Is Jim Flaherty Pre-announcing Fascism?

But our destroyer, foe to God and Man?
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, Line 749

It seems that the wee banty Jimmy, the all high financial leprechaun is at it again folks. All those deep details that the Opposition is not going to get a chance to debate in the recent "omnibus" budget are surfacing at the finance ministers ill timed and poorly executed press conferences. Today's revelation had to do with unemployment insurance, now known comedically as employment insurance, and they were scary indeed. And right in line with all the rumors that have been recently burning around Ottawa.

Wee Jimmy says; Hail victory...

It seems to the vertically challenged little man, that a poor job is much better than no job! Right out loud. The Oracle of Ottawa could hardly believe his own ears. So, if you are an unemployed temporary teacher say and you become seasonally unemployed, you are now a candidate for a new Canadian manufacturing job, at McDonalds, manufacturing burgers! Or perhaps the teacher could be deployed in the new Canadian high tech sector, as a call center operator!

Wee Jimmy ponders no job...

The Oracle of Ottawa was under the impression that the 'Harper Government' was all about free markets, the absolutely unquestionable choice and power of the decision making of unrestricted free market capitalism! You know the "marketplace" where you could take it or leave it. Well, apparently the Canadian people seem to be getting very good at it. They are simply leaving it! The wee boggy went on about the great pending labor shortages that are affecting all of Canada at present. This is of course an utter and bare faced lie! It is just simply a question of supply and demand. Most Canadian employers refuse to supply the wages demanded by the Canadian workers. So quite simply, many Canadian highly skilled workers are simply going to ground and refusing to apply for E.I. until better days come along. 

If we did have a truly capitalistic economy the 'Harper Government' would stand aside and keep their hands off, wouldn't they? But the mask is off now dear readers. It seems that take it or leave it is now going to be reduced to take it or else. You don't need the Oracle of Ottawa to tell you dear reader that this smacks of straight up and base fascism. There is no other word for it. When it comes to push from shove how dare you leave it! In the words of the environment minister Peter Kent, take it or leave it is just a figure of speech like money laundering and is only used in election campaigns... 

Rick Mercer presents another very good idea....

'Harper Government' - The Pig Is In The Shredder

Always go to other peoples funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.
Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, p. 73

Well here we are dear reader. Starting tomorrow, the last shreds of the Canada that you have always known, will over the next few years, be gone forever. The Wee Jimmy provided all the symbolism that any rational, aware and thinking person required. There was the great man in a local Aldo shoe store getting his brand new pair of made in Asia, by sweated under paid labour, budget (?) shoes. The Oracle of Ottawa never wears made in Asia shoes. He only wears made in Canada shoes. Now if the wee minister was at Mark's Work Wearhouse getting himself a nice sensible pair of Terra work shoes, that are literally hand made in Canada, we could all have something to look forward to in that symbolic act.   

Wee Jimmy delivers Manifest Destiny...

Yes sir, the Conservatives are going to bring you their sacred dream, starting tomorrow. Government is going to be getting out of the business of government. Starting tomorrow you to will have the most treasured and coveted right of every Conservative; the right to fail all on your own. And after all the measures start kicking in on this great trek of personal liberation, we will all be but  guaranteed this most sure and sacred result. As the Oracle of Ottawa warned early and often in this humble blog, you will now work longer, pay more and eventually, maybe, if you don't die, get less. Which really exposes a very interesting paradox. You would think that if capitalism and free unregulated markets are so goddamn awesome, we should be expecting to have the retirement age lowered to age 60? Gee, the Oracle of Ottawa wonders if any one from the newly envigorated NDP will bring this up, when the front bench of the 'Harper Government' brain dead morons start on their capitalism and free markets are awesome kick. 

Starve, kill, privatize. That is the secret game plan. You will not have a democracy very long without a dedicated Civil Service. Besides, democracy with the right of free and collective bargaining and an open  level of active social discourse is just so inconvenient, isn't it? Especially when those bastard liberals (i. e. them...) with their big union bosses start throwing numbers around... Just fire the lot of the smug Eastern cock-suckers! Oh yes, you can be assured that many civil servants will be without a job after tomorrow. But after about two to six weeks after their terminations, they will be getting the call from the designated Alberta contractor, offering them their old jobs back at a little over minimum wage! Wait for it... Tomorrow around six o'clock the wee ministers cheap Asian shoes will be doing their job, biting like hell.

Whoa - Wee Jimmy! Not too heavy on that Lady Grecian, every body will think you are Stockwell Day!!

Should Mark Carney Resign?

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.
Randal Marlin, Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion, p. 149

This all boiled up this morning as I was relaxing in the secure bunker on a cosy Saturday morning hitting the CTV news channel to catch up on the world events. As ugly chance would have it, I walked right into that phone interview with wee Jim Flaherty , Canada's present leprechaun of Finance. Well things did not seem to be going too good, the wee minister was straying far from his "talking points" and what came out of is mouth had the sound of a panicked man. Thank God it was Saturday, the stock market was closed in Toronto, and we all know that when wee Jimmy starts yapping about the economy the market starts shedding points as he is talking!

