Quote of the Day: “Politics is not about empirical realities, but about popular images. So long as the image of rent control is good, it wins votes at election time-and that is what it is all about, as far as politicians are concerned.” Thomas Sowell
What an appropriate Quote of the Day. I don’t search for specific QOTD from Dr. Sowell, I just grab them from a list.
On the Insight (Huh?) Page today, Gary Whetung writes about the Uvalde school shooting. I’m not going to comment on his op-ed or on this tragedy. But, I do want to say that I don’t know of one Canadian that gets the Second Amendment. Not one. And it appears that there are lots of Americans that don’t understand it either. Let me say that the Second Amendment is the most important Amendment because it protects all of the others. And since Canada has such a close relationship to the U.S., it protects us as well. When you have a Prime Minister and a Liberal / NDP majority who go along with invoking the Emergencies Act over a couple of dozen truckers honking their horns, and banks that are more than willing, gleeful it seems, to freeze bank accounts and assets of people, then we need the Second Amendment more than ever.
On the Editorial Page today, Fred Hahn, President of CUPE give us a laundry list items that the NDP are going to do to “improve” health care in Ontario. One of the items is braces at $13,000 a pop. Nice. No wonder the NDP is just a useless, reckless, know nothing party. Same with CUPE.
I’ve said before that to get an op-ed in TheRecord, you only need a leftist outlook and the ability to type a few sentences in some semi-coherent manner. On the Insight (Huh?) Page today, Karen Thompson of the Grand (M)other Act To Save The Planet (GASP) – I’ll bet they spent weeks coming up with that name – talks about the need for a Basic Income plan for Ontario. Again, as with all of these BI programs, they fail to address one of the main features of BI – and that is BI replaces all other income supplemental programs for lower income people. Not once in their op-ed or on their website do they address this issue. So, unless BI proponents fully recognize and accept this feature, then this program becomes just another failed government handout.