Ontario premier Doug Ford will always revert to type. He is basically dumb and there is no way to hide it. He has the political savvy of a gerbil and reminds us, at times, of Napoleon in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. That was the mean pig that ran things because he was ‘more equal than other animals.’
Obviously, our least favourite premier just did something else stupid. It is his nature. It was enough to curl all the hair on your body. It was a news clip. He was advising immigrants to Ontario not to come for the lavish life style of being on the dole. The wife and I were laughing so hard, we missed what the news reader was saying about it.
Dougie actually cut the amount paid to those on the dole when he came into office. And if you can figure out how anybody could live on about $1100 per month anywhere in Ontario, good luck. Dougie sure doesn’t give a damn.
Dougie doesn’t give a damn for anybody that cannot do anything for him. The problem for the people on the dole is that they lack the advocacy of, for example, autistic children. Dougie tried to cut the program for autism and the hue and cry of parents and other advocates was in full throttle. He had to backtrack.
The Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) is obviously an orphan without advocates. It was starved under the Wynne liberals and crushed under the boot of the conservatives. Nobody cares for those ghouls of charity forgotten, as they roam our streets.
What our premier has done is literally turned loose a horde of about 900,000 hunter gatherers in Ontario communities. These are street people who have to beg or steal their next meal.
Yesterday was a bright sunny day and the wife and I had driven to a nearby town for lunch. I parked the car when we arrived and realized that there were two street-wise gentlemen doing some business there. They were drying out their marijuana crop on the street in the thinning rays of the October sun. It seems that frost is threatening and they told us they had to do a rushed harvest. I asked them what the building was a couple doors down the street with all the police cars parked out front and a big sign saying ‘Police.’ One of them looked where I was pointing. “Oh,” he said, “We call them ‘customers’.”
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