39 Replies to “So much for that Liberal meme”

  1. So it would appear that the financial management of Minister Jim Flaherty is paying off, and the Liberal allegations of going into a deficit are misplaced.

  2. That surplus would be off to unca Mo in a heartbeat if the Liberanos/Dippers were ever allowed to get their sticky fingers back in the tax payers cookie jar. Please vote if you are voting Conservative.

  3. Geez, moments ago I was watching on CTV as an outraged Steffi Dion accused Harper of being a meanie, accusing Steffi of cheering for a recession.
    Oops, there goes another fear out the window.
    Interesting numbers at the Nanos website.
    Apparently, more people in Toronto are going to vote Conservative now than the Liberals.
    This is starting to be fun.
    Harper should be able to jump straight down Dion’s throat on his false claims of the Canadian economy going into the tank.
    What a freakin’ maroon. And, his handlers are helping the Libs go down in flames.

  4. Can’t wait to see how this will be brought up in the debate. sd, lizzie and TJ are probably drooling at what they would do with the funds.

  5. Ex Toronto Dipidy Mayor and Trudeau MP now, Senator Smith yesterday in the Globe and Mail.
    When axed
    “How do you turn this campaign around?”
    Mr. Smith: “Emphasize the very strong economic records of Liberal governments. When Mulroney left office in 1993, he had a $42-billion annual operating deficit. Within several years, with Jean Chrétien as prime minister and Paul Martin as finance minister, we balanced the operating budget, paid down a lot of the accumulated debt, and left office in 2006 with a $12-billion surplus. Harper has already squandered that surplus, and in the first quarter of this year, his government went into a deficit position.”

  6. My suggestion for governement if they come with brillent new ideas that nobody did it take some thing in secret if they do reveal all other country may try it and we become last in list too
    in busienss it does no mater country bueinss is economic of all people live in here you can not say all secrests to all neighbor evne USA freind too
    next point is try to do more researach in any thing in all countreis esptablishment
    try to Harper seat with too many buisienss peopel and ask them to get their ideas to him one by one
    try to go to more coutnries and seat wiht otehr country leader to get more ideas
    collect info and reserach and come with best adviced
    the success to have good smart team and managment and dirctores and talent people who help this come up in evey levels notone level
    try to show better look to frogin policy not hate speech as we heard in harper tiem in past two years was awfull
    at least you do like people if you do not by your hear hire some actor to work with other if you can not be good actore or actoress here
    knwo culture and custoems and cut you bad culture too
    that is some of my ideas

  7. Why does a surplus demonstrate good fiscal management?
    Both a surplus and a deficit show that one’s budgeting ability is faulty.
    It’s time Canadian stop thinking that a surplus (read: taking more of our money than they said they would) is somehow GOOD.
    I thought we wanted BALANCED budgets? Y’know, where income and expenditures match.

  8. Hans – you know that, to the Liberals, facts are irrelevant. What matters is their allegations; and if Dion and other Liberals say that Harper, the economist, knows nothing about economics, while Dion, the seminar-sociologist, knows everything..that’s the way it is.
    Meanwhile – Duffy and Newman, along with the rest of the MSM Liberals (Fife, Travers, Tabers, etc) are all bemoaning the situation and suggesting, all of them, that Canadians do ‘anything’ to Stop Harper.
    How arrogant of them. How elistist. The polls are showing that the people want Harper and his governance. Yet, these elitists are telling us that we must instead, do what they say..and vote ‘strategically’ to Stop Harper.
    Why should Harper not be elected? They don’t tell us that. After all, they are supposed to be reporting the mindset of Canadians. Not carrying out a political campaign. But that’s what they are doing.
    The MSM. Propaganda for the Liberals.

  9. Yep, maybe they can stop repeating that particular talking point now.
    Personally, I would still like to see more accurate prediction numbers, and less over-taxation. That is what a surplus is after all, over taxation.

  10. ET said: “Hans – you know that, to the Liberals, facts are irrelevant.”
    Yes, I do. When I put together a 50 pager on diabetes for Type 1 IDD patients, like my son, and sent it to everyone from the Ministerial level through to the entire chain of command, CRA came back and wrote me the “go away and die” letter.
    Under the bus, over a cliff, or withhold insulin from your son per R. v. Tutton, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1392 these people pretty much don’t care whether you live or die, as long as the tax money keeps flowing.
    On this side of heaven, life can get mighty cheap.
    But hey, whey you can play Adscam, Lifescam, GunRegistry scam, HRDCscam….
    There are two standards of inevitability death and taxes; CRA has offered me both.
    And we were once the dreaded “HUNS”.
    Cheers

  11. I have a burning desire to see more attention focused on David McGuinty.
    He is the brother of Dolton McGuinty (Ontario Premier) and has been officiously vaulting the “Green Shaft”.
    Now he is hiding in a cubby-hole somewhere in Ottawa, praying for the salvation of his political skin!
    His own party has realized that his plan is as popular as herpes.

  12. djb has the right of it, but I would rather a surplus than a deficit. The key is what they do with the surplus (repay debt is the ONLY answer in my books unti the debt is gone)
    “New” and his sockpuppets read like a random bait text generator from the HRCs

  13. Ot, but Globe poll – who is the best steward of Canada’s economy – Harper’s ahead, but let’s drive it up.

  14. A small surplus, or even smaller deficit is reasonable, but still must be explained and adjusted for. The huge Liberal surpluses that some seem to think is the way to run things were in no way an example of solid fiscal management. If anyone thinks a projected $9 billion surplus for the current year is a good thing they’re deluding themselves.
    Any surplus over, as lance says, a billion should be immediately returned to taxpayers. Debt reduction should be part of a well-planned budget.

