ArchivesMark 2009 as the year pogey went uptown
Once it provoked wails of shame and moist-eyed laments of cultural defeatism. Now they call it stimulus. Published December 21, 2009 |
Once it provoked wails of shame and moist-eyed laments of cultural defeatism. Now they call it stimulus. Mark 2009 as the year pogey went uptown.
MPs and pundits used to foam over the corrupting influence of government handouts. This cannot be overstated. Aid was not merely expensive; it was deemed pathologically evil, a kind of mind drug that sapped its victims of life-giving fluids. "Atlantic Canada's Dole Rots The Soul," read...
