Step right up, get your CERB cash

People in their 75th year are getting a $500 bribe from Justin Trudeau just for being old and, hopefully, potential Liberal voters.

Last summer, it was $300 for seniors. They’ve upped the bribe as the election gets closer. We old folk are so forgetful and always need reminding (cough).

Anyone who hasn’t gotten a government payment of some sort over the past yearand-a-half, please raise your hand. Only a sucker would go fruit picking or fighting fires when you can get almost as much by drawing CERB and kicking back at the beach.

Get your popcorn, CERB, cotton candy, childcare, stimy cheques and other benefits over here! Maybe there’s going to be cheap housing and free pharmacare too. COVID is diminished, so this stuff should be ending, right? But, they’re stretching it out to November to cover the run up to the election. Get it while it lasts, because it’s going to be rough when we eventually have to pay for it. It’s a race to the bottom with no winners.

What do we say when our grandchildren ask why Mr. Trudeau, or Jagmeet Singh for that matter, is buying an election with debt, and why they’ll have to work to pay for it until age 50? Is there’s a good answer for that? Greed (payouts) and fear (COVID and climate) are always powerful motivators, and the Liberals and the NDP are both using them very energetically.

The Parliamentary Budget Office says there’s no possibility of returning to balanced budgets until 2070, and warns of an increasing bow wave of debt and debt servicing costs.

We also have a national debt of $1.2 trillion. Lump in the provincial debt and its $2 trillion; all falling on the same taxpayer. That should be alarming.

The Liberal bribe could have been written on tissue paper because seniors have been around long enough to see right through it. OAS supplements are available by application. Those who need more should apply based on circumstances. Those who don’t need it shouldn’t receive money automatically.

The sense of entitlement is strong, and the free stuff army is on the march; like lemmings to the sea. People really don’t believe this foolishness can continue; do they? Seniors can rise up and fight back; at least with their TV remotes.

John Thompson

Kaleden