Well, you asked for it...

According to this, the Prime Minister’s Office is looking for ideas for policy recommendations to form a fresh set of priorities and mandates for the government.  What will come as no surprise to anyone is that I have a few suggestions to make.

1. The Conservative party should relieve itself of the delusion that any measures they take to regulate the citizenry into Eco-goodness will afford them so much as an ounce of credit or votes from those who vociferously petition the government for those regulations.  You are wasting your time, and you are recklessly wasting my money.  Bowing to the Eco-horde will not win you votes from them, and you will assuredly lose conservative stalwarts like me, who resent a Conservative party which practices an NDPish environmental agenda.  Banning incandescent light bulbs is a cheap power-grab that will have little to no quantifiable effect on the environmental situation.  It will however have the effect of bringing my pen just that much closer to the “none of the above” option on my ballot.  There is one important lesson to be learned from the millions of dead attributed to the banning of DDT; submitting to eco-hysteria costs lives and frequently amounts to myth and fallacy in the end.  Embracing these policies with such rapture could lead to worse, and will never win over the side which is pulling for them.

2.  Your surplus is my money.  You do not have a mandate to spend it like a sailor on shore leave.  I want back what you don’t need and while we’re talking about it, I’m not so sure you need as much as you’re spending.  Axing the SOW was a fabulous start to what should have become a trend toward paring off the multitude of wasteful special interest programs currently on the taxpayer dole.  Your decision to reinstate the SOW after a modicum of carping from grievance mongers on the left was a shameful capitulation on a fight that by all accounts, you had already won.  If you will not exude the fortitude to deny funding to such an obvious waste of taxpayer dollars, for a program which is clearly biased and poorly managed with complete lack of oversight and accountability, what assurance do any of us have that you are capable of the stewardship required for the many billions of dollars entrusted to you, through the blood and sweat of working Canadians?  It’s really quite simple; Programs which do not produce quantifiable results should be ended and the money which was expropriated to pay for these programs should be returned to its rightful owners...Canadian taxpayers.

3. Someone in the defense department should take out a history book and slowly read it to each member of the PMO, with emphasis on the conduct of previous wars and the importance of exuding strength and steadfast leadership in time of.  The Canadian public is losing confidence in the war because all they hear from our leaders are apologies and feel-good platitudes about peacekeeping and nation building.  Its crap, and the average Joe knows in their gut that when they hear it from the leadership, it means they haven’t got the heart to make the tough choices that need to be made in a time of war.  No one wants to be the one to back the weak horse.  Quit talking to people like they don’t know what war is.  It only makes you look like you don’t know.  The crowd which bristles at any departure from the peacekeeping line will never understand, and placating their ignorance only exposes your weakness in will and leadership.  Not a good thing during wartime.  If you’re going to keep our troops there, you should let them fight and make it final.  Quit pussy-footing around.  Our troops are first class...making constant apologies for that, brings shame on us all.

4. Quit paying off and entertaining extortionists.  Be they Quebecois or Native or any other manner of professional whiners and kneecap breakers.  They have never voted for you.  They never will vote for you.  And legitimizing their outrageous and ever-increasing list of demands is alienating those of us who do.  There should come a time when we gather up our guts and assert our authority to the pick-pockets...those entitlement queens who think nothing of holding the rest of the country hostage, in order to fund in perpetuity, their lavish ignorance and apathy.  The specter of autonomous, distinct-society self-governance should not be shunned and feared but instead, should be regarded as an opportunity to excise the dead weight of this country – the trouble making rabble which contributes nothing but requires exorbitant means to fund and maintain.  If they want to be autonomous, we should let them.  Cut them off the taxpayer dole and let them govern themselves how they see fit.  Quebecers get the rock they inhabit and Natives get the enormous swathes of land they already own, but neither will be permitted to gorge on the public trough any longer.  In addition, incendiary protest-junkies who incite violence and disrupt the social order should be treated as any other violent hostage-takers...haul their asses off to jail or if they present armed resistance, cut them down with sniper fire.  Make no mistake; when you talk about “distinct societies” and preserving their unique heritage, as a way of dodging the real subject – their unwillingness to make a meaningful contribution to a society which has generously funded their guerrilla war against it – what they take from that is the blatant signal that you would like that broom handle shoved in just a wee bit further.  And the rest of us – the vassals to these armed and enabled beggars – are left with no choice but to hope and pray that somewhere in that group, someone brought petroleum jelly.  In a prison rape-type scene, the inmates who hold your arms and legs to keep you still during the assault, are just as culpable for the crime as the one who holds the broom.  They wear their own shame, for the act of allowing violation and injustice to be inflicted upon an innocent.  Please, I beg you...let go of my arms and legs and tell those slathering parasites that they aren’t going to get their rocks off on me, any longer.  Tell them to either join and contribute, or piss off and take care of themselves.  So many of us are waiting.

If I had the time, I could surely write volumes.  But for now, these are the main slivers in my side.  The notion that a self-proclaimed Conservative government has stooped to the level of weak-willed pandering to nearly every latest victim-fad, has shorn them of all credibility as Conservatives, either fiscal or social.

Stephen Harper wants advice on which direction to take?  Here it is:  Read and heed the advice of figures like Edmund Burke and Milton Friedman.  Throw in a dollop of warmongering from Mark Steyn, just for spice.  And above all, start listening to those of us who are not just “in it for the money”...the ones who supplied the rungs by which you ascended the ladder of Canadian politics, from fledgling splinter-faction of conservatism to ruling party of the day.

Forsake your flank, and the enemy’s arrows will surely find their mark...and you will have no one to blame but yourself.

