Sunday, 2 August 2020

COMMON SENSE IS IN THE MIDDLE. NOT LEFT, NOT RIGHT.


PART 2


Have you followed the WE Charity scandal in Canada? Wait. Safety first. I need to put on my helmet. Where is it? Done! Let the batons fly. It's pretty much obvious to sensible people what happened in the WE Charity imbroglio. WE Charity was paying the Prime Ministers' mom and brother to speak and the government, headed by the PM, doled out a contract of over $500m to the charity without the PM or his finance minister (he has benefited from WE Charity) recusing themselves. The PM and the Finance minister have both apologised. Do you need an ethics commissioner to tell you what happened? Find the story and read. Common sense is in the middle. It's not left or right. Seeing the debate between Liberals and Conservatives makes me laugh. One person blocked me on Twitter when I asked her what the PM's mother had done to command a speaking fee of $250,000. She could have just answered the simple question. You see why I need my helmet? 


Five ants plus five ants is ten ants. Right? Remove the space between ten and ants. What do you have? Tenants. A whole different meaning. That's exactly what happens when common sense is removed from the middle. To make my next point I need to fasten my helmet. 


The Government of Canada is responsible for the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP), which provides support to Government-Assisted Refugees. This includes: security and medical screening, settlement assistance upon arrival, immediate short-term housing, counselling and cultural orientation, information and referral to community services, translation and interpretation, language training, job-related services and so on. This is very noble. I am not in support or against the RAP. I am just wondering why this program exists when there are Canadians who are homeless, can't find work, sick and on a wait-list for surgeries. There are veterans amongst them. My common sense tells me to take care of my own kids first before my neighbours kids. I have a colleague who came to Canada more than 30 years ago on humanitarian grounds. His dad was told that if he doesn't find a job in 3 months he would be made to pay the cost of the things the government did for him. Three months later, the man was working. Does that still apply today or do we have people living in low income houses with no willingness to work? You can bring down the batons now. My helmet is firmly in place.


With my helmet in position, does it make sense for Canadians to be working two jobs to pay taxes and get by so that the government can have money to subsidize cost of living for refugees? Let the stones start flying. Moving on.. 


Depending on what political ground you stand, you will have certain views on abortion. I am not for or against abortion but I keep wondering why we promote abortion a lot more than sex education. It is unprotected sex that leads to pregnancy. I think it's important to make young people understand that unprotected sex has serious consequences like pregnancy. Would this approach not reduce the dire need for abortions? 


Immigration is another issue. Liberals want one thing. Conservatives want another. What to call immigrants is still up for debate. For some reason the people who say countries shouldn't have borders somehow have walls and doors and windows in their homes. They make sure they lock their doors when they go out. I would scratch my head but my helmet. 


We want to reverse climate change but we are still building bigger houses with basements. Bigger houses mean more gas to heat, more wood, cement, plastic. If we want to reduce climate change would it not be better to ask why a man needs a 3 bedroom house when he lives by himself? Get a room. 


Political correctness has taken over common sense. We just can't seem to agree on simple things anymore. That middle ground that separates ten and ants is totally gone. It will get worse. We are just at the beginning of a very slippery slope. Come with me as we attend the funeral of common sense. It lived well while it did. 



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