Entitlement Culture

I saw this post on X a couple of days ago.

It made me immediately think of David Dingwall.

“I am entitled to my entitlements, and if that includes severance, so be it and I will wait for legal counsel,”

Dingwall was a former liberal Cabinet minister who was given a patronage appointment to the Canadian Mint.  Like all Liberal Cabinet ministers Dingwall is a thief.  He got caught padding his expense account.

Mr. Dingwall resigned as head of the Mint last month after a Conservative freedom of information request discovered he had racked up nearly $750,000 in expenses as head of the Crown Corporation last year.

Dingwall strongly believed that even though he resigned after being caught stealing, he was still entitled to severance pay.  He was very upset that Canadian Taxpayers had a different opinion.  In the world of liberal politics taxpayers are not to have any say in how tax dollars are spent.

A feature of the dumb ages is our entitlement culture.  People feel that they are entitled to things that others must provide for them.  The more progressive the person’s politics the more ingrained are their feelings of entitlement. This is on full display in the US.  Donald Trump is determined to eliminate waste and fraud.  The recipients of that waste and fraud are not happy.  They believe that they have a right to taxpayer money and no one should be allowed to question it.

Canada and the US were founded by people who understood that if you do not work you do not eat.  They did not leave Europe for anything other than the opportunity to succeed through their own efforts.  That was then. This is now.  Immigrants flock to North America for the “free” stuff.  The native population also likes the “free” stuff.  No body works but everybody gets paid.

The government’s fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent.

This entitlement culture could only have happened in the dumb ages.  It requires a population sufficiently stupid to think that high income workers will continue to support a system that consumes an ever increasing percentage of their income.

Higher earners could see their income drop because of changes in the tax system to implement the basic income support.

Of course this will not happen.  It does not take a genius to understand that high income earners will leave to more tax friendly nations.  Sadly the dumb ages has a dearth of even moderately intelligent people.  The Dumb ages has an unhealthy balance of stupid to intelligent people and nowhere is this more apparent than government.