Wake Up People, Harper's On A Roll - Downhill !

Well, both your view and the Toronto Star's conjectural editorial, on which it was based, went up in smoke the next day when the Conservatives published their platform.

http://www.conservative.ca/platform/e.pdf

I'd appreciate if you would read it and tell uus what you don't like, now that we are dealing with fact rather than fiction?

And yes, it's fully costed and, in fact, uses the Liberal's own revenue and interest charges from their February budget.

This is the same crap Gordon Campbell pulled in BC. That's why I am surprised Harper is at 30% here.

Tax cuts will stimulate the economy, it will bring in record supluses, social spending will go up, blah, blah blah. It aint going to happen. Harper is buying votes with lofty promises he can't fullfill. Plain and simple.

Immediate tax cuts don't pay for themselves, even though the right keeps saying this. So, in the meantime social spending must be slashed.

Only a great fool would believe what a politician says just because they say it. Get your head out of the sand!

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"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." - Alan Turing

Anon,

What I don't like about the Conservatives has a minute part to do with the slashing taxes platform. It has everything to do with the Red, White and Blue, star-spangled Stephen Harper. The now Stephen Harper trying to be someone he never has been and never will be because it's not in his DNA, a compassionate, caring, I love Canada kind of guy. To anyone paying attention to what is going on in Canada they will not forget who Stephen Harper really is. And I don't even have to look at the TV to know when I'm listening to an Alliance/Conservative. They all sound exactly like Stephen Harper as though there is some kind of script they all follow. Like they have some cult-like mantra keeping them from straying into a more encompassing viewpoint of the world. (The straying Harper is trying to do now so we all think he's voting material for Canadians.) His followers are making peeping sounds from the cult bible and Harper swats them down to keep them quiet while he tries to lie his way into centrist territory and the PM's chair.

I will never forget how Harper stood up in HOC and told his story about his little boy asking him "What if Saddam wins daddy?", when we didn't want to support the U.S. going into Iraq and Harper wanted us there. I know one thing, if Harper is ever elected as PM in this country, we will have our own endless war right here to deal with. So my question is: "What if Harper wins daddy?"

Good question.

I hope we never find the answer.



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

<blockquote>I'd appreciate if you would read it and tell uus what you don't like, now that we are dealing with fact rather than fiction?</blockquote> <p>Were still dealing with fiction here. Mr. Harper is playing the Liberal game. His trying to gain votes. His not talking from where he really stands on issues. His only going after the votes. So that Conservative platform is fiction, nothing more. <p>Kevin <p>---<br>"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

Even worse, its fairly transparent fiction. Just look at his comments about marriage. Defined by Parliament and not the courts my ass. That's code for "we're going to make the US Constitutional Hate Amendment law here, only its going to be worse."

Maybe it will take a year's worth of a Harper minority for this country to wake up to the fact this guy is dangerous for our country. Then in the next election the Cons can be quashed.

Hopefully though in a year they won't be able to inflict too much damage.

I am simply amazed 30% of Canada is buying into his BS. None of his past seems to be haunting him right now.

It seems to me, after watching dozens of interviews with potential voters, they don't make any sense.

I'm getting the impression most voters are voting for Harper because he looks smooth, and isn't saying too much to get him into trouble.

His comments about letting the provinces manage their own healthcare, even if it means privatisation, doesn't seem to resonate with people.

I would suggest it's only people that are activists, like most of us, who really know the issues, and are willing to debate them.

I fear the average voter hasn't got a clue.

I wish it were otherwise.



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

Voters are voting for Harper for the following reasons:

1) He's Not Liberal. A lot of people are just plain fed up with the Liberal party.
2) Tax cuts. (Even though he follows the Bushonomics model and proposes tax cuts AND increased spending)
3) He's Not Liberal II. They're scared of what the NDP might do if they get a majority. IE, legislating gay marriages, further damage to the military.
4) He's A Merkin, And Merkins are teh gretast!11!!1
5) Oooh! He's handsome!
6) "I'm a Randroid and will vote for whoever seems the most fascist... Er... Conservative at the time."

The Conservatives are the only Party with a realistic and honest platform - they get my vote! Liberals have been taking NDP ideas and damaging this country for much too long. Canadians are becoming the poor cousins of the Western world because of our corrupt semi-socialist nanny state.

Move to the U.S and live in that society as a low income person. Then come back and tell us what you learnt. You have much to learn my young patowan.

Kevin

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"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

Low income people in Canada at one time had no problem getting the care they needed. However that is not the case today as it was back then. Its much harder for anyone to get the treatments they need when they need them. What has happen to our system? We have become more like the U.S by allowing private companies to take part in the health care system. Our government cut back too much over the years.

On a positive note in Canada a low income person can still get some basic help using our health care system. A low income person in the U.S with no health care coverage will probably have to borrow to get even some basic help.

Anon, if your supporting Mr. Harper then I can only assume you agree with a system that covers only those who can afford it.

I could never understand how health care can be put into a private system. It just makes no sense at all to me.

Kevin

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"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

As soon as health care is put into a private system, the market dictates the price of health care. As soon as markets dictate the price of health care, many in Canada won't be able to afford health care.

Mr. Harper and all of the people who support this as the best alternative are a bunch of lunatics.

Kevin

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"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.