Saturday, November 26, 2022

Inflation fighting cheques???


"Quebec's rollout of inflation-fighting cheques begins in December" says the title in The Gazette. What exactly is fighting inflation? The cheques?? Can't be. So, we go in and find out: "... [distributed to] 6.5 million Quebecers to fight the effects of inflation". Oh, ok, to fight the EFFECTS of inflation. Not inflation itself. Who cares about inflation? What's important is to give voters the illusion that things are not that bad. As Pierre Poilievre says "where is the money coming from?" Most likely freshly printed by the feds, causing more inflation, causing another set of cheques to fight its effects, backed by freshly printed money, causing...

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