XPost: can.politics, nb.general, nf.general   
   XPost: bc.politics   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   > On 06/12/2014 11:32 AM, M.I.Wakefield wrote:   
   >> Changing the rate of increase is not a cut: the amount of healthcare   
   >> funding provided by the Federal government is not being cut ... it will   
   >> never increase by less than 3% a year.   
   >>   
   >> And, starting in 2017, increases will be linked to economic growth PLUS   
   >> INFLATION.  Why do you keep leaving that part out?   
      
      
   On 12/6/2014 7:16 AM, cloud dreamer wrote:   
   > In 2013, inflation was 1.3% and growth was 2%.   
   >   
   > So, if it had been tied to health care funding, it would have been 3.3%.   
   >   
   > But the provinces got SIX PER CENT!!!   
   >   
   > In your Harperworld, they would have gotten 2.7% LESS.   
   >   
   > LESS. Not MORE.   
   >   
   > You have to be a goosestepping lunatic to think this isn't a cut. Just   
   another   
   > way Harper manipulates the wording so his lemmings think he's doing something   
   > great while he's stabbing you in the back.   
   >   
   > Why do you keep thinking a negative is a positive?   
      
   Because he's a negative sort of person.   
      
   And also:   
      
   http://www.quotesforthemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Famou   
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