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Originally Posted by Rerun
Seriously? There are a great many businessmen who have exactly those attributes... and you are saying because they run their businesses in that manner they are dishonest and untrustworthy?
I have no problem with a politician that runs the country like he would a Fortune 500 company. Thats why out of all the Liberal PM's my favorite was Paul Martin and least favorite was Chretien.
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Bit of a difference between a corporate exective whose goal is to maximize profitablity and shareholder value and a politician who can implement laws that have serious negative consequences. Unless I'm a stakeholder in said company, dishonest untrustworth executives don't affect me directly in any way. Enron, Worldcom, Bre-X, none of them have had much of an impact on my life.
Every decision made by dishonest, untrustworthy politicians, on the other hand, has a direct affect on all Canadians. Crime Bill is a perfect example. To 95% of the population, it appears to have no affect on them. And then you remember to jail more prisoners, you need more guards, more prisons and, you know, more prisoners themselves to house. Taxpayers gotta pay for that, and will be paying dearly for it until it is repealed. And like the America prison system, which Harper aspires to have, it has so many indirect consequences (mostly social) beyond just the gigantic waste of money it is.