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Topaz. We can read the news ourselves. You don't have to link every article you read here. Seriously.

Found anything worthwhile to do with your time GWiz? 1500 posts and counting since the end of january. Almost 30 posts a day! I think you're our most avid (and at the same time hilariously poorly spoken) poster on this forum! Congratulations!

/yawn. Keep it up Topaz. You've posted on average about 20-25% of the threads on this forum lately. All of them have been VERY interesting and extremely though-provoking. You don't seem obsessed with Harper at all....

Your posts are so full of BS you don't need to follow the party hype. The opening post of this thread was by far and away the dumbest part of it.

The prisons are something that are easier to justify and explain. The 'tough on crime' stance is something that wins a lot of politicians elections. That's the last issue you'd want to make a campaign about. The aircraft...yeah you could spin it...but the fact is that the CF-18's need to be replaced and the fact that there wasn't a bidding process isn't going to win over a lot of minds. The corporate tax cuts, however, that IS something that every Canadian really understands and can relate to. With the largest deficits in history, what possible justification is there for corporate tax reductions when our rates are already considered pretty low?? I'm sure you can come up with BS reasons, but are there any that actually make sense? The income disparity in Canada is higher than ever. The middle and upper middle class are vanishing and we're considering corporate tax cuts? Wtf are they thinking?

lol I don't know if voting is what I'd do for her...

It is really hard to watch/support Harper lately. I can't really find a lot of good to say about him. We have a long list of him borking things up and I can't say he's done a lot of good. Starting with Maxime Bernier, we've seen a long list of crooks and snakes slinking around in shame after they've been discovered. We've seen him blow his load on anything and everything people beg for (particularly Quebec). With all of his spending increases and his total lack of fiscal restraint, the nail in the coffin for him as far as I'm concerned is his corporate tax cuts. I have no idea why the opposition isn't coalescing behind this because if presented properly he could literally be crucified for it. There is no reason for corporate tax cuts right now whatsoever. I wish there was someone with a shred of political sense that could oppose him.

Why you're resurrecting this thread...I don't know. The Avro was designed to fly very fast and very straight at very high altitudes, and it was designed to quickly catch up to and shoot down high-altitude and super sonic bombers. It was meant to protect Canada from nuclear armed Soviet bombers. By the late 1950's the Soviets had already built the first ICBM's. Nuclear weapons from thereon would delivered by missiles launched from thousands of miles and would fall down from the stratosphere. The Avro Arrow could not shoot down ICBM's. It was largely obsolete before it came off the line. The threat it was designed to defeat, mainly long range strategic bombers, became a secondary threat overnight. As for the rest of the crap you spouted, you're so wrong it hurts. The Arrow design could not be adopted to a fighter role. The delta wing design would have made it impossible to manoeuver at slower speeds and dogfight because of the drag it would have encountered against its flat bottomed surface. You don't need to be an aeronautical engineer to see that. It was designed to fly high, straight and far. That was it.

If the amount of posts is indicative of how scared you are of an election, you must be TERRIFIED GWIZ. You've posted over 1400 times in less than 2 months. You're averaging 27 posts a day. You seem to be fussing, thrashing and wetting your pants over the idea! LoL! Nice thread topic! Keep it up you're making yourself look smrt!

Riiiight. Canada's going to lead the way in that fight....

Aecon is one of Canada's biggest construction/development firms. It would make even less sense if they DIDN'T receive a lot of the stimulus funds. Your conspiracy theories would have more traction at rabble I think.

Oh I see. The classic "I know you are but what am I?" argument. Let me adjust my tactics in this thread to reflect the grade 3 mentality you're using here. You have cooties.

I can't remember where I said that. Are you making things up again, like you do for all of your arguments?

With jokes like that, I'm not sure you could fill a bathroom stall. Keep your day job...if you have on.

You second that emotion? Oh man you're priceless.....

Again, your numbers are complete bulls***. Show us the numbers GWiz. That's where you really seem to flop.

What does that have to do with ANYTHING? My post was about dollars and budgets and PMs' records in respect to that, and you come back with an outdated 20+ year old essay written by a trade protectionist?? What the hell?? You might as well have posted a link to a Hanna Montana website. Not only was it completely unrelated to my post or really the thread in general, it was also a totally balogna essay and has almost been entirely proven WRONG on all counts. Go back to my post and the numbers etc I went over and counter that or admit you can't please. I'd appreciate it.

