The "Liberal" Diet Plan
So.
I'm having lunch with a couple of buddies this week, and one of them, who will remain nameless, lets just call him Blaine Dens, is a closet Liberal.
Oh yes, he professes his undying love for Brian Mulroney - even had a picture of the former PM in his bedroom.. but deep down, the rest of us all know his underwear is red.
Anyway, Blaine is all irritated because Harper has made some promises for benefits to families that will not come to fruition until we are no longer running a deficit.
To quote Blaine, "You can't promise people something, but then tell them they don't get it for five years."
To quote me, "Sure you can, Harper just did it.. the problem is that his mind is so incredibly fantastical that your small liberal brain can't grasp it."
I was being facetious.
Blaine's a bright guy.
And the concept is actually pretty easy to grasp. We've been doing it all our lives.
"You can't have desert until you finish your dinner."It's called delayed gratification. It's called maturity. And the ability to practice it is one of the strongest signs of a well-adjusted, mature human being.
"You can't go out and play until you finish your homework."
"You can't have a new bike until you've saved enough money."
Yes, we understand the electorate doesn't like it. We live in the age of McDonald's and Burger King - where you drive up to the window whenever you feel like it, and are served what you want when you want it.
But that's not how a healthy life works - and it's not how a healthy economy is built. You can't just hand out goodies without paying for it. There is no free lunch, as the saying goes.
Michael Ignatieff doesn't get it.
He thinks you can just increase corporate taxes to get more money, and then deliver goodies now. Problem is, his plan is a recipe for a big stomach ache. Because higher corporate taxes will actually reduce tax revenue. And may negatively impact a slowly recovering economy.
His vision lacks maturity.
His vision shows the inability of Liberals to grasp the importance of delayed gratification.
Thank-you Michael, while eating ice cream for dinner sounds yummy, being an adult, I'll do my hard work, I'll finish my dinner, and then, once my house is in order - I'll have a little desert.
That's how we do it at the big people's table.
5 comments:
Wow! Is that chic ever stacked!
Shouldn't that be: "No Desert 'til We Finish Our Water"?
One other thing that brain-dead, economically illiterate Liberals should consider is that if Harper gets a majority, no election for five years, that is, five years of stability, deficit reduction and either income splitting come next election or Conservatives dieing on their own sword.
If the coalition takes over the first thing they will do is say, oops, can't have child care, can't have 1000/yr for students, the Conservatives have hidden the true cost of the deficit by x billions of dollars and we must raise the gst and every other tax to balance the books, no new programs.
Problem solved.
Re income splitting in 5 yrs or so, my grandmother always said, always have a dream and work toward it. When one dream is achieved plan another one. It might take years but it is worth the wait. So lets dream of a majority conservative govt, and when achieved dream of income splitting. A vote for lib/ndp is a vote for the Bloc coalition.
Funny,isn't it? Liberals are getting all worked up because the promise made by Harper may take a few years to kick in. Yet they inflate the figures for the purchase of new jet fighters which aren't going to be purchased until 5 to 7 years down the road, which place that purchase after the income splitting plan would be introduced.
I love this posting. This is exactly the way Canadians need to start thinking. Self-discipline, self-reliance and local helping, not big government. Those are the old Canadian values that must be front and centre.
Socialist regimes are fslling apart everywhere, even as the US has started to go left, at their peril.
Thanks L - you get my point exactly.
Instead of treating us like victims, expecting the government to hand us our every need.. let's encourage Canadians to have pride and empower themselves to be responsible for fulfilling their own needs.
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