tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post4240008115014401174..comments2024-01-07T08:41:13.864-05:00Comments on C A I T I - O N L I N E: Flaherty’s self dealing predates his arrival in Ottawa.Brent Fullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515599756822506137noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-17792743079065683222010-04-14T10:54:31.816-04:002010-04-14T10:54:31.816-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02177712721406997899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-4937623063885892462008-05-02T17:33:00.000-04:002008-05-02T17:33:00.000-04:00The "Dog and the Bone" is a fable ascribed to Ae...The "Dog and the Bone" is a fable ascribed to Aesop. According to the story, a dog was carrying a bone over a bridge. Looking down into the water, the dog saw its own reflection, which looked to him like another dog carrying another bone. Wanting the other dog's bone as well as his own, the dog opened his mouth to bark at the "other" dog it saw, but in doing so, the dog dropped his own bone into the river, where it was gone for good.<BR/><BR/>Jim , you were carrying the original bone also known as income trusts & their associated tax windfall (Money received which was not expected and <BR/>not a direct result of something the recipient did).<BR/><BR/>Jim , you looked into that pond of self-righteousness & saw that there was more tax money to grab , but to get it you had to let the trust tax dollars go.<BR/><BR/>Jim , after getting the ultimate soaker , you are emerging with a mouth full of nothing.<BR/><BR/>I bet you are now wishing you would have put that original bone away for a rainy day because the storm clouds are upon us.<BR/><BR/>Jim Flaherty , the ultimate "bonehead".<BR/><BR/>Dr Mike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-13900613789066452002008-05-02T11:32:00.000-04:002008-05-02T11:32:00.000-04:00Finance Minister Jim Flaherty: New Age PiratePoste...Finance Minister Jim Flaherty: New Age Pirate<BR/>Posted: January 11, 2008, 5:46 PM by Ronald Nurwisah<BR/>Ottawa<BR/>Financial Post<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, whose family came to Canada from Ireland four generations ago, spoke at lunch hosted by the Ireland Canada Chamber of Commerce in Toronto on Friday. But he didn't just speak. He spoke with a hint of an Irish accent here and there. Wee words like "little" were shortened, ya hear, to smaller words, like l'il.<BR/> <BR/>He told tales of his family's heritage, the feared O'Flaherty tribe back in the Old Country. <BR/> <BR/>“I am an Irish-Canadian with a somewhat chequered past,” he said, before launching into a l’il story about his ancestors.<BR/> <BR/>"It was said that they were pirates. In fact, they were pirates, according to the history of it. And that from time to time, would go from the county to the city of Galway and pillage," he said. <BR/> <BR/>Their rampages were so bad that some say they resulted in the inscription over Galway’s wall that bears the inscription loosely translated as: "God save us from the wrath of the O'Flahertys."<BR/> <BR/>Someone once told Mr. Flaherty that this was a suitable ancestry for finance minister. He replied: “I said, really, today we call it more elegantly, not pillaging, but taxation.”<BR/> <BR/>— Carrie TaitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com