Great article by Ted Rechtshaffen of the Financial Post – Canadians want the government to take care of them, but someone will have to pick up the bill – August 20, 2020,
To start although I believe Labour unions have a right to exist, I always like to remind people that the welfare state is derived from the entitled workforce who want a barrier of entry in the private sector that prevents competition from driving down the price of labour.
Based on the above paragraph, you should already know that I associate labour unions with Marxism, so whenever I read from a Conservative writer writing about the cost of labour being driven down, I’m often reminded that most Westerners don’t know how influential Karl Marx is.
The moment there’s a barrier to entry into a private-sector job market, by definition, there has to be a welfare state. Making matters worse public schools for the most part teach students to be wage slaves. Now what people forget is that working for a company isn’t a RIGHT it’s a privilege, if we valued property rights, employers won’t be forced to subsidize employees that are making them less profitable.
But all of these Marxist beliefs are conserved by a lot of people who imagine themselves to be Right-Wingers/Conservatives/Libertarians and this to me is what fuels the entitlement generation. I’m a Christian, similar to the Jews and the Chinese, you can put a Christian anywhere in the world, and this Christian if they’re a true Christian will add value to that civilization.
Now, as many people know, most Communists are atheists, and one of the main reasons why atheists feel the need to attack Christians is because of Christian faith that puts the rights of the individual ahead of the rights of the collective democratic mob.
I grew up protestant and the one reason I love my upbringing is that I was never forced to give life to Christ it was a voluntary act. I know with some Catholics they’re baptized at birth and the have a central authority figure, well Western society appeared to have flourished when voluntary acts of baptism were even embraced by the church.
So when protestants were face to face with the separation of church and state, obviously we agreed. The problem, however, is that most of humanity hasn’t reached the level of understanding. Most of humanity still believes that there needs to be a central authority and being that the monarchy in a country like Canada is an afterthought, we will always be fighting an uphill battle with people who want a big government.
I speak to a lot of Liberals, I have Liberals in my PROTESTANT family, many of whom read the same King James Bible I read. However, because of the Welfare State, they’re able to interpret the bible differently. As an example, they saw CERB as God looking out for his people?
Why did the Liberals in my family think CERB was a great idea? Because the money wasn’t being extracted out of their pockets directly. They didn’t have to physically write the government a check, so they saw their Liberal Party as being the good guys doing God’s work.
Of course, this irritates the hell out of me, but I’ve argued with them enough and come to terms with the reality that the economic crash that’s coming is going to hit a lot of Canadians by surprise. But because I read the bible, stories of how great civilizations in the bible were destroyed no longer seem like myths, because I’m experiencing the destruction of a great country in real-time.
I personally think democracy has been around longer than people imagine it has, I believe democracy predates the Greeks, I just think the Greeks gave it a definition. Don’t take this the wrong way, but it appears that Kings and Queens who ruled with Iron fist had longer-lasting kingdoms. It was the kingdoms that were trying to use the equivalent of State power to make certain segments of society happy that seemed to be shortest lived.
Let’s not forget how old Canada is, equally let’s not forget what the British Empire was either. I personally although Canada has market fundamentals in our economy, I believe we have an abundance of socialist initiatives also. I personally believe Canada is entering into a period I like to call Late Stage Socialism.
In a nutshell, Late Stage Socialism occurs when the democratic mob has taken over politics, some like to blame the central banks, I personally put the blame squarely on the people! When POWERS have been centralized, it provides the perfect opportunity for the Marxists to peddle their influence.
Now, it’s important to remember that Marxists never take responsibility when things go wrong when the U.S.S R fell, the Marxists didn’t blame socialism, they blamed corruption if only socialism had been done correctly the socialists will argue.
Capitalists have a different problem, our problem is that capitalism works so well, that people want an equal outcome. I’m not as rich as the guy across the street and I want a central authority to fix this injustice. What’s often ignored is how much better a persons standard of living is because of the capitalist, but you see humans get bored and hate FEELING like they’re getting the short end of the stick and therefore they will cut off their nose to spite their face
Now despite what you might think, when you’re living in a world of abundance, Cutting off the nose to spite the face is a very effective political strategy. I’ll show those greedy capitalists the obese poor person shouts while enjoying a welfare check, subsidized housing, free water a social worker, free electricity, access to public transit, and income tax check at the end of the year.
As the government grows you have to also remember the people who retire after spending their entire lives working in the public sector or even working for a crown corporation.
Now, attempt to sell me on why a person who enjoyed an above-market wage and a solid retirement cash windfall would ever want to shrink the size of the government? They won’t, the big government benefited them greatly and it’s only right that they share the great news of what a big government can do for you too.
Now, during the Late Stage Socialism phase, it’s imperative that you learn what Ted Rechtshaffen writes about in his article
I thought this thinking might be caused by a lack of fundamental financial education. Maybe if people had a better understanding of the various taxes that are being collected, and then could see what it was being spent on, they might simply want less to be collected and less to be spent.
I now understand I was wrong. It wasn’t others’ lack of financial education, it was mine. Most people who want more government support realize that they will not be paying for it. It will come out of other people’s pockets.
What Ted Rechtshaffen writes about in his article below, I call Late Stage Socialism I used to work for charities at my church, I used to think like many other people thought that Black people had low IQ’s. turns out I was wrong, the problem in Africa was their government, I remember wanting to help the people there start a business, well, I was introduced to these government interventions in Africa called “tariffs and regulations” and in certain parts of Africa, their tariff and regulation systems could cost a person their life!
I found out this was happening in certain parts of Asia and Latin America and the West Indies also. Entire civilizations were being told to avoid the Western influence. Imagine that leadership via the democratic mob culture was damning you to poverty?
When you’re brainwashed into believing Western Culture is wrong, you will voluntarily omit yourself from using certain words. If you have children, your children probably won’t use those words either, let’s even imagine you hit the lottery and are able to migrate to a western country from Africa as an example, when you get to the Western Country, based on your upbringing, you will assume that Western civilization was built on exploitation.
If Western society has embraced socialism, as a Canadian immigrant, you’d also be able to back up claims, because the moment socialism is implemented into society a monopoly of sorts is created. In a fair system, a government monopoly entitles a person to welfare, because if let’s say in Ontario there was no LCBO(a government Liquor monopoly) there would be a ton more private businesses, not only making money but also paying taxes.
Now paying taxes out of pocket versus the government taking the money out of your paycheck before you’re allowed to spend it are two entirely different things. Part of the reason I believe most people don’t want to be entrepreneurs is that they fear turning into Conservatives.
I personally have to put money aside just to pay the government, so I see get the pleasure of seeing in real-time when the government slashes my profits. Mind you if I’m not profitable, the government still wants their cut, I can’t walk into a Canadian business and refuse to pay sales taxes if I don’t pay my property taxes the government will take my house, now a lot of the taxes and expenses I pay, the so-called poor people never have to worry about it!
Yet for many of them, they enjoy the same or even better luxuries than I enjoy. I remember reading story about a woman who was robbed at Gunpoint for her Mercedes Benz when she parked her car in her metro-housing parking spot? I don’t have a Mercedes Benz? Because I live within my means, but who knows, maybe that woman in metro-housing was living within her means too, so much so that she could afford to save up and buy a Mercedes Benz?
Even when the news reported the story, the news tried to avoid emphasizing that she lived in metro-housing, I was familiar with the address and looked it up. In the Late Stage Socialism phase, the democratic mob only cares about getting as much as they can out of the government. A great read below, I don’t find that there are too many mainstream media writers who get to the heart of what’s happening to Canada.
Interesting times ahead!