SCREWED: IS THAT A VULGAR WORD, OR DO YOU LIKE A PLAIN SPEAKING PRIME MINISTER?
Recently Prime Minister Harper said; “the National Energy Program was designed to screw the west and really damage the energy sector and this will do those things, but this is different; it will actually screw everybody across the country.” Mr. Harper was talking about the Liberal party’s new proposal for a national carbon tax. He also said that the Liberal plan was “crazy” and his party members have nicknamed the Liberal “green shift” plan the “green shaft”. Liberal House leader Ralph Goodale accused the Prime Minister of being “loud, goonish and bordering on vulgar” as well as not telling the truth about the impact of the Liberal plan on Canadians. Liberal party leader Stephane Dion reacted to the Prime Minister’s comments by saying; “it was vulgar and I don’t think Canadians are impressed by that, they want a Prime Minister to act as a Prime Minister.”
Well do you agree with Mr. Dion and Mr. Goodale? I don’t. I think it’s great that we finally have a Prime Minister who speaks in plain English. Some of you may feel that the Prime Minster should be above using that kind of “colourful language” and you have a right to that opinion. I believe it’s 2008, times have changed, and we are more accepting of things today than generations before us. Like the word “issue” that has become the politically correct word to describe almost anything so you don’t have to say what you really mean, “screwed” plays the same type role. “Screw” means ” to be taken advantage of” in what seems like a million different ways. For example “screw” mean “extort”, It also means to pin or fasten anything that looks like a screw or nail like device, and in fairness it also has a vague sexual meaning as well which is what the prudes are zeroing in on. As far as I’m concerned this is not 1940, and “screw” or “screwed” are not four letter words. Lighten up you “conservative thinking” Liberals, next thing you know you another four letter word might be considered vulgar. It’s spelled D-I-O-N. How do you like them apples?
Jeff Allan
PS: On a challenge from a listener I called my 95 year old grandmother to ask her if she thought the Prime Minister’s remarks were vulgar and she said “yes they were”.