Ho, hum. Another business-friendly budget with a sop to the middle class to keep our palms greased for the election. I’ve got news for you. A balanced budget with a tax cut is nothing for government to brag about. The job of government is to provide services to citizens. If there’s less money coming in…
Month: February 2017
Politics
He’s Not Nuts; He’s Dyslexic
by renaissanceadmin • • 0 Comments
I know a little girl who has been rather stubborn all her life. A great kid otherwise, but when she didn’t want to do something, that was it. She wasn’t gonna do it. Since she was a second child dealing with a very competent older sibling and a rather strong-minded family, everyone accepted this as…
Social Commentary
Killer Apes or Control Junkies?
by renaissanceadmin • • 0 Comments
Most of you already know my opinion on the power of our instinctive behaviour. It is very difficult, even impossible, to expect society to develop in a direction that humans are not predisposed to take. If humans are violent, then violence will happen. If humans are lazy, we have to force them to work. Recent political experience…
Politics
The Liberals Didn’t Even Try
by renaissanceadmin • • 1 Comment
In fact, they did exactly the opposite. They made a promise in order to get elected, and once they got our vote, they cynically manipulated the issue until they could shrug their shoulders and say that nobody wanted it to happen, anyway. The honeymoon is over, folks. Canada’s “natural governing party” has fallen back into…