A lot of people love to bash the US and their policies (even our current PM). Without the US a lot of our trade & business would suffer. Shit, they are our biggest trading partner! Thinking back to my last few jobs, without a solid US market, three-quarters of the companies I worked for would not exist.Macdaddy4life said:
The biggest argument I always hear from pro-liberals is that the Mulroney government brought in GST & free trade and it has ruined Canada. Well when it was introduced how long was the Mulroney government in power for afterwards? Two, three, maybe four years? Since then we have had over ten years of liberal rule and they have not done one thing to change or reverse those two factors. Sounds like it is something that they must have agreed with, or else it would not be in existance today.
I'm not worried about a conservative hidden agenda. Anyone who is - Is a victim of liberal scare tactics. We are all adults here, and surely to goodness any type of a hidden agenda would have been discovered by the liberal election strategists and publicised to the voting community. Redneck christain moralists destined to bring back the 50's style of family values? Give me a fucking break! Does anyone know what the hidden agenda is? If so, please let us all know. If not, then it is just another liberal scare tactic.
When I think about healthcare I shudder at the horrific system we have in place today. It is virtually impossible to find a family physician, appointments are constantly late (even yesterday for an appointment booked 2 months in advance I had to wait two hours after my scheduled time) and seeing a specialist is a crap shoot. To be honest, I have found that healthcare in the last ten to twelve years has become a horrible mess. All this under the attentative watch of the liberal government.
When I think about crime and the changes to laws to protect the victims...There have been none. What measures have the liberals brought in to address the judicial system? None. Have they brought in measures to introduce minimum sentences for gun related crimes? No. Have they even bothered to address the voters that there is a situation/crisis at hand and are willing to deal with it? No.
Then we have the liberals spouting off on balanced budgets and eliminating the deficit. Well anyone of us could have done that if we were to have cut the transfer payments to the provinces. This was a classic case of robbing Peter to give to Paul...Especially Paul Martin in this case. Do you know why your provincial taxes were increased?
Actually, when I think of hidden agenda's, I honestly feel that there have been more hidden agenda's in the liberal closet than any government in recent history. Adscam, the gun registry, the HRDC boondogle...these are the ones that have been able to rise to the surface that the liberal spin doctors have not been able to contain. Can you imagine if they are allowed to take control of government day care? Yikes!
The one other thing that really bothers me about Martin is that he is a rich guy (which is fine, I respect that). But because of the rigid tax laws per Canadian owned businesses, he chose to keep his nice little steamline business outside of the Canadian tax rules. If I was a small business owner that in itself would be enough for me to throw this cheating scumbag out of office. Could you imagine if Harper was in such a predicament? Christ the liberals would be all over him!
After several years of voting it all comes down to one thing for me - Who is going to leave the most amount of my hard earned money in my pocket. To me it will be a conservative government.
No matter who wins this election...I think I'm in love with Lynn
