TWO REPORT CARD GRADES FOR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

"We know you like Trump, Galagher so let us guess whatever the subject matter is, you are going to give him As."

Well Dear Reader, you'd be half right:

Subject Matter One...Defence of the Free World.

In this important area the United States is truly back.  After 8 long years of apologies from Obama coupled with inaction in the face of aggression, Trump is bringing his country back to the delight of his allies and chagrin of America's enemies.

This is most evident in America's dealings with two of the world's out-of- control rogue States ....Iran and North Korea.  The former has threatened that once they have acquired the Nuclear Bomb they are going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.  The latter, under the lunatic Young-Un, has threatened to reduce USA's major cities to rubble along with the death of millions of their citizens.

So here you are correct, I give the President a strong A.

Note: In order to keep this A at the end of coming Winter Term, President Trump will have to do more to de-denuclearize these two outliers.

Subject Matter Two...Free Trade:

Trump was elected on a platform that included Isolation for America especially when is comes to Trade and Commerce.

I never thought that he would actually stick with this nonsensical position since it is clear that Free Trade is a boon for Importing and Exporting Countries alike. (I won't get into the reasons for this but if you insist, will deal with that specifically in a future blog). 

One of his first actions in office was to take America out of the Pacific Trade Agreement which includes the most influential and growing economies in the Far East.  Instead of looking to America for guidance, they will now look to China and the Chinese cannot believe their good fortune.

Trump is also threatening to deep six the North American Trade Agreement his country has with Canada and Mexico.  All three countries have benefited immensely under this agreement and all have seen a dramatic rise in jobs.  

And you need look no further than Brexit to see the predicament the Brits have placed themselves in having to leave the European Union.

Bottom-line....Isolation does not work and to think this is being done on the brink of China replacing the United States as having the largest economy in the world.

So Dear Reader I give President Trump a solid F.

One final note, if Trump sticks to his approach in the above two areas ...Subject Matter Two will eventually erode the State's ability to deal effectively with Subject Matter One.

In other words, they simply will not have enough money to keep adequately funding Defence. 

As I see it...

'K.D. Galagher'

FIRST WORLD ISSUES (F.W.I.)

OUR FOREFATHERS CUT THEIR WAY INTO THE WILDERNESS TO EKE OUT A HAND-TO-MOUTH EXISTENCE.


They endured plague, war and depression and yet kept their human spirit.

Issues of the day included worrying about whether or not there would be enough food to eat, enough wood to burn, and whether they could escape the multitude of diseases for which there were no cure.  

Men were men and women worked in lock-step beside them in true partnership against the elements.

As we enter nicely into this, the 21st Century, the Issues of today would have made our Forebears giddy with relief.

But there are consequences with these new preoccupations and it is up to each of us to determine whether they are good, bad or indifferent.  Or more to the point, whether those consequences are worth ??

First of all, the Individual's Rights and Freedoms are being replaced by Group Rights where Individual Groups are the ones being protected by law.  

Governments continue to grow while Democracy rapidly declines;  the Courts make the law rather than the Legislatures while Special Interest Groups are catered to at the expense of the Majority. 

Belief in God is being replaced by Environmental Worship especially when it comes to the related issues of Global Warming  and Climate Change. And as a consequence, Our Economic Health is being sacrificed to the delight of our competitors in South East Asia and beyond.

Marriage is no longer the preserve of a man and a woman and the terms male and female too are under strong attack.

We have become a throw-away Society and this has extended to the elimination of our most innocent and frail.

So you vote.  Are you okay or not okay with the direction that Society appears to be headed.

Yes or No?

And if No, what are you going to personally do about it.


As I see it...

'K.D. Galagher'

IF NOT NOW... WHEN ?

Another Day...Another Mass Shooting.

The latest, yesterday's killing of nearly 30 parishioners in a small Texas town Baptist Church.

Indeed, on average, in the great United States of America, at least 1 mass killing occurs each and every day!

And the response from officials is always the same:

• We will not be cowed, we will not change our way of life etc. etc. etc,
• This will bring us all together,
• And this, 'in the face of these atrocities we now more than ever need to be packing'; and, of course,
• Thanks to our brave First Responders ...a, b, c, d, e and so on. and then my favourite...,
• Now is not the time to talk about Gun Control.

In essence, Freedom Reigns along with our Constitutionally Guaranteed Right to Bear Arms.

Excuse me while I suppress a yawn.

Now some more grime stats:

• Each year approximately 34,000 Americans are killed by guns.  This is equivalent to the number that die annually in car crashes;
• An equal number are injured as a result of guns; and,
• The USA's homicide by guns rate is 25 x greater than the combined rates of 22 high income sister nations.

Now as many of you know, I seldom agreed with former President Obama or his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but this is one important area where I strongly agree with both of them.  