Chase this....

Lets put all this into proper context. We have our wee Finance Minister constantly babbling to anyone who will listen about things he doesn't know shit about. I am still in shock from that interview around 2008, when he practically openly admitted he never owned a stock in his life! With a background in motor vehicle accident and personal injury litigation Canada is no doubt well represented at the G20 meetings. With the head of the International Monetary Fund being headed by an anti trust and labour lawyer woman from France I guess this makes wee Jimmy look one up!

Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario....

 But what is really cooking this taxpayers chicken is that Mark Carney seems to be always somewhat nearby at usually less then arms length distance. That interview of our Bank of Canada governor sitting in the Prime Ministers office with wee Jimmy for the photo-op in the 'Harper Government's vain attempt to make me feel better still leaves me somewhat pukey at the very thought of it! That should have never happened. The governor of the Bank of Canada is always to be at "arms length" and should never appear in situations or photo-ops that in any way make him look to appear like a Fisher-Price pull toy at the end of a short string... I mean I am just going on tradition here, can you think of any example from the past governors where this has happened even once?

In closing it seems to me that some young NDP member should stand to his / her seat in Question Period and ask a few questions. Such as; when is a partner of a large investment bank no longer a partner? What connections should a Bank of Canada Governor have, if any? Should a major investment bank that was once an employer of a present government official be allowed to pitch any business at all? Should a present Bank of Canada Governor be allowed to be a member of the Group of Thirty while he is holding office as a central bank governor? 

A little more "background"...

Conservative Ontario Hat Trick Jammed!

I believe it will not be very necessary to prove, that these qualities produce an association among ideas, and upon the appearance of one idea naturally introduce another.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Sec.IV, p. 11

What does the wee blue leprechaun Jimmy Flaherty have in common with Mayor Rob Ford? Okay your right on that one, the height deficiency disorder. What else? Well okay I will have to give that one also. The near megalomaniacal desire for power that they aren't intelligent enough  to wield on their own. But now you are getting really close! Earlier on in this blog the Oracle of Ottawa was referring to the Bilderberg Group a lot of times in jest. Tongue firmly in check, it seemed to make the words flow better and for some weird reason it gave the writing something I was trying to achieve... But the Oracle of Ottawa had a weird hunch to check something out, and in requirement  to the Thinking About Thinking Project, which is still ongoing, I follow all hunch's as procedure... Well the Oracle of Ottawa has truly frightened himself this time!

David Hume says; "I told you so..."

As you have no doubt heard in the old media, Dear Reader, the details of the incredible fees being earned in Ottawa by one Deloitte-Touche at the peasant rate of only $90,000 per day! All to help and aid the wee little bantam rooster Jimmy Flaherty in gutting the Civil Service...The whole contract tops out at a mere 20 million dollars. I am sure many extensions will surely be granted... Now at roughly the same time His Imperial Highness of Hog Town, Rob Ford, has the firm KPMG in for the kitten drowning exercise at the City of Toronto! I haven't heard what this is costing the beleaguered Toronto tax payer, but you can count on it being very rich...

The Oracle of Ottawa remembers when we once had competent governments in Canada. The last big clean up in Ottawa occurred under the administration of Jean Chretien. Why the guy wouldn't even think of contracting out such a task! They were Liberals, for crying out loud and  smart as hell too! They had more than enough brilliance in house, it was a total doddle!! And they did what they had to do, but they did it nicely and respectfully! Why people lined up for early retirement just to get their retirement plaque signed by a Great Prime Minister! It all went swimmingly.

So why is it that two levels of government, of the right wing wacko variety, have to bring in foreign contractors to do stuff that any civil servant staffer is more than competent to attend to on his own? Well the Oracle of Ottawa will let you discover this all by yourself...
Enter the following searches into Google... I have already done so to save you the time.... So just click on the link and it will take you there....

Deloitte-Touche Bilderberg Group.....(engage the high lighter...)

KPMG Bilderberg Group......(engage the high lighter...)

Now do you understand? These foreign "contractors" seem to be certified ideologically pure by the Bilderberg Group!! Why isn't the old style media running with this? Why isn't someone standing up in the House of Commons and asking this question? They will, and still do, have much more protection in the House than this poor blogger does out naked in the open....

The Oracle of Ottawa could go on and on... But I am not Hunter S. Thompson, and this is not the Rolling Stone magazine... Gods speed you poor fools....

Note wee Jimmy in the bottom right of the frame...making Lovey eyes with old Rob....
(This post was created with the help of Genesis - Wind and Wuthering, it worked in Christmas of 1976 and it still works.)

The Conservative Party Of Canada - Hardly!

