So, the Ontario Libs have published their Ontario budget. Realizing we’re kind of in debt (this year, the INTEREST on the debt alone is nearly $11 B dollars!), what does the government do? They INCREASE spending, and ADD TO THE DEBT to the tune of $10B/yr.

Now, I know these numbers tend to not mean very much to the average Torontonian. (I single out Torontonians, because they are largely responsible for re-electing the current bunch of schemers we have occupying the Legislature today).

2011 Ontario Election Results:

So, to make things a bit easier, here’s a different look at the numbers:

1. The sum of the following currently pays for the INTEREST on the debt:

• All of the health tax
• All of the Gas Tax
• All of read more

So what is there to say today? We’re back with Premier Dad, who lied to us, and cheated us, but you know, we didn’t know the other guy, so, you know, we went with him. Great. Get ready for some more taxes, folks!

I do not want to come off as a sore loser, because I hate that, I hated that the last federal election when all the lefties were sore losers, and are still talking about the “60% that didn’t vote for them”. I do not want to do that. The people of Ontario voted for the Liberals, they won fair and square according to the system we have, and we have to accept that. What I am wondering, though, read more

It all started with this innocent looking Tweet by @BradDuguid:

New #energy rates today show average home bill this May compared to last May remained the same http://bit.ly/cdpKw

There is so much wrong with this tweet, I barely know where to start.

OK, first off, unless Mr. Brad NoGood Duguid has a friend named Doc, and access to a DeLorean Time Machine, there is NO WAY he can know what his MAY Hydro bill will be like, since it is April 20.

Secondly, Hydro JUST announced another 8% increase taking effect May 1st. That is on top of another 9% that was implemented in August 2010, and another 8% of HST on top of all that. There are also numerous smaller increases throughout May read more

So McGuinty quietly takes another $18 million out of our pockets. This time because we didn’t want something, we took a stand, and these are the penalties for that little victory we scored last year. It’s like we can’t win for losing. This, of course, comes right on the heels of another $18 million we have to pay to reimburse Hydro One’s legal fees after losing a court case vs us, the taxpayers, for overcharging us.

And you’re thinking: that’s only $36 million. That’s nothing. That’s like a $1 a person in Ontario. Yes, $1 a person. TODAY. Tomorrow there’ll be another $1 for some other inept policy, and another the day after that. And at the end of the month read more

Sometimes I’m forced to watch Global TVs 5:30 news. Sometimes I linger long enough, past the dire Global Warming footage, and “green” energy announcements, to catch the promo for the six o’clock Global Toronto News. You know, the promos where the local figureheads are walking around Toronto, touting about how much they know about what’s going on. What I saw last night had me falling off my chair.

The promo starts. Here we have the two figureheads, Anne Mroczkowski and Leslie Roberts. They are in a gym and an irate guy comes up to them with a bill complaining about how expensive it has gotten. The figureheads reply (paraphrasing):

Oh, yes, the bill has gone up another 8% when the HST was read more

This strategy is so brilliant, I wish I’d had thought of it: invent your opponent’s platform, release it, and then attack it as if it was real. A conveniently leaked “closed door” meeting revealed the Tory platform to the media. The made-up platform contained a whole bunch of stuff that people don’t like, so along with snide remarks by Liberal officials, the LPO Twitter-sphere went crazy attacking this newly released fictional Tory platform, spreading “the word” as if it was the truth. I tell ya, it’s not a bad idea.

The Ontario liberals are so out of ideas, last week they asked the public for guidance. I guess anything will help at this point. They even asked for Opposition platforms, so read more

I understand you need some votes, but to go as far as to threaten people to actually vote for you in order to keep you far away in Toronto for four more years is going too far.

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Waking up this morning, I am left wondering: how much more can we take? It seems that every morning there is a new idiotic “green” announcement that makes no economical or ecological sense.

This one involves IKEA, the Green (furniture) Giant. The Swedish company is using one of Ontario’s ill-conceived green energy programs to install 6.4M dollars’ worth of (taxpayer subsidized) solar panels on some of their stores so they can generate energy and claim to be (taxpayer subsidized) “Carbon Neutral”. I say “taxpayer subsidized” because, although the initial investment is covered by IKEA, the good government of Ontario (ie: you) is going to pay IKEA a whopping 71.3¢ for each kilowatt of power produced. At this rate, IKEA will be making back its investment in about read more

The same professional “protesters” who keep crashing the G8 and G20 summits everywhere. Organized, and bused in, carrying weapons and wearing ski masks, these are no ordinary protesters. These are anarchists. Most of the time, these idiots don’t even know what they are protesting. All they look for is clashing with local police to get them on the evening news crying about police brutality.

Go home and get a life, you bums.

Toronto mayor Miller came to Giambrone’s aid today saying “The government has no business in the bedroom of the nation” (I know, highly original).

Excuse me, if I was living in Toronto, and was headed for the polls this fall, I’d say: “I would  like to know whether I am voting for a nice, upstanding man with integrity or a lying, cheating sleaze ball.”

But I don’t live in Toronto, so I won’t say that.