If only Jim Flaherty had listened to professor Ignatieff ...
... and had brought in a magic budget where, by simply announcing its passage, $1,000 bills freshly plucked from the money tree would fly in flocks so vast that they would blacken the skies before coming home to nest in the wallets of workers.
If only Harry Potter were the prime minister!
No, Ignatieff is absolutely correct, what this country really needs is easy and magical answers.
I know something Monte Solberg doesn't!
Casually and, almost, with pride, Michael Ignatieff declared he owned no stocks. He never owned a single stock in his entire life. No mutual funds, nothing.
That's right, the future would-be king has no personal experience of making a single decision around investing in companies. Not even with his banker to decide whether to put RRSP contributions into a dividend fund or index fund. He wouldn't know the difference. Or, if at best, he understood the notional difference, he had no experience of the difference.
And therein lies the beauty of the Liberal economic master plan.
When Michael Ignatieff becomes Prime Minister, he'll just send every Canadian to teach at Harvard, and no one will ever have to worry about silly things like mutual funds and RRSP's.
Nothing magic about it.
Maybe he is actually the smart one. I have a feeling the Bank of Serta and Sealy will be experiencing increased "deposits" in 2009.
Perfect liberal leader, another kept man, like Turdeau, daddys money and Powers connections, Cretin, connections, Martin,was sold CSL for a song in the early eightys and the marker came due in the 2000's on to professor dufus, Dion, another tenured cloistered know nothing, it all comes together, don't pick someone who started in the mail room and might have a clue as to where the dollar comes from, pick a silver spooner, these are your liberals.
What an awful thing to do to Harry Potter?
Ignatieff doesn't have to propose any solutions, or have the vaguest idea about how things are made. He's the guy sending back the entree: "Not. Good. Enough."
Iggy's job is to show his exquisite taste, and to chew the horizon of his own significance; it's Mr. Harper's job to pass the Count's muster.
P.S. I don't know if anyone's noticed, but -- and this is odd -- every time Ignatieff is speaking to the media, one of his handlers hoists Yorrick's skull on a stick just off camera, to help The Next One find his tone.
Between getting his crown polished and having those gull-winged eyebrows dethatched, Iggy should develop some Liberal economic policy. I'm already tired of his stern professorial lecturing of PM Harper's every economic move. His arrogance is exceeded only by his economic naivete. I'm having trouble seeing the great intellect that Iggy is supposedly known for. He hasn't offered any suggestions for the economy because he has none. His investment strategy speaks for itself.
Of course the brain dead hordes of Liberal supporters are now falling into line again in recent polls. The MSM has being going great guns to blame the economic crisis on Harper. Ignatieff has little understanding of the economy, but Harper the economist has been put "on probation". The media should have torn that remark to shreds as the Liberals have supported the CPC over 50 times since Dion was opposition leader.
The Liberal culture of entitlement returns bigger and bolder than ever as PM in waiting Ignatieff grows impatient. The longer Iggy waits, the better the chance the Prince of Darkness, aka Wornout Kinsellout will screw up as his advisor....
oh, wait....
Poor Monte's darting all over the political board in defence of Canada's Economic Action Plan.
His first commentary in the Sun on Jan 28 offered a pseudo-apology and a challenge: "This budget isn't a conservative document so much as it's a political document; a document that will give the Conservative government the room necessary to craft a compelling conservative vision for the future."
His second article on Feb 9 recognized that his influence with the government was diminishing: "If the silence that followed is a form of consent then I expect at any moment to be named as the head of the vision-crafting team."
As a veiled challenge to the Conservative government to start standing up for practical conservative principles, Solberg then advocated a grassroots resurgence "in private homes and community halls" to discuss "government spending, attracting investment, free market solutions to environmental problems and neighbourhood solutions to social problems" and in doing so, subtly warned the government to listen to its supporters.
Monte dared not suggest what role the Conservative Party or even the Conservative government of Canada might play in advancing this grass-roots 'community hall' resurgence of conservatism. (Yup, let's leave the leadership out of this philosophical debate. As some conservative bloggers argue, the content of the budget is our fault for not doing enough, not the Conservative government's. They did their job.)
In his third article on the budget on Feb. 13, Monte retreated to a defensive position: Ridicule the Liberals while ignoring the economic deficiencies and overt politicization he previously identified in the budget. Yes, Iggy deserves criticism for his admittedly 'impatient' attacks on the budget that he compelled his party to vote for, but this is hardly earth-shattering news about a pandering politician.
Is Monte running out of ways to defend the budget? I can't wait for his fourth article to see what his next tack will be. Maybe he'll just drop the subject.
