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Originally Posted by Slava
^ I was giving credit to them, totally. I don't think that they actually campaigned on it at all though, and as I recall it just showed up in the budget one day? I think its a great idea and I'd just like to see more ideas in general rather than the tired same old, same old.
On a bit of a non-partisan point here is what the parties should be talking about : http://www.financialpost.com/news/Ca...389/story.html
We all know that this is coming, but no one is addressing this at all. |
I just don't understand how you can link to an article like that, outlining how terribly in debt we actually are, and then go back and support a party wanting to add billions upon billions of NEW spending to our budget.
If anything, we should be voting for a party cutting services, privatizing everything they can, and reducing spending as much as possible to attempt to retain the best and most important parts of the public service.
If this continual bribing of Canadians with our own money proceeds into the future, eventually one day we will be like Greece and have our debt pulled; and suddenly there will just be no more pensions, no more healthcare, no more EI. Nobody will be joking about a national day care program, gun registries, or fitness tax credits.
Why does it take a watershed moment for people to realize that money doesn't just grow on trees and we can't afford what we already have.