[Newsbot]

Title: Tax hike likely unavoidable, Liberal leader says
Category: Political
Posted By: mtbr
Date: 2009-04-14 16:12:26
Canadian

[ridenrain]

Never a tax they didn't like, is there. The pesants can always eat turnips while the czar and his aparatchiks devise the next glorious 5 year plan.

[Proculation]

Thank you socialist Harper !

At least, we don't have Obama. Poor americans...

[Lemmy]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Never a tax they didn't like, is there. The pesants can always eat turnips while the czar and his aparatchiks devise the next glorious 5 year plan.

The real problem is the existence of this ubiquitous "THEY". Our governments have simply become too big. Even those on the extreme left must recognize that government in Canada has become a runaway Frankenstein monster; created with good intent, but run amok.

[ridenrain]

I agree but try and cut some arts funding in Quebec and tell how the left will recognise this burning nessesity.

[RUEZ]

Proculation Proculation:

Thank you socialist Harper !

At least, we don't have Obama. Poor americans...

I haven't read the article but it clearly says "Liberal leader says..." in the title. What gives.

[Lemmy]

ridenrain ridenrain:

I agree but try and cut some arts funding in Quebec and tell how the left will recognise this burning nessesity.

If a tenth of all the waste in government was cut, there'd be AMPLE money for healthcare, education AND arts funding in Quebec. We're paying for many thousands things MUCH more frivolous than arts. The left and the right would both be pleased with the results of a good government downsizing.

[Proculation]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Proculation Proculation:

Thank you socialist Harper !

At least, we don't have Obama. Poor americans...

I haven't read the article but it clearly says "Liberal leader says..." in the title. What gives.

"... because of the increasing debt."

It is Harper's debt.

[RUEZ]

Proculation Proculation:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Proculation Proculation:

Thank you socialist Harper !

At least, we don't have Obama. Poor americans...

I haven't read the article but it clearly says "Liberal leader says..." in the title. What gives.

"... because of the increasing debt."

It is Harper's debt.

Ok.... We're in a recession you know? Things were good two years ago, what's changed since then?

[poquas]

Is anyone really surprised?

Where the hell did anyone think it was going to come from eventually? It’s not going to matter what party is in control.

[ridenrain]

Lemmy Lemmy:

ridenrain ridenrain:

I agree but try and cut some arts funding in Quebec and tell how the left will recognise this burning nessesity.

If a tenth of all the waste in government was cut, there'd be AMPLE money for healthcare, education AND arts funding in Quebec. We're paying for many thousands things MUCH more frivolous than arts. The left and the right would both be pleased with the results of a good government downsizing.

While I agree, there is simply nothing more eternal than a temporary govenment program to a speial interest group. I guarantee that any cuts to Indian affairs, multiculturalism or any of the big white elephants will be the club that pounds the ruling government into the ground, reguardless of side or agreement.

[RUEZ]

ridenrain ridenrain:

While I agree, there is simply nothing more eternal than a temporary govenment program to a speial interest group. I guarantee that any cuts to Indian affairs, multiculturalism or any of the big white elephants will be the club that pounds the ruling government into the ground, reguardless of side or agreement.

Yup.

[Proculation]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Proculation Proculation:

"... because of the increasing debt."

It is Harper's debt.

Ok.... We're in a recession you know? Things were good two years ago, what's changed since then?

Harper only made a deficit to stay in power. Before the "Coalition", the budget was going to be even. He spent to keep power.

[ridenrain]

case in point:

$1:

OTTAWA — Public Works Minister Christian Paradis was caught flat-footed when a federal funding body eliminated a $325,000 grant to a major telescope and astronomy centre in his riding.

The Conservative MP and Quebec lieutenant is now scrambling to save the Mont-Mégantic Observatory, which threatens to become a symbol of the Harper government's recent cuts to research agencies.

“I'm offended and I'm angry,” Mr. Paradis said in an interview yesterday. “I was put in front of a fait accompli. I learned of the decision like everyone else, and it came as a surprise.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... ional/home

There is no huge, unprotected bucket of money marked "slush fund". The only place big money can be found is in a lot of small places. This is one of them.

[RUEZ]

Proculation Proculation:

Harper only made a deficit to stay in power. Before the "Coalition", the budget was going to be even. He spent to keep power.

I agree %100. So is it fair to call him a socialist or a oportunist?