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Originally Posted by MetroPornTour
Well lets see the choices...
1) George Bush's "Mini me"... Stephen Harper
2) The "just doesn't get it and forever stuck in Jean Chretien's shadow"... Paul Martin
3) Man that needs a new blue shirt... Gilles Duceppe
4) Leader of the "we will never win party."...Jack Layton
Boy a real bunch of winners here.
Well lets see...
If I vote Bloc Quebecois, they will never form the goverment because they are only in Quebec.
If I vote N.D.P I might as well not vote because they will still come in last.
If I vote for the conservatives, I might as well take my Canadian flag down and slap lube on my ass for the American fuck over he will give. (Man is like Mulroney on roids)
So I suppose that means I can only vote for the Liberals. It's kind of like voting for the "Same old.. Same old". You know what to expect from them and Canada won't be suddenly joining the war on terror. It will be just a goverment that slips by with nothing special to write home about.
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I agree, Harper is definitely a mini GWB, Layton wants to give all the money to the poor so we can have huge deficits again, Duceppe is a separatist.
I think the liberals did a pretty good job overall. Sure, 100 millions got wasted or stolen, but the liberals cleaned up the budget, paid down $63 billion in debt (saving us billions / year in interests that we can now use to lower taxes or waste on social crap), they lowered the taxes for both individuals and businesses, which means that Canada now has a 5% tax advantage compared to the US for businesses, etc etc.
Martin might be dumb and wants everyone to love him, but he's a business man, he was a great finance minister and he's a good reason why we're paying less taxes today and we're the only G8 country with 8 straight years of surpluses (soon to be 9).
Remember how far they have come since 1993 and the mess the conservatives left them with.
Debt in 1997: $562.9 Billion (interest payments: $45 billion / year)
Debt in 2005: $499.9 Billion (interest payments: $34.1 billion / year)
Deficit in 1992:close to $50 Billion
Surplus in 2005: $1.6 billion
As long as they don't make more social spending deals and keep lowering taxes while staying in budgetary surpluses, I think the liberals must stay in office.