Selling Your Vote?

These politicians might just as well slither around and hand eveyone $2000 to vote for them. They are making about $36 billion in election promises to the 18 million voters that they have no ability to pay!

In fact, they will have to tax us back the $36 billion they are promising to give us.

Perhaps Canada needs to change Halloween to May 2? The goodies they are promising to freely give us would make any poor beaver drool down his chin.

The Conservative Party promised $100 million to boost police forces and discourage gang membership. Think about it. They didn't promise you or me this $100 million. No, they promised the money would go to the civil service bureau involved in Crime Prevention and the expanding of police forces.. The Conservatives want to buy the civil service votes on mass. They have no intention of cutting back on our massive civil service costs!

The Liberal Party has promised $4000 per university or college student to be applied to their tuition. Now if that isn't a vote purchasing game, I don't know what is!

The NDP Party has targetted the Senior beaver vote with "protection" of pensions... not major increases. They are running on a "feel secure" platform that lacks substance to most voters.

And the Green Party, will raise corporate taxes and thus eliminate any possibility of generating capital to invest in new jobs. Now there is a really dumb move!

Let's face the fact that Canada's official political parties just don't see the big picture. Canadian families don't give a darn about all these payouts to other segments of society. Canadian families want a clear vision of where Canada is going and what opportunities there will be for their kids.

Canadians want a long term Vision for Canada that provides a fair distribution of our natural and economic wealth. They want to see the way Canada will utilize all the new technologies to make this country the most successful nation in the world. They want to see how we will establish a culture where individual effort and merit is rewarded regardless of social status, cultural heritage or nepotism. They want political leadership with a clear understanding of how to change our country's course without job losses and investment retreats.

Canadians want a party that doesn't exist yet! They want a CFP - Canadian Federalist Party. But they don't even know it already exists in a virtual website. Hey, maybe it is time for us beavers to start slapping our tails on the waters of this country to get the message out?

Maybe you can send a birchbark letter to your friends and relatives to check out: www.canadianfederalistparty.com ?

Man, the silence in this wilderness is driving me nuts. The sad call of the loons seems to indicate that most Canadian beavers have fallen asleep.

Hey, it's time to start slapping your tails on the water!

Bob the Beaver

Winning Election Can Be Easy!

Every single beaver I meet says the same things.

"We have to vote for one party or another, but none of them care what I seriously think about." or

"We all know what is wrong, but none of the parties have the courage to do it!" or

"They really shouldn't be criticizing each other's character in the mass media. It just isn't Canadian! "

"Every time an election comes, I have to vote for what I think is the party that will do the least damage... not the most benefit for Canada."

Well let me tell you what every single beaver is thinking:

"Canada's problem is its massive civil service costs."

" The civil service employees are over-paid for what they do."

"The civil service employees are ripping everyone off with their exhorbitant benefits and pension plans and job security."

"No political party has the guts to stand up to the gigantic civil service union monster."

"The civil service unions extort the private citizen beavers with an unlimited appetitie for wage and benefit increases."

"The civil service membership is so large, and they vote almost on mass, so no political party can dare to challenge them."

"We love our civil servants, but they have become way too greedy."

"Canada has to get out of debt, but we will never do it until someone brings the civil service under control."

So, there you have it! The secret to winning an electoral majority is to show Canadian beavers how they will stop the public sector union army.

The Canadian Federalist Party is not afraid of the public sector unions. In fact, it respects them for what they have done for their members. The private sector has fallen way behind in taking care of its members. But the CFP will devise programmes to even the playing field between both sector's workers.

Once this is accomplished, Canada will have plenty of its own capital to re-build our nation.

Meanwhile, we are most likley heading into another minority government. Unfortunately, it also means that the gap between the public and private sector beavers will continue to widen.

I just hope us beavers can find a tree big enough to cross this widening gap.

Keep the chatter going!

Bob the Beaver

TSX-LSX Merger Anti-CDN Interests

Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan identified "wild-eyed nationalists who don't know international business" as being irrelevant in the discussion concerning the approval of the stock exchange merger. I can only assume he was pointing a finger at us nationalistic beavers.

