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Originally Posted by starseed
The Liberals in this country had us on pace to eliminate the debt by the 2020s, the conservatives wiped away the surpluses even before the recession hit. I am a firm believer in eliminating our national debt during the good times. There is no excuse for the conservatives other than their faith in reaganomics which IMO has made a very negative impact on US society.
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To be fair, the Conservatives were elected on this platform by the people of Canada in '06 and they simply followed through on their promises. Your beef with the defecit/surplus results should be with the electorate who chose this option over the what the Liberals were offering.
Their plan, combined with the economic downturn would have led us to pretty much the same state we are in because instead of cutting billions in taxes, they planned billions of dollars in additional spending through socialized child care and the Kelowna Accord.