Don't vote for a moderate

I often see people who call themself conservative and center-right becuase they are somewhat traditionalist and capitalist. These people often vote for the Conservative Party because of the party's "centre-right" orientation. I would argue that these centre-right people should vote for a more rightist conservative party, like say, the Christian Heritage Party, rather than a 'centre-right' party like the CPC. In fact, I can prove this using mathematics:

Let's say I am a centre-right conservative. I have the choice to vote for a right wing conservative party, a centre-right conservative party, a centrist party, a centre-left liberal party, and a far left liberal party. Normally, one would assume that I should vote for the centre-right. Really, I should vote for the right wing party. This is to balance out the opposition. Let's pretend that these parties can be put on a number scale:

Right Wing=2
Centre Right=1
Centre=0
Centre Left=-1
Far Left=-2

I would want to get the House of Commons at "1". Let's assume there are 100 seats (to make the math simple to understand). Most of the parties are much more far left than my number. To solve this, I must compensate. I have voted for the right wing one, giving it a higher score, and the center right a lower score:

RW= 21 seats
CR= 19 seats
C= 20 seats
CL= 20 seats
FL= 20 seats

And the number scores are applied to this:

RW= 21 seats * (2)= 42
CR= 19 seats * (1)= 19
C= 20 seats * (0)=0
CL= 20 seats * (-1)= -20
FL= 20 seats * (-2)= -40
Overall house of commons score = (-40) + (-20) + (0) + (19) + (42) = 1

And we have achieved the score!! Now let's try it if we had voted for the Centre right party:

FR= 19 seats * (2)= 38
CR= 21 seats * (1)= 20
C= 20 seats * (0)=0
CL= 20 seats * (-1)= -20
FL= 20 seats * (-2)= -40
Overall house of commons score = -2

Uh-oh! We now have a far left government!!

So, If you consider yourself even a bit further right than the Liberals, vote CHP!

I hope this has made sense to you all. Thanks for reading!

Socialism Starts at School

As a high school student, I am taking part in a "Model PEI Legislature" along with 26 other students from all over PEI.

First thing they did was divide the students up into "opposition party" and "government party" randomly. I was chosen to be on the opposition.

We went into our caucuses and established our leaders and our ministers/critics. I was unanimously chosen to be Finance critic. I am happy that I got this position because I have a feeling that if I didn't, we would be the communist party. I was the sole defender of the free market.

I proposed a motion to reduce the PST in PEI to my caucus. They claimed that we have to raise it instead because of the debt. I pointed out that PEI has the highest PST and that by raising it, the government will spend the revenue somewhere else while hurting the economy: not helping the debt in any way. I said that the best way to reduce the debt is to cut spending.

Then, instead of coming back with real debate, I was called a "right wing- capitalist who hates the poor". And then, the debate was over; they moved on to a new topic.

As Finance critic, I managed to get one free market idea put into the party policy. The party now supports abolishing the IRAC (island regulatory appeals commission) - the agency that regulates gas and other prices. It wasn't easy to get this policy in, but even when I did get it passed, it was put at the VERY BOTTOM of the priority list. (I also need to point at that the fourth on the list is lifting the ban on homosexual men donating blood).

So now, I am finance leader of a party that doesn't support smart economics. The government paid lawyer that was at the function even said that "cost is not an issue when you are creating your policies". I don't know how someone could be serious in saying this, seeing how PEI spends TWO-THIRDS (66.7%) of its GDP on government expenditures.

I enjoyed this function, but when I go back in February to actually debate in the Legislature, it is going to be tough.

I think that we need to focus our resources on educating our kinds in smart politics. I have tried hard to teach my friends and classmates about good government, but I don't think that's not enough. If these kids are the politicians of tomorrow, tomorrow is gunna suck.