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  1. blueblood
    Lets see how big the deficit and debt will be when trudeau gets his hand on the spigot. Its 1976 all over again!!
  2. blueblood
    No, they will grow faster at a lower rate. Take a look at ireland which was bailed out but keeps its corporate tax rate low... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/ireland-economy-surges-with-gdp-growth-forecast-at-6 They are slashing debt to gdp and one of the leaders in growth, yet are keeping taxes low. http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/ct/
  3. blueblood
    Honestly its too close to call. The tories arent seeing a bump with their tpp deal. Thats the problem with running only attack ads, turns people off. The tories needed to convey their ideas and why they work, not constantly calling trudeau immature.
  4. blueblood
    Enough that the liberals have a shot of winning the election. Oh well people believe that spending deficits is the path to prosperity. Hell we are still cleaning up daddy dearest trudeau srs spendinf spree!!
  5. blueblood
    How is he undemocratic? He was elected to a majority govt. the people elected the tories to run the country for 4 years. Boo hoo the opposition got left out in the cold. The same worked for 13 years when the liberals were in power and will happen when the liberals eventually return to power. The system allowed the liberals to win plenty of majorities and the ndp to take alberta. Sounds like a lit of sour grapes to me.
  6. blueblood
    This. The tax revenue on houses that are valued as they are is one reason for local govts to be happy about that. Low interest rates allow fools to spend more money on stuff they cant afford in the first place, temporarily boosts the economy, but when it comes time to collect the bottom falls out, a la the usa housing crisis.
  7. blueblood
    I honestly think its wide open. Both the tories and the liberals campaigned well. I think the million dollar question will be if the tpp is a big enough sell for canadians to re elect the tories in spite of the electorate being sick of harper. Trudeau has essentially ensured he gets another kick at the cat next time around barring an unforseen disaster.
  8. blueblood
    Thats essentially what the ballot question is. Do canadians want deficit spending or do they want trade agreements to improve our economy?
  9. blueblood
    I have to agree with toadbrother et al about trudeau. As much as he rubs me the wrong way facts are facts, he has worked very hard to perform well and ditch his perceived incompetence. Personally i think harper has been in power for too long and people are sick of him despite harper doing by all accounts a pretty good job even though his methods are as we say cut throat and micromanaging. I would prefer an lpc with garneau at the helm and i think they would poll higher. However the ballot question is easentially which method of how to run the economy is the way to go the liberal method or the tory method...
  10. blueblood
    Use mine
  11. blueblood
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/business/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-key-points-that-impact-canada-1.2595268 Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Giving an extra 3.25 percent in the dairy world is a small price to pay along with an almost 20 percent increase in foreign car parts. Japan acing their beef tariffs by 30% over 9 years is good too along with tariffs being completely removed ir reduced for a wide range of products. The dairy industry should be happy that fast went to bat for them and its only 3.25 percent
  12. blueblood
    Too bad the libs didnt have garneau as the head cheese. That seat count is going to depend heavily on whether the tpp goes thru or not. They still negotiating. As of right now my seat projections are similar to cubercoma and Vancouverking.
  13. blueblood
    Im going with the june numbers, employment levels and the opinions of the economists that say the first half was bad and now we are on an uptick. You guys can nit pick at what harper says. As for population. The other g7 have a larger population for domestic consumption which feeds their economy. Canada has to export and when a big customer isnt buying, it hurts and takes time to re adjust. The sky isnt falling
  14. blueblood
    Perhaps because we have the smallest population in the g7 and we export a lot of things which got us to said g7. No matter, as smallc says we were in recession and are now out.
  15. blueblood
    Too bad it wasnt john manley running the liberals
  16. blueblood
    Theyre saying surplus, so no deficit. I think its 6 or 7. Sounds like trudeau wants more...
  17. blueblood
    Better yet MPs of the house, unless your indicating that as caucus.
  18. blueblood
    Yet the reform party opposition was harping for fiscal restraint as well. We both know that the fiscal situation was going to be fixed based on mulroney's nafta, gst income, and other govt cuts.
  19. blueblood
    Im not saying he didnt get it done. Im saying given the circumstances, anybody would have gotten it done. Trudeau sr. Put the country in one heck of a financial pickle.
  20. blueblood
    Weve been through this before. The bond vultures basically gave martin his marching orders. The greek government is finding out their influence the hard way.
  21. blueblood
    Then they bent the knee for the kennedy family and wasted a billion dollars sending a power line down the west side of the province and upping the pst. Sask will be in half the deficit with the wildfires and back to balanced budgets after. One time. The mb ndp still has a credit downgrade along with systemic deficits.
  22. blueblood
    These liberals are a long way off of the days of wilfrid laurier. As for the ndp, i only need to look at manitoba for what happens. 420 million deficit and havent had a balanced budget in some time along with a credit downgrade. And those were the "moderate" ones!
  23. blueblood
    We can nit pick and say june had positive growth which is getting out of recession, but thats for the campaign team. The deficit has already been taken care of. As for scandals, there is a lot worse out there...
  24. blueblood
    What i find funnier is that there are more and more people signing up for that site in spite if the leak. Im in the camp of if you roll the dice, sometimes it comes up snake eyes...
  25. blueblood
    Maybe solar panels used as roofs. Just need to deal with cloudy and night... Thats where fossil fuels has its edge. As long as other countries are coming into their own, fossil fuels will have a place.
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