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| Harper gets his Budget Figures wrong AGAIN! | |
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| Brewster | Feb 25 2012, 02:50 AM Post #1 |
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Stupid Canadian Conservative socialists, can't even keep their numbers straight... Edited by Brewster, Feb 25 2012, 02:53 AM.
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| jackd | Feb 25 2012, 03:12 AM Post #2 |
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Just roll back to 10 / 12 years ago... That little game of forcasting huge deficit and show better than expected results later was started by Paul Martin in the Liberal government. Same game for surpluses: Forecast a slight tiny surplus, and come out with a bigger one makes politician instant stars. One more occasion to show the voters how great they are and how smart they've been. Edited by jackd, Feb 25 2012, 08:14 AM.
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| Brewster | Feb 25 2012, 07:55 AM Post #3 |
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Some truth in that, Jack. |
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| Chris | Feb 25 2012, 08:04 AM Post #4 |
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Can we get a link? Or did you modify the content again? "Stupid Canadian Conservative socialists..." No one has accused CA of socialism, though, obviously, some CAs are socialists. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 25 2012, 09:55 AM Post #5 |
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Not sure if this is the story, but its in todays paper LINK |
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| Banandangees | Feb 25 2012, 10:46 AM Post #6 |
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Perhaps Harper is "erring" on the side of caution. It has been pointed out (I mentioned this in the "We are already Europe" thread) that it was written by one of the Canadians that Canada was "fiscally conservative and socially liberal." I take that as being only moderately socially liberal whereby a moderately fiscally conservative government can keep a balance between the two. They certainly aren't independent of each other. Weigh Harper's "austere" budgeting against what the EU commission has presented to those EU nations that are in financial trouble. Look what European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned concerning Europes "socially liberal and it's fiscally concervative" existance:
Canada's balance between it's it's "moderate" social liberalism" and it's "moderate fical conservatism" is much tighter and more uniform across Canada than that of the EU where it's fiscal conservatism varies greatly among nations as does it's social liberalism. As I mentioned in the other thread I don't see a close resembelance between Canada's "conservative liberalism" and that of the EU's at all. Harper may not be perfect but maybe you should count your blessing as a "fiscally conservative/socially liberal" nation that is, for this moment in time, on balance. That can get out of wack with something as sneaky as an aging population. That's the way I see it. I could be wrong. We could use a little Harperization down here. In fact we could use a lot of Martin/Harper policies down here. |
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| Pat | Feb 25 2012, 11:34 AM Post #7 |
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That sounds like one of the games played here Jack. It must be catching. Only a politician would brag about running up the credit card by $37 billion, and then bragging that he didn't overspend as much as he tried to.
Edited by Pat, Feb 25 2012, 11:35 AM.
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