OfficiallyScrewed

ACORN Ottawa Hurting The Most Desperate

Mulder

Acorn Ottawa picketed in front of Money Mart’s in the east end to protest the density of agencies that provide temporary loans.  They say these agencies corner citizens and trap them like animals leaving them in an endless loop of poverty.

So what are they asking for?  A minimum distance between agencies and higher licensing fees.

Let’s take these two items and look at them.

Minimum distances between agencies to be mandated.

This will reduce the number of agencies in the area giving the patrons fewer options.  It also means that should a patron want to compare prices they would have to travel further to determine which location or outlet is offering the best deal.  So in effect, this request would make it harder on patrons to do what is best for them and leave them at the whim of their closest outlet.

This also reduces the supply of services which, if we pay attention to microeconomic supply and demand curves, will drive up prices further hurting the patrons of these businesses.

Higher License Fees to Operate a Money Loan Establishment

Higher license fees to operate the business means one of three things.

  1. The people who work in the outlet will get paid less because the business will have to absorb the costs, or
  2. Prices for the services they offer will have to go up to compensate for the added cost, or
  3. The businesses will eventually go under leaving those with poor credit and the need for money nowhere to go in emergency situations.  This is the most dangerous as those advance loans often go towards buying food for the patrons family.

All of these options hurt the local community.

So what does this all add up to?  ACORN is actually hurting those it is most out to help because it does not understand the simple concepts of supply and demand.  Shame on ACORN.  You are OfficiallyScrewing over Ottawa residents with your antics.

Liberals OK 8 Billion Litre Raw Sewage Dump Into River. Largest Oil Spill Ever was 1.3 Billion Liters.

Mulder

How bad is this?

Well let’s do the math.  By comparison, the worst oil spill in history was during the Gulf War in Kuwait and it was 240 to 336 MILLION Gallons.  At 3.78 Liters per Gallon the worst case scenario for the oil spill was just shy of 1.3 BILLION Litres.

So Oil Spill of 1.3Billion Liters is bad.  But Raw Sewage spill of 8 Billion Litres is ok.

Well done Minister for the Environment, Catherine McKenna.  Your first week on the job and you are already making a massive impact on the environment.  Too bad it’s in the wrong direction.

Talk about being OfficiallyScrewed!!!

Someone Put His Foot In His Mouth

Mulder

I have to say that my daughter Cookie is the most amazing, loving, caring, precious, wonderful young lady on the planet.  Bar none.  She is better than your daughter because she is MY daughter.  And as her father, I would do anything to keep her happy….Anything.

OOLCI believe the above statement is probably true for anyone with a daughter, including our Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin, whose daughter just happens to be dating the grand nephew of long time Liberal Cabinet Minister Bob Chiarelli.

BobChiarelliUnder normal circumstances this would be just peachy.  But we have a problem here.  Marin is charged with investigating thousands of complaints against HydroOne. HydroOne is under the auspice of the Minister of Energy, who happens to be……you guessed it….Bob Chiarelli.

This begs the question….Where in the world would this type of conflict of interest be acceptable?  The answer is clear.  In Liberal run Ontario, Canada, that’s where.

Mister Marin may indeed be impartial on this but this certainly does not pass the sniff test.  My prediction is that Marin will delete the tweet and break up the lovebirds.

OfficiallyScrewed in my opinion.