In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the modern habit of judging budgets by how much boodle we personally pocketed rather than how well or poorly it safeguarded the national finances, as if our own narrow self-interest were self-evidently the national interest.
“Comfort over everything”
Subject line on MEC email touting new camping gear June 19, 2024 [and what a slogan for our gormless hedonistic era].
On Juno News with Kris Sims I denounce the mendacious and feckless extravagance of the Carney Liberals’ budget.
In my latest National Post column I say too many people focus on federal budget minutiae when the big picture is fatuous, deceitful and dangerous Liberal lack of fiscal discipline.
“Clearness is the first essential”.
Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria according to Will Durant Caesar and Christ
“‘What are you going to be when you grow up?’ is a question about work. What is your work in the world going to be? What will be your works? These are not fundamentally questions about jobs and pay, but questions about life…. Work in this fundamental sense is not what we do for a living but what we do with our living.”
Introduction to the chapter on Work in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canadians have prepared for the government to borrow itself and us into insolvency by borrowing to the brink of bankruptcy themselves, while electing politicians as insouciant about debt as they are.
“But when it comes to a fight for private property – you can’t keep women out of that. You can’t have the family farm without the family. You must have Christian marriage again: you can’t have solid small property with all this vagabond polygamy.”
G.K. Chesterton in Tales of the Long Bow, as header quotation on David Beresford in Gilbert! The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #5 (May/June 2024)