Rant Du Jour

So, yesterday on the news there was a story that some anti-poverty group claimed that one out of nine Canadian children lives in poverty; this despite the government promising to end child poverty eight years ago. So that means that 89% of Canadian children DO NOT live in poverty; that sounds pretty good to me.

This same anti-poverty group is demanding the government implement a "national daycare policy"(Why government needs to do this is a mystery to me, even though groups have been screaming for it for years).

This same group is also demading more low income housing. As I've said in a nearlier post, government has no business being in the housing business anyway; that should be left to charities. Why are these groups demanding that the government waste taxpayers' money on this?

As for a national daycare policy, why do we need this? This should be left up to each parent to decide what daycare they send their child to. There is already Provincial legislation that dictates how many children can be in a daycare, the standards for who can work there, etc. etc. Why does the federal government need to be involved in this, and double up on bureacracy?

Basically, what these so-called "do gooders" are trying to do, is level the playing field. They are wasting millions of dollars in taxpayers money to save one child in nine, instead of focusing on helping the eight out of nine succeed. There's too much money wasted on the trash, and not enough on helping the smart children succeed.

This is called "equalization of opportunity" and it's (forgive my language) bullshit. You can pour billions and billions of dollars into Surrey welfare trash, and they will STILL be Surrey welfare trash. There is no such thing as Eliza Doolittle; she only exists in a play.

These groups are trying to say, in essence, that each child has the right to go to Harvard. Sure, we all have the "right" to go to Harvard, but the reality is that very, very few of us will ever get in. I agree with that; otherwise, there would be nothing special about a Harvard education. Think of the Harvard students that have gone on to employ hundreds of people. Bill Gates comes to mind. Think of all the hundreds of people who wouldn't have jobs if it wasn't for him.

This same group is also demanding that the federal government raise the national minimum wage to $10.00/hour. As I said earlier, that's ridiculous. I say scrap the minimum wage - period. Get rid of it. That would mean that more people would be able to be employed. If you got rid of the minimum wage, then there probably wouldn't be a need for welfare, as a lot more people would be employed. We all know that everytime the minimum wage goes up, more jobs disappear. It's far more degrading to go to the welfare office and beg for help than be gainfully employed at $5.00/hr. Let the market decide how much a job is worth; not the government.

Whenever these "do gooders" try to influence the government and the government implements their demands, what it creates is: more governement, more bureaucracy - and there is very little trickle down effect. Who pays for this? The taxpayer. That means that *all* families (including those that these misguided morons are trying to help) are forced to have more money taken out of their pocket to pay for stuff that supposedly helps them. If even a portion of these do-gooders get government funding, they are literally taking food out of these families mouths - all in the name of "helping" them. It's ludicrous.