Hold on to your wallets. Not only are food prices getting out of hand, now the dumb socialists at the United Nations want more money from hardworking folks to give away to backwards countries – minus a hefty commission for their own pockets, of course.

First off, they’re looking to set up another group to look into the issue – great, that’ll waste untold millions without doing one starvin’ kid a lick of good.

I ain’t heartless – even if the wife is scoffin’ at the comment – but I’ve been around long enough to know you can’t go pouring money into these messed up countries. The crooks at the UN skim, and then the lefty dictators take most of the money and send it to offshore banks. A few crumbs make it to a few of the poor. Yet we do the same thing over and over and over.

It’s high time we lived by the motto, Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Give them countries one last bit of cash to set up farming, leave ‘em alone to do as they will, and they’ll either swim or sink. That’s their decision. If their lousy governments steal everything, eventually folks there will do in the SOBs, and they can have a proper capitalist system.

Those people get up on their own feet. And we’ve got no more handouts. End of problem.

Speakin’ of how most of the world messes the bed, I seen how we’re still having no end of grief when it comes to immigration. The Conservative government wants to clean things up, but the lefty parties want none of it.

What’s wrong with cherry-picking immigrants? If we must have ‘em, we want only the desirable ones – the rest should be told ‘no’ once and for all. Seems fair enough to me. Comin’ to Canada is a privilege that should apply to only a few, if any. And only to those who come with money, skills and the ability to fit in as a decent member of society.

It’s the government’s job to keep our borders safe, not let Canada become the laughingstock it’s become. We’ve got on open-door policy for, literally, the scum of the Earth. No wonder the Yanks say we’re soft on terrorism.

In the big picture, the planet don’t need anymore of us running around. Just like folks should feed themselves, countries should look after their own, no pawn off their problems on us.

You don’t have to look no further to why our policies are nonsense than the case of that fella in Sudan. The bleeding hearts say he’s a Canadian – yeah, right – while the rest of the civilized world says he’s a terrorism suspect.

The lefties want to bring him back here. I say let him stay over there, just not takin’ up residence in our embassy – not one cent of my money or yours should go in that direction. Let those people look after the problem.

Under Stephen Harper’s watch, I expect an end to Canada as the soft touch for every lowlife. Foreigners are on their own, plain and simple.

That’s a good example why, if we’re going to have immigrants at all, we need a graduated system: the first 25 years are probation. If someone gets as much as a speeding ticket, they’re out forever the next day, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

It’s time for some backbone.

When it comes to hockey, I’m all for Canada first, even if the Leafs have been golfin’ for weeks. I had to suck it up to cheer for the Canadiens, though I was to partial to Calgary first before they got put out.

Anyways, I ain’t got no idea why folks in Montreal figured it was a good idea to go rioting and burning cars on account of how the home team had just won the first round of the playoffs. Seems to me you celebrate winning the Cup. And you sure as H, E, Double Hockey Sticks don’t celebrate by looting and that kind of nonsense. What were those people thinkin’?

The wife says I shouldn’t generalize about folks in Quebec. I suppose it’s best to say some scumbags ruined it for the rest of the people. While I ain’t no fan, I have to admit the Canadiens are a class organization – top of the heap when it comes to the NHL. Watching the games, you can tell the fans care about hockey, unlike some of the sushi-eatin’ crowd leavin’ seats empty in Toronto. Enough said.

I see how the RCMP are lookin’ into the Coast Guard on account of how a boat they were towing hit some ice and capsized, killin’ four.

This was a tragedy, and you want to make sure we know how things happened, but folks ought to remember the Coast Guard was rescuing these fellas. Apparently, the Coast Guard does 600 or 700 of these every year: all paid for by you and me.

What gets my goat is people thinkin’ there’s some kind of entitlement, that the nanny state has to be there to protect ‘em 24 hours a day. There are risks out in the world, and it ain’t up to the government to hold your hand. Most of all, it’s not right to lift money from my wallet while doing it.

I’m all for supportin’ our troops. Havin’ been one over in the big war, I know what it means to serve this great country. Still, I gotta agree with this government committee suggesting we ought not to fly the flag at half mast so often.

It’s a shame every time one of our boys is killed over in that God-forsaken hole, Afghanistan. But you can’t go lowering the flag all the time. Think about the real wars: the flag on the Parliament building would have been lowered every day for all them years.

