{"id":504,"date":"2014-06-02T22:31:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=504"},"modified":"2021-06-18T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:52:19","slug":"the-false-ducks-video-blahg-2-we-will-not-be-voting-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"THE FALSE DUCKS VIDEO BLAHG #2: WE WILL NOT BE VOTING CONSERVATIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">Check out the second only False Ducks Video Blahg:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BtN4WMxwj7M\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">Below, is the text of the Letter of The Editor that I sent this morning to The Picton Gazette:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><em>Dear Editor,<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>\u00a0Surprise, surprise, yet another Editorial from The Picton Gazette bashing the Liberals in the upcoming Provincial election but also applauding Tim Hudak and the Progressive Conservative Party!\u00a0 To quote Popeye \u201cThat\u2019s all I can stands, I can\u2019t stands no more.\u201d\u00a0 If you really want to inform your readers then why not accurately label the villain in the piece?\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>Tim Hudak and the Conservatives are not to be trusted nor should they be elected.\u00a0 First, his economic plan of creating a million jobs by cutting 100,000 jobs makes no sense and has yet to find any support from any economist.\u00a0 If he cannot take the advice of professionals, what makes us think he\u2019d take the advice of the electorate?\u00a0 You get what you vote for and what makes you think he\u2019ll stop at the 100,000?\u00a0 If elected, he might think he has the will of the people to go even further and suddenly 100,000 becomes 150,000 or more.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>Last time around, under Mike Harris, with Tim Hudak sitting around the table, the Conservatives slashed social assistance rates by almost 22% and axed a number of social housing and affordable housing projects.\u00a0 Now Hudak, in his \u2018what is old is new again\u2019 plan, wants to make more cuts to social assistance payments.\u00a0 Talk about wanting to build the economy on the backs of the poorest of its citizens!\u00a0 That\u2019s right, let\u2019s tear down the social safety net while we\u2019re waiting for these million pie in the sky jobs to appear.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>Tim Hudak also wants to eliminate the home renovation tax credit for seniors that would allow seniors to stay in their homes longer.\u00a0 Tim seems to think that it\u2019s cheaper to put seniors into long term care rather than allowing them to live in their own home.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not even mention the dignity of living in a home where you built your life.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>What about students?\u00a0 Under the Conservatives, the 30 per cent tuition grant for most Ontario college and university students would be eliminated.\u00a0 He wants to create jobs but also hinder access to higher education so students can get a better paying job.\u00a0 Many students can&#8217;t afford a post-secondary education and now Hudak wants to make sure even less students can get a College or University diploma!<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>And yet more cuts to Education?\u00a0 Hudak wants to increase the classroom sizes.\u00a0 He also wants all day Kindergarten to be taught by only one Teacher with no assistants.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to see him try to manage, let alone teach, a classroom of 26 three to five year olds all on his own every day.\u00a0 Parents and teachers have fought for years to make sure the cap on the classroom sizes were appropriate.\u00a0 No one wins in this scenario.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>If Hudak wins, it\u2019s fair game against children, students, seniors, and poor people.\u00a0 Is it any wonder that I have a yellow sign on my front lawn that says \u201cWe Will Not Be Voting Conservative!\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/images\/PercussiveJazz.jpg\" alt=\"Percussive Jazz LP by Peter Appleyard\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">so this blahg is not all political, let me add the following musical gem.\u00a0 This is from an LP I picked up recently by Peter Appleyard.\u00a0 The LP is &#8220;Percussive Jazz&#8221; and the track is &#8220;Why Don&#8217;t You Do Right.&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Genius MP3 Player: PETER APPLEYARD - WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT--><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-504-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/doright.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/doright.mp3\">http:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/doright.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><br \/>\nWhy don&#8217;t you do right and vote&#8230;just not Conservative!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- End Start Genius MP3 Player --><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the second only False Ducks Video Blahg: Below, is the text of the Letter of The Editor that I sent this morning to The Picton Gazette: Dear Editor, \u00a0Surprise, surprise, yet another Editorial from The Picton Gazette bashing the Liberals in the upcoming Provincial election but also applauding Tim Hudak and the Progressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}