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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Maybe, but they are still safer than the alternative. It makes no difference in my life if some hippies get busted for possession or if Harper thinks Jebus talks to him. The alternative is still way riskier. When Joanna Carroll is the Liberal leader instead of dimwit I will vote for them.  |
"Way riskier" in terms of what? The economy? Bwa ha ha ha!! Because the Libs or the NDs will do an even worse job?
• 10 consecutive federal budget surpluses with previous Liberal governments, under Harper, 7 straight consecutive deficits.
• worst record of economic growth of any Prime Minister since RB Bennett and the great depression.
• Under Stephen Harper, household debt has exploded. The average household debt-to-income ratio has risen from $1.31 to $1.64 -- which is where the United States was before the housing market crashed.
• A significant contributor to household debt can be traced to rising housing prices. Mr. Harper's finance minister, Jim Flaherty, helped fuel the housing bubble with his irresponsible introduction of 40-year mortgages with zero down-payment.
• Between 1996-97 and 2005-06, the Liberal government paid $81.4-billion against the national debt.
• Fact: The federal debt in the fiscal year 1996-97 was $562.9-billion. By the time the Liberals left office in 2006, it was reduced to $481.5-billion • In contrast, by the year 2014-15, the Conservatives will have added $176,400,000,000 to the national debt.
Let me say that again, Stephen Harper has added and will add $176,400,000,000 to our debt.
• Fact: The Conservative federal debt in 2008-09 = $457.6-billion.
• Fact: The expected Conservative debt in 2014-15 = $634.0-billion (forecasted).
• Fact: 24% of the total accumulated debt since Confederation was amassed under Stephen Harper, this just since 2008.
This is the real and true economic and fiscal record of the Harper era.
The cons are as backward and hopeless when it comes to the economy as they are with everything else. The fact that anyone believes otherwise just shows how effective the ads (that they spent millions of your money on) have been.
But I suppose you probably meant that it is a risk that the Libs or NDs might not mollycoddle the precious wee babies in the oil industry the way that papa Harper does.