Palin and Social Credit

It has been suggested that our interpretation of Gov'nor Palin's exhortation to Canadians to "Keep the Faith!" was not at all on the target.  We missed it by a moose!

What she meant was to renew our faith in Social Credit!

Across the Canadian Bible Belt, in the days before Texas oil was found in Alberta, why back then we had Baptist preachers and Social Credit.  "Bible" Bill Eberhardt, Earnest Manning. Wack-E. Bennett and The Boy Bennett.  We even had Réal "Peanut" Créditistes in what you would call your French Canada (we owe Google Translate credit for its help in this area social networking.)

Now what was Social Credit? Well I'm glad you asked.  It was not "socialist" and it was not about wild partying because it auntie-dates your credit card frauds.  No, it was the real thing.

Let me explain.  Suppose you hired yourself a steno but you told her she was a "research assistant" who just happened to half-to-know Pitman shorthand.  Now she gets to tell people that she is a research assistant and someone who is in the habit of stopping in your office for more than just a smoke and a coffee - why they hire her away from you as a research assistant but really she's their hootchie-kootchie girl if you get my drift.  Now let's just stay with the first transaction where our debit was also our credit.  We call that our double entry.  What your social credit tells you is that she did not get something from nothing.  She worked for you as a steno taking notes and fetching coffee and all the salesman liked her.  So what she had was an investment, you might say, a "credit".  Now when she goes to her new social status as a research assistant, now she draws on that credit.  But you see, no money has to change hands here apart from her minimum wage.  And even if she is still making minimum wag - by which I mean girl's minimum wage and not the working man's minimum wage, why she has carried that social credit over to her new position.

I hope that has made that clear.  Now up there in Canada those socialists from the CCF renamed themselves the NDP and some carpet-baggers from down East they call themselves Liberals so we had no choice but to call our Social Credit most anything else.  Like "progressive".  So we had our Progressive Conservatives.  Now don't you get all confused because a Liberal in your Province of the French Canada, your La Quebéc, is your died-in-the-wool anti-federal Conservative when we have to have a Federal election every 5 or 6 years when the Parliament is not per-rogued and their members out living on their per-diem.

What all this goes to show is that your economic theories they are all fine and good at your community college and what not but in business, heck no.  It's who you know and are you a Mason.  Now that goes for your politics too, where all your political theory is fine at some United Church policy meeting in the Maritimes but when it comes to talking to real Baptists and Evangelicals out in the West we understand political economy, by which we mean your Social Credit.

None of this explanation will do you much good out there in New Foundland where they wanted to have some British George's Bank for their cod fish stock.  Well we had one king George and then another and even had us a MacKenzie King and what I can tell you is this: your New Foundlander is basically your lazy fisherman who only wants to fish for his cod in the spring and bank on his cod the rest of the year.  Well without the Social Credit that meant but the one thing, your Pogie.

Now up there in Alaska they don't have the Pogie but then they don't have much fishing on account of their not hunting their fish-killing fish-a-gobbling seal, whales and mollhusks.  So I see that up there we have prime Social Credit country and if they one day strike oil, well God Bless 'Em.

Glossary: Pogie, i.e., Socialist Unemployment Insurance and Computer Retraining
Idiom: "Going on the Pogie" as in "done fishing for the summer by June".
Jargon: "retrained" i.e., someone applying for their next training course to extend their Pogie.
Politics: "Socred" - died-in-the-wool conservative.  "So-Cred" - your "big C" Socred who voted Diefenbaker in the big Federal election.