Debt Has Canadian Babies Crying The Loudest

[Anonymous]

This is funny, but serious too. I noticed my younger son cries louder than my older son because he was born under the NDP debt machine. ac_toofunny

Canadian babies are world champion bawlers, a new study says. No wonder.



They've seen the debt we and our leaders are leaving them.



If you were up all night in the nursery or out buying diapers, you may have missed British research this week which found Canadian tots are tops for crying in their first 12 weeks.



At the peak, 34.1% of them carry on more than three hours a day, for more than three days a week. Canadian babies averaged 30 minutes more crying than other rug rats.



The study isn't clear on why, and the babies aren't talking.



But likely you are not surprised. My son Jackson, for example, was an all-Canadian wailer, though luckily, at 26, he now sleeps through the night.



The U.K., Italy and Holland also scored high in the study of 8,700 infants. Babies from Germany, Japan and especially Denmark, which has generous maternal and paternal leave, were the least fussy.



Denmark has something else — a government debt to GDP ratio of 40%, LESS THAN HALF of ours (91%). The Danes' debt ratio continues to fall, ours to climb.



So you'd caterwaul, too, if that monster lurked in your closet.



Ontario's debt is truly howl-inducing, having roared past $300 billion, and is forecast to hit $350 billion within four years. Just in time for kindergarten, you poor, unsuspecting tykes.



Since I've never seen a frightful forecast that didn't turn out even worse, my money's on $400 billion, especially if Kathleen Wynne pulls off another political sleight of hand and gets re-elected.



I hate to break it to our babies, but Queen's Park spends more on debt payments than on post-secondary education, so they'd best learn as much as they can in kindergarten.



Now, add the feds' $640 billion debt and watch those babies yowl. Team Trudeau's new budget just threw another $28.6 billion deficit down the rabbit hole — and they're not done yet.



Last year, the federal fiscal watchdog, the parliamentary budget office, warned: "The total government sector in Canada ... is not fiscally sustainable without permanent increases in revenues or reductions in program spending."



Not sustainable? I wish Ms. Wynne was as keen on sustainable finances as she is on silly windmills.



As the Fraser Institute reported in January a Canadian family of four pays $7009 a year toward government debt — in interest alone!



We Ontarians are $606 billion deep in combined debt rung up by our glorious leaders. Let's put that in terms a baby can understand.



We owe the equivalent of 680 billion jars of Earth's Best strained carrots at Loblaws.



Or 11.7 billion Philips Soothie pacifiers (green, and they're on sale for $5.19 at well.ca).



Or 25 billion Piglet snuggly toys from Hudson's Bay. (Sorry to drag your little pal into this mess, Pooh.)



If I were Kathleen Wynne or Justin Trudeau — or anyone of any stripe who craves political power — I'd start working off that debt, pronto.



Lest those wailing, spitting, shrieking, thrashing babies grow up to be...



... wailing, spitting, shrieking, thrashing voters.

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/05/debt-has-our-babies-bawling">http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/05/de ... es-bawling">http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/05/debt-has-our-babies-bawling

[RW]

1. The Fraser Institute can eat a bag of dicks.



2. My babies weren't criers thank god.

[Anonymous]

1. The Fraser Institute can eat a bag of dicks.



2. My babies weren't criers thank god.

1. It was based on British research

2. Who should be eating a bag of dicks are the irresponsible idiots who gave our babies this debt burden and keep adding to it.

[Anonymous]

I know this is tongue in cheek, but the debt is no joking matter for my children.

[RW]

1. The Fraser Institute can eat a bag of dicks.



2. My babies weren't criers thank god.

1. It was based on British research

2. Who should be eating a bag of dicks are the irresponsible idiots who gave our babies this debt burden and keep adding to it.

1. It mentioned the Fraser Institute.  I feel the need to call them thinkless tankers every chance I get.

2. I agree.  It's getting scary.

[Anonymous]

1. The Fraser Institute can eat a bag of dicks.



2. My babies weren't criers thank god.

1. It was based on British research

2. Who should be eating a bag of dicks are the irresponsible idiots who gave our babies this debt burden and keep adding to it.

1. It mentioned the Fraser Institute.  I feel the need to call them thinkless tankers every chance I get.

1. As do the profligate spending governments who's feet they hold to the fire on your behalf.



Thank you FI. Keep up the good fight.

[RW]

1. The Fraser Institute can eat a bag of dicks.



2. My babies weren't criers thank god.

1. It was based on British research

2. Who should be eating a bag of dicks are the irresponsible idiots who gave our babies this debt burden and keep adding to it.

1. It mentioned the Fraser Institute.  I feel the need to call them thinkless tankers every chance I get.

1. As do the profligate spending governments who's feet they hold to the fire on your behalf.



Thank you FI. Keep up the good fight.

The trouble is that they don't actually do that ... at all.  Their research is a weak sham.  CCPA on the other hand...

[Anonymous]

^You'd be wrong.



According to the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), Fraser is number 23 (of 100) in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide (non-U.S.)", number 19 (of 150) in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide (U.S. and non-U.S.)" and number 1 (of 30) in the "Top Think Tanks in Mexico and Canada.



Their annual reports are on human and economic freedom as well as wait times are widely cited by government. However, the op is not about whether you personally like this think tank or not. It's not even based on research by FI.

[RW]

WOW!  That's seriously fucked up.



I have see so much garbage research from them it makes me cringe at the thought someone would rank them 23.  That's actually scary.

[Anonymous]

^You'd be wrong.



According to the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), Fraser is number 23 (of 100) in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide (non-U.S.)", number 19 (of 150) in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide (U.S. and non-U.S.)" and number 1 (of 30) in the "Top Think Tanks in Mexico and Canada.



