Let’s sort through this fair and balanced article in the leftist Liberal Party-endorsing Toronto Star, in which they clearly take political sides on the issue. And hey whadyaknow, it’s the Liberals’ side! They report—from a far leftist’s perspective, and then you decide. Do this over and over all day long. Every day. All year. Rinse and repeat. It’s how you get shiny increasingly leftist governments! Call this political shampoo Fabian.
Tories pull plug on popular EnerGuide
[…] Funding for the $44-million EnerGuide for Homes was axed in the Conservatives’ May 2 budget but official notice that it is being phased out only emerged on a federal government website on the weekend.
[…] Last year, with interest in the program booming along with energy prices, the Liberal government spent $44.3 million on EnerGuide and had planned to increase funding by $200 million this year. But that money was cut in the Conservative budget.
[…] There are also concerns about the federal Conservatives’ decision to scrap a new five-year, $500 million program introduced by the Liberals called EnerGuide for Low Income Households, which would have paid the full cost of renovations to improve energy use for low-income earners.
It was popular. Boomingly so. Got it? They said it at least four times because we’re so thick. Just so we’re sure. And wow, hey, who knew getting free money would be popular among the benevolent liberal-left government teat-sucking entitlement set? Genius.
The Conservative side is a little different.
“We are going to ensure that every single Canadian taxpayer gets value for their money,” Lunn said yesterday when asked in the Commons to justify the decision.
Well that’s just insane.
[…] The Conservatives say EnerGuide is being dropped because the cost of the audits was too high. Last year, audits in support of homeowners’ energy renovation grants totalled $15.1 million out of the total $44.3 million cost of the program, Natural Resources officials said.
And that’s pretty much all they told us about the government’s side.
Of course the joke’s on them, really. They are telling us that 33 percent of the grants went just to public-sector union taxpayer-paid liberal-hired bureaucrats? Each year? Just for the audits? Fully one third? And that’s not even counting the cost to dole out the cash through the liberal-left bureacracy, advertise it through liberal-friendly ad firms, and then sell! sell! sell! it at election time with massive full-page dead tree ads, and more—which would all amount to a large portion of the rest of that $44.3 million, probably. That’s some efficient government! We’d all be better off if we just burned taxpayer cash in our home’s fireplaces to stay warm in the winter. Especially when you factor in the extra $200 MILLION per year they were going to increase this grant to, and the extra $500 MILLION per year to poor folks who would end up with better homes than “rich” folks like me. That’s $700 MILLION extra dollars per year, of which they would spend at least half on their big huge government bureaucracy, many of whom would get the grants themselves.
Of course they left out that bit. They never called me—that’s half the problem with these stories. They always seem to call leftists.
Seems to me the government should just pay out a couple million to Conservative accountability people to help stop the Liberals’ legacy of taxpayer cash hemorrhaging, methinks. That’s the only leaky home I think needs taxpayer subsidies. Then the Conservatives can reduce taxes even more and people can renovate their own homes with all the extra cash thus remaining in their pockets. I know I know—too radical. Not socialist.
And here’s something else that’s fun to note in liberal-left media articles: When the government is cutting something “popular”, it’s a “Conservative government” that’s doing the cutting. It’s the “Conservatives’ budget” that has been slashed, not “the federal budget”. Or when talking about slashing social programs, as this is, it’s a “Harper government” who’s doing it, not “the federal government”. When the government is doling out tons of taxpayer cash, it’s “Ottawa” or the “Liberal government”. Contrast this to the Liberal Party’s adscam sponsorship corruption scandal, which they always refer to as the “federal sponsorship” “incident”.
For the Toronto Star, it has less to do with “EnerGuide”, and more to do with the Liberals not being in power. That’s fair and balanced news reporting to a liberal.
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