Wow Republicans !
Last few years when the Dem's held both houses the Republicans stood united against almost every single thing the Democrats proposed. The Republicans now are somewhat divided in passing Boehner…
Deficit
Debt Ceiling Debate is Moot: USG Owes More Dollars than in Existence
Image by Images_of_Money The current debate in Washington as to whether or not and under what conditions to raise the debt-ceiling has for the past week dominated global news coverage…
Cutting Nukes First: The Economic Burden of Nuclear Weapons
Scott.jpg As I write this, US leaders have just two weeks to make a deal on how to cut the deficit to prevent the nation defaulting on their debt commitments.President…
Greece: Bigger Than Lehman Brothers
What a frigging disaster. Back in 2008, the US Federal Reserve let the Lehman Brothers investment bank - which held more than a bellyful of toxic debt, go to the…
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%…
Pharmaceutical Patent Lengths
Obama's recently announced deficit reduction proposal includes the reduction in patent lengths for brand name pharmaceutical drugs from 20 to 7 years. Let us step back and consider the case…
It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
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It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
Where's Rob Ford when you need him.{Video by liberalvideo}Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
Where’s Rob Ford when you need him.{Video by liberalvideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
Where’s Rob Ford when you need him.{Video by liberalvideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Mr. Speaker, a question for the honourable member…
…What does it cost? The Harper Party rebuttal: law and order is priceless! The logical follow up: Is knowing the price-tag on policies to incarcerate people for non-violent offences too…
The Deficit Kings
When I read Brian Mulroney giving Harper advice to "do something big," I laughed. First I thought perhaps Mulroney meant taking in a $300,000 bribe, lying about it, and then…
No Plan
Kevin Page once again shows the truth: That the Harper Conservatives talk on the economy are all transparent politics.http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2011/01/20/budget-office-report.htmlPage's office expected to find out how 10 departments that had repor...
Flaherty: Deficit will be retired by 2011
OTTAWA - Faced with record federal debt, Finance Minister Smilin' Jim Flaherty boldly predicted that the federal government's deficit will be erased within twelve months. "We're going to sell more…
Selinger, Wowchuk and their Hot Tub Time Machine – A New TV Series based on the upcoming movie
I won’t comment on whether or not it’s appropriate for the Premier and Finance Minister to be spending so much time in a hot tub even as they expect their…
Harper, Baird, Flaherty, EI and the Economy.
I’ll start with two separate paragraphs, from two separate articles (The first from the Ottawa Citizen, the second from the Globe and Mail: Baird falsely portrayed the Liberal scheme for…
The end of Conservatism
That’s what Andrew Coyne wrote about today. Basically he said that the Harper governments decision to spend so much and go into a deficit is the last straw, and that…