The 5-0-1 plan makes great sense to me. As a 77 year old retiree, living on a total pension of $1381 a month, my wife and I have no choice but to draw down our retirement savings and continue working at our small home business in order to keep our heads above water. Now, with the HST looming on the horizon this summer, a 9% increase announced in BC hydro bills, and other inflationary trends in the future, things could get very tight indeed, for us and for thousands of oother retirees. It is time government tightened their collective belts, quit spending as if there is no tomorrow, and quit giving unneeded raises to their employees.

Several other measures to give us back our freedom and security (both financial and physical): -Bring all of our troops home from everywhere.
-withdraw the charter from the central bank and repeal legal tender laws, to allow competition in currency.
-allow for private provision of all health care.
-sell off the assets of Canada Post and put an end to this fiasco.
I have many more points but just these few measures would go a long way to removing the large burden from our shoulders.

You have dne very well I would say. The only questionable item is zero base budgetting. This idea is sound in principle, unfortunately it does not work very well. I spent several years with the B.C.

You have done very well in my opinion. The only questionable item is zero base budgetting. This idea seems to be sound in principle, however it does not work very well. I spent several years with the B.C.Forest Service when zero base was tried, unfortunately it did not work very well.

forest Service

A significant cut in government spending could be made by trimming Official Bilingualism or eliminating it altogether. Eliminate the Office of the Commissioner for Official Languages. Various auxhiliary positions for Languages could also be eliminated. Colectively this would save a colossal amount of our tax money.

Also have proposed Bill C- 428 deleted, the amending of AOS payments.

Here we go again, EVERYBODY knows better how to run our lives, than we do (in some cases, it may be true).

Two things to consider:
1) ALL taxes come from the pocket of the taxpayer. There is not a business on earth that can actually PAY taxes, without going broke, eventually. All they do is COLLECT taxes (at great expense), from their customers. That means that product prices need to be higher than otherwise necessary, which makes the products less competitive world wide. That means smaller markets, which means fewer sales, which means fewer opportunities to create jobs, which means less taxes get paid. It can also mean that companies go broke, and/or move somewhere else where the taxes are not as expensive. Net result, is less taxes for the government to waste (but they will anyway).

2) Since companies COLLECT taxes, they must also submit them to the government. Here we have a HUGE bureaucracy to be sure that companies submit the taxes to the government. We also have a HUGE bureaucracy to be sure that the average taxpayer also submits his/her taxes. Since ALL of that money comes out of the pocket of the taxpayer, it would seem logical to eliminate all business taxes (including the GST/HST), and all of the bureaucracy that goes along with it, and let the taxpayer pay what they must. True, individual taxes would probably rise, but the overall tax burden would drop dramatically, and the government would end up with more money to work with. Of course, it would take a while for all of those bureaucrats, and accountants, to find other jobs, but I suspect that there would be enough to go around.

There is also the idea that it would be smart to spend money now, that we don’t have, which is is absolutely INSANE. There is likely no way that Canada will ever get out of the debt hole if they continue to throw money around like a drunken sailor. The “recent TV clip” demonstrates the utter disregard (or, perhaps it is total ignorance) that far too many people show for how an economy works. The idea that we need to throw more money after failed policies, that got us into the debt hole in the first place, and pay later, is simply perpetuating the problem. One argument, that always amuses me (well, it would if it wasn’t so damned serious), is that Canada needs a country wide daycare program. We wouldn’t need that, if people could keep enough of their income to be able to have one parent stay home with the kids. As it stands today, I would bet that many people actually end up with LESS money, when two parents are working, than they would if one stayed home, and adding to the tax burden (where else would you get the money to pay for it) just makes it worse for everybody. Of course, there is always the argument that people have the right to work. They also have the right to not have kids, or pay from their own pockets, if work is that important to them.

Having partly recovered from previous experiments in “buy now, pay later”, the government has now spent us right back to where they started. It will take MANY years to work our way out of the hole, and there is a very good chance that we will just be scratching the surface when the next downturn comes along, and it all starts again with an even bigger debt.

The current methods are not working. Government is probably 6 times the size that can actually be justified (that also means the number of MPs and Senators), people pay far too much in taxes, which are wasted at every turn, and there are still people who are demanding more (more spending, and more debt). I don’t know where they think it all comes from, but I know that it ALL comes from the taxpayer’s private pocket (or, in the case of debt, their children’s pockets). I also know that it is very poor return on the dollar, with a very large price tag.

I am hoping to hear that the Government is going to take another shot at ending the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly in today’s throne speech

Ted Brewer
I am sorry that you and your wife cannot enjoy your well-deserved retirement. You have every right to be very angry that your government continually devalues your savings. It doesn’t have to be that way. Before central banking, people did not have to be brilliant speculators to make their savings grow. We have to stop believing the lie that inflation is good and necessary and start to view money like any other good and take it out of the hands of government.

Kudos on the 5-0-1 Campaign ideas.

If the Govt did nothing more than that (all else, status quo), we would all benefit significantly.

Hopefully, the NCC alumni are listening, one in particular. (BTW, he heard you already on the 5% salary cuts to politicians! Good start!)

Anybody watch the video with the NCC Pres? Good Job Peter. Do we want to end up with the financial situation in Greece? The other guest on the show mentioned the 50s and all working hard for the Country we want. Well what is the country we want?

What about household debt pushing more families closer to bankruptcy? The higher taxes will encourage increased black market performance and increased theft.

Security has been hired at certain stores around my town-pathetic. They tell me they are hired because of the economy and more theft is the excuse they have feed themselves! What about all these social programs that have been in existence for many years? We advertise charities everytime they scream for more money. Enough venting here. lol

Today I wrote a commentary about spending by Farm Credit Canada which was published in the London Free Press Tuesday March 2, 2010. Section A and A7. For some reason upon submission response shows E-Mail(will not be published). Stephen Gillespie.

Is anyone aware that a member of Parliament is trying to get an amendment through so that Old Age Security will be paid to New Comers after being here for only 3 years. Currently it is 10 years. Taxpayers should speak up quickly on this one! Stephen Gillespie.

I have seen information on that bill granting OAP to immigrants after only 3 years living in Canada, but what else would you expect from an immigrant Indian MP and a super Liberal, ex-NDP like Bob Rae. It annoys the hell out of me but I do not think it will go through as long as the Conservatives form the government. It scares me to think of a Liberal government passing it though!