals, or because of cuts to the arts… it’s because they can see what is coming up fast - a recession.

Quebec has rising unemployment, a slowing manufacturing base, and is one of the first provinces to feel a recession.

As a province that has always taken more than it’s fair share of transfer payments, the separation threat has always resulted in increased payments, contracts and public works projects - all funded by Canadians.

Sarkozy wasn’t informed of this strategy. Maybe now they’ll bring him up to speed.

It’s Great To Be Canadian

It’s great to be Canadian this week…special thanks to the Green Party, the NDP and the Liberals.

Is The Media Really That Biased?

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Welcome To The Harper Derangement Syndrome.

Search Google news for Stephen Harper and you’ll see exactly how biased the media is against him.

The top of the Goggle results start with this quote:

“Last night, Stephane, you panicked,” … “Your platform says we will spend billions of dollars we don’t have and go into deficit. (You) will raise taxes that will kill jobs”

Keep in  mind that most people don’t read the story - just the headlines…

The media is actively campaigning against the Conservatives and Harper - giving the equivalent of millions of dollars of advertising to the other parties.

I expect this in Vancouver where we have two newspapers owned by the same company… but you’d think that there would be one newspaper in Canada that isn’t far left.

Which leads me to question:

What are the papers in Canada so afraid of that they would compromise their integrity this way?

Isn’t the media supposed to balance coverage of the parties?

The papers are partisan hacks, and lack the balls to objectively look at what’s best for the country.

The NDP will crush the economy, the Liberals would return Canada to cronyism while holding us back through socialism, and the Green Party would take us back a century.

The Conservatives will move Canada forward globally, get government out of legislating behavior, and open Canada for business… I don’t see that as a bad thing.

Or, is it because Harper is from the west?

Wrecking-ball Harper

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The Canadian Press now rivals AP as far as yellow journalism.

So bad they didn’t include the writer’s name.

Here’s a heading of one of their articles:

Wrecking-ball Harper accuses Liberals of being anti-Alberta, pro-recession

Plus you have to love the first paragraph:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper accused the opposition Liberals of cheering for a recession and of attacking Alberta in one of his most incendiary broadsides yet of the election campaign.

You can read the whole thing here.

I wonder who they are cheering for…

Another Lie: Funding Cuts To The Arts

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The issue of the day, brought to you by the NDP and Liberals, that’s an outright lie.

From the National Post:

For the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2009, Parliament has voted to spend more than $4 billion on cultural programs, including the CBC, the Canada Arts Council, the National Gallery of Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage. That amount is $660 million or 19.7 per cent more than was spent in fiscal 2006, the last year when the Liberals controlled the purse strings.

Overall program spending during that same period is up 18.6 per cent. In other words, Conservatives have boosted spending on arts programs faster than they have boosted overall government spending.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for example, will receive $1.1 billion from the Tories this year, an increase of $133 million or 13.5 per cent compared to the last year under the Liberals.

Kory Teneycke, the top spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, explains:

“The public reaction out there - you’d think we’d shut down the arts. That’s not the case,” said Teneycke. “This was not about less money for the arts. It about having government programs that are meeting their objectives. We’re committed to cancelling programs that are boondoggles.”

Now that the issue has been brought to the voter’s attention, it’s about time someone looked into the funding of groups that are questionable at best - and maybe question why arts funding has increased.

Rick Mercer Creates The New Liberal Theme

Who would have known that Mercer would have defined the Liberal campaign with this song. The video was made on February 27, 2008

Here’s the story behind the video:

Hey Guys what a crazy last 2 days.

So I get a call from Rick Mercer’s people Tuesday afternoon saying they just wrote a skit about the Liberal party backing down to the Tories.

The whole joke is that the Liberals are loving it cause if they fight the Tories they have to call an election and they are in no position to win an election so they are happy to back down. It’s an over the top party scene.

They say they want the works, full 24pc choir, break-dancers, jugglers, acrobats, pyro a total circus!! They want to know if I can compose, arrange and record a choir to the lyrics they wrote and have it ready to be shot in 48hrs.

