By arthur Weinreb
Monday, October 23, 2006
Last week the Ontario government announced that the province will be spending $2 million in new character building initiatives in Ontario schools. Premier Dalton McGuinty wants to add "respect" and "responsibility" to the present 6 Rs -- reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, racism, reproduction and recycling.
Ontarians should be grateful that this initiative is only going to cost them a measly 2 mil. after all, McGuinty's hard pressed to dream up a new logo or drop a letter from the name of a Crown corporation for small change like that. THaNK YOU DaLTON!
By the way McGuinty's press release announcing the new spending reads, the fact that children need to learn character development, respect and responsibility is the greatest discovery since Time Magazine discovered that men and women are different, back in 1992.
Let's forget about the notion that parents should be teaching their children values like respect and responsibility. We have developed a statist society that is too far gone to ever expect parents to have anything to do with how they raise their children; at least if they don't want to bother. The fact that such a program is even contemplated is proof positive of the rule of modern day society that everything that can possibly be important is best left to government to do. and parents are incapable of teaching such things as respect and responsibility to their children; after all, they never had the benefit of learning these things when they went to school. Besides parents are much too busy earning money to pay Dalton's health tax or playing the lotteries to top up the provincial coffers to ever have time to impart values to their kids.
The irony is, of course that concepts like respect and responsibility are absolutely foreign to the man who is now championing these principles. Respect -- where was Dalton McGuinty's "respect" for the taxpayers of Ontario when he imposed his health tax after looking straight into the camera and earnestly saying that if elected premier, Ontarians would not pay one penny more in taxes than they did under the Progressive Conservative government? The necessity of doing something that he promised he would not do was, of course not his fault. It was the fault of Mike Harris, Ernie Eves and the rest of those big bad Tories. So much for the theory of responsibility.
and in the three years that the McGuinty government has been in power, the premier still shows that he is incapable of taking responsibility for anything. He got himself into a real mess over the native land occupation in Caledonia and is now screaming for the federal government to get him out of it. Help me Steve! Dalton promised that the natives would not be allowed to occupy the land during the winter (when the bills for heating, paid for of course by the taxpayers of Ontario, are increasing); now it's getting chilly outside and the natives don't appear to be going anywhere and suddenly, the whole problem is Stephen Harper's fault. Respect and responsibility are virtually unknown to the premier who now takes delight in the fact that these things are going to be taught in the province's schools.
Some of the language that is used in the press release is revealing. "at its heart, it's about developing well-rounded citizens who will help build a strong, caring and compassionate society". "Programs will also empower schools to reinforce shared community values, such as respect, fairness, honesty and responsibility."
"Caring and compassionate society"; "shared community values". This program has nothing to do with imparting the values that are seemingly missing from Dalton McGuinty and his government. The purpose is to brainwash today's children into becoming robotic little socialists who will vote Liberal and happily hand over their hard earned money to the government to use to run their lives with.
If Dalton McGuinty was truly concerned with respect and responsibility, he'd lead by example.
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