MD: I usually update the blog page every month or so. So much to do, so little time…

I know that most of us won’t make money out of our blogs. I did start my blog for fun too (I don’t even put adds for the moment). However, it doesn’t cost much to dream about it
After all, Johnchow.com and many other are making a killing.

Hey CC,
I hope I’ll be part of your next New Canadian Money Blog ! Any comments are also welcome.

Cheers,
FB.

Most blogs never make more than $10/month with ads and for those that do very few can make any significant money with it. I think we all do this mostly for fun. Sure Google is going to send me a cheque in a few days but I don’t expect to see those all that often.

Perhaps the thing I like the most with my blog is publishers sending me review copies of books. I get to read something new for free that I would likely read any way.

CD

I think if you are trying to make money blogging you should focus on sports, politics or something like how to make money on Ebay

Just like you said about the Republican Party, the Conservative Party is supposedly about small government, lower taxes. However, in reality they’re on a pork barrel spending program and they government has been increasing correspondingly, their promised tax cuts never materialized and some supposed tax “loopholes” were closed off by the so-called “Conservative Party”.

For disclosure, my own personal views are all about smaller government and lower taxes, but I am a swing voter and do not hold a membership to any particular party.

The financial side of medicare (medical insurance) continues to be the “sacred cow”, but medical services in this country really sucks and continues to get worse. Sure we get free medical coverage but we have waiting lists for 2.5 yrs on average to get things like knee surgeries, specialists like obstetricians are almost non-existent and no family physicians that I’ve called up are accepting new patients. The overwhelming majority of our recent graduates of our medical schools all head down stateside for their careers and that’s the perfect indication that our medical system is, in my words, “BROKEN”. The average voter doesn’t know that we already have an unofficial “two-tiered medical system” today because if a professional hockey player blows up his knee, do you think he gets on the 2.5 yr waiting list to get knee surgery? Why don’t we just call a spade a spade and get on with reforming our two-tiered medical system to make it official and improve the system. In my opinion, private medical care would kill two birds with one stone! Private care would take some of the load off of the public service and have it all paid for by Canada’s wealthy while they continue to support the public system through their taxes. Also, private care could offer the kinds of competitive salaries that would keep our newly graduated doctors to stay in the country.

Anyways, thanks for my opportunity to rant! The delivery of medical service in this country has been my pet peeve for decades and I can’t find a political party who is willing to admit that there is already two tiered medical service in Canada and will legitimize it to allow it to properly flourish.

Bernstein’s book was actually only the inspiration for the name of my blog, most of my inspiration came from your blog as well as MillionDollarJourney’s blog.

Mike