You have to sit back and wonder what all of those in Canada were thinking when they votes in the Conservative Party of Canada for another minority.
Well, ok, I will take a guess as to what they were thinking. All that these voters cared about was money. You heard it everywhere.
"Did you hear, Harper cut the GST!"
"Wow, Harper promises to strengthen our businesses!"
To bad Canadians are so unintellectual when it comes to voting.
CTV tonight announced that Harper and his pals plan to run a $64 billion deficit over the next two years. Yes, that is right, even thought two months ago the Prime Minister said that we were in fine shape. Yes, in an election, our leader said our economy was in fine shape.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090122/Ottawa_Deficit_090122/20090122?hub=TopStories
So, here we site looking at a government that is going to, in one fell swoop, destroy the progress this country made over the past decade.
What do we have to blame for that?
I would hazzard to guess that a part of the problem is that Harper used his power in government to try and buy votes by slashing taxes. It worked to a degree.
Now, because he tricked enough Canadians by giving them a few cents back on the dollar spent, we get to pony up $64 billion to deal with it.
I hope that those of you who votes "blue" are happy.
I'm not.
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As one of those people who, proudly, voted "Blue" in the previous election, I'm just as angry as every "non-blue" supporter at the prospect of a multi-year $64 billion deficit and a corresponding increase in the national debt. I personally believe it is a betrayal of the key principles the modern-day Tory party was built on.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I haven't heard of any alternative party say they would do things any different -- most complain that it's Harper's fault for doing all this, but then they all speak with the other side of their mouth and say he's not going *far enough* to increase spending.
Until the other opposition party's stand up and say they are going to oppose the budget and fight to restore fiscal prudence in spending (i.e. not deliberately tack on $64 billion dollars onto the national debt), they should simply sit down and shut up.