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Originally Posted by Ronald Pagan
[/b]This is bad policy. When entering a recession governments should spend more not less. Fiscal austerity by governments in the early 1930s turned a recession into a depression.
In either case, it's not accurate to say that the Liberals will spend more. Infact, the amount of bald-faced lying committed by the Conservatives over the Green Shift is frankly disgraceful and sullying this election. They Liberals will spend no more than they earn through their new tax. Government receipts and expenditures will be very similar to current levels.
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It's text book Canadian politics.
Both sides always build their campaigns on fearmongering and making the other sides look like bogeymen.
When the Liberals were trying to keep Harper out, they tried to play on people's fears that he was a social conservative and that he would take away their rights. When the Conservatives try to keep the Liberals out, it is all about how their spending will bring financial ruin to everything...
...in the end, both parties are going to do pretty much exactly the same thing - and neither will keep half their promises.