Couldn't we not spend the money, watch everything turn to shit in TO, and then have McGuinty and friends point and yell very loudly "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ELECT IDIOT TORIES! DON'T DO THAT, YA MORONS! REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED WITH MIKE HARRIS?!"? But I suspect that would be a little too much to hope for.
If there was a minimal intelligence requirement for public office, Idiot Face wouldn't even have been able to run. And given the reality of Idiot Face, Mike Harris and his high-school-dropout Education Minister, and the rest of the Usual Gang of CRAPs in Ottawa, my Inner Fascist thinks that enacting such a requirement has suddenly become a really good idea. Then again, I am the person who thinks that neoconservatives should be legally prohibited from holding elected office in Canada under Constitutional grounds, given that our Constitution guarantees "peace, order, and good government" and a bunch of ideologically warmongering, disaster-capitalist, "government is the problem, so let's drown it in the bathtub" anti-statists aren't going to be able to deliver on any of that, so grain of salt as required.
I didn't know that, but that makes my case even more compelling, n'est-ce pas? Neocons certainly don't believe in anything resembling welfare (in any sense of the word) applying to the population at large*.
On my good days, I'm into making their political philosophy unconstitutional. On my bad days, I'm into putting them all up against a wall somewhere. You don't make policy decisions that make my life miserable for years and kill one of my relatives and stay off my "burn it down and salt the earth" shit list.
____________ * A set which, for the purposes of this comment excludes aforementioned neocons, their families, and cronies.
Letting things go to shit works, once. Then when your guys can't clean up the shit rapidly while under heavy opposing fire, the other guys get back in and just make it worse.
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If there was a minimal intelligence requirement for public office, Idiot Face wouldn't even have been able to run. And given the reality of Idiot Face, Mike Harris and his high-school-dropout Education Minister, and the rest of the Usual Gang of CRAPs in Ottawa, my Inner Fascist thinks that enacting such a requirement has suddenly become a really good idea. Then again, I am the person who thinks that neoconservatives should be legally prohibited from holding elected office in Canada under Constitutional grounds, given that our Constitution guarantees "peace, order, and good government" and a bunch of ideologically warmongering, disaster-capitalist, "government is the problem, so let's drown it in the bathtub" anti-statists aren't going to be able to deliver on any of that, so grain of salt as required.
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(I need to re-read A Fair Country to make sure of this...)
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On my good days, I'm into making their political philosophy unconstitutional. On my bad days, I'm into putting them all up against a wall somewhere. You don't make policy decisions that make my life miserable for years and kill one of my relatives and stay off my "burn it down and salt the earth" shit list.
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* A set which, for the purposes of this comment excludes aforementioned neocons, their families, and cronies.
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Or at least this is what happens in US politics.