Monday Post

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Premier Kathleen Wynne to re-introduce the May 1st budget when the legislature returns on July 2nd:

Speaking to reporters at Queen’s Park, Wynne said she is “very excited” to implement the budget. She also stuck to her promise of eliminating the $12.5-billion deficit by 2017-18.

The Liberal budget, presented on May 1, includes a 10-year, $2.5-billion jobs plan, $15 billion for transit projects in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas and $14 billion for infrastructure projects.

Remember- the province of Detroit Ontario's debt is over $271 billion. The manufacturing sector is depleting. Ontario also has some of the highest energy costs in the country. Its "sunshine list" has expanded by eleven percent. There is no money to pay for these projects, pay down the debt and not freeze the wages of public servants.

Ontario Liberal voters, this is your government.

In 2008, Obama declared he would meet with Iran without pre-conditions. During student protests in 2009, Obama offered neither material or moral support. His top adviser, Valerie Jarrett, held secret talks with representatives of Ayatollah Khamenei. Sanctions lifted against Iran neither stopped enrichment of nuclear material nor did hinder the state's ability to do business abroad or finance its programs. Now Iran has stepped in and offered its dubious support for its former enemy, Iraq:

 

The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not ruling out potential U.S.-Iranian military cooperation in stemming the advance of Sunni extremists, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday.

Now, I think it's not a matter of Obama's idiocy, weakness or indifference. There is no way one cannot see this as an attempt to empower Iran and destabilise the region or at least remove any vestige of American influence and authority on the global stage. One can conclude that was Obama's endgame. It seems clear given his weak posturing and overtures to dictators and his platitudes to the ignorant electorate. Obama withdrew from Iraq. He even gave a time-table. He has never responded to any crisis or threat in the region the way previous leaders had and has no intention of doing so. Iraqi soldiers simply walk away leaving behind American material for ISIS. Yet another humanitarian crisis erupts in the Middle East. Yet, with a crippled American economy, he still insists on the use of foreign (ie- Venezuelan or Saudi) oil, further empowering dictatorial regimes.

Impeach him. Now.

It's time for Ukraine to frack its own gas:

Further aggravating already tense relations between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian energy giant Gazprom cut off natural gas supplies to its neighbor on Monday, warning that the reduction could diminish the amount of gas flowing to Europe.

 

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