Simply Stated...The time has come to get rid of all firearms.

Will it happen?

Yes, but not in my lifetime, nor even during my children's time, but hopefully it will occur during their children's time here on earth.

It has to and it will.

But think of the wasted slaughter in the meantime.

So yes, Dear Reader, now is the time to talk Gun Control / Elimination

As I see it...

'K.D. Galagher'

OXYCODONE....SOMETHING DOES NEED TO BE DONE.

BUT IT DOES NOT ENTAIL ASSISTING USERS IN 'SHOOTING UP' WHICH APPEARS TO BE THE TREATMENT DU JOUR. 

EACH YEAR DEATHS FROM OXY OVERDOSES MIRROR THE NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM CAR ACCIDENTS...i.e. 35,000.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CAME OUT THIS MONTH TO DECLARE THESE OVERDOSES A NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY WHICH MANY HAVE CRITICIZED SINCE, IN THEIR OPINION, HE DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH.  THEY SAY HE SHOULD HAVE DECLARED A NATIONAL EMERGENCY  WHICH WOULD HAVE FREED UP MORE FEDERAL CASH TO FIGHT THIS SCOURGE.

In this, I side with President Trump in his more cautious approach since I fear that the United States may well fall into the trap we here in Canada have.  We have attacked the process and not the cause / effect.

Canada has established numerous Safe Shoot-up Sites in the noble but totally useless attempt to reduce the number of deaths.

Users are given clean needles to use in their desperate attempt to feed their habit and should the shoot-up result in an overdose, health professionals are there to bring them back to the living.

It Simply Does Not Work and Permit Me to Explain Why:

First of all, it engages the State in an illegal activity;

Second, it may save some lives temporarily i.e. those who overdose on site, it does not though protect these unfortunate souls 24 hours per day, seven days a week;

Third, it does not usurp the influence of the Pushers rather it does the opposite since by cloaking the process with a false sense of safety, it encourage even greater usage;

Fourth, in conjunction with 3, it does nothing to reduce crime associated with users desperately trying to get the money needed to fund their dangerous habit; and,

Fifth and most importantly, these Pop-up Sites do absolutely nothing to get these unfortunates off their addiction.

So drop the Useless Pop-up Injection Sites and replace them with Treatment / Counselling Sites where addicts can receive the help they need including access to legal, less addictive drugs in a active treatment environment designed to actively wean them off.

And couple that with a Concerted Public Education Program for both Schools and the General Public alike warning of the grave dangers attached to the misuse of Oxycodone.

As I see it...

'K.D. Galagher'

WHAT A HORRID WOMAN....HILLARY.

FOR WELL OVER A YEAR NOW DEAR HILLARY HAS BEEN BITTERLY COMPLAINING ABOUT THE RUSSIANS HAVING CONSPIRED WITH DONALD TRUMP  TO STEAL LAST NOVEMBER'S ELECTION FROM HER.

AND NOW IT TURNS OUT THAT IT WAS HILLARY HERSELF WHO WAS PAYING THE RUSSIANS BIG SUMS FOR MALICIOUS AND TOTALLY FALSE GOSSIP ABOUT TRUMP.

IT TAKES SOME GALL TO DO THAT BUT AS MOST OF US HAVE COME TO REALIZE, HILLARY HAS THAT IN SPADES.  THAT SAID, EVEN I DID NOT INITIALLY THINK THAT HILLARY OR HER CAMPAIGN WERE CAPABLE OF SUCH SUBTERFUGE. 

IT SIMPLY DEFIES LOGIC...SHE WAS FULLY WILLING TO DESTROY A PERSON'S CHARACTER IN HER ABSOLUTE LUST FOR POWER.  

I WON'T GET INTO THE MYRIAD OF HER OTHER FAILURES, SINCE THAT WOULD KEEP YOU FAR TOO LONG, BUT THIS ONE FACT ALONE SUFFICES TO IRREFUTABLY BRAND THE DEAR WOMAN A LIAR AND A CHEAT OF HERCULEAN PROPORTIONS. 

I DO NOT THOUGH WANT TO SEE HER GO TO JAIL...TOO MUCH WATER HAS GONE UNDER THE BRIDGE AND I EXPECT THAT HILLARY WILL NOW BE SMART ENOUGH TO SIMPLY FAD INTO THE WOODWORK AND HOPEFULLY TAKE 'SLICK WILLIE' ALONG WITH HER. 

I would though expect the current Special Prosecutor's Investigation into the Trump's Campaign ties with Russia to now refocus its efforts toward what the previous Democratic Administration was doing since it appears there was much suspect stuff happening over the course of the previous 8 years.

