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Page THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday May 3 Flawed Budget Its been a pretty hectic week around ye olde homestead what with Herald Special Sup plements lastminute news breaking the eruption of con troversy over the firstever On tario budget and getting bangedup In a traffic accident This latest traffic accident was a relatively minor one compared to getting hit by a train or being taken up in a tornado but it did result in an overnight stay at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital because I received a crack on the head The hospital staff was as usual courteous professional and caring The brain scan show ed nothing Just kidding I wasnt given a brain scan but slight does remain allowing me to write in my usual in imitable fashion belter skelter The response to the weekly Loony Award proposed in last weeks has been amazing Some of the nomina tions had to be discarded however because of the language used by various and nefarious selection committees One stands out however and definitely deserves attention This weeks Loony Award goes to the provincial govern ment for its proposed budget one I totally disagree with The socalled experts have had their chance and most appear to agree that this particular budget being foisted on Ontarlans Is ill- conceived illtimed and simply justifies previouslyaired business fears that the new provincial government would tax and spend with no thought to the future of either the province or its residents An Economist interviewed Thursday morning on CTVs Canada AM put a more chillingly realistic hue to the budget pic tured as a recessionfighter by provincial Treasurer Floyd Laughren The Economist estimated that if various Ontario governments realized billion in taxes yearly it would take until the year to get Ontarios deficit back to the figure it hovered at prior to the NDP budget This wouldnt even take into account inflation or possible higher interest rates on the provincial debt The NDP by way of Mr budget has mortgag ed Ontarios future to the point we might indeed soon become one of the havenot provinces as costs to social services escalate and businesses flee either south of the border or to other provinces to escape the pieinthesky way of dealing with a troubled economy Ontario it appears will now be locked into the same debt tread mill as the federal government with no escape in sight Throwing good money after bad has never been viewed as a solution to either individual business or government in debtedness Yet this is what the NDP has done It is obvious the NDP has catered to those selfinterest groups who have a persona stake in the government while other sectors of the province have been cut adrift The only lifeline being offered is one that will eventually turn Ontario into a welfare state with spiralling taxes decreases in ser vices and no business base to pay the bills I wonder what excuse the NDP will use when it is forced to an nounce to Ontario taxpayers that the proverbial cupboard is bare I suppose the NDP could always blame David Petersons Liberal government for causing such a happenstance The NDP provincial governing party ap pears to use this canard on an almost daily basis at the present time As I see it anyway Editorial Poets Corner WALL OF PAIN Like old Humpty Dumpty Who sat on a wall You built one around you To be safe from a fall I watched as a friend As laid bricks of doubt And of hart and suspicion To keep people out Then she came along And you thought her love true You dismantled your wall And your feelings burst thru Too late you discovered She did not feel the same And you rebuilt your wall Adding sorrow and pain I know what youre feeling I honestly do What youre feeling for her- Im feeling for you Just once your wall crumbled Your feelings soared free Bricks But alas not for me Brooke Acton TREE OF KNOWLEDGE bare branches reaching for white winter sky Innocent naked clutching at angels robes scratching at heavens door attempting to pick gods brains owe their brittle existence to their earthly roots blackened soli fighting their own good fight to fuel hells fire grab the devil by balls get a grip on reality By JB Acton OH CANADA Ithasntbeen We the people More like To the people Were not rats In any sewer And bats In any steeple If we dont make It together We will be so far apart Afraid of kindred spirit Though that Is just for a start We become multicultural At least that is what we think For a large country too plural The theme began to stink It is either too white too yellow Too beige too black and maybe too red Not one of us is really the same With some who try changing instead We may change our name Try changing our race Fear leads many to shame Afraid of showing ones face Seems the system lacks of pride We are walking tall while aching Inside With malice toward none we need not be outsouled Our hearts could reach out be truly bold It Is not much fan certainly not fair One does not choose ones birth so there We really ought to try getting alone Remember O Canada our Lois Richardson Georgetown The Halton Hills HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 866 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited 45 Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario L7G 3Z6 K ROBERT Publisher and General Manager 8772201 Spoil Editor la CLASSIFIED Joan CIRCULATION Marl ACCOUNTING JmnUKaplcnuk SUBSCRIPTION BATE Copr Hilton ill mo imR Canada copyright on all Original malarial In aortal Ihat I ha anal not ta for daman arlilng anon In adrlaa- tha amount paid for tna actually by portion In Heroic dog stories Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and ask yourself the agonizing question- why have I never owned an heroic dog Well possibly you dont Im not normally quite this peculiar either Still Ive been thinking a lot about heroic dogs lately ever since I came across a newspaper article inviting readers to submit stones detailing the remarkable feats of their canine pals The article listed a few ex amples of such stones dogs who returned home after being lost thousands of kilometres away dogs who risked life and limb to save their master from gunmen that sort of thing Now Ive been owned by several dogs over the years So naturally I sat right down to think of all the brave and clever things they did After an hour or so I finally remembered one exploit that was cleverly and fearlessly perform ed by Sadie the Coonhound But Im not sure its exactly sort of thing the newspaper had in mind since it involved lurking under the stairs and then leaping out to bite a dogfood delivery man Finally I had to face the sad fact- Ive never owned a dog who was any better in a crisis than I This is a terrible thing to say about an animal but there it is Ive never for instance owned a dog who got lost across the country and then found his way home On the other hand I grew up with a Scotch collie who used Weirs World lo get lost in the neighbors back yard Laddie discovered that he could crawl under the fence bet ween the two properties Un fortunately it never seemed to dawn on him that he might be able to crawl back the same way So there hed sit peering through the chickenwire and howling mournfully The first time this happened I tried to demonstrate the ap propriate escapetechnique by crawling under the fence myself and then crawling back Having done so I smiled brightly and urged him to follow suit He gave me a look to indicate his dismay at discovering that he seemed to be owned by such an odd boy then resumed howling I finally had to walk him home around the block Ive never had a dog protect me from gunmen either On the other hand there was the memorable morning that Luke the Coonhound brave Sadies fearless brother hid in the bushes during an attempted breakin then tried to attack the investigating officer We were up at a summer cabin Luke and I One morning I was awakened by the unmistable sound of someone trying to kick the front door in Even in my groggy state I could tell this much I could also sense that something was miss ing from this scenario like those heartwarming shrieks which would indicate that the villain ws now being torn limb from limb by a vengeful Coonhound So I jumped up paused briefly to put my pants on and went to investigate Fortunately the two wouldbe housebreakers saw me coming through the window and fled up the path I phoned the police and went outside just in time to see Luke come slinking out of the shrubs He gave me a woefully guilty look then decided to fake it He sniffed the air with sudden suspicion as if to exclaim Zounds Has there been villainy afoot that I was miles away and thus unable to dash to the rescue But he saved his finest moments for the policemans ar rival He waited until the officer began asking me for details then sidled up behind him Luke did not have many talents life but he had gloriously operatic bay Which he now unleashed The officer jumped straight up in the air When he came back down Luke was wagging his tail pleasantly as if to indicate that he was glad to meet such an alert policeman So you have it The full and thrilling saga of my long associa tion with noble and resourceful dogs Movie producers are cordially invited to enquire about rights