tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post4869445506544360686..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: The Real Reason the Cons are Scaring SeniorsSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-19761436690695546982012-02-14T11:32:07.077-05:002012-02-14T11:32:07.077-05:00Thank you for this site!!!Thank you for this site!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-30363245546794897122012-02-10T12:03:02.652-05:002012-02-10T12:03:02.652-05:00If the budget slashes are too much, we should do w...If the budget slashes are too much, we should do what some other countries have done and revolt. These threats and cuts are unnecessary and will mainly affect the poor, young and old and the rich will get richer. We have to stop this before we become more of a welfare state with the rich and the poor and no middle class. I'm afraid this is becoming one of our only options. The government sure doesn't listen to reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-22952461689452185662012-02-09T16:52:53.919-05:002012-02-09T16:52:53.919-05:00e.a.f. above is actually right. Expect huge cuts ...e.a.f. above is actually right. Expect huge cuts in health care, where the feds will open the doors to private medicine (or encourage or pay provinces to do this), cut food insopection, cut social transfers to the provinces, cut education funding for post secondary and so forth. Harper counts on Canadians to be idiots. It is up to us to show him we are not stupid and unaware of his tactics.The Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13027561870206544051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-82956855505899987762012-02-09T12:45:33.673-05:002012-02-09T12:45:33.673-05:00Four words...Not surprised read HarperlandFour words...Not surprised read Harperlandmuchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18429810439171352917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-27911626897729129942012-02-01T17:04:23.472-05:002012-02-01T17:04:23.472-05:00What ever we may think about Harper, he isn't ...What ever we may think about Harper, he isn't stupid, crazy maybe, but not stupid. His plans are calculated and well thought out so he can achieve his idiological goals. <br /><br />The column is quite correct. He is trying to scare seniors and he achieved his goal. Now when he starts slashing the budget, he'll be able to say it was to save the seniors' pensions. What he will slash and burn are things such as food inspectors, health Canada, E.I., C.P.P., immigration, border guards. There will be elimination of field staff in all departments. It will be departments which provide services to Canadians. We will not see a reduction of high level better paid bureucrats, Deputy ministers, or perks and pensions for M.P.s.<br /><br />If Canada were truly short of money I don't see why the government couldn't start taxing Embridge, which just made over a billion in its last quarter. Taxing some of these oil companies might be a good way to raise taxes. They aren't owned by Canadians anymore. Most have been bought out or owned largely by foreign investors. Their profits go straight out of the country. We might as well get a slice of it. They won't leave Canada, if what we hear is true, oil is a deminishing resource.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-7380851666227364132012-02-01T01:22:48.246-05:002012-02-01T01:22:48.246-05:00repost from Mike Klein - What is Harper trying to ...repost from Mike Klein - What is Harper trying to distracted us from via the OAS issue? Alternatively, what fundamental change in Canadian economics and/or society is the OAS issue being used as the trigger for?<br /><br />repost from Geri M Jordan - Harper has created so many grass fires since Parliament recessed for Christmas Break, it really is difficult to determine what is a diversion and what is a 'test balloon'.<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/condomar/posts/305540246160854<br /><br />-----------------------------------------Nadine Lumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591663475427502169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-77337461211751985362012-01-31T10:19:37.998-05:002012-01-31T10:19:37.998-05:00Harper is an utter and complete moron.
He was jus...Harper is an utter and complete moron.<br /><br />He was just mouthing what the real powers that he really works for, have told him to say.<br /><br />Thinking about consequences is not a concept that Harper's brain(?) is capable of entertaining.<br /><br />The other 'leaders' shut up after the riots and revolt that erupted in France when their idiot leader mouthed the same rattrap drivel.<br /><br />Harper is not capable of developing a thought on his own, let alone understanding the significance or import of what his corporate masters are trying to accomplish.<br /><br />The main reason the psychiatric community abandoned terms like idiot, imbecile and moron, is because it applies too easily to people like Harper and Oliver and Baird and Day and Toews and Oda and Raitt and Shea and Duncan and Poliverre ad nauseum Conservatorium.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-49617059484466944862012-01-31T03:07:46.358-05:002012-01-31T03:07:46.358-05:00hi Kev...from the moment I heard Harpo's ridic...hi Kev...from the moment I heard Harpo's ridiculous speech as Davos I knew something was up eh? I mean I realize he has a compulsive need to pose as the new Margaret Thatcher at every international gathering. But why would he scare and alienate such a core constituency? I figured there had to be another reason, or in his case some lower purpose. And I thought of what's shaping up to be one of the worst budgets ever, and it seemed to me to be obvious. So now I have this image of Harper in a Thatcher wig, trying to scare people like Dracula or his hero Stalin, and it's not a pretty picture... ;)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-21366493138520494162012-01-30T21:34:21.528-05:002012-01-30T21:34:21.528-05:00Hi Simon you nailed it Everything that we have bee...Hi Simon you nailed it Everything that we have been hearing lately is another example of an old and cynical game,one where you ramp up the fear of draconian actions so that when you bring in something slightly less draconian people wipe their brows and exhale WHEW coulda been worse. So in the end the public accepts their evil cuts with barely a whimper.<br /><br />I say fuck that lets make some noise and if that doesn't work make some more.<br /><br />ps Sorry about the f-bomb but on occasion it is the only way to truly express ones feelings.Kevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141832889857833324noreply@blogger.com