Quoting myself:
Who could be against education, healthy living, support for those in need, a cleaner environment and more jobs? On closer examination, though, each of of the Liberal government's "five great goals" refers to relative performance rather than to an absolute standard. The “best educated”... “lead the way”... “the best system”... “lead the world”... “more… than anywhere else”...
In the nineteenth century, Thomas Carlyle bemoaned the "all-deafening blast of puffery" displayed in the spectacle of the "Hatter in the Strand of London, instead of making better felt-hats than another, mounts a huge lath-and-plaster Hat, seven-feet high, upon wheels; sends a man to drive it through the streets; hoping to be saved thereby."
The five great goals in the throne speech are not about making better hats, they're about promenading a seven-foot high model of a hat through the streets.
See the Work Less Party's reply to the Speech from the Throne.
Posted by sandwichman at February 14, 2005 02:11 PM