Their annual reports are on human and economic freedom as well as wait times are widely cited by government. However, the op is not about whether you personally like this think tank or not. It's not even based on research by FI.

That reminds me of the premier of Alberta..



When she was in opposition she used that annual report to criticize the previous government over wait times in Alberta..



Now that she has formed government, she no longer trusts that report when the opposition uses it to criticize her government.

 

[Bricktop]

Democratically elected politicians the world over have driven us to financial catastrophe.



Why?



Because in order to keep their jobs, they feel compelled to SPEND money they don't have to show us what kind and generous people they are, and how much they care for us.



On top of that, because they have effectively sold the farm, they use the bureaucracy as a generous dole queue, employing millions of ineffective, incompetent and frankly unnecessary public servants to minimise the unemployment figures.

[Anonymous]

Democratically elected politicians the world over have driven us to financial catastrophe.



Why?



Because in order to keep their jobs, they feel compelled to SPEND money they don't have to show us what kind and generous people they are, and how much they care for us.



On top of that, because they have effectively sold the farm, they use the bureaucracy as a generous dole queue, employing millions of ineffective, incompetent and frankly unnecessary public servants to minimise the unemployment figures.

Bricktop, you've given a very accurate description of our provincial government..



How do I know this is true of our civil service?



 I'm part of the provincial civil service.

[Anonymous]

Democratically elected politicians the world over have driven us to financial catastrophe.



Why?



Because in order to keep their jobs, they feel compelled to SPEND money they don't have to show us what kind and generous people they are, and how much they care for us.



On top of that, because they have effectively sold the farm, they use the bureaucracy as a generous dole queue, employing millions of ineffective, incompetent and frankly unnecessary public servants to minimise the unemployment figures.

Bricktop, you've given a very accurate description of our provincial government..



How do I know this is true of our civil service?



 I'm part of the provincial civil service.

Are you still getting annual raises?

[Anonymous]

This is funny, but serious too. I noticed my younger son cries louder than my older son because he was born under the NDP debt machine. ac_toofunny

Canadian babies are world champion bawlers, a new study says. No wonder.



They've seen the debt we and our leaders are leaving them.



If you were up all night in the nursery or out buying diapers, you may have missed British research this week which found Canadian tots are tops for crying in their first 12 weeks.



At the peak, 34.1% of them carry on more than three hours a day, for more than three days a week. Canadian babies averaged 30 minutes more crying than other rug rats.



The study isn't clear on why, and the babies aren't talking.



But likely you are not surprised. My son Jackson, for example, was an all-Canadian wailer, though luckily, at 26, he now sleeps through the night.



The U.K., Italy and Holland also scored high in the study of 8,700 infants. Babies from Germany, Japan and especially Denmark, which has generous maternal and paternal leave, were the least fussy.



Denmark has something else — a government debt to GDP ratio of 40%, LESS THAN HALF of ours (91%). The Danes' debt ratio continues to fall, ours to climb.



So you'd caterwaul, too, if that monster lurked in your closet.



Ontario's debt is truly howl-inducing, having roared past $300 billion, and is forecast to hit $350 billion within four years. Just in time for kindergarten, you poor, unsuspecting tykes.



Since I've never seen a frightful forecast that didn't turn out even worse, my money's on $400 billion, especially if Kathleen Wynne pulls off another political sleight of hand and gets re-elected.



I hate to break it to our babies, but Queen's Park spends more on debt payments than on post-secondary education, so they'd best learn as much as they can in kindergarten.



Now, add the feds' $640 billion debt and watch those babies yowl. Team Trudeau's new budget just threw another $28.6 billion deficit down the rabbit hole — and they're not done yet.



Last year, the federal fiscal watchdog, the parliamentary budget office, warned: "The total government sector in Canada ... is not fiscally sustainable without permanent increases in revenues or reductions in program spending."



Not sustainable? I wish Ms. Wynne was as keen on sustainable finances as she is on silly windmills.



As the Fraser Institute reported in January a Canadian family of four pays $7009 a year toward government debt — in interest alone!



We Ontarians are $606 billion deep in combined debt rung up by our glorious leaders. Let's put that in terms a baby can understand.



We owe the equivalent of 680 billion jars of Earth's Best strained carrots at Loblaws.



Or 11.7 billion Philips Soothie pacifiers (green, and they're on sale for $5.19 at well.ca).



Or 25 billion Piglet snuggly toys from Hudson's Bay. (Sorry to drag your little pal into this mess, Pooh.)



If I were Kathleen Wynne or Justin Trudeau — or anyone of any stripe who craves political power — I'd start working off that debt, pronto.



Lest those wailing, spitting, shrieking, thrashing babies grow up to be...



... wailing, spitting, shrieking, thrashing voters.

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/05/debt-has-our-babies-bawling">http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/05/de ... es-bawling">http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/05/debt-has-our-babies-bawling

I recently read one poll that put Kathleen Wynn's approval rate at around ten per cent. ac_wot

[Anonymous]

Democratically elected politicians the world over have driven us to financial catastrophe.



Why?



Because in order to keep their jobs, they feel compelled to SPEND money they don't have to show us what kind and generous people they are, and how much they care for us.



On top of that, because they have effectively sold the farm, they use the bureaucracy as a generous dole queue, employing millions of ineffective, incompetent and frankly unnecessary public servants to minimise the unemployment figures.

Bricktop, you've given a very accurate description of our provincial government..



How do I know this is true of our civil service?



 I'm part of the provincial civil service.

Are you still getting annual raises?

Yes, we are and there have been no layoffs which is why there is so much resentment in this province against the provincial civil service.