Buying Houses:

Buying houses has never been easy.

Back in the days when a single detached house could be bought for about $50,000, I envied a fellow employee, an older guy, for the fact that he had purchased his 1200-sq ft brick bungalow, detached, a few years earlier, for $25,000.

After thinking about it, I realized that he bought his house when the average weekly salary was less than $100.

That was in the 1950s. Since then, our dollar has been devalued steadily through steady taxation. Every time the politicians increased taxes, everybody had to increase prices on their produce just to stay in business. And everybody needed more dollars to buy the same old goods and services.

That is how money is devalued. Extreme example of that process was the Weimar Republic in Germany following WWI. Unable to keep up with the punitive reparations taxation of the winning allies, the government started printing money.

A story was told about a hungry man who went to a store for a loaf of bread pushing a wheelbarrow full of money. When he wasn't looking, a thief grabbed the wheelbarrow, dumped the money and ran.

That probably didn't happen, but it might have.

About 50 years ago, I used to collect pennies in a large crock. Ten years earlier, coffee was 10 cents. Chocolate bars were a nickel. Gasoline was 15 cents a gallon as recently as the '70s.

The millennials whining that they cannot buy a house should know that nobody ever bought a house on their own when they were 19 years old. We all had to work, save, think it through and be prepared to sacrifice lifestyle before making that kind of investment. 

Buying a home today is probably not more difficult than it's ever been when you factor in inflation. And while our politicians probably didn't get the printing presses rolling every time they needed money, they were quick to tax--all three levels of government.

The latest devaluation of our purchasing power is Trudeau's famous carbon tax on all provinces. While we don't have to get a wheelbarrow full of dollars to go to the store just yet, prices have jumped upward on everything we buy as industry tries to stay in business.

And yes, like all the other taxes, that tax has moved your plans to buy a house a few more years into the future.

Aha!!!

The US media is beginning to probe their system of education and it is not very inspiring. Apparently, academic success can be bought if you have enough money, political influence, or just the right connections. 

This could show us where all those scientists who support global warming and human-induced climate change for the United Nations propaganda mills come from. 

Incompetence? Whose?

That SNC Lavalin media panic smacks of something other than simply a judicial foul-up. 

There has to be something more behind it that the Liberals think the people who elected them are too stupid, or too stoned,  to understand.

All the media is clamoring for more juicy accusations from Wilson-Raybould. It is possible she has said enough.

Now we should put the PM on the stand and ask him to tell the whole truth. Why was she relieved of her post with the ministry of Justice? Is it possible that she couldn't handle it?

Is it possible that in making his ministry appointments sexually balanced by loading his caucus with women rather than people with actual qualifications, young Trudeau blew it?

If the SNC-Lavalin issue really is about employment, why now? Why not the pipelines and the Oil Sands? Doesn't the area west of Ontario belong to Canada too?

What's the problem? Not enough votes there?

Time for Trudeau to take the stand.

World Saviours:

What's the connection between the green energy events that put the cost of hydro out of reach for many Ontarians and the carbon tax that threatens to do the same for all Canadians?

That connection appears to be Gerald Butts. He is said to have teamed with Liberal leader Dalton McGinty when they bombed coal-fired power plants like Lakeview Hydro in Ontario, and with Justin Trudeau when they dumped a carbon tax on all commercial activity in Canada.

Having butted out of the picture over the SNC-Lavalin scandal, Butts abandoned his accomplice back on parliament Hill to fend for himself.

So, where does this green energy warrior come from? Is it possible that he might be a disciple of that late, great green energy guru Maurice Strong? 

For those who do not remember Maurice Strong, he was a fellow westerner who made his way from the Oil Patch east and into the corridors of power with the Liberals of the Chretien era. He used that as a springboard to infiltrate the United Nations corridors in New York. There, he was in the position to bend sympathetic ears on the business of saving the planet. He used that to launch save-the-planet campaigns. 

Inexplicably, he migrated to China, the country that probably showed the least interest in green initiatives and save-the-planet campaigns. 

Whether it was the smog from extensive coal-fired hydro or severe ideological clash that ended his career, Strong expired there quietly back in 2015.

Whether Strong had any real influence in creating the green energy zealots currently making life in Canada more oppressive and more expensive for everyone, it is up to the individual reader to connect the dots in any way they see fit.

Note: Anyone who wants to refresh one's memory of the life and times of Maurice Strong might Google the name. 
Warning: Do not trust everything you read there. Some of it reads like the conspiracy theories of the Flat Earth Society, but it should help us understand where guys like Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts come from.