Little does he know that he was still in diapers when when many of us were involved in international businesses.

After his political career is finished he will be looking for a lucrative international business job. Does this mean he is biased and may not act in the best interest of Canadians? Should we be confident his ethical integrity will overcome whatever personal interests he might have in the outcome of the merger proposal?

This $3 billion proposal will undermine Canadian influence over $trillions in our current economy. From personal experience in one of Canada's largest foreign controlled businesses, I know that the Cdn president asked for American approval to spend a miniscule $25,000 that wasn't previously approved in his hundreds of millions of dollars budget. Foreign control is exactly that and a merger creates foreign control. Don't believe for a minute that Canadians will have control of a new TSX-LSX!

The bottom line is that the owners of the merged TSX and LSX alone will profit by access to a larger pool of commission paying and registration paying stocks. The fact that a company is headquartered somewhere else in the world doesn't matter to them. After all, many foreign resource stocks are already listed on the TSX.

In fact, the TSX is the pre-emminent resource stock market in the world. So, if some resource companies in London can't raise capital, they should list on the TSX where this kind of capital is already plentiful. This would be basic good "international business" sense.

Canadian beavers need to be wary of the domestic and foreign weasels who proclaim our market is "too small" for "international business" needs. This is pure poison ivy. We have served the global resource markets effectively for 100 years.

In fact, most legitimate investors prefer the Canadian stock exchange because they know it has a reputable level of integrity and is closely policed. In a global business world where even huge financial institutions have had their paws in the honey-pot, "international business" men truly prefer the security of Canadian controlled markets. Furthermore, those who claim our markets eventually will be bought up by Americans are globalists who want financial moguls to establish even more influence and control over our Canadian autonomy and independence.

Canada should be involved in "international business", but we must stop shipping out so much profit to foreign companies who own or control the trading in our resources. These funds are lost to internal Canadian re-investment and are easily structured to avoid paying significant taxes here. The bottom line is that the small cap beavers end up paying the Lion's share of taxes and these foreign concerns send zillions to their managers and directors outside Canada.

Canadians need to pressure our politicians to begin the process of securing our global autonomy. This merger should not be allowed to occur.

On the other hand, if the LSX is so short of investment capital, maybe they would like a national beaver fund to just buy them out?

Sorry guys... bite my tail... if you dare!

Bob the Beaver

Budget Bludgeon

Whooee! Cough, Cough, Cough!

With all the smoke and mirrors, we can't help but be choked by this new federal budget.

With 33 blatant and generalized nice sounding "motherhood" statements in the Throne Speach, the 2010 Budget intoduced the next day in parliament served up more pablum than a 20 pound baby beaver could eat.

The only positive note was that the Conservatives are finally increasing their estimated budget deficits to the levels the CFP - Canadian Federalist Party forecast 12 month's ago.

Basically, we have no one holding the tiller on our ship of state as it is swamped by the international and US based monetary scandal.

The tricky language used by the political "spin-men" and government bureaucrats says things like "There will be a $3.2 billion personal income tax relief." What they mean to say is that since unemployment is going up, and EI is running out for hundreds of thousands of beavers, and since people are being transferred into contract jobs instead of full-time jobs, then incomes of the 17.5 million taxpayers are going down, so they will collect $3.2 billion less personal tax.

But since the new HST will baloon "provincial" revenues, the federal wing of the party has nothing to say.

The military cost reduction sounds nice financially, but it is merely a preposterous self-gratification and self-serving numbers game where the government takes credit for cutting the military budget increase from 8% a year to 4% a year. Duh, if you aint got the money, how can you take credit for not spending more?

Even the bureaucracy savings they mention are pure gass from under their beaver tails. The public sector is still guaranteed a 1.5% pay raise each year, while the rest of us in the private sector lose jobs by the thousands, take pay cuts, and take lower paying jobs!

The Treasury Department is supposed to be doing a full department by department review and then recommend cutting out low priority programmes. Do you really think this will amount to anything significant? Heck, just prohibit all but basic expense accounts for all government workers. The vast majority of beavers don't have an expense account to do their jobs, so why should government workers?

