Introduction

Welcome to the blog of monkey loves to fight. This will be a weekly blog, when I am not travelling elsewhere or too busy with other commitments. It will give an update on the week's events and give a personal opinion from monkey loves to fight on the important issues of the day. This will be a no nonsense blog. It will tell things as the blogger sees it. It will not be your politically correct blog that your political elites like to read nor will it support or favour any one party. It will both praise and attack every party as the blogger sees fit.

Monkey loves to fight is a classical liberal who believes in the idea of as much as freedom as possible and only government where necessary. Monkey loves to fight supports the free market and believes that while some government intervention is necessary, we have far more than necessary and government should only intervene when necessary. We need fewer and smarter regulations, lower income and corporate taxes to promote economic growth, balanced budgets, and less government spending. Just as individuals have learned how to manage their money properly, governments need to do the same and spend where necessary and based on what we have, not to try and pander to every special interest group who is wanting a hand out and not to buy votes from every potential voter. Monkey loves to fight believes in a smaller and more efficient public sector. Crown corporations should be privatized if they can be done better by the private sector (i.e. Provincial Liquor stores, VIA Rail, public Auto Insurance companies in some provinces, Electricity and gas companies in some instances although not all) and that government should not be in the business of running businesses. Government should also eliminate all subsidies. The market and consumers are far better at choosing winners and losers than governments are. British Columbia back in 2001 eliminated government subsidies and yet it has done just as well as most other provinces and it has not led to massive takeover by foreign companies, in fact BC has less foreign owned companies than Ontario which does subsidize many firms. All activist and political interest groups should have their funding slashed. Monkey loves to fight doesn't care about how noble they think their cause is, if their cause has enough support they will get the support through donations from the public. Unlike socialists, we believe values are something each individual has and we respect that people have different values and that there is no right or wrong, just different opinions. Forcing people to subsidize viewpoints they disagree with goes against the grain of this. Monkey loves to fight supports free trade and open investment policies so long as the playing field is level. When other countries adopt protectionist measures, Canada should not hesitate to retaliate and do so to the fullest extent, but when other countries open their markets, we should too as we can compete. We are not a weak country that is incapable of competing against others, we are an extremely strong country with plenty of resources and talent who can compete against anyone and win.

Monkey loves to fight believes in social programs to help the disadvantaged, but our social programs should be a hand up, not a hand out. They should be there to help those who cannot help themselves, not to foster dependency on the government. He is opposed to a government run childcare program, while supports universal health care, but believes those who wish to purchase private health care should be able to do so, as long as the public system continues to exist. This is the case in every other industrialized country save the United States (which doesn't have a universal health care system) and Canada (which prohibits a parallel private system). In education we have a public school system, yet there is no law prohibiting parents from sending their children to private school, so there is no reason why it cannot work with health care. Monkey loves to fight supports are more centralized but smaller government. In today's globalized world, giving more power to the provinces is neither financially responsible nor does it make sense. In fact it weakens our competiveness. In some areas such as labour mobility for professionals, environmental standards, the European Union (which is not even a country) is more centralized than Canada, so surely if 27 countries with vastly different cultures can work together on issues they have in common, 10 provinces where despite our differences, we are far more similiar than countries in Europe are, we should be able to do the same.

Monkey loves to fight is a social liberal who believes individuals should be free to live their life as they want so long as it doesn't harm others. He supports same sex marriage, the right to choose, legalization of marijuana, legalization of prostitution, and euthanasia. He supports immigration that is beneficial to our country, but believes we should refuse those (save refugees in dire consequences) who do not have skills that can contribute to our economy. He also believes those who come here illegally should be deported, while continuing to welcome those who come here legally and making it easier in terms of time and paper work. We should welcome diversity of cultures, but at the same time recognize the common values that bond us together as Canadians regardless of where we come from or our ancestors came from. Monkey loves to fight does not support regionalism or one identifying primarily with their ancestry over where they currently live. We are all unique individuals, but we are also all Canadians. Monkey loves to fight believes in individual rights not group rights. Dividing people by groups however it may be only serves to further divide us and is arbitrary. There are more differences within any group (be it gender, income, ethnicity etc.) than there are between groups. Giving preference to historically disadvantaged groups (i.e. affirmative action) only helps divide us and lead to more resentment, treating each person based on their ability and characteristics is all that should matter and any characteristic that is beyond one's control should be irrelevant. Monkey loves to fight believes in a foreign policy that puts national interest first and selectively engages with the rest of the world. Problems are best solved at a local, not global level and so Canada should avoid intervening in global issues unless absolutely necessary. We should not be involved in foreign wars such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but we should also limit the role of international organizations such as NATO and the UN to only problems that cannot be solved at a national level. Taking a more isolationist approach, is not being against others, it is simply recognizing each country and culture is unique in its own way and it is better to let them each solve their problems based on their values rather than taking a one size fits all approach. Monkey loves to fight doesn't care much for labour unions and believes they have outlived their usefulness. They should have the right to exist, but monkey loves to fight would never vote in favour of unionization if there was a union drive at his firm and would support any decertification efforts if his workplace was unionized. Monkey loves to fight has worked at both union and non-union firms and has not found pay or working conditions any worse at non-union ones, but at least didn't have to fund all their socialist causes. Monkey loves to fight believes the environment is an important issues to deal with, but market mechanisms can work just as effectively as government regulation and more importantly population reduction is the best solution to helping the environment. Low birth rates are not something we should fear, they are in fact exactly the best solution for solving our environmental woes. Population reduction through government action however should not be done (i.e. China's one child policy) but neither should governments adopt policies that encourage population growth.

These are just a summary of monkey loves to fight views, but you will see more as the issues emerge.