Sober Thursday: Blue Christmas

Sorry to harper on this subject kids, but tax credits are no substitute for dedicated funding with strings attached. There is a much more sinister cryptic message stowing away in Flaherty's budget about the direction of this neo-con minority. It reads we want no part in responsibly governing provinces. We want no part in doling out to provinces. And most importanly, it says only those who pay - and especially those who pay the most- deserve our assistance. In the blue-tinted vision of Flaherty and his provincial boyfriends, John Baird and Two-Tier Tony Clement, only taxpayers are human. Everyone else is just a blood sucker on the soft, white underbelly of the giant shark of consumerism, whose eyes roll back in ecstasy with every X-Box purchase. In fact, in the twisted caverns of neo-con thought, somehow consumer purchasing power seems to be equivocated with the concept of economy itself.

Bill Graham was right yesterday when he stood in the house and said roughly what you are witnessing is the first neo-conservative budget in Canada's history. Make no mistake. This is not some new, progressive CPC at work. These are the same "tax cut create jobs" zombies that decimated Ontario's social policy and fiscal health. They are the ugly three Mr. Sisters of the Apocalypse of Caring.

Get ready for cooked books, hidden deficits and cheap $100 cheque mail-outs to whore a week of good polling numbers. Get ready for cuts that cut lose the wounded, drifting vulnerable in our society, like shark bait. Aboriginals were just an easy first target. Next thing you know, the health and social transfer will be axed in favour of sudsidizing the sick and lame with 50% off Your Next iPod Purchase vouchers.