The cost of buying a used car often rises after paying for it.  When you buy used, you also are buying all the problems with the car incurred by the previous owner.  Afghanistan is Canada’s used car bought from the US.  The last listed price was $8 billion.  It has now risen by more than 40% to $11.3 billion.

As soon as the idea of guns or the use of force enters the conversation, the Conservatives get so giddy that they cannot think clearly.  Afghanistan is the Conservatives favourite firing range.  But there is no place like home to use force and to demonstrate power.

The new anti-gang legislation is a “tough on crime” approach but does not deal with the actual problem.  Criminals will continue to be criminals as long as they have a reason to and they think they are smarter than the police who are working to stop crime.  The idea of a mandatory minimum sentence likely won’t enter into the pro/con flowchart that we know all criminals use before they commit a crime.

The funny thing about this legislation is what Harper says about his opponents:

“The truth of the matter is, those who say that the tougher penalties on perpetrators will not work don’t want them to work because they don’t believe in his kind of approach,” he told reporters.

I think it would be more accurate to say that the naysayers are saying nay because they don’t think this will work.  And NOT that they don’t want it to.  But it IS true, the anti-anti-gang gang don’t believe in this approach.

But communication is not one of Harper’s strong suits.  Although he has some nice suits that really emphasis his dick-ish-ness.  The government did not ask the right questions about Afghanistan.  They do not have any real answers about crime back home.  But it is does not matter how good your questions are, the answers the government does have are not available to you.

Access to information is limited by Stephen Harper.  And since no one in the Conservative party does anything without the Great Leader’s say-so, it seems that we will not know much more about our democratic country until we can oust all the sleaze bags in Ottawa.  Those sleazy, underhanded people who buy and then sell to us all the lemons they think we can afford. (The Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Bloc included)

Of course we cannot afford any of them. (The Lemons or the politicians.)