Federal government to go $64-billion in red
mtbr @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:06 pm
Scape Scape:
During the debates Harper was on record for saying he would not run a deficit. How can anything he says now be taken as credible for the finical markets? I'm not talking about the voters who will end up paying for this but the markets who have to bank on his word.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
and we're still kicking ourselves for not taking a chance on Dion or Layton math.
RUEZ @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:23 pm
Scape Scape:
During the debates Harper was on record for saying he would not run a deficit. How can anything he says now be taken as credible for the finical markets? I'm not talking about the voters who will end up paying for this but the markets who have to bank on his word.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
You're joking right? Under normal circumstances he wouldn't have. The world is in a recession that's beyond anything anyone imagined. You think any government in the world is running a surplus?
PluggyRug @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:49 pm
Scape Scape:
During the debates Harper was on record for saying he would not run a deficit. How can anything he says now be taken as credible for the finical markets? I'm not talking about the voters who will end up paying for this but the markets who have to bank on his word.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
Oh.. there is no recession?
mtbr @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:50 pm
RUEZ RUEZ:
Scape Scape:
During the debates Harper was on record for saying he would not run a deficit. How can anything he says now be taken as credible for the finical markets? I'm not talking about the voters who will end up paying for this but the markets who have to bank on his word.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
You're joking right? Under normal circumstances he wouldn't have. The world is in a recession that's beyond anything anyone imagined. You think any government in the world is running a surplus?
don't confuse em.
Scape @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:44 pm
PluggyRug PluggyRug:
Scape Scape:
During the debates Harper was on record for saying he would not run a deficit. How can anything he says now be taken as credible for the finical markets? I'm not talking about the voters who will end up paying for this but the markets who have to bank on his word.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
When it comes to dollars and sense, Harper just doesn't add up.
Oh.. there is no recession?
When he was running for PM he said none were on the books. This was a huge crash so how could he have missed that? How is he to be taken as a serious leader? It's not like this multi-billion dollar deficit snuck up on him...
ridenrain @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:34 pm
Dion and Layton also said that they'd never think about a coalition either.
bootlegga @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:53 pm
Wait a minute. Two months ago, many of the Conservatives here were up in arms, screaming and bitching about Dion/Layton's $30 billion deficit, yet a pair of $32 billion deficits by Harper and Co. is a-okay?
Can you smell what the Harper is cooking?
HYPOCRISY!
Scape @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:31 pm
Smell it? The forums reek of it.
ridenrain @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:43 pm
You folks were all telling us that Dion was the man with the green plan, and his terrible English and half-citisenship wouldn't be noticed at all. Day after the election, he was kicked to the curb like a dead dog.
I'm guessing that if you knew that the US credit crunch was comming, you'd have better things to do and the money to pay for them, than be here talking politics.
Scape @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:48 pm
There's that smell again...
DerbyX @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:53 pm
Should we be surprised? Everytime their guys do something bad they bend over backwards to blame everybody else. Look at uwish. According to him Harper was forced into deficit spending by "giving the Libs what they wanted". He neglects the fact that Harper was already some 10 billion in the red before any talk of an auto bailout or stimulus package and both the Liberals and NDP released platforms that avoided deficit spending (albeit they were before talk of an auto bailout).
If Harper doesn't want to accept responsibility for his own govt's budget then he is free to step down and let somebody who will accept responsibility govern.
ridenrain @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:56 pm
The smell is comming from the Bullshit you're heaping upon us.
If this budget is as dangerous as you're saying, vote down the budget then.
Either vote against it or stop talking about it.
Kerozine @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:00 pm
What the hell happened to being 'fiscally prudent'?
They penny pinched about arts funding a few months back, and are now spending out the whazoo willy-nillyly (sp?).
Brenda @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:04 pm
Again, I am surprised people are blaming this on one person (left or right). I guess it is time we figured out what is running the world. I can tell ya, it ain't Harper.
sandorski @ Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:05 pm
Kerozine Kerozine:
What the hell happened to being 'fiscally prudent'?
They penny pinched about arts funding a few months back, and are now spending out the whazoo willy-nillyly (sp?).
They penny pinched about arts funding a few months back, and are now spending out the whazoo willy-nillyly (sp?).
Liberals scared it right out of 'em. Or so they're claiming.