The brilliant Mark Steyn writes this prescient monitory with his usual unique perspective: He’s not a liberal-left useful idiot (which partially explains that whole “brilliant” thing), and although he is thoroughly entrenched in America as a well-known, New York Times Best-Seller (America Alone —one of the best books you’ll read this decade), a sometimes fill-in guest host for Rush Limbaugh, and a multinational columnist, he’s also Canadian, so he knows whereof he speaks. (Hat tip to Dean for the heads up on the column.)
Here’s a snippet of “UNTANGLING THE SPAGHETTI”:
… If you want to know what Obama’s pledge to “save or create” four million jobs would look like if the stimulus weren’t a total bust, consider what “good news” means in an Obama-sized state: A couple of years back, I happened to catch an intriguing headline up north. “The Canadian economy is picking up steam,” reported the CBC. Statistics Canada had just announced that “the economy added 56,100 new jobs, two-thirds of them full time.” That’s great news, isn’t it? Why, the old economy’s going gangbusters, stand well back.
But I was interested to know just what sectors these jobs had been created in. …
Note that the reference to the ever so “upbeat” (upbeat only to the usual suspects like the socialism-reliant CBC to which he refers) employment news occurred during Liberal Party reign, which I remember very well because I blogged about it at the time and expressed almost identical intellectual remorse, though not as lucidly as Steyn (Oct. 2004 —read blog entry here), and wrote again in with new stats in 2005 (read here), expressing similarly dejection. But that’s hardly a defence of the current Conservative Party leadership of Canada, which hasn’t done any better —nor even has it lived up to its billing as a “conservative” party — insofar as ridding Canadians of an incessant growth in government, nor their dependence on government —in fact it has done and continues to do quite the opposite. The current Conservative government even speaks Obama, using the exact same ridiculous, specious verbiage about “creating or saving jobs” as a direct result of their pernicious “stimulus” packages.
They’re all “progressives” —varying only in the degree to which they subscribe to that inane political doctrine, or pasta, if you will.
The column takes two minutes to read.
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