This year in Canada 1,000 people will reach age 65 every day.

This will continue every day until the year 2029. This aging tsunami sweeping over Canada will bring changes that we cannot even envision today.

Last year the first of the Baby Boomers turned age 65, many retiring into golden entitlements that they have been promised and expect to collect. These entitlements include lower taxes, free health care and for some, golden pensions….(Source)

The chickens, as they say, are coming home to roost.

Tanking demographics is the cause of this.

And tanking demographics is because of the “I’m all hot for contraception and abortion” death spiral mentality.

Maybe not sooner, but certainly later, the “moral issue” of mass murder of unborn children does indeed impact the bottom line – except not in a small way which is “manageable” with accounting tricks and fiscal maneuvers.  This baby is going to be a nuclear bomb.

In 20 years, all of the bean counters are going to ask, “Were those fools drunk when they legalized abortion and promoted programs which undermined the family?  Didn’t they realize what would happen to the economy?  Were they all stoned or what?”

You know what they say about pay back, eh?

I find it only somewhat poetic justice that the Teachers’ Unions feel the hit in a big way.

The ponzie scheme of abortion does eventually end.

Moral collapse precedes financial collapse.

Things just don’t happen without a reason.

Funny how Development and Peace claims to be fighting poverty, but some of their actions just ingrain poverty.

Take for instance their efforts on agriculture.  As you can see on this page, D&P empahsizes the importance of ”small-scale farmers”. In the Global South, small-scale farming barely provides a subsistence income with very little up-side for improving your lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »

Moral corruption.  Meet your brother, Economic collapse.

Surely you knew you had the same mother, didn’t you?  Didn’t you?

The Clock… 

He asked, “What are all those clocks?” 

St.  Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks.  Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock.

Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move.” 

“Oh,” said the man, “whose clock is that?” 

“That’s Mother Teresa’s.  The hands never moved, indicating that she never lied.”

 ”Incredible,” said the man.  “And whose clock is that one?”

 St.  Peter responded, “That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock.  The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.”

 ”Where’s Premier McGuinty’s clock?” asked the man.

But Friedman’s only half right.

It’s the Gospel and its inculcation into man’s heart which brings true justice.

Not the State.  Not Capitalism.

You may have heard the hysteria in the media this week over a document published by a little-known office of the Vatican called the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Based on the media reports, you’d think the Pope was calling for a one-world government and setting economic policy for the world.

But the usual maxim applies: never, ever, trust what the mainstream says about the Catholic Church. Ever. Read the rest of this entry »

China instituted a one-child policy in 1979 to constrain population growth and foster prosperity for the next generation. The byproduct of that policy is an accelerating decline in the pool of young and largely unskilled labor that is the mainstay of mainland factories churning out low-margin goods such as clothes, toys, and furniture. United Nations projections show that the country is at a tipping point: The number of 15- to 24-year-olds is set to fall by 62 million people—or more than 27 percent—to 164 million people, in the 15 years through 2025. (Source)

As with the question of suffering, the famine in the Horn of Africa is no doubt raising  difficult questions in the hearts of many. How can God allow a famine like this? While suffering is often a mystery, in this case, we have a more clear explanation of why this is happening.  It’s largely a man-made phenomenon.

Weather is not the main cause

The drought in Somalia is said to be their worst in about 50 years. That’s pretty tough. But did you know that Texas is currently experiencing it’s worst drought ever, in more than 100 years of records? It’s having a devastating effect on agriculture in Texas. How many people have starved to death in Texas? Read the rest of this entry »

I never thought I’d see the day.

Since the formation of the European Union, some people suspected it would eventually lead to a united government for Europe, but I wasn’t a believer. Despite today’s announcement by the leaders of the two largest countries in Europe, a united government is still far off. They’re only talking economics at this point. But still, I’m surprised that they’re talking about it so openly.

…is not that complicated.

#1 – Lots of entitlements (mostly for the elderly…and rightly so).

#2 – Not enough of a market and workforce to sustain the entitlements.

And why is that?

You know it —> Contraception & Abortion.

No kids. No future.

What was that about keeping “morality” out of politics?  ”Morality” doesn’t really give a damn about what the public thinks about what it should or should not be in.  It has its own agenda.

In other words,  respect the natural law or die as a civilization.  It’s not rocket science. 

You’ve all heard of the housing crisis in the U.S. Millions of people have had their homes foreclosed upon because they couldn’t pay the bills.

Something similar is happening in churches too:

The past few years have seen a rapid acceleration in the number of churches losing their sanctuaries because they can’t pay the mortgage.

Just as homeowners borrowed too much or built too big during boom times, many churches did the same and now are struggling as their congregations shrink and collections fall owing to rising unemployment and a weak economy.

Since 2008, nearly 200 religious facilities have been foreclosed on by banks, up from eight during the previous two years and virtually none in the decade before that, according to real-estate services firm CoStar Group, Inc. Analysts and bankers say hundreds of additional churches face financial struggles so severe they could face foreclosure or bankruptcy in the near future. (Source)

That’s why it’s so important to ensure good stewardship of church resources.

If you observe waste in your church, please take a few moments to notify your pastor so that it can be corrected. Otherwise your congregation might eventually become homeless.

I was just watching British football on TV. I was struck when I saw the jersey of one of the teams, Newcastle (see picture on right).

Every team has the logo of their main sponsor on the front of their jersey. In the case of Newcastle, it happens to be Northern Rock. If you’ve never heard of the name, don’t be too hard on yourself. They are relatively unknown in North America, but they’re a very large bank in the UK.

During the financial crisis, Northern Rock went bust. They had made such poor loans that their losses because unsustainable.  The government took over the bank in 2008 and has been the sole owner ever since.

The UK government, like many other European governments, is in really bad shape financially. They’re slashing spending and raising taxes (the national sales tax was just jacked from 17.5% to 20%).

Yet, in spite of all the hardships the government must impose on its population as part of much needed financial reforms, they still allow themselves to sponsor a football club. Does that make any sense? I don’t know how much they’re paying for that sponsorship, but it must a doozie.

As the government cuts services and lays off public servants, it doesn’t seem reasonable to be funding a football team.

We’ve been through these dilemmas in Canada too. Several years ago, the Quebec government made the decision to allow the Quebec Nordiques and the Montreal Expos to leave their province rather than offering government bailouts. Similarly, Manitoba let the Winnipeg Jets go.

When it comes down to saving hospitals or saving a sports team, the government needs to get its priorities straight. They owe it to their citizens.

From today’s Wall Street Journal:

Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in a judgment that harshly criticized Ireland’s long inaction on the issue. (Source)

This ruling, in itself, is not new.  For years, the Europeans have been whining about Ireland’s ban on abortion.  And for years Ireland has told them to mind their own business.  In fact, Ireland’s own Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that abortion should be legalized for cases involving health risks for the mother.  So far, this has not compelled the Irish government to legalize abortion.

But this time could be different, unfortunately.  Read the rest of this entry »

If you listen to left-leaning journalists, economists and think-tanks, you’d think that the main cause of chronic child poverty in Canada is a lack of good paying jobs.  That’s not true.  The biggest cause is broken families. Read the rest of this entry »