Blue Like You

I trust Harper to handle the economy. Lemmings don’t do math, last I checked.

Sol, I sure wouldn’t trust Scott Reid with the Canadian economy!

Yesterday on the CTV 6 pm news in a story about high gas prices, Dion said that the feds should lower gas prices and add a carbon tax. His solution is no help. He cannot be trusted to figure out what is best for Canada’s economy. And those 8 balanced liberal budgets were acheived through downloading to the provinces without transfering the tax points. — John M Reynolds

From the article:
”And tensions in the West would definitely be exacerbated by the prospect of Ontario receiving equalization, he added. It would mean a small proportion of the country’s population, about 30 per cent, subsidizing the other 70 per cent — a situation that Alberta would probably find unacceptable.”

There will be no tensions in the West unless Liberals win the next election. Then the s. would hit the fan here and in Quebec.
I can only speak for myself, but I have no problem with Alberta (the West and Nfld) sharing the wealth thru equalization. Many people working in Alberta come from the East.

Who do I trust with the economy? Tories, no question. I shudder to think of the state we’d be in if the liberals where still in power. As I recall, PMSH warned us about the global economic slowdown before the new year, when everything felt ducky (there were signs and whispers of the fraud in the US but I guess we didn’t know just how badly it would affect the rest of the world before that point). He basically said hang on it’s going to be a bumpy ride for a while. I was surprised at the time but believed him (clearly their internal numbers showed what the average citizen can’t glean from mere headlines). Sure enough all hell broke loose as those American chickens finally came home to roost. Now that we are in the thick of it the world economy is feeling the effects; but Canada is doing better then anyone else. The Prime Minister now says we are doing all right and we’re going to be okay. I believe him because (1.) He told us the bad news without trying to hide it, so we can trust him to tell us the good news, (2.) Harper is an honest man in general and the record shows he tells us the truth, and (3.) He’s an economist (a good one I think).

As for the liberals: it is painfully obvious to the casual observer that their only strategy is to keep throwing mud at the Tories in the hope something sticks. That isn’t working. Last week I heard a lot of PPG journalists like Galloway (ick) claiming that even though nothing is sticking at a certain point the sheer number of pseudo-scandals; mudballs if you will; will start to harm and tarnish the government. That’s basically like saying even if you keep throwing mud and nothing sticks, throw enough mud and the person is liable to start drowning (ewww, politics is full of graphic analogies). They may have a point, but I think it could actually cause a different effect. The liberals literally have a different pseudo-scandal every week. Today they are screaming about the economy, before that immigration and before that ECs little stunt (and before that I honestly can’t remember but they were screaming about something). Canadians know that if (a) these scandals were real and (b) the liberals really cared about the effect it had on the country, they would keep yelling about it for weeks, months and even years if necessary. That’s what a real opposition does, and that’s what Stephen Harper did when he led the opposition (I am always comparing Dion to Stephen Harper as opposition leader and Dion always comes up short). By changing their big outrage every week, the liberals expose themselves for frauds. “okay that didn’t work, lets try this!” As a strategy, that sucks. Canadians can see through that, and it turns us off.

People get tired of false scandals, false emotions, screaming every week. We get tired of the flying mud ruining the scenery. As the liberals overplay their hand, it starts a backlash, it starts to evoke sympathy for the government, and above all people start changing the channel. I reached that point many months ago (I can’t watch QP anymore) and I love politics, so goodness knows how the casual observer feels.

Joanne,, Here is a possible subject for a near future blog. I find this totally shocking and I have no reason to doubt the author.
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=478094

Like the new blog,,

Hi Kingston!

Glad you found your way over.

Unfortunately your comment got stuck in the spam filter; perhaps because it contained a link. That shouldn’t have happened, but I’m having all sorts of challenges today.

Glad you like the new look.

Thanks for that link. I’ll hang onto that for future reference. Certainly anyone can comment on that if they like. I don’t mind a thread running off-topic a bit.

Ontario…the new welfare, sorry equalization, basket-case.

I feel so proud.

I’m writing a letter to Danny Williams requesting my share directly from NFLD & Labrador.

It makes Jim Flaherty right on the money!!(no pun intended).

At what point did McGuinty absolve himself of accounting for his own reckless spending and promises of the same without costing these things out?

I think when the next prov. election rolls around and voters answer “no” to whether things are better in Ont. under McG. Dalton will be making a play for Dion’s job.

And just to spread the “beefs” around, our federal governments of whatever political stripe are not helping matters either. Despite recent “tinkering” of our personal and corporate tax rates, our taxes reflect the “cost” of the federal government as well. One tax that infuriates me to no end is the GST. In effect, the GST is a tax on my professional expertise = income. As a professional I am forced to charge 5% GST on every bit of business that my corporation does for other corporations, as if my business was “chattal property” of the ferderal government. The federal government extracts a “fee for service” as if they owned a portion of my business. Weel, they do not. They take no risks on their part, but impose legal requirements to collect this “fee” gratis: at no cost to them, so that I can stand in line at the local medical clinic or hospital to received “state-run” medical services, who I might add also pay GST on their professional income. If anyone wonders why “productivity” is at all time lows in this country, our various government structures and the taxes supporting them are the biggest impediment to a viable business venture. We have become “indentured serfs” to our various “high-cost” governments. To add insult to injury, we are then taxed to death on our profits or vilified in the media because we are sucessful at our business ventures, despite the costs of government. We do not celebrate profitable business in this country, because profit has become a four letter word. I think that business should go on strike and demonstrate that without our input to the economy, these governments would collaspse financially and all their pipe dreams of equality for all would become just that - pipe dreams. Governments have one job to do here, provide a profitable business environment for business to succeed and not be in the business of being in business FOR government. Just provide the basics, secure our borders, maintain our financial system and currency, our legal systems and let people suceed on their own without the heavy hand of government interfering in “our” sucess.

Actually, Anna the plant was located in Listowel Ontario and 500 employees have lost their jobs. The plant has been in operation for approximately 50 years. It was located smack dab in the middle of farm country. Listowel has a population of about 5500 people, so it would be a major shock to the local economy.

Weigh in at JNW and let’s get on top of citizen priorities.

Our Prime Minister did. His gov’t is about to ban BPA (bisphenol A) implicated in more than a couple of dozen scientific studies, to be a known hormone disruptor capable of altering our genetic code irreparably. Ourselves, our children, our grandchildren.

Heh! Nobody messes with my family’s DNA. What about yours?

Does anybody realize the sheer guts our gov’t displayed and intiated in speaking up to big business on the principles of health/safety issues for our citizens? Remember, the movie, “THE GRADUATE” starring Dustin Hoffman (I think). “Plastics, my man, the future belongs to plastics.”

Priorities: Water, food, housing, jobs….going down the line.

Not priorities: HoC’s opposition talking ‘false charges.’

Dalton’s starting to resemble “BM” more and more eh?