Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Wa waaaaaaaaaa...
"Stephen Harper wants YOU...to vote for the New Democratic Party"
- Peter, SBP's semi-bro
That pretty much sums up how Stephen Harper became our Prime Minister, eh? Just under 38% of the vote picked Harper which means by about a 2-1 margin (sort of like in poker when Ace-King faces Queen-Jack) Canadians aren't really interested in Harper being in charge. Meh, I guess this is how politics works, though. But really, is much going to change even if Dion won? Harper released his "Six-point economy plan" and he doesn't say if he's raising or lowering taxes, if he's going to raise or lower interest rates or if he's going to tighten financial regulations even further after seeing what the United States has gone through. He basically plans on attending a lot of meetings, but hasn't disclosed what his goals are going into these meetings or what specific topics are going to be discussed other than a general "the economy". One of his points is to re-open Parliament in the Fall, but isn't that something they do already? Just a lot of hot air; guess he might need to take off that sweater to cool down (zing!). But politicians usually keep everything close to the vest anyway and Dion would probably be saying similar things.
Moving on, no one wants to see another election until 2012 at the minimum. This election ended up having the lowest turnout in Canadian history (59.1%) and no doubt the fact we've had three elections in the past four years contributed to voter indifference.
- Peter, SBP's semi-bro
That pretty much sums up how Stephen Harper became our Prime Minister, eh? Just under 38% of the vote picked Harper which means by about a 2-1 margin (sort of like in poker when Ace-King faces Queen-Jack) Canadians aren't really interested in Harper being in charge. Meh, I guess this is how politics works, though. But really, is much going to change even if Dion won? Harper released his "Six-point economy plan" and he doesn't say if he's raising or lowering taxes, if he's going to raise or lower interest rates or if he's going to tighten financial regulations even further after seeing what the United States has gone through. He basically plans on attending a lot of meetings, but hasn't disclosed what his goals are going into these meetings or what specific topics are going to be discussed other than a general "the economy". One of his points is to re-open Parliament in the Fall, but isn't that something they do already? Just a lot of hot air; guess he might need to take off that sweater to cool down (zing!). But politicians usually keep everything close to the vest anyway and Dion would probably be saying similar things.
Moving on, no one wants to see another election until 2012 at the minimum. This election ended up having the lowest turnout in Canadian history (59.1%) and no doubt the fact we've had three elections in the past four years contributed to voter indifference.
# posted by SBP : 10:46 PM
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First off Dion is a moron regardless of any of his initiatives or policies. What was one of the obvious major reason people hated Dion and didn’t vote for him? the carbon tax. It was too much too soon to put into the works. Yes to positively affect climate change we ALL need to be taxed and reduce emissions and consumption on our own and so on but in voting terms putting up a tax hike on carbon use, pisses off some voters and confuses others.
Second essentially a minority government for Harper is really not that bad. The liberals are in such a decrepit state that as long as Harper can call an election at any one given moment the liberals are weak.
Third the best case scenario for the liberals was if no one would have voted for them and Harper had a majority government. Reason being is that a locked in government would mean that there would be no scheduled election for years giving the liberals time to get back to the basics work on their parties policies and incentives as well as find a proper, strong, confident and intelligent (also intelligible) leader that would be a threat to the opposition and a true leader of Canada.
Finally Layton and the NDP did their job as they were merely there as a go to vote for those who could not bring themselves to vote in the conservatives and who completely hated toward the liberals and what they have become.
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Second essentially a minority government for Harper is really not that bad. The liberals are in such a decrepit state that as long as Harper can call an election at any one given moment the liberals are weak.
Third the best case scenario for the liberals was if no one would have voted for them and Harper had a majority government. Reason being is that a locked in government would mean that there would be no scheduled election for years giving the liberals time to get back to the basics work on their parties policies and incentives as well as find a proper, strong, confident and intelligent (also intelligible) leader that would be a threat to the opposition and a true leader of Canada.
Finally Layton and the NDP did their job as they were merely there as a go to vote for those who could not bring themselves to vote in the conservatives and who completely hated toward the liberals and what they have become.
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