High_Side wrote:So let me make sure that I got this right:
The Conservatives appointed Senators just as every ruling party has done before them so they are out of control.
The term you are seeking is hypocrite or in this case, Harpercrite. When leader of the Official Opposition, Harpo to the governing Liberals to task many times when they appointed people to the Senate. He promised he would never do the same and promised us Senate Reform. However, when it suited his purposes, he did exactly what he said he would not do, load the Senate with his backers. This makes him a lying hypocrite.
High_Side wrote:Harper runs a deficit through the worst global economic meltdown since 1929 and he is ridiculed for it. Somehow the other parties will spend more on social programs and have no deficit. Seems brilliant.
Don't forget, that when the melt down was in full swing and the Bank of Canada and other agencies were saying we were in a recession, Harpo denied it. He took a C$16 Billion surplus legacy from the Liberals and in five short years blew through it and drove us deep into debt. And what did he spend the money on? Bail outs to Corporations, Banks and other "too big to fail" institutions all the while cutting services to small business's and regular Canadians.
Then there are his pet big ticket projects, the F-35 fighters who's selling price does not include f'ing engines, those apparently have to be supplied by the Government of Canada. And the price of those future Hanger Queens often quoted by Harpo has been laughed at by bother US DOD and the US GIO, both say the cost per unit is double what Harpo claims.
US style for profit Mega Prisons. He still has yet to tell us the costs of these babies, nor who he wishes to run them. One thing we do not need is to copy the failed US (in)justice system, something Harpo is hell bent on doing.
And of course there was the G8/G20 spending spree. Over a Billion Canadian spent of "securing" Toronto for a weekend party of some of the most wealthiest and most powerful people in the world, a party complete with a fake lake and misappropriated funds to spruce up the riding of one of his goons.
Sad fact is, Harpo is no fiscal conservative, he is at best a reverse Robin Hood stealing from the likes of you and me to give to his cronies.
High_Side wrote:Giving tax breaks to business is a terrible idea - but yet we wonder where all of our jobs have gone? Let's give the tax breaks to the unemployed people so that they can buy cheap trinkets from China instead. After all, business is bad for Canada....
No, business is good for Canada. Trouble is, the business that Harpo supports with tax breaks are not in business for Canada or Canadians. They are large multi-nationals who will take their extra cash and pay it out as bonus's to CEO's and the like or use their extra cash to shut down Canadian plants and kill Canadian jobs in order to relocate their manufacturing plants to places such as China.
This trickle down economic theory has been proven to be a lie ever since Reagan foisted it onto the US back in the 80's. It should be noted that Bush Sr spent most of his term as POTUS vainly trying to reverse much of what Reagan did and what Harpo wants to do here.
If you want to stimulate the Canadian economy, then give the money back to average Canadians and to small Canadian firms that actually do business and put people to work here.
High_Side wrote:Jack Layton flies over the oil-sands (in a plane fueled by pixie dust and rainbows) and declares them "bad", and commits to cease any more development of the economic engine that is currently driving the Canadian economy. Jack also commits to spending more on everything from child care to health care and plans to pay for it with the same pixie dust that fuels his airplane.
This is just too silly to even comment on. I think you must be suffering from inhaling too many vapor from the tar sands. As for the tar/oil sands. Sad fact is, it is zero sum game on many fronts. First is it takes almost as much energy to crack the oil from the sands as it produces. Then there are the very real environmental issues. Even the US with its unquenchable thirst for oil considers the oil from the Fort Mac region to be environmentally "toxic".
The big question is, why should we subsidize big oil profits? Especially given the barrel price of crude these days. Harpo does not believe in welfare, expect of course corporate welfare, and when it comes to corporate welfare, Harpo's chequebook is always at the ready.
High_Side wrote:The entitlement culture of some Canadians powers the NDP to a strong second place in the polls (and gaining) without having any memory of the ruin that said party had on every province in which they have governed. "I want what he is promising now, not what I am going to have to pay for later" seems to be the "intellectuals" mantra.
What a load of bullshite. The NDP actually has a pretty good economic record, especially in BC. When they lost to the BC Fiberals (in BC, Liberals are actually neo-Con Haperites) an audit was done on the books. The Fiberals were hoping to find proof of what they had claimed about NDP financial mismanagement. Problem was, their own auditors found that the NDP were actually very good economic stewards and had left the Province in a strong fiscal position. Much egg had to be wiped off Gordo's face at the time, which probably explains why he got pissed in Hawaii and got tagged for DUI.
However, the entitlement culture is also alive and well with Harpo, only its applied strictly to those corporations that he supports. And he is the king of partying now and planning on paying later. His debt comes from borrowing, borrowing on our kids and grandkids future. Sure, lets give big corporations another tax cut, let buy a bunch of questionable fighters, let build a bunch of mega prisons and give them to some private outfit to run at a profit, lets build some fake lakes, we can pay for it all just by borrowing now and let others pay for it later. I am sure our kids will thank us for it.
High_Side wrote:I can agree with Ceemes on one thing: Get out and vote! But for christsakes vote for anyone other than the NDP if this country is to have a snowballs chance in hell of surviving the next 4 years. We could be paying for this mistake for generations people!
I would rather take my chances with 4 years of NDP at the helm then have that slime ball Harpo selling out my country to the highest Yankee bidder. And remember, I am an old Progressive Conservative from way back.
Actually under the NDP's reign of incompetence BC had the worst performing economy in Canada in the 1990s.