As a conservative, I think that while there are many good elements in the budget, there is also a lot of thoughtless and wasteful pork that will achieve little economically. Some of the spending is too obviously a desperate attempt to buy some votes from some special interest groups. Maybe they ran out of time to filter out the dumb and wasteful projects, or they ran out of good ideas to fill their politically-driven (vs. economically-driven) spending targets. (This is all the more frustrating given that the PM keeps flouting his economic training and sound judgment.)
Either way, there's some really dumb spending in there, and not enough tax cuts to spur consumer confidence, business investment and sustainable private sector growth. The pork irks me since Liberal pandering and brokerage, and the Conservative Party's past rejection of these tactics was what convinced me and probably countless other Canadians to support Conservative MPs in the belief that they would deliver a conservative government, or at least strive to move in that direction. I understand the constraints of a minority government, but is there a sign?
Unlike the US congress which didn't even take the time to read their Porkulus Bill before the Democrats passed it, our budget is still in committee deliberation. I hope that parliament will take the time to at least cut out the greasiest pork and put our tax-payer's money to better use.
kevin. we know the policies the libs would follow. they would follow the big o and flush a trillion we don't have in the name of stimulation. even the so called conservatives have had to give in to getting out if bebt by going into more debt. pass the duct tape.
Well, maybe iggypop would use the chimpy mcidiot method of stimulus. You know, the plan whereby you lie, raise taxes, and run a once prosperous province into the ground. Considering that sweet and sour cat boy advises both idiots, I think that it would be a perfect plan!
Even mr dithers had to give grudging approval to the stimulus plan.
Maybe iggypop should suck it up, check his dreams of restoring his family's noble crown, and try to add something positive to help steer Canada through the current economic crisis.
Didn't Iggy say it's not his job to give input on the Budget, it's his job to oppose?
What a cop out. He's really covering his ass for 'I don't know what the hell I'm doing here' but I'll make like I do and criticize. I'll pretend I know better by asking questions I couldn't possibly answer myself.
Iggypuff is a poseur of the first order.
I always get a great laugh when I see inept fools like McSquinty, who raised taxes for years, lied endlessly, gave the public employees whatever they wanted and refused indignantly any advise to reduce business taxes from Flaherty who warned of this coming economic crisis. Ontario is now a have-not province for the first time. Yet when the proverbial shit hits the fan all of a sudden WE all have to work together to solve the problems primarily of his making!
Try pointing this out to Liberals about McSquinty or Iggy and all you get is blank stares. Better yet ask where Dion is and the response is either Who? or That's so yesterday!
But Liz, his greatness, the royal iggypop was born to lead.
All bow to prince iggypop, soon to be king iggypop.
The greatest "legend in his own mind" that we have seen in a long time!
Isn't Iggy the guy who got all excited about the puffin's bowel movement activities?
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/006944.html
This is the guy who'll magically bring back economic good times?
Well, if Obama can be President, I guess huge cash transfers from George Soros, from the Muslim Brotherhood, from the House of Saud, from the Communist World, from wealthy criminals, etc... to Liberal coffers, plus a lying-big-time Big Media and unhinged, Hard-Left Hollyweird North can make Iggy, a de-facto foreigner himself, an unprincipled, flipflopping-like-a-freshly-caught-brook-trout, ideological schizophrenic a national leader, too...
Especially if Iggy can B.S. those hitherto-disinterested 900,000 voters he's planning to target with his propaganda, courtesy of Sinophobic, Caucasophobic, toilet-stall-lurking Herr JosefWarrenKinsellaGoebbels...
I'm wondering if ever, in my lifetime, will the Lieberals anoint a leader who isn't an elitist, privilege millionare. Will we ever see a 'normal', middle-class person leading the party? I'm tired of privileged men, who've never made any important decisions in their lives masquerading as 'leader'.
It seems to me that the last Liberal candidate for PM did not own any investments either. That explains part of the Green Shift. What surprise does Iggy have to point out he doesn't understand how things work? He doesn't have to know how an economy works of course because they have discovered taxes and they can just raise those.
Katsella is a good fit for working with Puffinpoo man.
One likes to troll the loos for graffiti while the other likes the smell of manure.
The only love in here is the media once again. Is there anything that King Iggy can do that the media doesn't approve off? Glad that some of these MP's will actually (if we're lucky) sit down a read this massive spending bill. Instead of everyone holding their hand out, looking for bailouts maybe they should get of their asses and go to work. Our children and grandchildren will be paying this debit off for generations to come.
Have not be able to post, as am sitting in the sun in Mexico. Spending time here, watching how hard the people work makes one realize how spoiled we are and how high our expectations have become. Please, will someone give Iggy an eyebrow trim before I come home!
" by simply announcing its passage, $1,000 bills freshly plucked from the money tree would fly in flocks so vast that they would blacken the skies before coming home to nest in the wallets of workers.
