Well, What do you Expect? We allow this…Are we that Desperate for Sun?

Transport minister, John Baird announced new taxes user fees in flight ticket prices.  We have only ourselves to blame for this.   Let’s get this straight, folks: you will be paying higher prices to accommodate this government porn. What is wrong with this picture?

Strippers, lap-dancers and porn stars are paid for their trouble, thus they have more dignity than anyone who voluntarily submits themselves to paying extra for some rent-a-cop to gawk at your naked body.  I had already blogged about this, complete with a pic of the anatomically correct scans.

It has been said  that kind of machine would never have picked up the underwear bomber, as it does not pick up powders, plastic or liquids; key ingredients for homemade bomb making. So John Baird arguing that higher prices for these machines will keep Canadians (or anyone else for that matter) safe is bogus.

Are we willing to pay to undignify ourselves for a little sun? That question pisses you off? It should, but not at me: I’m only pointing out a truth. The solution is simple. Stay at home. Don’t fly anywhere. Only travel to places that can be done by bus, car or train. You’ll survive very well, if not, better without it.

Perhaps if these airlines start losing business due to folks not flying anywhere anymore, they can start doing what most major corporations do best: lobby. Lobby to get rid of those ridiculous rent-a-cop peep shows.

It’s the same thing for rising gas prices. It’s because they can get away with it. Folks are suckers for their cars and governments know it. Again, perhaps if people radically cut down on driving, thus the purchase of gas becoming less of a necessity, they would eventually have to lower their prices in order to stay in business. But no, not only are a lot of folks insistant on driving their cars only a few blocks away but a lot of them insist on buying gas guzzler mini-vans. I digress.

Thomas Mulcair, N.D.P. finance critic called the Harpercons for their euphemisms.

“They can call it whatever they want, but at the end of the day, a tax by any other name is a tax.”

Another thing that would keep Canadians safer? Read my previous post on this subject; there is also a link to a great article by Ric Salutin. Basically, it’s  how we approach the Muslim world and how attitudes need to change where that is concerned. Heaven help us that we should actually try getting along with each other rather than insisting on keeping up this silly and useless war.

Perhaps it’s about time to adapt that old line from the Wizard of Oz: ‘There’s no place like home…’