XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: edrnouser@   
      
   Marc Bissonnette wrote:   
   > Snoogens Murphy  had this epiphany to   
   > share:   
   > news:564330db-212a-414b-84bb-101e4521583e@o19g2000vbk.googlegroups.com:   
   >   
   >> The economy collapsed while Bush was president.  And companies like   
   >> Lehman Brothers screwed themselves.  Not Obama's fault, he wasn't   
   >> President.  The Bush bailouts were gifts, not loans, that never have   
   >> to be paid back.  And when Obama went to cut taxes for the middle   
   >> class, the Republicans fought against it.   
   >>   
   >> Meanwhile back in Canada, Harper is running the biggest deficits in   
   >> history after first saying he would never run a deficit.  Then he   
   >> said it would be 20 billion and then ooops no it's 34 billion and so   
   >> on. Pathetic. You can whine forever about financial management of the   
   >> Left, but the evidence clearly shows it's the Right that mucked it   
   >> all up.  Look at Mulroney.  He left Canada in a financial mess and   
   >> Chretien and Martin had to fix it.   But some obviously choose to   
   >> ignore history...   
   >   
   > Speaking of ignoring history: When the economy first started to tank,   
   > it was the opposition - The Liberals and the NDP, who threatened a   
   > vote of non-confidence unless the government (PCs) injected billions   
   > of dollars into various industries, thus creating the deficit   
   > position that we are still climbing out of, today.   
      
   And Harper, desperate to hang onto power any way possible, bowed down to   
   them and proceeded to blow all the money possible didn't he?   
      
   If he was so damn sure of Canadians supporting him, then why didn't he lay   
   it on the line and call the election then?   
      
   --   
   PV   
      
   "Capitalization is the difference between helping your   
   Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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