- Harper, What Do You Think:"Liberal-Democrat", That has Kinda A Ring

Continued - Reply

Submitted: 10:19pm, PDT, 31 may'10

RU Outa Ur Mind wrote:
Posted 2010/05/31
at 1:38 PM ET

"Lloyd Mac:

Cost benefit analysis??....

Hmm... did Jean Chretien do a cost benefit analysis of what the projected cost increases in taxation & energy costs would be for the average Canadian citizen when he signed the Kyoto Accord??... "

Of all the decisions that demand a Cost-Benefit analysis it is Global Warming.

If there is more than a mere possibility that our action now will cause serious environmental harm to our children and our children's children in the future, whether 20 years - 30 years or 50 years. Then, we must act, and act decisively and to the extent required, now.

When all those countries that have not contributed to Global Warming or benefited from it but suffer the greatest devastating impact of it turn to Canada and see that we not only contributed to it, did nothing to stop it, but in actuality have benefited, we will be lucky if all they do is sue us for trillions in law suits similar to the tobacco suits. It will be our children and our children's children that will be required to pay the price.

We must consider the impact of all the Harper actions on our Nation and the Legacy we leave to our children and our children's children to prevent Harper from tearing asunder what has been built thru the blood sweat and tears of our forefathers, maintain what those that came before us have achieved in the past, and perhaps improve on it, if possible, and leave our children with the appreciation of us having lived here and not a bitter resentment that we were ever given a turn at the helm.

The irony is that Stephen Harper is an economist by trade, where cost-benefit analysis is the name of the game - the only claim to a background that might be appropriate in running a modern complex, diverse Democracy with a first world economy and Harper totally ignores it.

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RU Outa Ur Mind also wrote:

" Or is it just too gut-wrenchingly difficult for you face up to butchering those doe-eyed, Liberal /Socially-Democratic Sacred-Cows??..."

"RU Outa Ur Mind" - nice monicker,

Try Liberal-Democrat. Has a nice ring and apparently they understand Parliamentary Democracy and how it works.

Lloyd MacILquham