- All Harper and the Con's care about is power, obtaining it and maintaining it, Canada be damned.

submitted to: Toronto Star
Ottawa's $19 billion reversal of fortune
Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau, Published On Mon Oct 12 2009
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/federalbudget/article/708904--ottawa-s-19-billion-reversal-of-fortune#article tab3

It is in the open now that the reduction of GST by 2 points was done even though Harper knew at the time that it was hurtful to our economic well being. Harper did it for the sole reason of buying votes.

The reduction in taxes by Harper, Flaherty and the Con's was done precisely for the same reason. Anyone who thought about it rationally could easily predict that it was eliminating any form of a safety net for our economy. They did it precisely for the political impact. Not only could they say "we reduce taxes" but that it is very difficult for anyone to now say that, realistically, taxes may very well be raised to prevent leaving for future generations a debt burden that is so crippling that the economy collapses into third world oblivion. There only 'plan' Harper has is to wait 5 or 6 years and hope that the economy will grow so big that it, by itself, eliminates the deficit. That is something like someone max'ing out their credit cards and saying that they will pay it off when they get that new job with a big increase in salary. This is no way to run a country unless, of course, you don't care if you're running it into the ground. Their spending was, obviously, done for the same reasons, buy votes.

Harper and the Con's strategy is to approach the Canadian voter emotionally and they completely disregard the realities or any kind of rational approach. This of course explains why Harper suppresses and distorts information, especially about our economy as with our Parliamentary Budget Officer. If the true numbers came out on our economy and what Harper and the Con's are doing we all could see very quickly what is happening and, obviously, Harper does not want this.

Lloyd MacIlquham cicblog.com/comments.html