MONDAY … MONDAY

 

CAN’T TRUST THAT DAY;

MONDAY, MONDAY …SOMETIMES IT JUST TURNS OUT THAT WAY;

EVERY OTHER DAY OF THE WEEK IS FINE, YEAH;

BUT WHENEVER MONDAY COMES … YOU CAN FIND ME CRYING ALL THE TIME.

My thanks to the Mammas and the Poppas.

Well let me be quite honest here – I don’t mistrust all Mondays – rather just this coming Monday – October 19th. It is Election Day here in Canada and sadly, unless we are struck with a nationwide earthquake, – the Grits – aka – the Liberals under YT – aka Young Justin Trudeau, are headed for a minority and, quite possibly, – a full majority.

In a recent Blog, I listed a dozen serious reasons why such should not happen .. for the sake of our country and now present below the damage the the young fella will do:

I am going to focus on the economic fallout and will use our once proud province – the Province of Ontario - as the prime example what to expect.

To do this, I will be referring to this month’s respected Fraser Report which sets out fully and effectively how the McGuinty / Wynne Era, beginning 10 years ago and continuing to this very day, has taken our Provincial Economy off the rails:

The Report begins with a general look at Ontario over the course of the last decade and sadly reflects on the fact that it is no longer the economic engine of Canada.  The Report’s prime author – Philip Cross, former chief economist for Stats Canada - notes that the Liberal policies “are to blame for turning the powerhouse economy into a laggard.”

        He goes on:  

Their policies, he notes, are the cause of “sluggish growth, … rising unemployment, .. high youth unemployment, …weak business investment, …. (and) high electricity prices.”

  So that is the Report’s general thrust – here are its specifics -

• IMMIGRANTS ARE NOW GOING ELSEWHERE: Ontario attracted more than half new immigrants to Canada in 2002, but is no longer the preferred destination.
• VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Ontario used to be the preferred destination for immigrants and migrants from other provinces; since 2004 it has been experiencing a "net loss" to other provinces.
• UNEMPLOYMENT: Ontario's unemployment rate was lower than the national average from 1976 to 2005; from 2007 and five years into the recovery, the provincial unemployment rate was higher than the national average.
• IDLE YOUTH: Five months after the 1982 recession, unemployment among Ontario youth dropped to 8%; five years after 2008 recession, youth unemployment was averaging 16%.
• LESS TAKE HOME PAY: Ontario household income used to surpass national average, usually by 10-20%; Ontario's real per-capita incomes fell below national average for first time ever in 2012.

So this is what we can expect from Young Trudeau and his Government since he has consistently told us how much he admires the ‘Wynner’ and his policies are a mirror image of her own.

So come this Monday don’t be surprised if a ‘little tear lets me down’.

But do not feel sorry for me – I am already looking forward to my ‘I Told You So’ Blog on the first anniversary of YT’s Election.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

INGRATE…

 

AS IN MOHAMED FAHMY.

Mohamed Fahmy recently entered Canada and spent yesterday bad-mouthing Stephen Harper and his Conservative Government for not acting more quickly to obtain his release from an Egyptian jail.

In my opinion, it would have been better if the dear man had thanked our Government for his release since I, for one, would have let him rot in that faraway jail.

The guy was foremost an Egyptian since he lived there most of his life and held Egyptian citizenship. 

Second - his was charged and convicted by their Judicial system, and

Third – he was working for Al Jazeera, what many view as a mouth-piece for radicals terrorizing the middle east.

Some other relevant background:

• Fahmy came to Canada, from Egypt with his family in 1991; and, just prior to leaving Canada, to begin his journalistic career in the Middle East, he conveniently took out Canadian citizenship.

This smacks to me as ‘citizenship of convenience’.

Plus, I like many of you, do not believe in dual citizenship and I really have great difficulty when a person gets caught up in the legal system of their mother country and looks demandingly to Canada to bail them out.

Do you think for a moment that had Fahmy been sentenced and jailed here in Canada that Egypt would come to his defence?

And then to to it off, he has the gall to criticize his supposed adoptive country for not getting him out sooner.

This reminds me of Maher Arrar – the unfortunate chap who was returned to his mother country of Syria – by the Americans – and then allegedly tortured by the Syrians and then had the gall to sue Canada for allowing it all to happen.

In so doing, he pocketed a cool $10 Million Dollars++ from us Canadian Taxpayers.

No wonder there is such a back-lash against Muslim women insisting on wearing a mask at our Citizenship Ceremonies.

Canadians a sick and tired of all of this Political Correctness and I can tell you that under a Liberal or NDP Government Political Correctness will only get worse …much worse.

And yet it was also announced yesterday that Young Trudeau shared a beer with ingrate proving once again the old Aesop Moral that a man is indeed known by the company he keeps.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

 

Obama Turns Political …

 

And For Once, He Is Right – as in correct.

Not surprisingly – it is one of the only times that I agree with him.

All this in regard to the October 1st shooting rampage at a Community College in the State of Oregon where 9 were slaughtered.

Here is what Obama had to say:  “we are not the only country on Earth that has people with mental illnesses or want to do harm to other people.  We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months”. 

Pundits were quick to label the President’s comments ‘political’ but even so – they trailed Obama, since he, himself acknowledged this as part of his overall statement.

I personally did not find his comments to be political but more of a plaintiff cry for a nation that has succumbed to the culture of death by firearm.

Obama mentioned several examples of past examples of this but notably did not include the experience of his home city of Chicago which sees a shooting occur every 3 hours or so and a death at the rate of slightly more that one per day.

So if there was a failing in his message – it was that he failed then and indeed since the beginning of his Presidency to shine a light on the fact that most gun killings occur between ghettoised Blacks.  

I am though getting off point – since the matter he addressed – that the US of A needs stricter gun control – seems like a no-brainer to me.

And yet the majority of Americans parrot like trained seals the second amendment to the Constitution that permits citizens to bear arms.

Recall though that this amendment was written at the time of the one shot musket and recall that at that time – the sense that citizens had the right to bear arms was intended for a Citizen Militia and not for individuals per se.

despite these annoying facts, today individuals fall back on this law to support their right to carry automatic weapons – some capable of piercing metal.

It surprises me that some nut has not used the 2nd amendment to allow him right to drive a tank down main-street on the basis that it too is merely a type of armament.

But the real knee slapper is the position taken by the totally deranged National Rifle Association.  In the face of these continuous massacres the NRA’s position is that they would stop if all Americans – even presumably students – were packing.

What utter nonsense.

All that that would do is increase the carnage.

Here is what the United States needs to do:

1.  If the US Supreme Court continues to follow its errand ways – move to revoke the 2nd Amendment out from under it;

2.  Hunters be required to store their weapons – ones that can really be used for hunting and not for mass killing – at a suitable depository (e.g. a gun range).  No one, save as per #3, needs to keep their gun at home.

3.  Farmers – those with farming acreage and those living in wilderness locales be allowed to keep a shotgun on hand to deal with dangerous wild / sick / injured animals.

Will the United States get around to doing this?

Yes it will, but it will probably take another 50 years before Americans come to their senses.

Too bad that so many are going to pay the ultimate price for this tardiness.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’