This committee is sayin’ we ought to lower in just on Remembrance Day, which is fine by me. That’s the day to salute those who paid the ultimate price in serving Canada.

What gets my dander up is sayin’ the flag should drop down to mark the death of MPs and lieutenant-governors and whatnot. That ain’t right, just doing it by default. Sure, if the Prime Minister, past of present, dies, lower the flag (well, not in the case of that SOB Mulroney), but it ain’t national grief if some backbencher cashes in his chips. Most politicians don’t amount to nothing. And bagmen and hacks appointed to lieutenant-governor roles are even less to mourn about.

If you’re going to mark the death of leeches, then it’s an insult to the soldiers who sacrificed everything.

The Liberals are makin’ a big fuss over havin’ Bob Rae in the House of Commons, actin’ like it’s a good thing. Well, I suppose it is, if you’re a supporter of Stephen Harper.

Everyone knows what a mess Rae made when he was runnin’ things at Queen’s Park: we’re still paying off billions in debt because of those NDP clowns. Even if people are fool enough to vote for McGuinty, it’ll be a cold day in Hades before the craziest lefties get more than a handful of MPPs.

Anyways, Rae could see the writing on the wall, so he jumped ship to the Liberals. Now he’s got a seat in the House after winning a byelection, which means we’re going to have to hear him yammering on about this or that nonsense from here on in. But the bigger the profile he gets, the more people are going to be reminded of just what kind of crap his ideas mean. And that’s all the better for the Conservatives, who have a leader that’s kickin’ Dion’s but.

If I was little Stephane, I’d be worried about Rae and Ignatieff makin’ me look like an even bigger goof than ever. All the better for the reform-minded when the next election comes.

It don’t take a rocket scientist to see that Stephane Dion fellow ain’t got long as leader of the Liberals. Nobody’s gonna vote for that wimp.

Being a Liberal is one strike against him. Another one from Quebec is two. And having no backbone makes strike three – yer out.

I sure wasn’t surprised to read how the Quebec wing of the party wants his head, even if is one of their own. The way Stephen Harper is playing things, the Liberals are losing ground in that province. Folks there are still ticked about the sponsorship scandal, just like the rest of us. The only thing is, they’re ticked for all the wrong reasons: they don’t seem to care about the stealing of money and the graftin’, but are all bent out of shape because the federal government tried to influence the referendum vote. What’s the federal government supposed to do? Make up medals for the traitors?

Quebec politics is enough to make you shake your head so much you’re liable to get dizzy and fall off your chair.

You know if a special-interest group is whining about a government policy that it’s something worth keeping: the crying only starts when it’s something in favour of regular, decent folk.

I’m sure hoping that’s the case with the brouhaha over a new immigration policy.

The professional leeches are sayin’ it’s bad for the minister to have more power. I hope that means we’re closing the door. That’s a real easy way to deal with the backlog – 900,000, is you can believe it – from all kinds of Godforsaken parts of the globe: like the Gippers’ wife suggested, just say no.

I sure has heck voted for a government that will do the right thing, looking after hardworking, honest Canadians who love this great country. For too long, we had a bunch of spineless SOBs in Ottawa who kowtowed to special interests, and the country has been goin’ downhill ever since. Once Trudeau came along, the slide started. Now it’s up to Stephen Harper to make things right again. Close the doors, and then make ‘em one-way: out. All the lowlifes, ingrates and commie types can be shown to the exits.

I’m not surprised we didn’t see much in the way of anything in the provincial budget this week, especially in the way of tax cuts. I guess it’s something that we aren’t seeing a bunch of new taxes, which is the usual way for Liberals.

By all accounts, the economy in Ontario is headed for the dumper. As much as I ain’t happy about that, there’s a bit of I-told-you-so seeing how the government thinks it knows better than the market how to run the economy. Cut taxes, and let the companies do more with their money than just give it to politicians to waste.

Jim Flaherty’s got it right on that front, though he ought to doing more to boost Canadian stuff, rather than letting all this foreign garbage come floodin’ into the country. If we put Canada first, never mind all the stuff from lesser parts of the world, we’d all be doing much better. And even the tree-huggers can’t argue that point.