"Secret Mulroney Tapes" author says "VOTE NDP"

[Argus]

Britt is not something from that website, Argus. He is a famed political philosopher who wrote something in which he isolated those fourteen points. Umberto Eco also identified fourteen points which, though not the same as Britt's have a similar scope.

The point I'm making is that if you set about defining Fascism according to your own preconceptions and political biases you don't wind up with anything useful. Britt is not a "famed political philosopher", though his 14 points seem to be all over the internet. He is neither a doctor nor a political scientist. as represented. In point of fact he seems to be a novelist, and not a very succesful one.

What is wrong with pragmatism when it loses sights of the purpose of the NDP is that is competing with the Liberals for the broad middle ground. Once Fabian and ineffective, it followed the slogan of that society: "Educate' Agitate, Organize and was quite as feeble politically until it did become more pragmatic.

Are you saying you want it to be feeble politically again?

It has swung too far in that direction and now pays insufficient attention to its roots in the underclasses of society.

I don't see it that way. I don't see that they pay much attention to anyone else, ie, the middle class.

[Toro]

The point I'm making is that if you set about defining Fascism according to your own preconceptions and political biases you don't wind up with anything useful.

I define "Stalin-esque, gulag-style communism" as any government program.

I define "intelligent" as anyone who agrees with me.

[mcqueen625]

The fact is the NDP lost whatever credibility they had when they supported the most corrupt government in the history of Canada to stay in office, the Liberals. I for one stopped supporting them when Alexia decided that she was going to take the NDP closer to the middle of the political spectrum in order to placate corporate fears that the NDP was too socialist. Now they seem to want the best of both of those worlds. They want tax levels left where they are, and much more of that tax money spent on social programs.

The reality is that most Canadian's are receiving less real income than they were even 10 years ago due to governments of all sorts raising every tax and fee that they could lay their hands on, and even inventing many new ones, and what has this gotten us? It has created a situation where record numbers of Canadian's are relying on food banks and soup kitchens to stave of hunger pangs. With the rising cost of gasoline and heating oil, that usage is about to go through the roof, because those rising costs will quickly affect everything we buy in order to just exist, including food, and clothing, and let's not forget the rising costs of heating your homes, whether one heats by oil, natural gas, heating oil or electricity.

Last year alone in New Brunswick, NB Power was some how allowed to apply for, and was granted 3 raises totalling approximately 12% in rates in under 1 1/2 years even though the regualations say that they are only allowed to raise rates once per year. Much of their additional expenses came for the fact that the provincial government under Bernard Lord, took one corporation, NB Power, and split it into five separate corporations, each with it's own management team, and it own employees. THe Oposition Leader, Shawn Graham under the Right To Information Act, discovered that by doing so it cost an extra $2 Million each per year in additional costs. They are now before the Public Utilities Board looking for a 16% increase to take effect on April 1, 2006, in order to fund an expected $126 Million revenue shortfall. Meanwhile many NBer's are still struggling to pay off last winter's heating bills, and the government awarded executive bonuses to their management teams. Go figure?

The truth is that we are headed for a major recession according to some economists, and if that in fact does take place, Canadian's are not going to be able to afford all of the social niceties that our tax money is presently funding, let alone add new expenditures that the NDP is promoting, such as National Child Care. My take is if these career parents want to continue working and allow some strager to bring up their kids, then they should be paying that cost themselves, not looking to to government to pay for this expense. When my wife and I had our children my wife stayed home and brought up our children until they went to school, then and only then did she return to the workforce. Even them we paid the cost of childcare until one or the other of us got off work. we never expected government to pay. Today it seems that people want everything paid for by government. Smart people realize that government never does anything cheap, because for every initiative they institute they create a whole new bureaucracy to oversee it. WE NEED LESS GOVERNMENT, NOT MORE! Under the NDP's mentality, the largest employer in Canada will still be government, and we wonder why taxes are so high?

[err]

The fact is the NDP lost whatever credibility they had when they supported the most corrupt government in the history of Canada to stay in office, the Liberals.

Sir John A had them beat for corruption... And how about Brian Mulroney with the airbus....

The reality is that most Canadian's are receiving less real income than they were even 10 years ago due to governments of all sorts raising every tax and fee that they could lay their hands on, and even inventing many new ones, and what has this gotten us? It has created a situation where record numbers of Canadian's are relying on food banks and soup kitchens to stave of hunger pangs. With the rising cost of gasoline and heating oil, that usage is about to go through the roof, because those rising costs will quickly affect everything we buy in order to just exist, including food, and clothing, and let's not forget the rising costs of heating your homes, whether one heats by oil, natural gas, heating oil or electricity.

And the Liberals are following Conservative ideologies and cutting taxes... for corp. Canada... but not for you and me. Tax cuts are always for corp. Canada... and not for you and me....

One reason that our taxes have not dropped, is that we have to pay for the tax cuts that corp Canada is getting and has gotten from the last how many years of fiscal Conservative governments. And corp Canada already pays 4% lower taxes than the USA, and an aweful lot lower tax rates than most middle income earners. Why should our federal government give corp Canada further tax breaks... and none to lower and middle income Canadians ????