If only Harry Potter were the prime minister! "
Monte we love ya!...Harry Potter for PM and his side kick the magic Jackal who totes the sack of magic liberal pixie dust around to sprinkle on true believers. LOL!
One gets the impression Count Iggula has spent too much time in the books and not enough time running a business or earning a living in the real job market.
Priceless! Seriously, a renewed belief in or fondness for magic is not a good thing. I found it unusual that there were so many adults reading Harry Potter and not just to their kids. Looks like we're pretty much doomed. Damn that Valdemort!
Anyone else notice how much that name sounds like a certain corporate giant, btw?
The closest a mainstream media interviewer came to reality and sanity with Mr. Ignatieff was Tom Clark who asked him
" Should not the Opposition not just OPPOSE the government but also PROPOSE alternatives?"
To which Mr. Ignatieff replied "THAT was not HIS job."
Do you all remember Preston Manning and Stephen Harper as leaders of the Opposition? They PROPOSED hundreds of alternatives to Liberal policies they OPPOSED.
They introduced hundreds of amendments to bills - many of which were adopted because they were the right thing to do. Chretien and Martin regularily "creatively" adopted Reform and Alliance policies. That includes Stephen Harper's Clarity Act private member's bill which Chretien cribbed, renamed and used Dion as a front to sell it.
It is so easy to OPPOSE isn't it. But, the real test is what would YOU PROPOSE instead.
THAT is the question the media should be hounding Ignatieff with - he comes up blank unless he has huddled in the bakcrooms with the old hacks and flacks from the Trudeau, Chretien, Martin days he has surrounded himself with.
Some change huh.
He ought to invest in a brown paper bag company.
The polls reflect a generation of brainwashed "useful idiots" rather than judgement...and a "useful idiot" MSM.
The LIBRANOs have just traded one ivory tower academic for another....Dijon, Lurch and Suzuki are lecturers not listeners....that is their weakness.......
I think Mr Ignatiff should really be asked "the question" You know "what would you have done differently, or would do NOW if you were Prime Minister"??
That would be interesting watching his head explode trying to come up with some actual answers and show that he really isn't "a mile wide and a 1/4 inch thick" what would he have done with the budget? his only suggestion was the oh so very lame and arrogant "putting the PM on probation" WTF? every Liberal should "be on probation untill they pay back the taxpayers money they stole/squandered. IMHO. Coalition of crooks/commies indeed.
cheers Bubba
I wonder if iggy ignoramus even knows that Canada doesn't have $1000.00 dollar bills anymore?
Guaranteed Ignatieff has a big fat, stock loaded, retirement package from Harvard.
Typical hypocritical leftist. Publicly declares he is "clean of dirty capitalism" but still benefits from it all.
The problem with a democracy is that it turns statesmen into politicians.
Yes Bubba...good question. Also I'm waiting for the mike to be shoved in is face and the reporter asks:"Mr. Iggypuff..Do you LOVE Canada?"...just like they did tp Stephen Harper at the beginning of the '06 campaign.
Of course the MSM won't rip his answer, they'll coo over it, even if they don't have a clue what he meant.
I wonder if Monte has shares in Tyson Foods? Sorry, but I can't help my feelings of disrespect for little Monte. I voted for the Reform candidate in my riding twice. I think Manning is the second-best Prime Minister we never had(Stanfield is still #1). I just don't think Monte was up to the standards of his former party.
His push for temporary workers to man the Tyson plant in Brooks has resulted in a social disaster for that town.
Back to the subject, I don't see why owning stocks is a requirement for a politition. Most of us regular people aren't stock savvy, for good reason. It's a risky business. For every person that makes money in the markets, there are hundreds that lose. People like Iggy, who've had a long career, with a pension plan, have no reason to risk losing it in the market. It's bad enough that pension fund managers play with people's money.
Actually, it might be a plus for a politition to have no interest in the market. Perhaps a vow of poverty would keep polititions from being tempted by lobbyists, and crooked investors.
I'm just trying to cushion the blow for my next ass-kicking. I know in my heart that the liberals will find a way to get back in power, so I might as well prepare for it by putting on a brave face.
Barf Alert!
The toady sycophants at CanPress/CTV/MSM serve up a puff press-release-propaganda for/behalf of STOPIGGY.
But, the MSM is not Liberalbiassed.
urlm.in/brao
The whole political system works like this. Idiots who know nothing push forth policies made by people we don't vote for... (As in all Communist countries - it is NOT the leader that makes the dictatorship - it is the beauracracy beneath the leader) and, since it would be illegal bribery to pay these shysters before, or during, their time in office, the pay off comes after they are in office.
Like Tony Blair.
Who has made some $20,000,000 or something like that since leaving office.
And, what's he doing to make this kind of stupendous income?
Why, he gives speeches at luncheon meetings for companies like the Carlyle Group or Haliburton... for... $250,000/per half hour speech or something insane like that.
