XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 19/06/2011 8:46 PM, John Fleming wrote:   
   > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:55:38 -0600, while chained to a desk   
   > in the scriptorium Canuck57  wrote:   
   >> $On 16/06/2011 11:11 PM, John Fleming wrote:   
   >> $>  On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:12:17 -0600, while chained to a desk   
   >> $>  in the scriptorium Canuck57   wrote:   
   >> $>>  $On 14/06/2011 5:01 PM, NøCøns wrote:   
   >> $>   
   >> $>>  $>   Why does this not surprise me?  The 'We Won't Tax You Like the   
   Liberals Did' Party is in power   
   >> $>>  $>   in Ottawa - and our taxes are up.  'Fool me once, shame on you;    
   fool me twice . . . . '   
   >> $>>  $>   
   >> $>>  $>   Our only consolation is that 60% of Canadians didn't get fooled.   
   >> $>>  $   
   >> $>>  $But the clear majority of the ridings got it right.  Must be a lot of   
   >> $>>  $stupid people in some minority of ridings in Canada.   
   >> $>>  $   
   >> $>>  $Our system is based on majority of ridings.  Get over it fleabagger.   
   >> $>>  $Fleabaggers could have changed it when they were in power but did not.   
   >> $>>  $Either makes them stupid or hypocritical fools.  Take your pick.  For   
   >> $>>  $the next 4-5 years, the tail hole isn't wagging the dog.   
   >> $>   
   >> $>  When it comes to a post 2008 economy, when it comes to the   
   >> $>  country's fiscal management, I figure the Conservatives are   
   >> $>  the option that causes the least amount of damage.   
   >> $   
   >> $Yep, my feeling exactly, it wasn't that I wanted the Cons to win, it was   
   >> $that they are likely to do the least damage.  I didn't vote for them   
   >> $though, I spoiled my ballot.   
   >> $   
   >> $>  Doesn't mean I'm happy with everything the Conservatives   
   >> $>  have done since they got elected.  And I would love to see a   
   >> $>  lower deficit that we got.   
   >> $   
   >> $Should have never bothered with the GM bailouts and held a much tighter   
   >> $line on bank bailouts.  Bankers got profits and bonuses right though for   
   >> $making a lot of questionable loans.   
   >   
   > They were really force into that.  If they hadn't ponied up   
   > some money, the Liberals, NDP and BQ would have forced a   
   > coalition government and we would have wound up with   
   > something worse.   
   >   
   >> $>  However, considering the Liberal/NDP/BQ pretty much forced   
   >> $>  us into US style quantitative easing, I'd hate to see what   
   >> $>  we would have been stuck with if they had formed a coalition   
   >> $>  government.   
   >> $   
   >> $Cons are doing QE too.  I hate that term QE.  It is fraud by another   
   >> $name.  No different than you or I counterfeiting money for our bills.   
   >> $   
   >> $The real truth about QE is that people want the money back that they   
   >> $lent to governments, and since governments are broke and no one will   
   >> $lend them new legitimate money the central banks lend them no value fiat   
   >> $ponzi money in the ruse of government liquidity.   
   >> $   
   >> $Can be summed up, QE is the fiat counterfeit way for paying bills.   
   >> $   
   >> $Huge fraud.   
   >   
   > Ultimately, to date, all QE has done is reinflate the stock   
   > market.  It hasn't really percolated through to the rest of   
   > the economy.  And if some of the more recent indicators are   
   > any indication, the economy is stuck in the mud and losing   
   > speed.   
      
   Yep, having the stock market tank made about every pension plan out   
   there bankrupt.  Not that they were not already in trouble, they were.   
      
   But it is inflation. And in the long term, bad news.   
   --   
   Government isn't the solution to the bad economy, it is the problem.   
      
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