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Originally Posted by Slava
I find myself more and more undecided in this campaign. I went through the Liberal platform yesterday and was really not very impressed. I'm not convinced that the corporate taxes actually amount to the figures that they are putting forward, so that strikes me as a problem. Overall I think that they are aiming in the right direction, but in the wrong way.
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After looking at the Nanos polls last night, I think you're not the only one thats not buying into the family plan. I think that people are a little cynical about it because it smells like blatent vote buying and the numbers don't balance at all. Strategy wise I think the Liberal's are throwing away their argument that they're the only ones who are capable of balancing the budget if they incorporate these changes. As well there's the fear and the Conservatives are hammering on it, that the business unfriendly sounding policy planks will cost jobs. I think that the Liberal's are sending out the wrong message in the wrong election.
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Originally Posted by Slava
I saw Jim Flaherty (The Hobbit) on TV last night and realised that I just don't like that guy for some reason...he's just plain smarmy. Anyway, he says that the CPC platform is the budget. Well the budget does nothing for me (not as in it "doesn't give me anything" but as in "it jsut get me excited at all"). Then there is all this business of spending that wasn't in th budget that suddenly comes out during the campaign to buy votes...I can't stand that. Couple that with the scandals (in and out, numerous failures of democracy in general, influence peddling and the list just goes on and on) and I'm really not liking any of the parties.
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Its interesting, but I feel the same way about the Liberal proposals, I'm a single white middle aged male, there's nothing in their platform that resinates for me, so its apparent that I've now officially moved into minority status. In fact the only thing that I like is the equivalent GI bill that gives education to discharged vets, however I don't think its affordable.
I'm jaded because the "scandals" don't resonate with me because I've come to the point that every government is going to do this, and I go back to the equivalency theory that Shawanigate and AdScam were far worse then what we're seeing now.
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Originally Posted by Slava
I'm not voting NDP or Green. I have no idea whats left....I just hope for a Liberal minority and will try to pick something/someone before the election I guess. What a disappointment.
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My MP has done a good job, and he's always been open to his constituants, so I have no guilt in voting for him.