But the thing you didn't see in the Budget, or in mainstream media, is the debt each taxpayer is accumulating. Before the recession, each taxpayer was responsible for $26,500 of the federal debt.(I haven't looked up the provincial debt load yet.) With these recession budgets, in three more years our debt will grow $9000 each, to a whopping $35,500!

Government debt will soon cost $41 billion in interest payments each year and interest rates are bound to rise 50% during this same period.

Well, if our family of 4 taxpayers absorbes $142,000 more debt, ($35,500 x 4), to our balance sheet, we are truly "Up the creek without a paddle!"

The tragedy of all this is that the government knows they are going to plunge us further and further into debt until at least 2015. The plans they have come up with do not make any sense in the short or long term. The have no idea how to discipline our spending and begin investing where it will have the greatest positive impact upon the growth of our economy!

There is a naive misunderstanding that our middle classes will bail them out sometime in the future, and provide an unending growth in prosperity for government workers regardless of our economic health.

In spite of numerous missives directly to our political and government leaders, with solid recommendations on how to help grow the wealth of our middle classes, they are blindly drifting towards the waterfall.

You and I and everyone else with an iota of "common sense" knows that our country will prosper as the middle class prospers. We need to stop growing government, let it shrink quite a bit, and start helping the middle classes to get out of debt.

There are literaly a dozen excellent ways to do this. The question really is "Why won't the government transfer money directly to us instead of filtering it through thousands of government agencies and workers?" They have chosen to ignore the fact that all their resource revenues belong to you and me. They have chosen to ignore the fact that we deserve a say in how are taxes are used. They have chosen to ignore the fact that we aren't stupid. etc. etc.

Well that's enough insight for now. Watch for the brand new CFP website coming on-line sometime in March 2010 at: www.canadianfederalistparty.com .

Keep your tails in the water!

Bob the Beaver

"Golden Goal"

"Golden Goal" blasts Canadian beavers to the moon!

Well I'll tell you there were a lot of wet pants beavers when the yankee doodles scored in the last seconds of the biggest hockey game of this century. But, Superbeaver, Sidney Crosby, lifted our sagging Canadian spirits through the clouds on Gold Sunday, at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

Canadian nationalism has finally broken out of the closet. Following years of political embarassment, and international disinterest, Canadian beavers got our days in the spotlight. Even Canadian beaver athletes who won secondary or no medals at all became Canadian heros during these Olympic Games. Legends were born.

Perhaps one of the more telling stories was the low profile of our political party leaders throughout the games. Our apparently bookish prime minister wasn't even mentioned as the cameraman focussed on him and Wayne Gretsky at a hockey game. Later the camera did focus on the PM doing rather awkward and stiff "high-fives" with reluctant spectators sitting nearby. The charisma of ordinary Canadians, winning or even losing medals, far excelled the spontaneity or leadership attributes of our PM.

Mr. Harper may be a mastermind of politics, but I don't think Canadian beavers would follow him onto the ice, never mind into a real battle.

Did you see the media scramble to recognize our nationalistic spirit? Hey guys -where have you been living? Canadians have always had a very deep seated nationalism. It has been your tactics of putting down every one who isn't a celebrity, or member of the media, that has made us bury our feelings below the water line.

Did you see Lloyd Robertson make his "revelation" that we do indeed have a nationalistic spirit? Duh - Lloyd, you have been watching yourself too much on TV! Did you notice his patronizing manner of handing over a piece of his broadcasting mantle to Brian Williams? Unfortunately, Canadian media has assumed an elitist role in our country and Canadians find them out-of-order and presumptuous.

Hopefully, this Olympic games will encourage our media to stop interviewing each other and start getting to meet and discover real Canadians and their values, beliefs and common sense.

Now that we are all back to work, and have got our feet firmly back on the ground, I'm hoping there are lots of Beavers out there who want to change the politics of this country.

The CFP, Canadian Federalist Party, is launching its' virtual web site this month at: http://www.canadianfederalistparty.com/ . Remember to check it out and get involved.

Hey Canada - "We Believe" - How about you?

Bob the Beaver