I agree with that, but Chretien and Martin axed expenses (granted a lot of it was dumped on the provinces) but it can be done if you stick to your guns.

LoL. You might want to check the "state of affairs" Trudeau left Canada in after 1984. Canada's debt level was around 9% of GDP in 1968. By 1984, when Turdeau finally bailed, he'd turned our debt level to 40% of our GDP. He did that in about 9 years. Not only did he grow our debt level (relative to the size of our economy) faster and more than any PM in history, he also did it at a time when interest rates were higher than ever. The Bank of Canada rate in 1984 was something retarded like 14% (right now it's 1%). The cost of simply SERVICING Pierre Trudeau's debt was about 5.0% of GDP when Mulroney took over. To put that in perspective for you, 5% of GDP today would be about 66 billion dollars. The cost of simply keeping up interest payments on Trudeau's debt when Mulroney took over was the equivalent today of 66 BILLION dollars each year. That's even more than Harper spent on stimulus at the recession's worst. Another interesting fact is that if not for Pierre's debt repayment, Mulroney would have ran operating surpluses from about 1986 on. He spent less on federal programs than he collected in taxes, but about 5% of his GDP was being spent on interest payments thanks to the debt Trudeau saddled on him. I'll agree with you that Mulroney was a bad PM, because he should have recognized the mess Trudeau put us in sooner and he didn't, but GWiz you need to get a freaking clue when it comes to numbers. You don't have a clue. Here's some reference material which I'm sure you'll ignore/not understand: http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2007/03/a_brief_history.html

No I think your numbers are based on NOTHING. Run them by us please. Mulroney was a terrible PM, but he inherited a Canada in shambles from the worst fiscal manager Canada's ever seen in Pierre Trudeau. Chretien and Martin ran the country through the most prosperous 14 years Canada's seen since the 1950's. They had to be idiots to screw things up then. I'll give them credit for not blowing their load on and actually paying down Canada's debt, but they certainly didn't do anything special. I'm not terribly thrilled with it considering THEY felt they had to import Ignatieff to do the job. I shudder at the thought of Turdeau II getting a shot at things. I'm not thrilled with him either, but I'm used to PM's being not doing what I want. At least I know what Harper's planning and he's likely to follow through with it. Ignatieff and the Liberals have been so shifty and mercurial over the last 5 years that I can't trust him even BEFORE he forms a government. Personally I think the long form census is a joke and it didn't bother me at all. I'm wary of the F-35 and don't really like the plane much, but I'm not army and I don't see much out there that would do the job a whole lot better.

They do. Do you think something like a hospital would have a backup diesel generator, but a nuclear power plant wouldn't? You don't have a clue. They had backup generators in Japan, it's just a tsunami and a 9.0 earthquake sometimes cause problems. The best and most expensive fusion reactors in the world have managed to output something stupid like 1.000000001 x more energy than it has cost to contain the reaction, and it cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS to build. We're 20-30 years MINIMUM from even pioneering commercial use.

Lol Lindsey Lohan. That was funny. You're totally right about Chernobyl though. The Soviet Union was probably the most environmentally disastrous regime to ever exist on Earth. Their environmental and safety standards were atrocious and their Chernobyl design and the safety standards within were pathetic.

So if he opened the contract to competition he'd get the replacement fighter for free? Or at least 60% cheaper? You're not very good with numbers are you??? No I'm pretty much with you on that and I'm certainly against the tax cuts. Nope. I think Harper is a bad fiscal manager and socially he's a bible-thumping wing-nut. My problem is that I trust him more than Ignatieff. I tuned Ignatieff out completely when, after the cons already opened the floodgates and committed tens of billions in stimulus, he wanted them to spend more. Harper's the evil I know. Ignatieff's given me about a dozen different reasons to fear him even more.

Because it provides enormous amounts of clean energy. The waste is stored safely and the radioactivity doesn't leak out.

A lot of markets in the US make tons of money...just not so much the ones where there are palm trees outside. Shortl list of NHL franchises set to fail: Atlanta Phoenix Carolina Florida Nashville Islanders There are two or three markets in Canada that would happily take some of those on. Winnepeg Hamilton Quebec It's going to happen it's just a matter of time.