According to this, the Prime Minister’s Office is looking for ideas for policy recommendations to form a fresh set of priorities and mandates for the government.  What will come as no surprise to anyone is that I have a few suggestions to make.

1. The Conservative party should relieve itself of the delusion that any measures they take to regulate the citizenry into Eco-goodness will afford them so much as an ounce of credit or votes from those who vociferously petition the government for those regulations.  You are wasting your time, and you are recklessly wasting my money.  Bowing to the Eco-horde will not win you votes from them, and you will assuredly lose conservative stalwarts like me, who resent a Conservative party which practices an NDPish environmental agenda.  Banning incandescent light bulbs is a cheap power-grab that will have little to no quantifiable effect on the environmental situation.  It will however have the effect of bringing my pen just that much closer to the “none of the above” option on my ballot.  There is one important lesson to be learned from the millions of dead attributed to the banning of DDT; submitting to eco-hysteria costs lives and frequently amounts to myth and fallacy in the end.  Embracing these policies with such rapture could lead to worse, and will never win over the side which is pulling for them.

2.  Your surplus is my money.  You do not have a mandate to spend it like a sailor on shore leave.  I want back what you don’t need and while we’re talking about it, I’m not so sure you need as much as you’re spending.  Axing the SOW was a fabulous start to what should have become a trend toward paring off the multitude of wasteful special interest programs currently on the taxpayer dole.  Your decision to reinstate the SOW after a modicum of carping from grievance mongers on the left was a shameful capitulation on a fight that by all accounts, you had already won.  If you will not exude the fortitude to deny funding to such an obvious waste of taxpayer dollars, for a program which is clearly biased and poorly managed with complete lack of oversight and accountability, what assurance do any of us have that you are capable of the stewardship required for the many billions of dollars entrusted to you, through the blood and sweat of working Canadians?  It’s really quite simple; Programs which do not produce quantifiable results should be ended and the money which was expropriated to pay for these programs should be returned to its rightful owners...Canadian taxpayers.

3. Someone in the defense department should take out a history book and slowly read it to each member of the PMO, with emphasis on the conduct of previous wars and the importance of exuding strength and steadfast leadership in time of.  The Canadian public is losing confidence in the war because all they hear from our leaders are apologies and feel-good platitudes about peacekeeping and nation building.  Its crap, and the average Joe knows in their gut that when they hear it from the leadership, it means they haven’t got the heart to make the tough choices that need to be made in a time of war.  No one wants to be the one to back the weak horse.  Quit talking to people like they don’t know what war is.  It only makes you look like you don’t know.  The crowd which bristles at any departure from the peacekeeping line will never understand, and placating their ignorance only exposes your weakness in will and leadership.  Not a good thing during wartime.  If you’re going to keep our troops there, you should let them fight and make it final.  Quit pussy-footing around.  Our troops are first class...making constant apologies for that, brings shame on us all.

4. Quit paying off and entertaining extortionists.  Be they Quebecois or Native or any other manner of professional whiners and kneecap breakers.  They have never voted for you.  They never will vote for you.  And legitimizing their outrageous and ever-increasing list of demands is alienating those of us who do.  There should come a time when we gather up our guts and assert our authority to the pick-pockets...those entitlement queens who think nothing of holding the rest of the country hostage, in order to fund in perpetuity, their lavish ignorance and apathy.  The specter of autonomous, distinct-society self-governance should not be shunned and feared but instead, should be regarded as an opportunity to excise the dead weight of this country – the trouble making rabble which contributes nothing but requires exorbitant means to fund and maintain.  If they want to be autonomous, we should let them.  Cut them off the taxpayer dole and let them govern themselves how they see fit.  Quebecers get the rock they inhabit and Natives get the enormous swathes of land they already own, but neither will be permitted to gorge on the public trough any longer.  In addition, incendiary protest-junkies who incite violence and disrupt the social order should be treated as any other violent hostage-takers...haul their asses off to jail or if they present armed resistance, cut them down with sniper fire.  Make no mistake; when you talk about “distinct societies” and preserving their unique heritage, as a way of dodging the real subject – their unwillingness to make a meaningful contribution to a society which has generously funded their guerrilla war against it – what they take from that is the blatant signal that you would like that broom handle shoved in just a wee bit further.  And the rest of us – the vassals to these armed and enabled beggars – are left with no choice but to hope and pray that somewhere in that group, someone brought petroleum jelly.  In a prison rape-type scene, the inmates who hold your arms and legs to keep you still during the assault, are just as culpable for the crime as the one who holds the broom.  They wear their own shame, for the act of allowing violation and injustice to be inflicted upon an innocent.  Please, I beg you...let go of my arms and legs and tell those slathering parasites that they aren’t going to get their rocks off on me, any longer.  Tell them to either join and contribute, or piss off and take care of themselves.  So many of us are waiting.

If I had the time, I could surely write volumes.  But for now, these are the main slivers in my side.  The notion that a self-proclaimed Conservative government has stooped to the level of weak-willed pandering to nearly every latest victim-fad, has shorn them of all credibility as Conservatives, either fiscal or social.

Stephen Harper wants advice on which direction to take?  Here it is:  Read and heed the advice of figures like Edmund Burke and Milton Friedman.  Throw in a dollop of warmongering from Mark Steyn, just for spice.  And above all, start listening to those of us who are not just “in it for the money”...the ones who supplied the rungs by which you ascended the ladder of Canadian politics, from fledgling splinter-faction of conservatism to ruling party of the day.

Forsake your flank, and the enemy’s arrows will surely find their mark...and you will have no one to blame but yourself.