Does anyone really think that these companies could give a shit what Tony Blair's opinion is in regard to their business dealings? Lol!
But, tell me, who has massively benefited from the "War on Terror"?
Follow the money.
In four years, Obama will be giving $250,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs luncheons... as if anyone at Goldman would take anything Obama knows about banking seriously.
Billary is the same deal.
Why shouldn't Canada follow suit, and shove some idiot into office under the same auspices?
I haven't seen a more pompous, arrogant A-hole as Liberal leader since Disco Dictator Trudeau. The excrement hiding Count, parachuted into the country of his convenience and then inserted into the Leadership of the Liberals without the nuisance of an election and not a question from the MSM as to the legitimacy of this undemocratic process. The MSM just blindly accepts the process of inserting Count Iggula as the leader, while asking the Count to pontificate endlessly about subjects the Count knows little or nothing about, like the economy. It's almost like the MSM setting up Count Iggula to do their job for them. The MSM and the Liberals, an un-holy alliance of ideological comrades...pathetic pandering and sycophantic worshipping...can you say Trudeaumaniac!
Quite right Sean M.
The Liberals have had absolutely no respect the traditions of this country for decades.
And they couldn't care less about what average Canadians think about them.
They only think about power and getting back onto the federal gravy train, which is governed by a whole different set of rules and laws that the rest of us are subject to.
Can you say Radwanski?
Or Canadian Wheat Board?
where is Borat Dion?
we are stuck with proclamations from Lurch published on CBCpravda and CTV(tass) on a daily basis but nary a picture from the former leader.
a repost of the CBC dirge. the day the balance died.
A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That Don Messer made those people dance
And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while.
But decades made me shiver
With every story they'de deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
The critics say "not one more step".
I can’t remember if I cried
When CBC declared itself the liberal bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the balance died.
So bye-bye to the CBC pie.
My taxes pay the levee,
till the levee is dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singin’, "this’ll be the day that I die.
"this’ll be the day that I die."
Did you write the book of love,
because CBC has no faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Or do you report Koran only so.,
Can tax hikes save your mortal soul,
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you love Stephane
`cause your translations are such a sham.
You both fell on your a$$.
Man, I dig those grin 'ouse gaz.
I was a lonely teenage western buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the balance died.
I started singin’,
"bye-bye, to the CBC pie."
My taxes paid the levee,
Till the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
And singin’, "this’ll be the CBC dies.
"this’ll be the day that they die.
Now for twenty years we’ve been on our own
And CBC grows fat on long term loans,
But that’s not how it used to be.
When the jester reported on the king and queen,
and now he sugar coats what the greenies see.
And a voice that came from the NDP,
Oh, and while the king was looking round,
The jester stole his thorny crown.
The news desk was abandoned;
for on street critic rants..
And while mansbridge read a book of marx,
The quartet practiced in the park,
And they broadcast dirges in the dark
The day the CBC died.
bye bye to the CBC pie.
expanding C slated to go out and die.
Peter Pansbridge drinking whisky and rye.
Saying this is the day that we die.
this is the day that we die.
Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The critics hide in a fallout shelter,
Eight times a night they send us silly news..
It all smells foul on the news.
The Khadrs tried for a sympathic crowd,
With the CBC on the sidelines cheering loud.
Now the half-time CFL was sweet perfume
While the dryed up Guesswho played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The washed up band refused to yield.
Do you recall what filled the gap.
"celebrity cooks" or bits of pap.
bye bye to the CBC pie.
expanding C slated to go out and die.
Peter Pansbridge drinking whisky and rye.
Saying this is the day that we die.
this is the day that we die.
Oh, and there we were all in one place,
A little mosque in a prairie place.
with redneck jerks used as the schtick.
So come on: jack be ND , jack be P!
Jack Taliban put on a outrage rant
Cause Jack is the talibans biggest friend.
Oh, and as I watched them on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No taxpayer funding bandaid .
could fill the CBCs mandate
And as the price climbed high into the night
To light the CBCs sacred rite,
I saw Trudeau laughing with delight
The day the CBC died
bye bye to the CBC pie.
expanding C slated to go out and die.
Peter Pansbridge drinking whisky and rye.
Saying this is the day that we die.
this is the day that we die.
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just backcombed her hairy legs.
Said "lactating mothers have their ways"
Where I’d heard the story many times before,
But the man there said midwifery rules.
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The critics cried, and the editors schemed.
But not a word was spoken;
The CBC was broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The George,and son, and Ronnies ghost,
They caught the last bad story from the host
The day the CBC died.
bye bye to the CBC pie.
expanding C slated to go out and die.
Peter Pansbridge drinking whisky and rye.
Saying this is the day that we die.
this is the day CBCpravda died.
."