XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 19/10/2011 9:56 PM, PV wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   He should have made an election out of it right there and then, gone to   
   the public.   
      
   --   
   Eat the rich, screw the companies and wonder why there are no jobs. But   
   we have big huge government we can't afford...   
    -- Obama and the lefty fleabagger attitude   
      
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