Well I immediately got on the phone to Faith Chorale and booked them for a session the next day. I called up Luther Brown at Do Dat for some breakers and got to work banging out a track. Everything got together just in time for the shoot. As I go to deliver the music masters, Rick decides that he wants me in the skit leading the choir. They rush me into wardrobe, I’m a little fuller than most guys so no suits fit. They take my measurements and in an hour a suit arrives and I’m on set shooting the scene for the next 4 hours.

I love this business!!!

Little did they know…

OMG: The Liberals Hidden Agenda

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Now that he’s found out that the sun is behind global warming, Dion has walked away from the Liberal party’s only platform this election - The Green Shift Shaft. He’s even denying it was part of his campaign.

I had to laugh when the guardian of the left, the Globe & mail published this today..

When launching his carbon-tax scheme on June 19, Mr. Dion mentioned the term “Green Shift” 14 times. When Mr. Dion delivered a keynote speech to his caucus on Sept. 3, the number of Green Shift references had dropped to 10. By Sept. 11, Mr. Dion only mentioned Green Shift once during his main speech of the day. And by Sept. 18, the term “green shift” had disappeared completely from Mr. Dion’s only speech of the day.

Earlier today when quizzed about whether or not the carbon tax was a major part of his election platform, Mr. Dion replied, “You have said it was but never me.”

… So what has happened to Mr. Dion, defined by Liberals as a man of vision and courage for bringing the carbon tax forward? Was this a bit like Kyoto for him, not his dog but the treaty – when the hard work had to be done he gave up on it and it began to dwindle? Was the green shift luggage lost when the plane broke down earlier in the week?

Time to jump off the Rainbow warrior…

Now there’s a real hidden agenda to talk about.

What a gift to Harper.

Harper Is Cutting Taxes Again?!

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Stephen Harper’s plan to cut the excise tax on diesel fuel is a smart move. The last time this was used in an election, the PC’s beat out the NDP in Saskatchewan for the first time.

A diesel fuel cut will help lower the price of everything we consume on a daily basis.

If you read the story, it’s playing out as a horrible plan.

My favorite comment from the article:

Mark
Let me get this straight. Mr. Harper has cut the GST and now has some plan to decrease my taxes further? He wants to get tough on crime, improve Canada’s soverignty, strengthen our (Liberal) gutted military, protect families…

May I vote now please?

Good thing Canadians hate taxes more that the media and Liberals love them.

Will The West Matter? Canada’s Election

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Now that the election has been called, will we even matter in the west?

There isn’t much to vote for unless you’re French or a lifetime NDPer.

Ontario and Quebec hold the decision, as usual, and hopefully Harper will get traction in Ontario.

The choice seems obvious when you look at the candidates:

NDP - Jack Layton leads a hopeless party - but somehow they keep hanging in there. The NDP plays the role of spoiler, and will probably split the Liberal votes.

Liberals - Stephane Dion has lost it already with his promise to tax the bejesus out of us with that lovely carbon tax scheme. The party is where the conservtives were - and needs to re-invent itself.

Conservatives - Harper should be a shoe-in, but the separatists in Quebec will split the vote. Like Vancouver, the French will always vote in a way to cause themselves the most grief.

We need a majority government that can take on the challenges we will be facing soon - with a declining economy and soon-to-be crashing housing market, Canada can’t play around with higher taxes and incompetent leadership.

Holding an election in concert with the US is a smart plan - hopefully Canadians will see we both share the same issues.

Just Call The Election, Steve…

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper seemed almost certain to call a general election next week to decide who will guide Canada.

It’s a great idea.

Although the election and candidates will be about as exciting as watching lawn bowling, holding an election alongside of the US election would let Canadians in on the fun.

We might be able to get rid of Gilles Duceppe, leader of the separatist opposition Bloc Quebecois. I always wonder what would happen if a traitor ran in the US…

Jack Layton, leader of the leftist New Democratic Party, also needs to go. With no possible chance of ever getting elected, it’s a wonder how the NDP has survived all these years. Note that the Riders have only won a Grey Cup when Conservatives have been in power in Sask.

Liberal leader Stephane Dion has proposed a tax grab similar to the National Energy Program they blessed us with in the last economic collapse. This is good for at least 10% more votes for Harper.

It’s time for change - as Barack Hussein Obama would say.

Best of all, it’s time to trounce the Liberals before their wacky carbon tax plan can see the light of day.

Here’s a video for more information on how the election will be decided: