Daily Archives: June 30, 2003

1 Party State

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More gems from the Steyn archive – here’s a beauty on the one party state called Canada.  That puts us in the same league as the African tinpot dictatorships.  No wonder Chretien is so worried about Bush removing …

Which is the world we live in. Intra-Liberal democracy means a choice between those who think the state’s entitled to 50% of your money and those who think it should be 60%, those who think there’s nothing wrong with the health system another two billion won’t cure and those who think it needs at least another four,

Hope yet

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There is hope yet that the government’s own internal bickering and power grabbing will kill the Kyoto wealth redistribution plan.  So there is a benefit to having overgrown, disfunctional bureaucracies.

Sorry, Mr. Anderson—thanks to your six months of fumbling around, the debate over whether we should embrace this job-killing accord has found new life.

Right On, Man

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A blog with our name just couldn’t resist this Wayneism….a follow up to the naming of a street after Mike Myers.

The Mike Myers Drive sign city workers installed on Thursday had been reported stolen by the time the sun came up on Friday.

“It’s probably in a basement rec room somewhere,” Mr. Berardinetti suggested.

Probably. Wayne Campbell would be darned proud.

Child Poverty

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It’s that time of year again, so here are the latest poverty numbers in an effort to get you to be more sympathetic when you are asked to pay even more than half your income to the government.  They’ll be more than happy to redistribute it to those families that just cannot live together.  Note that “single parent families” (otherwise known as divorced or never married) make up the bulk of poor families.

One in four poor children live in two-parent families, a rate much higher than the 17 per cent in Ontario and Canada. But the risk of poverty is greater in single-parent families where the child poverty rate is 57 per cent. The median income for poor lone-parent families dropped from $14,670 in 1995 to $13,300 in 2000.

We need to spend more money making people stay together or making them stay more responsible for their own offspring.