The Defense budget in the U.S is 20% of the U.S budget. That is of course double than what it was in 2001. If the U.S wants to get back to the surplus years of the 1990’s then they will have too cut into defense heavily. Except a lot of the defense spe…
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The Happy Wanderer: Republicans Unrealistic
You
think that the Republicans would be serious about reducing he deficit
that they should look at ways to reduce the deficit without hurting the
economy too bad. John Boehner is again sticking with the idea that as
long as millionaires …
The Happy Wanderer: Raise the Debt Ceiling!
Some Republicans are living in a fantasy world thinking that there is way to continue business as usual even though the debt is above the debt ceiling. Even if the Government cuts hundreds of billion today the debt would still get above the debt ceilin…
Continue readingTwenty six cents.
Remember a few months ago when, to great public fanfare, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced in its budget that it would be giving consumers a break on their energy bills, by (somehow) eliminating the province’s portion of the HST …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Paul Ryan Lies About Ending Oil Subsidies To Protect His Family’s Cash Bonanza
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Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been all over the place when it comes to ending the multi-billion dollar subsidies that the oil industry receives every year. While he…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The Pawlenty Plan Part 2
First the U.S will spend 3.8 Trillion this year. Let’s say Pawlenty’s plan would only cost 380 billion then you add that with 1.6 trillion you have a approximate 2.0 trillion dollar deficit. Even if you reduce the deficit to 1.9 trillion, because o…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The Pawlenty Plan Part 1
Republicans talk about how the government is broke and we can’t afford to continue to spend the way are spending. In the video Pawlenty sent to declare his candidacy he said “Are country is in big trouble we have far too much debt” (watch here). In Paw…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The War on Drugs Isn’t Working
The U.S tough on Crime agenda is slowly being reversed. Amid major Budget deficit the state’s are seeing the true cost of putting people for minor offences in jail. California of course the prime example of how tough on crime agenda doesn’t at all help…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Exciting Crowdsourcing Opportunity!
With some people rightly wondering whether there’s time to conduct a full and proper review of the Cons’ budgetary plans before Parliament rises for the summer, now would figure to be an ideal time for some crowdsourcing work in digging through the Con…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: You may not have noticed, but…
…the first vote on budgetary policy in Canada’s new Parliament took place on Wednesday, with the parties taking their positions on the Libs’ budget subamendment. And it may make for an interesting signal as to who’s willing to work together in provid…
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Bob Rae Shines Light On Mental Health In His Response To The Budget
“The essential message that I bring to the House and to the people of Canada about this budget is that it is not a budget for everyone. It is not a budget that brings Canadians together. It is not a … Continue reading →
Impolitical: "Not a budget for one Canada"
Thought I would just do an overview kind of post on Bob Rae’s House of Commons budget debate remarks from earlier this week. You can see it above (runs about 20 minutes on the video) and you can find the text here. I just want to highlight some of th…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- The Star skewers the Cons’ insistence on pushing ahead with bad budget choices:As the Star argued during the election, Canada needs progressive economic vision in the form of strategic investments in sc…
Continue readingImpolitical: Rae 1, Layton 0
Let’s have some post-budget fun in bleak majority land! Let’s compare the Rae and Layton reactions to the budget: “Opposition slams Tories’ ‘groundhog budget’.” (Well, some of us look at this kind of thing in a fun way…)
Layton on the budget …
Continue readingLPC Keeps Focus on Jobs, Economy
This is good to see. Team Red isn’t being distracted by vote subsidies and other issues nobody cares about.
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Budget Shows Profound Complacency: No Plan for Jobs, No Plan for the Deficit, No Plan for Poverty, No Plan for Sustai…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The House Sits! Let the Politics Begin!
Now that the house is now going to work we will see the the truth of the Conservative Government. The Conservatives now have there first speaker of the house. The Bloc will be sitting in four seats way in the back right next to Elisabeth May! Who was s…
Continue readingHellberta: Oilsands optimism on the downslide
canada.com The oilsands continue to take public relations hits across the globe. Just recently the Keystone pipeline leaked yet again making for the forth pipeline leak in relation to oilsands pipelines in the last 2 months, 2 of which occured in Alberta. In the midst of all of the bad public relations it seems
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Stephen Harper will ^NOT be balancing the budget.
If you were wondering how the Conservatives were planning on filling that $11 billion hole in their platform? Apparently, they are planning on using Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty’s massive cojones. Just 9 days after Canada’s 41st federal election PM … Continue reading →
The Happy Wanderer: Fiscally Reposible? Yeah Right
The Conservatives are going to reduce the Corporate taxes by more for next year. If this years budget passes (which of course it will) the corporate taxes will be 16.5% the next year the Harper Government wants to reduce it to 15%. The cost for these c…
Continue readingThe Harper Government In A Nutshell
Just in case it has not yet sunk in how incompetent are Harper and his Harpies in matters of governance and responsible budgetary spending:
1- They spent some $2 millions last year in a narcissistic exercise of monitoring what the media says about the…
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