Federal Election Called.

[fuji]

I might vote Green. My riding is either going to go NDP or Liberal which means it's not particularly part of the majority/minority equation.

So I might as well use my vote to help the Greens move up.

 

[LancsLad]

After we win, I would love to be put in charge of reducing gov't spending.



Hell, i'd do the job for free. My satisfaction would come from watching the lefties that cling to "funding" starve.

You really would not reduce spending all those millions of lefties would be on UIC ...... although the only difference would be that they would actually have to look for work now instead of just absorbing the money

Sure i would. The unemployment enjoyment hammock would be redone to what it should be rather than a glorified income redistribution scheme.



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[emerging44]

Are you joking when you call Rae good people? Have you totally forgotten the mess that he made of the province of Ontario when he was Premier?

No, I haven't forgotten anything about Bob Rae and his past experience. he happened to be a surprise Premier at a time when the economy was in bad shape. Yes, he made a mess of it but nothing as bad as Harris did to us subsequently!

Obviously you forget that Harris DID NOT get our finances under control. He raped and pillaged and still ran a deficit. He cost me a lot more money than Bob Rae ever did.

You go on about Harris re-inventing himself.... well listen.... Harris was forced to do what he did in order to get the finances under control. It was unpopular but when it comes to belt tightening it isnt popularity that wins out.

It truly is amazing how short people's memory can be, really!

 

[clubber]

No, I haven't forgotten anything about Bob Rae and his past experience. he happened to be a surprise Premier at a time when the economy was in bad shape. Yes, he made a mess of it but nothing as bad as Harris did to us subsequently!

Obviously you forget that Harris DID NOT get our finances under control. He raped and pillaged and still ran a deficit. He cost me a lot more money than Bob Rae ever did.

You go on about Harris re-inventing himself.... well listen.... Harris was forced to do what he did in order to get the finances under control. It was unpopular but when it comes to belt tightening it isnt popularity that wins out.

It truly is amazing how short people's memory can be, really!

Bob Rae left us with a 8.6 or 9.4 billion dollar deficit depending on who you believed Harris or the NDP. (Harris has since thrown out all sorts of numbers as has the mainstream media) This was in a time of a world recession. The end of the recession and growth along with a decent government would have got rid of this and given us a surplus We could and should have started paying down the debt. The Harris government managed to balance the books, then Jim Flaherty proceeded to put us into debt again during strong economic growth. This is much harder to get out of deficit.

Scream all you want about how bad Rae was during a time of recession with an incompetent party and having to try to appease the unions. Fine but do not let Flaherty off the hook for what he did as finance minister in Ontario was just as bad if not much worse.