Liberal Scorecard: It's Getting Better All the Time (Can't get much worse!)

It's Getting Better All the Time. So said Paul McCartney on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. John Lennon, on the other hand, reminded us, "It can't get much worse!". And I can't for the dickens remember who it was, but somebody said, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times". So, how are things going in Canada?

The economy, thanks to Mulroney and the GST and Free Trade is "getting better all the time". Socially, thanks to the Liberal Charter and its politically-appointed judges and politically-fueled court cases, "it can't get much worse".

Here's my scorecard under the Liberals:

1. The environment has deteriorated. The main Liberal contribution has been self-righteous posturing on Kyoto while the actual environment has deteriorated.

2. Medicare has deteriorated. Twelve years of Liberal rule has resulted in a medicare system that brings pain and suffering and death to the masses. Yet, apparently only they can be trusted to fix it.

3. Public safety has deteriorated. The main Liberal efforts were to waste 2 billion on a gun registry, resist Conservative efforts to get tough on crime, while racheting up the liberal guilt we are supposed to feel when someone else pulls the trigger or bashes someone's head in.

4. Public morality has deteriorated. We have lost our most cherished institution -- marriage -- which was uniquely designed to protect the rights of children. Children had already, under the Liberals, lost the right to be born, so I guess we shouldn't feel too bad that they have now lost the right to parents of complementary sexes. Actually, this right was effectively quashed by the Liberals' glorification of single-parenting as an heroic behaviour, so perhaps we shouldn't feel too badly for the kids who are now told that they must accept the fact that they can have two moms, but no dad, or two dads, but no mom, and that the ache in their heart to know their mom or their dad has no value. Public morality been taken captive by a Court allergic to moral-thinking, addicted to god-like powers, and averse to anything resembling human decency.

5. Civil freedoms have deteriorated. Persons of conscience, of faith, or of an opinion that differs from the authorized thinking of the state, now face fines, loss of employment, and even imprisonment. Civil freedoms have been diminished by the very Courts responsible for their protection.

The Charter is not evil, but the human rights/court system set in place to enforce it unquestionably is.

6. Government integrity has deteriorated. We are at the tipping point of become a country with entrenched political and governmental corruption. As Canadian society tilts towards corruptness, this may actually appeal to Canadians who have been looking for justification for cheating on their taxes and participating in the underground economy. (The effects of government corruption extend far beyond the actual amounts stolen.) So, like the popular appeal of another social evil -- abortion, a little bit of scum on the surface of the Liberal pond may actually help the Liberals get re-elected.

7. The economy has done well. Let's give Liberals their due. They left the Conservative-implemented GST and NAFTA, the twin reasons for our economic prosperity, intact. That's about the only reason they can give us to vote for them.

It's getting better all the time / Can't get much worse.