nicky10013

That's what you said. Word for Word.

But but but, the dollar is rising and it always will!

See, the thing is though, money isn't speech. Money is money. If you want a company to buy as much airtime extolling why they think a certain politician is the best, let them do that. That's speech. However, hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing into both democratic and republican campaigns in brown untraceable envelopes? That's not free speech, it's legalized corruption.

Don't let Kimmy see that.

All I have to say to this is if this guy is going to do exactly what he says he's going to do, the city is going to go bankrupt. How is he going to pay for everything he wants WHILE slashing taxes?

Not these ones.

I ran absentee voter registration drives in downtown. Sarcasm is a bitch, eh?

Maybe the Euro has been falling. It's a dynamic market. Then again I should've understood, anymore than 2 dimensions and you go comatose.

Bingo. I find it hilarious that ignorant idiots spout shit like that without realizing that the country with the largest Islamic population is actually a democracy. Whoops.

Exactly, so what does the Euro have to do with anything?

Yup. TTC Service cuts coming down the pipe in 2011. http://stevemunro.ca/?p=4719

AECL isn't going anywhere.

Question - where was all your outrage when genocide was being carried out in Darfur?

Neither do you. Pot calling the kettle black, here.

People who don't understand economics always associate dollar strength as a source of pride not realizing that a low dollar helped Canada's export industry tremendously. The lower the dollar, the cheaper our goods and the more easier they're sold to countries around the world and most importantly the US. Not surprisingly since Harper has allowed the Canadian dollar to gain strength and with a combination of US weakness, record record trade surpluses under Chretien and Martin have turned completely around and now we're running record trade deficits. You may be proud because the dollar is strong but when it comes down to it, it hurts our economy.

You're right. I had him mixed up with Spector. Doesn't make anything he wrote not true, however.

All of this IS garbage. He DID cut. What's the point of a budget increase period if he's not going to buy more books and actually close a library? You can talk about silent majorities and the big scary liberal elite, but the stuff he's doing just doesn't make sense. He's going to save the city money by slashing taxes across the board and then spending 10 million on hiring 100 new police officers. He's going to save the city budget by cancelling transit city at the cost of 500 million in cancellation fees while building a subway to no where at twice the price. He's going to end a "war on the car" that was never being waged to begin with. Nothing the man has promised has made any sense at all and if you weren't so blinded by conservative wet dream appeal, you'd realize that as well. It's not the fault of the Star for covering this nonsense, it's the fault of Ford and the fault of people like you who eat this stupid shit up.

Ah, so you like debt and mismanagement on a grand scale? Oh yeah, that's right. It doesn't matter as long as a guy who claims to be a member of your team gets into power. Funny how Conservatives have the tendency to be anything but conservative when they get into office.

From Jeffrey Simpson - staffer in Mulroney's government. What you're saying and what everyone else is saying probably is a good thing for Ignatieff. The bar for him in a campaign has been set so low that even if he came out and ran a campaign a hair above incompetency he'd still blow everyone away. I'm not saying he'll win an election, but don't write him off. Nothing changes until there's a campaign. It's been the rule in Canadian politics since we had politics. People need to gossip, though, and papers need headlines, so we'll get the same stalemate crap until there's a writ. Some people claim politics doesn't matter in the summer because no one pays attention. More and more I think that's the truth year round until something horrible happens or until people have to pay attention, not just the small group of junkies that populate these boards. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/life-cycle-of-an-opposition-leader/article1848365/

I think you misread. Despite the 2% increase, they won't be using the extra money to buy more books and will actually be closing a library downtown. Seems ludicrous, no?

Bingo. We all want fiscal responsibility. We all want taxes to be lower. However, contrary to popular Conservative belief as has been seen over every Conservative adminsitration since Reagan, slashing taxes and raising spending creating gigantic deficits isn't the path to fiscal responsibility and sustainable lower tax rates. Government fiscal policy has to be more complicated than "Canadians know how to spend their money better than the government." It creates expectations that can't be met. That certainly can't be met in a reasonable fashion.

Which is the same thing really. J-walking is an offense punishable by fine. How many people have recieved a ticket for it?

Bingo. For the record. Considering how many times here I've heard of the evils of the Islamic religion both here and on TV, them calling Christmas evil is really only payback ahaha.

Ah, I get what the next 4 years will boil down to. Everything "good" that happens is attributed to Rob Ford. Everything "bad" that happens is the fault of council.

Yep. These pieces of legislation were killed in the late 1990s. Liberal legislation killed by a Liberal senate. Like I said, when was the last time the Liberals killed Conservative legislation? Furthermore, did it originate in the senate? I'm betting it did. What's so wrong with unelected senators killing their own unelected legislation? For the record, Harper's "two years of trying to get senate refrom" was more like one bill and the goal of that was only to limit terms of senators to 8 years. Nothing more than a symbolic piece of legislation that no one believed would pass to mollify his own base. The second time he tried was after his own party who is against unelected members killing elected members legislation. As for taste of my own medicine? What in god's name does that mean? What medicine?