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Originally Posted by raymor
To fix this mess, we'll have to maker some tough choices. We just can't adored to pay people on unemployment for three years at a time, for example. At some point you just have to take a job you don't like until something better comes along. To day these things out loud is almost political suicide. The voters don't seem to want leaders willing to make hard but necessary decisions.
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While Mulroney did put in place some things that were required, as well as making headway on the debt ratio, spending etc., the Liberals did in fact do a lot of things to continue the progress... They changed unemployment benefits for example to require people to work longer and it paid out less and over less time. They also increased taxes at one point for awhile and then when things were better, cut them. It took a long time and some very unpopular decisions... after Mulroney, his party was wiped out in the next election. And when I say wiped out, I mean gone.. That particular party no longer exists. So when us Canadians talk about what the US would need to do, we've actually lived through it and have a pretty good idea what's needed.