[DrCaleb]

QBC QBC:

You guys are all wrong, not even close.

Every last one of you have forgotten the dark horse from Tuscany. You bone heads, Charisma is going to win in a landslide victory, (With her "Canadian Inaction Party") never actually touching Canadian soil during the campaign, emigrate home and all will be right with the world my friends. I understand Pimp is moving to New Zealand with the coming of this news, she almost humped him to death by the pool and he doesn't want a round two...

I've actually been in therapy for some time to forget that incident. Thanks for the relapse.

[Regina]

Charisma...............

[Regina]

I do not want an election.............total waste of money.

[andyt]

Agreed.

[QBC]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

QBC QBC:

You guys are all wrong, not even close.

Every last one of you have forgotten the dark horse from Tuscany. You bone heads, Charisma is going to win in a landslide victory, (With her "Canadian Inaction Party") never actually touching Canadian soil during the campaign, emigrate home and all will be right with the world my friends. I understand Pimp is moving to New Zealand with the coming of this news, she almost humped him to death by the pool and he doesn't want a round two...

I've actually been in therapy for some time to forget that incident. Thanks for the relapse.

You think that was bad, you just wait.

We now have "The Harper Government"....We're about to have "The Charisma Queendom" (Yeah I know, Queendom isn't a word, but it will be soon) All over billboards and buses, pictures of Charisma in her bathing suit....

[Bruce_the_vii]

Regina Regina:

I do not want an election.............total waste of money.

We gotta get Iggy out of there. He's a professor, not a politician. The Liberal backroom is probably glad to have an election even at 28% in the polls so Iggy doesn't fester for years. Consider it the price of doing business.

[bootlegga]

Bruce_the_vii Bruce_the_vii:

We gotta get Iggy out of there. He's a professor, not a politician. The Liberal backroom is probably glad to have an election even at 28% in the polls so Iggy doesn't fester for years. Consider it the price of doing business.

Iggy may not come across well on TV, but in person he is impressive. Unfortunately for him, how you come across on TV is all that matters these days.

[Brenda]

Q, you are cracking me up

[Bodah]

QBC QBC:

I understand Pimp is moving to New Zealand with the coming of this news, she almost humped him to death by the pool and he doesn't want a round two...

Unfortunately by the pool wasn't the only place, it also happened a second time in a local Boston Pizza it was caught on a CC security camera. His friends tried in vain to save him.



If you need someone to talk to Pimp, PM me. <<<<HUGS>>>>

[EyeBrock]

Snooki is a total slapper.

[kenmore]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

My prediction: Tory minority with Tories losing in the big three again. BQ making gains in Quebec at the expense of Tories and Libs. Toronto and Vancouver getting more orange seats at the expense of liberals.

The libs might surprise you in some parts of Québec.

[Bruce_the_vii]

Harper's election budget maybe besides the point. This article points out that stiff cuts will still have to be made. The cuts will have to reduce federal spending as a share of the GDP from 16% to 12.9% to balance the budget in 2015. Cuts are painful. I can't see how this could be done with a hung Parliament. The story is only beginning.

$1:

Budget's hidden math adds up to big cuts down the road
ARMINE YALNIZYAN
Globe and Mail Blog
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:51AM EDT

Armine Yalnizyan is a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
There was much to distract the eye in the latest federal budget, but the thing that caught my attention was the long-term fiscal plan: It looked like déjà vu all over again.

The fiscal plan laid out by Stephen Harper's government envisions a surplus budget by 2015-16 and gets there primarily by cutting federal program spending. As a share of GDP it falls dramatically, from 16 per cent in 2009-10 to 12.9 per cent in 2015-16.

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The only other time this has happened in Canada’s economic history – except for demobilizing the economy after the Second World War – was when former Finance Minister Paul Martin tabled his infamous 1995 budget, a budget that recast fiscal federalism and retrenched the welfare state.

Mr. Martin’s fiscal plan relied on highly contested cuts to shrink federal spending from 16 per cent of GDP in 1994-95 to 12.7 per cent in 1998-99 – almost identical to what the Harper budget is now proposing. It fell further, to 12.1 per cent by 2000, largely because of extraordinary growth in the economy.

The difference between then and now is that: a) Mr. Harper has not laid out which public programs, specifically, will be cut; b) a tumultuous and fragile global economic context means the robust economic growth that Martin’s budget bottom line enjoyed in the late 1990s is not likely in the cards for the next few years; and c) the Budget Plan itself makes clear the government forecast underestimates the scale of cutbacks to come – which means an even bigger poison pill is on the way.
That last point is an important consideration, since Canada seems headed for an election. There are two things to look out for.

First, officials in the budget lockup clarified that transfers to the provinces and territories for health care and social programs in the spending outlook for 2015-16 rely on a stay-the-course assumption. But the health accord runs out in 2013-14, when the cash transfer reaches $30.3-billion, and the Conservatives have already made clear they will not continue to automatically increase the transfer by 6 per cent a year. How much will be saved by slowing down how much gets sent to the provinces and territories?

Secondly, the government’s Strategic Program Review provides over $6-billion in spending reductions over the next few years, but the budget plan announced a new review process that will cut at least another $11-billion in departmental spending, overall, in the same period. These amounts are not included in the spending outlook.

The process for attaining these cuts is more centralized and politicized than Strategic Review, taking place under the guidance of soon to be announced sub-committee of the Cabinet (with external experts to be appointed by the Prime Minister in the near future).

Given Mr. Harper’s costly commitment to increasing Canada’s military might, putting more people behind bars for longer, and cutting taxes further, there are dramatic spending cuts on the horizon for many federal programs, particularly social programs – it’s the only way he’ll be able to pay for his priorities.
Therein lies the poison pill.

If this budget plan is really the Conservative election platform, it’s a plan worthy of debate.

[Bruce_the_vii]

Ignatieff has been talking supporting family, social programs. He say he has four priorities: day care, home care, post secondary education and pensions. There's a structural deficit. Ignatieff isn't even in the ballpark. I can see the rest of the Liberals, the backroom boys and the caucus, ringing their hands hoping they can ease him out with this one election.

[Proculation]

Much better budget than last year, yet, last year it passed but not this one ! Politics at play.

No tax increase, even decrease for corporation. Large cuts in spending. There's still a big deficit but it's much less than predicted. Now, maybe we can call them 'conservatives'.

[Yogi]

Four of these are Conservatives. One is a Liberal. Can you spot the imposter?

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