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SpankyMcFarland

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  1. SpankyMcFarland
    She should just have apologized and left it at that. If we keep this relentless PC retrospective up, we'll have no candidates soon.
  2. SpankyMcFarland
    Nuclear power's record is a lot safer than most people think. Even one of its most infamous disasters has brought surprising benefits to the environment. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/nuclear_power/2013/01/wildlife_in_chernobyl_debate_over_mutations_and_populations_of_plants_and.html
  3. SpankyMcFarland
    Chretien's record on debt reduction is a spectacularly successful one, although I would not be too hard on Mulroney either, given the political constraints he faced. Michael Wilson wanted to cut more but Mulroney felt he didn't have the political capital to carry through. I see Chrétien and Mulroney as birds of a feather politically. Trudeau was different from them, a political titan who created modern Canada but who let spending get out of hand.
  4. SpankyMcFarland
    No I am not kidding. Mulroney got saddled with massive debt and interest from day one so his plight was quite different from Trudeau's.
  5. SpankyMcFarland
    You're preaching to the choir. Chretien's record on debt reduction is one my favourite stories, although I would not be too hard on Mulroney, given the political constraints he faced. Michael Wilson wanted to cut more but Mulroney felt he didn't have the political capital to carry through. I see Chrétien and Mulroney as birds of a feather politically. Trudeau was different from them, a political titan who created modern Canada but who let spending get out of hand.
  6. SpankyMcFarland
    In fairness, Mulroney did more to fight debt than Trudeau did. Mulroney started with a debt mountain to manage.
  7. SpankyMcFarland
    Mulroney should have done more to rein in the debt, yes?
  8. SpankyMcFarland
    I disagree with that. In some ridings you will be wasting your vote doing that and helping to give us more Harper. Which goes to show what a pig ignorant system FPTP is.
  9. SpankyMcFarland
    Pierre Trudeau built the debt and Jean Chrétien sorted it out. Mulroney failed to reduce it, yes? You talk about parties as if they are unchanging monoliths. Is Harper responsible for Mulroney's failure as well or does the change of the nameplate absolve him?
  10. SpankyMcFarland
    FPTP does not allow for sophisticated choices. It's basically binary. I consider this election a referendum on Harper. In my riding, that means voting Liberal. Elsewhere NDP will be the best option or even Green in one or two places. The important thing is to know the strongest non-Harper party in your constituency, if you are that way inclined. The right wingers have a simpler set of options - vote for Steve or stay home.
  11. SpankyMcFarland
    Well, I guess that is better than nothing. It's a pity you are not able to give credit where it is due.
  12. SpankyMcFarland
    So which party did most in our recent history to reduce federal debt? Are you willing to give credit where it is due?
  13. SpankyMcFarland
    Derek, a coalition is quite different from that. You think Tom is a socialist?
  14. SpankyMcFarland
    KPMG have been implicated in similar schemes in Britain and Ireland. It is what they and their fellow big firms do. The rich do pay a lot of tax but they also have unique abilities to bend the law in their favour.
  15. SpankyMcFarland
    Let's be honest here. Nobody notices what we do. If you go to Europe for a month, Canada disappears from the news. In Iraq and Syria, we are playing our small and meaningless role. ISIS will hate us either way and we will have little or no effect on that.
  16. SpankyMcFarland
    What is your opinion of the coalition government that David Cameron actually led for years in the UK?
  17. SpankyMcFarland
    My point is this. I prefer to focus on what people do rather than on what they say in campaigns. In practice, David Cameron had no problem with coalition government. Harper does. Since he became PM, Harper has tried to make out that there is something wrong with coalition government.
  18. SpankyMcFarland
    1. Why? Piggate. 2. OK. Cameron has just presided over a coalition government himself for years. So coalitions per se are not a problem in Britain. Harper is opposed to ALL coalitions for his party in Canada, not just with the BQ, and tries to insinuate that there is something unparliamentary about them for anybody.
  19. SpankyMcFarland
    So did coalition government.David Cameron may not be the ideal person to quote on best practice right now.
  20. SpankyMcFarland
    It's a dumb promotion with no credibility.
  21. SpankyMcFarland
    Will this way of expressing things draw any correspondence?
  22. SpankyMcFarland
    Lies to suck in the gullible.After a decade in office, it's a bit ridiculous to be making promises instead of defending your record.
  23. SpankyMcFarland
    May is an excellent campaigner. I must say the current crop of Conservative female ministers aren't that impressive. Agglukaq in particular is out of her depth. Raitt, Leitch and Rempel would be my picks. Raitt seems fairly reasonable and would not annoy me on a daily basis if she was running the shop. Rempel seems capable enough but she has to lose that smirk.
  24. SpankyMcFarland
    What is the point of candidates if they won't debate? Wouldn't we all save money if inflatable substitutes were used instead?
  25. SpankyMcFarland
    Party allegiance should be more conditional than fan loyalty. You can't really change what team you support, no matter how badly they do; although, I do wonder at the constancy of Leafs fans, given the soaring value of their dreadful team.
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