Harper + Hypocracy = Harpocracy?
12 12 2005Steven Harper (intentionally misspelled in order to distance his name from my own), has brought such new heights to the technique of hypocracy that I propose respelling the word, “Harpocracy”.
His latest diatribe is about the Liberal aide who claimed that people will waste the Conservative $1200 for childcare on “beer and popcorn”. First, to address the Liberal aide, I admit he’s stupid. You don’t go on record saying that… and beer and popcorn taste horrible together.
Secondly, the $1200 is simply a way for the rich to get funding for their own private child-care. The issue for me isn’t even about the lower-class.
Finally, the Conservative/Alliance/Reform party is not without it’s own, relatively recent verbal flubs… ones that far outweigh the comments of Scott Reid.
“Canadian students can’t get into some of our university programs in Vancouver and Victoria… what I like to call the Asian Invasion. (then chuckles)”.
- Betty Granger
“You can’t scalp me because I haven’t got much hair on top of my head.”
- Brian Fitzpatrick to Aboriginal protesters.
“The Japs were Bastards”
- Steven Fletcher (intentionally misspelled), who grew up with a very anti-Japanese mentality because his grandfather was a Japanese POW.
And finally, not because he was Provincial Conservative instead of Federal Conservative (because they still have a lot of the same associations), but because this list is simply too long, I’m not even going to mention any of Mike Harris’s derogatory remarks to the lower class.
The $1200 a year for daycare translates to just $100 a month. Carmina looked into registered day care in the GTA and it looks like it cost about $800 for 2 weeks. Since we have twins that would be about $1600 for 2 weeks or $3200 a month. $200 is not going to be a big help for us. If we find a grandma that does home care they usually charge $30 a day per child. We might be able to get a group discout but if we don’t it would be $1200 a month. It’s a lot better but still the $200 is too small. So what I would say to Mr. Harper is “Screw the popcorn, I need the beer to numb the pain of paying for daycare and $200 would do just fine.” :).
Actually we would use the money to buy formula for the kids if they still need it. A can of formula is $25 and they last about 3-4 days at our house.