As I write this Blog there are reports of the first charges being laid by the Prosecutor's Office and I suspect that those charge(s) will pertain to one of more of persons with connection to the Trump Campaign.

I do not believe for a second that those charge(s) will have any real connection to Donald Trump and I have believed this from the very beginning.  In fact, the Investigation began at the behest of Hillary and her folks and if she had told the truth back then - ie that it was her who was paying the Russians for sensational dirt, the investigation would never have gotten off the ground.

So stay tuned Dear Reader and we will see together how ludicrous these coming Trumped Up Charges really are.

As I see it...

'K.D. Galagher'

OKAY GALAGHER, IF NOT THE GRITS NOR THE TORIES ...WHAT THEN?

Before I disclose which Party I would be prepared to support, permit me to review for a minute just how I see myself...politically speaking that is.

Surprise, surprise...I view myself as a 'Real Conservative', that is to say both a Fiscal Conservative as well as a Social Conservative.  Each complement the other and those that consider themselves to be one and not the other are simply letting the Team down.

To cut to the chase, I believe in small governments with no debt nor deficit and I believe in the core family...wife, husband and children as being the corner stone of society...always has been and always will be.

In Canada though the Conservative Party at both the Federal Level and the Ontario Level (our largest province) are merely Liberal Lites.  And it could easily be argued that it would be better to vote for the Real Liberals rather than for the Conservative Pretenders.

And in that regard, I have always believed that it is much better to lose than it is to deny one's principles and win for the sole sake of winning.

And further, I believe our country has in recent times gone down the Progressive Road simply because Real Conservatives have consistently dropped the ball by opting for the convenient over promoting and defending what they earnestly believe is the right thing to do.

When this occurs, two things happen, the Conservatives abandon their core principles and in so doing, deny the electorate a viable and most needed alternative.

Two examples:

First, in regard to the Fiscal Conservatives...Green Energy not only does it waste tons of taxpayers' money, it handcuffs business in its ability to compete with world.  And the sad truth is,our misguided efforts are ineffective in preventing or even stalling climate change one iota.

Second, in regard to Social Conservatives...Canada ranks with only a few other countries, most notably China and Russia in not having any restrictions on abortion.  In these select (?) countries, abortion can and does take place right up to the time of birth.  And contrary to popular opinion, Polling shows when this is pointed out to Canadians, the vast majority are aghast and favour realistic restrictions like those in place in the majority of the World's Humanitarian Nations. 

Simply stated, Canada is in desperate need of a Real Conservative Party.  One that can be considered home by Social and Fiscal Conservatives alike.

Sadly no such Party currently exists.

And until that time arrives, I will be parking my vote with the Libertarian Party of Canada.  At least that Party has core values that do not fluctuate with the wind. 

As I see It...


'K.D. Galagher'



  

I SIMPLY CANNOT VOTE FOR THAT PARTY !!

The Ontario Liberals have been in power since 2003...now going on 15 years and during their tenure have turned our once great Province into 'Have-not status'...once the Economic Engine of Canada, Ontario now is its Caboose, pretending for a moment that this relic of railroad history still exists.


It is not surprising then that 15 years ago, Ontario had North America's cheapest Hydro-Electric Rates, today those rates, thanks to the Liberal's Green Energy Fiasco, are the Continent's most expensive, all the while thousands upon thousands of manufacturing jobs have gone missing in action.  Who'd a thunk so much damage could be sustained in such a relatively short period of time?

The only sector to grow and flourish during their decade and a half in power is the public sector....police, fire, teachers, nurses, along with armies of other bureaucrats and government officials.  Public Service Unions, once the champions of coal miners, factory workers now shill for those on the public purse...the ones with best salaries, best pensions, best working conditions and best job security.  Their Unions have become so rich and powerful that they are the ones largely responsible for keeping the Liberals in power for these past decade and a half.

This may or may not be coming to an end since next year, June 7, 2018 to be exact, will see a General Election held here in our Province.

And with this in mind, I would like to itemize a number of specific policy initiatives that I simply will not be able to vote for:

Sex Education as early as grade 3;

A  32% increase in the Minimum Wage;

Carbon Tax and/ or any versions of the same;

Allowing Unrestricted Abortion up to and including the time of birth;

Removal of an Individual's Sex on the Provincial Birth Certificates;

Riding Nomination Meetings manipulated by HQ.


So Dear Reader, I am not going to Vote For That Party.  Full Stop.

"But Galagher, as a Life Long Conservative, you were not likely to have voted Liberal in any event".

Who said anything about voting Liberal?  The above policies are certainly those of the ruling Liberal Government but they have all been adopted holus-bolus by the Opposition Progressive Conservative Party.

"So which Party will you vote for Galagher?"

Good Question, ... More on that in my next Blog.


As I see it...

'K.D. Galagher'