Merriam's Modest Proposal

Jim Merriam has come up with a great way to save taxpayers a cool $1.1 billion+ a year--pack up the Ceeb (in an old kit bag and smile, smile, smile):

Treasury Board President Stockwell Day doesn’t seem to have broken much of a sweat in his first year as budget-slayer-in-chief.

Appointed to the role last January, Day has been more about ominous utterances than real measures to dig the country out of our debt quagmire.

In fact, his Conservative party has added to that goop significantly. While talking fiscal responsibility, the Harperites are on their way to overspending by a whopping $164 billion by 2014.

These figures make clear that Day needs to make some bold moves. And he needs to start yesterday.

One of the most obvious of these would be to shutter the CBC. That would save a minimum of $1.1 billion per year in direct subsidies from your pocket and mine, plus unknown additional funds for specific programming.

And really, would Canada be any worse off without all those earnest conversations every day on CBC radio?...

Worse off sans Mideast correspondent Margaret Evans's verklempt accounts of Palestinian "suffering"? Worse off without the smug, reflexive, insufferable anti-Zionism/anti-Americanism? Worse off not hearing every freaking lefty talking point--eco-lunacy, multiculti malarkey, diversity piffle, odious internationalism, socialized this, that and the other--every flipping day? Worse off not paying for a shill-com about cuddly Muslims and silly infidels and a twee, wee mosque on the plains?

No indeedee. No, not at all. No, not even one little bit.

Update: Sing out, doughboys:

Pack up the Ceeb into an old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Get rid of lefty cant--it can't be good.
Smile, folks, that's the style.
What's the use of funding it?
Its spin is glib and vile.
So, pack up the Ceeb into an old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.