SirRiff Posted October 30, 2003 Report Posted October 30, 2003 http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/29/stewart031029 OTTAWA - On the same day that a fifth cabinet minister revealed she too had accepted hospitality from the Irving family, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and his Liberals are fighting back against opposition allegations the trips and plane rides are examples of ethical misconduct. just something i couldnt ignore... you know, i vote liberal just because i think they bring less crap then the other parties. that could be debated, but thats my opinion. but this is the most pathetic behavior i can remember in a long time....this obvious conflict of interest of 5 MPs who shrug it off after the fact, its only admitted to years after the fact, they patheticly try to reimburse a few thousand dollars as if the cost is all that is important here. the PM doesnt even care to pretend to be outraged. EVEN though i find the liberals by far the best of the worst, this stupidity is enough to make me want to change my vote in anger. but then i think, am i really stupid enough to think that the same think wont happen when another party gets cocky in power? of course it will, so teh problem isnt any particular person or party or philosohopy, but the inherent conflict of interest in democracy politics. so i was wondering, in this situation, would changing my vote in punishment have any effect on the amount of this conflict of interest occuring again? i think no, its useless. SirRiff Quote SirRiff, A Canadian Patriot "The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." - Mark Twain
theWatcher Posted October 31, 2003 Report Posted October 31, 2003 So you are going to reward them by voting for them again? How in the world could ANY of the other parties be any worse? No wonder those idiots stay in power. Quote
SirRiff Posted October 31, 2003 Author Report Posted October 31, 2003 How in the world could ANY of the other parties be any worse? by coming in and wasting time and energy changing all the programs in place already trying to pointlessly prove that change=responsable government, adn then donig the same things that we find out years later but cant change anyways thus it would be worse SirRiff Quote SirRiff, A Canadian Patriot "The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." - Mark Twain
KrustyKidd Posted October 31, 2003 Report Posted October 31, 2003 Makes sense to me Riff. I know my MP (Alliance) is a hog trougher. First thing she voted on (Ok maybe second) was her damm pay raise. Then she got down to business. Many Alliance MPs did not vote for the pay raise so I know that it was not unanimous. My suggestion, TWO YEAR TERMS. Keep these suckers on their toes. As a plus, they don't have time to screw up things that were laid by the previous administrations unless of course that was the platform they ran on. Quote We're Paratroopers Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded - CPT Richard Winters
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