Jimbo Flaherty's Hunger Budget

I wasn't hoping for much from the ghastly little Con gnome Jimbo Flaherty. I knew his budget would be just another crass attempt to buy votes, and so it was.

Whatever else can be said of the budget, it is an election-ready grab-bag of goodies sure to get the attention of ordinary Canadians, the product of the Conservatives reverting to their pre-recession strategy of targeting potential voters with simple, hearty handouts.

I didn't want anything for myself. All I asked was that he do something to help poor seniors and children, because so many of them are going to bed hungry.

I know that because Seb and I see them every day, frail gaunt seniors, and pale sickly children with hollow eyes. In one of the richest countries in the world.

But even that those foul Cons would not do. All they did was give the poorest seniors $1.50 more a day, while giving BILLIONS to the richest people in Canada. So those hogs can hand out big bonuses, and stuff themselves with caviar.

And middle class families can send their well fed children to music camp.

Just like Big Daddy.

What a coincidence eh?

Then there's all that other swine stuff. Nothing for daycare, nothing to improve pensions, nothing to help stop aboriginal kids from killing themselves.

And an insane plan to build more mega-prisons, and spend a THOUSAND times more on them than crime-prevention programs.  

The same kind of budget Jimbo Flaherty loved when he worked for the goon Mike Harris, waged war on the poor.

And threatened to jail the homeless...

In short, a budget worth defeating.

This budget is a reminder that Harper is allergic to the traditional progressive instincts of the country. His government’s frugal budget has set the table for an election the Tories’ combined rivals can win. Now we wait to see if they finally have the will to end the tyranny of a minority.

Not just because it's the right thing to do. I mean what kind of country do we want?

But also because even with all the shiny baubles, there is not enough in it to buy too many votes, or make Canadians forget all the other dirty things the Con mob has been doing.

Fancy jet planes and juicy corporate tax cuts, or helping hungry seniors and children? Democracy or dictatorship?

Golly. I like simple choices. It's like choosing between Canada or Amerika eh?

Oh yeah. Hit me... on my knee.... with your best shot Jimbo.

Bring it on baby gnome !!!!

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The Budget and the Judgement of History

Now that the ghastly deed is done.

And the ConLib Coalition has passed a third-rate amateurish budget that has about as good a chance of stopping the recession, as a pea shooter has of stopping a tank.

A budget that has condemned millions of Canadians to lives of misery and despair by failing to restructure the useless E.I. system. Even as the recession deepens.

Canada could lose as many as 325,000 jobs this year, sending the national unemployment rate soaring to almost nine per cent, according to Toronto-Dominion Bank.

Perhaps we should take another look at another set of figures to see what Ignatieff and his LibCons have really done.

The federal Conservatives raised a record amount of money last year, far more than all the other parties put together, figures released Monday show.

The cash-stuffed Conservative treasury has allowed for more staff, larger offices, more TV ads, and a campaign war room that operates year-round, even between elections.

Which is, after all the other bullshit is stripped away, nothing less than FUCKED themselves. By failing to take advantage of a unique opportunity to have a Coalition government take power WITHOUT an election.

Thus leaving Stephen Harper in a position to call an election whenever he wants. So he can use all that money to steamroller the divided left. Because after TWO votes of confidence...the Throne Speech and the budget....now the Governor General has no choice but to grant him one.

And how long do the Liberals think Harper will wait before he introduces some toxic legislation they just can't support? And what will they do then? Go for an election they can't afford....or support him anyway? Just like Dion did. Will Iggy be jiggy? Of course he will.

The Liberals could have toppled this foul incompetent Con government. Or at the very least forced it to present a better budget that did more to protect the lives of millions of Canadians.

But they didn't. The polls may be with them now. A frightened and desperate people are easily manipulated. Especially when they are offered no alternatives.

But every bone in my body tells me they will live to regret this day. Just like the rest of us.

History will judge them harshly.

And because I'll never forget what might have been. And I hate idiocy even more than cowardice.

I'll never forgive them...