It is also certain, that a commonwealth is always in greater danger from its citizens than from its enemies; for the good are few.
Benedict de Spinoza, A Political Treatise, Chapter VI, Section 6 

The Oracle of Ottawa's "Thinking About Thinking Project" is yielding quite unexpected results so early into its run. Perspective is widening at an ever increasing rate. All quiet shocking to its creator. While reading this Fridays Globe and Mail the top front page story caught the Oracle of Ottawas eye immediately and set off his bull shit alarm in the steady violated mode. In a wonderful article by Bill Curry of the Ottawa bureau entitled "Ottawa eyes fix for population crunch"  the best fart catchers and spin doctors under contract to the Conservative Party of Canada have conjured up a new disaster, recently discovered, whereby the surface story as told to you and me is that by tomorrow there will not be any taxpayers left to support all the just recently discovered senior citizens!

Wee Jimmy needs more gold!

The whole thing of course is an outright crock of shit! This same crock doubles as the Finance Ministers crock of "gold" at the end of his ideological rainbow. The declining population argument has been covered by the Oracle of Ottawa, and you can check it out here. Rest assured, the whole thing is an outrageous lie. But what is the real story? What is the real purpose of this spin doctors recent creation? The Oracle of Ottawa will share his views, developed with his recent new powers of critical thinking....

It seems that many promises were made in the last federal election to many "new" Canadians that are not satisfied to be merely Canadian citizens in their own right, but demanded that if the Conservatives got a majority that they could bring to Canada forthwith all their relatives of their small extended families. Well by a total fluke of probability and chance, the impossible deed was indeed achieved! Now wee Jimmy's micro-dick is in the sharpener as he realizes that a gazzilion peasant grandma's and other unproductive litter will soon have to be resident and a total drag on Canada's social system. The real problem, and indeed, it is pressing, forgive the pun, is how to jerk off the Canadian population on how to pay for this useless and insane expense.

Wee Jimmy - ponders the next Big Lie...

Hence the "population crunch"! Wee Jimmy knows that it is the Big Lie that will work, if it is done right. What has to be done is to convince the gullible tax paying Canadian public that they can no longer count on the social contracts of yesterday. So that will mean that the retirement age will have to be changed to the age of 68 from the present age of 65. You will of course have to pay more into the pension fund, work longer, and if you live to collect a pension cheque, it will, of course, be less! Why that is just like the recent British changes! The extra (unneeded) revenues will be more than enough to load up the endless plane loads of peasants various... And to pay for all their ailments from the time they land to the time they finally drop dead. The Oracle of Ottawa is totally confident that the 60% of Canadians that didn't vote for the Conservative party will totally and gladly accept this... Won't they?

See also: Classical Dialectic...

Letter to David McGuinty

Impressions of this kind will naturally indicate the policy of fostering divisions among us, and depriving us, as far as possible, of an ACTIVE COMMERCE in our own bottoms.
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, No. 11

Dear David:

The wife just came back from the mother-in-laws and told me that the lights are on at the Tory War Room, but the parking lot is empty. There will be possibly an election very soon. Also, wee Jimmy Flaherty, the fiscal midget, is tearing around Canada like a leprechaun on PCP, skittering about madly in Steve Harper's ideological Peace Tower belfry. Apocalyptical business...  The Writ is slowly fluttering to the ground..

The Honorable David McGinty

The wife and I always keep an eye out for you on the TV. You are so good on your feet now. The one good thing about living in Ottawa South is that we have always had excellent representation at the federal and provincial levels. Keep reading Cicero's Orations. You can't talk like him in a modern court, but you can use that old roman style in parliament and it makes for great footage...  It has been great to watch you grow and do so well.

Library of Parliament

I had a few more pleasant paragraphs planned but as you know how  events take over and other things must be addressed right now. The news that broke at the market close in Toronto that the London Stock Exchange (FTSE) wants to acquire the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX)!  A merger of equals! I am sure you heard that one before, I have and it never ends well. My biggest worry about this is the influence of Russian Oligarch gangsters and that influence coming to Canada under the guise of a corporate merger. Call CSIS and demand a briefing, I am not sure, but I believe they have to send somebody when you call them... Surely to God we can afford to own our own stock-exchanges? The whole thing has given me the Fear! Idea!  What better way to have National Securities Regulation then to have the Government of Canada owning the stock-exchanges!

Run with that gibberish Dave! It will give you leverage and much video time! Well it is a cold winters night, and all the other subjects I wanted to mention pale in importance to this latest run at Canada. When things settle (or not) I will write again.. The voters in Ottawa South got your back Dawg!

                                                                                                                        Until then..
                                                                                                                    Oracleofottawa


P.S. Ever since I started this stupid literary experiment, people have been slipping brown envelopes under the door to my fortified compound... And I have just learned about the Tory's next election theme song. I have attached it, but I don't know what to think!