Sure, they haven't done everything that conservatives want them to do, not that it'd have been easy or even possible in the current political situation, but, still...
Check out this report that'll please the reasonable person, particularly really reasonable ones known as "conservatives".
OTTAWA - The federal government will cancel a program today that sent artists abroad to promote Canadian culture because the program's grant recipients included "a general radical," "a left-wing and anti-globalization think-tank" and a rock band that uses an expletive as part of its name.
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The cut is part of a government-wide review to trim spending, but the PromArt program became an easy target when senior Tories discovered that some recipients of taxpayer-funded foreign travel were "not exactly the foot that most Canadians would want to see put forward."
The recipients singled out by the Conservatives include: - $3,000 to Toronto-based experimental rock band Holy F---for a week-long tour of the United Kingdom. - $5,000 to former CBC broadcaster Avi Lewis, who now works for al-Jazeera and who is described in a Conservative memo as "a general radical," to help pay for his travel to film festivals in Australia and Argentina. - $16,500 to send Tal Bachman, a best-selling recording artist and the son of The Guess Who's Randy Bachman, to South Africa and Zimbabwe for music festivals.
"I think there's a reasonable expectation by taxpayers that they won't fund the world travel of wealthy rock stars, ideological activists or fringe and alternative groups," the source said.
Sure, there'll be some who'll be royally pissed and who'll hurl common-and-absurd ultra-far-left-wing-prescribed epithets at the Conservatives for taking away easy money for extremists to promote their radical ideologies and to make Canada look foolish and extreme on the world stage. But the taxpayers in general are going to be pleased, naturally. Including myself, as I feel cheated when I look at the deductions from my paycheck and the sales tax portions of my receipts and bills because I know that radical extremists have been (and still are) unfairly getting some of my money to promote their extreme ideologies.
Like hell I'll tolerate a bunch of crazy arseholes calling their group "Holy F*ck" getting one measly cent of my tax dollars for any purpose whatsoever! Oh, and that goes double for ultra-far-leftwing extremist blogger and paranoid, imaginary-Nazi-seeing Warren Kinsella's ultra-far-dumbass band, "Shit From Hell"!
Of course, there are those who'll try to argue that there might be some moderate, needy folks/groups who could use these tax dollars for international travel. But the problem is that if we start to pick and choose, weeding the embarrassing, extreme and profane out and letting the moderate in, we'll be accused of "censorship", "fascism", etc., as we have been for legislation that'll keep objectionable, anti-social crap like extreme pornography and violence from being funded via tax breaks to film producers. Best thing, therefore, is to scrap the entire program, logically. There are other ways to get funding for stuff anyway, and tax dollars are very serious things that mustn't be screwed around with just to make radicals and subversives happy.
Yeah! Piss of the Left! Take away their easy money-for-nothing! Take your money back!
How'dy'all like them apples, moonbats???
Now we do the Dance of Joy!!! Funded with our own money, of course, not other peoples' money!