  15. When the lieberals were in goverment one has to wonder how many billions were stolen by the lieberal mafia to pad thier ownn bank accounts after having surpluses also.
    Did they show us the true #s or did they fix the books.
    I have to wonder what the hell the people of ontario are thinking when they keep on voteing this way.
    They look at alberta with envey and hate us because we are dept free but at the same time they turn and vote lieberal or god help us NDP.
    Want to keep on losin your jobs and money keep following the path you follow and keep voting the way you do and you are about to find out the hard way.
    We are tierd of bailing your asses out,out here in the west.
    We have sent you a prime minister from Alberta to get s*%t strait in this fine country the lieberals have f@*ked up royaly and i hope the people of ontario and quebec and the other eastern provinces think really hard before you cast your next vote on oct 14
    Thank you for letting me rant.

  16. The liberals are now into the surplus must be as big as ours….of course they would spend 1/3 of any surplus…at least….so any surplus just meant bigger spending.
    They like it that way.
    Personally I think 100% of any surplus should go to debt reduction in that year, because any shortfall immeadiately goes to the debt. Then you can plan your spending and tax changes for the next year.
    Anyway, I am just happy if we have a 1 cent surplus quite frankly, after those ugly years from 75 to 95 when it just wasnt clear that we weren’t going to become Argentina.

  17. Gotta be interesting running a campaign where both of your senior deputys are hoping not only that the party looses, but that the Cons get a majority.
    That way Bob and Mike can fight over the leader’s job and still have the better part of four years to start replenishing the coffers and be seen to be an actual opposition as opposed to the run and hide 43 times party of this last parliment.

  18. Not enough. that’s only pay for 20% of the Lieberal promises todate. By election day that’ll likely be only 10%. Dion makes Lieton look frugal.
    It is obvious to any thinking Canadian that we can’t afford either of those two idiots.
    Steven Harper (and Bart Simpson) on Dion- “How can someone with glasses so thick be so stupid”

  19. The Librano$ are totally bankrupt, spent, kaput. At least they should be. Anyone voting for them has got to have their head read.

  20. From what I understand the surplus is due mostly to high oil prices and some tax revenues and not fudging budgets. I have faith that the Conservatives will pay down debt while giving tax breaks *fingers crossed*
    As to new and crew…just mention yummy pork, they run away like scared little girls.

  21. “Geez, moments ago I was watching on CTV as an outraged Steffi Dion accused Harper of being a meanie…”
    I have heard from the Liberal Mole…apparently tomorrow Dion is going to shake his tiny fists in the air and accuse PM Harper of being a “poopy-head”…

  22. I’m not rejoicing quite yet. The Libs, NDP and Greens will use this announcement as an excuse to promise even more spending. God help us all.

  23. Imagine how bad the polls would be for Liberals if NDP had a real leader who knew how to run for opposition leader. Watching him get torn apart by reporters in BC yesterday is strong indication he will not be leader of opposition.
    As I’ve said before, if he gets more seats than Grits it will be and accident.

  24. trucman: ” We have sent you a prime minister from Alberta…..”
    I consider this move as the last gasp of confederation. Should the unthinkable happen and the Cons get trounced by the likes of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, then those ‘eastern ba$tard$’ will truly freeze in the dark. Watch the “Alberta Firewall” go up very fast as they move to an independent republic.
    Oh, and just for fun folks, go check and see who has their name listed first on the Alberta Agenda Letter a scant seven years ago.
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/344659/Alberta-Agenda-Letter
    Political Disclaimer: The term ‘eastern ba$tard$’ is clearly not targeted at any hard working productive member of society regardless of political affiliation. I respect varied opinions even if I don’t agree with them and I apologize if you end up as a victim of circumstance.

  25. Eetz not izzy to say Conservativ will take the country to deficit when a surplus is reported.
    Dat Stephen Harper is a mean man.

  26. If giant surpluses are the way to run things, then why do people complain about windfall profits for oil companies? Giant surpluses is basically for profit governing.

  27. “The Librano$ are totally bankrupt, spent, kaput.”
    Such would appear to be the case here on Vancouver Island. I’ve just returned from the Campbell River area and the Liberal candidate’s signs are an embarrasing joke.
    Apparently the Liberals don’t have enough money for ‘real’ signs, so the candidate was reduced to using spray painted, stenciled signs on what looks a lot like plain white cardboard – a few of them feature a three-arrowed ‘recycling’ symbol which I suppose, pays homage to their ‘green shift’ meme.
    Even the Green party is using real, official signs, so what does this say about the morally and apparently financially bankrupt federal Liberal party?

  28. Liberals are now entering the Twilight Zone.
    Ipsos/Reid:
    In Ontario, a province where the Liberals must do well if they hope to hold Harper to a minority let alone win a government, the Conservatives are widening their lead. They are now the pick of 41 per cent of voters in Canada’s most populous province. The Liberals are preferred by 28 per cent of Ontarians; the NDP is at 16 per cent and the Greens are at 13 per cent.
    Heh.

  29. irwin:
    How are Torontonians going to explain they are the last beachead of the Liberal Party?
    How are they going to explain voting for a doofus-led party who lives in his own Twilight Zone?
    Let’s start right now.
    Torontonians would vote for a fence post as long as it was marketed as Liberal. Hang on, they will be voting for a fence post of a leader.

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