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Originally Posted by Slava
The reason that Ignatieff says the budget isn't credible is based on the fact that some of these costs are not quanitifed accurately. 1) The fighter jets is the most major of these costs, and that revelation came about not from the Liberals themselves, but a parliamentary budget officer (if memory serves?).
2. Arguing politics on CP is basically a waste of time. The Harper apologists take every issue and basically say "Its not a big deal" or "(fill in opposition leader) is not a good alternative".
3) To me the worst comment though is "sponsorship scandal" or something else from years gone by. It makes it sound as though its OK that Harper and his cronies have committed some transgressions because the other major party screwed up a few years ago. Why voters should accept that as any sort of defence just boggles the mind.
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Except that there are real problems with how the budgetary officer arrived at his cost estimates. He added an extra decade to the costs, and he based his cost estimates on what the British were buying which were the STOLV and carrier based versions and not the A variety that Canada is buying.
There are also some questions on the legitimacy of the estimated costs of the tough on crime bill as an independant professor came out and stated that the costs would be lower (It was an article in the sun a few days ago)
It can also be argued that the Parlimentary officer estimation on the jets didn't include direct economic benefits or the partnership purchase benefits.
I would fully expect that Ignatieff probably won't debate too hard on the jets.
2. Please show me how Ignatieff or Layton would be a good alternative. And your second paragraph could be reversed that its useless arguing with a Liberal supporter because all they can really bring up is some nebulous unproven Darth Sideous style hidden agenda. Or that Ignatieff would make a better prime minister because Stephen Harper is a mean vindictive man.
3) No its not ok, the Bev Oda thing to me was oderous, The in and out scandal really doesn't bug me because its a practice that all parties do practice. But the sponsership scandal does stand out because in a lot of ways it was to me a lot more oderous then what we've seen in a long time.
My problem as a voter is that Stephen Harper stinks less then Ignatieff and has a higher sense of reality then the world that Jack Layton and the NDP float in.