33 Replies to ““You Bet We Can””

  3. And every day Saskatchewan ex-pats come home from Alberta, convinced that free enterprise can do it better than government – at least when it comes to selling beer.

  4. Membership in the NDP is up, especially with younger voters. The attendance at the convention in Prince Albert was up over past conventions. If the Wall government continues to run deficits, mismanage, cut services and social programs, the Sask. Party will feel it during the next election. Devine thought that he was invincible as well, and we all know what happened there.

  5. Pretty sad when a party that is bringing Sask out of the dark ages of socialism is losing support, now that taxes are coming down and they are not a “have not” province. I hope Wall can get his people together and reverse the tide or you’ll all be dragged back into the progressive camp, and be just as bad a Manitoba again!

  6. Link is claiming he came up with the slogan before Obama’s rise to power. In other news, creation of the internet is once again in doubt.

  8. So the NDP wants to develop early childhood education programs. What’s with all the socialists in this country who want to start indoctrinating our children even sooner that grade 1? Lingenfelter, McGuinty has expressed an interest and former PM Paul Martin wanted universal childcare.
    I’ve been watching Glenn Beck recently and I agree with his position on ‘progressives’ and how they’re planning to gradually take over the country. Much of what he says is already in play here in Canada. And Lingenfelter’s early childhood education musings fits the mould nicely.

  10. I hear longtime NDP supporters questioning Lingenfelter’s leadership. The guy is old news. The NDP will be lucky to hold on to their existing seats in Saskatoon and Regina. By the look of their “new” election platform, the small cities and rural areas will remain solidly conservative.

  11. Well of course “early childhood education” would have to be supplied by union teachers wouldn’t it? Here in BC we have kindergarden for kids 3-4. All day kindergarden. Just another way of enforcing day care for all. At tax payer expense of course. We can’t afford medical care but must keep teachers employed. Enrollments are down everywhere but the budgets keep rising and quality of education keeps dropping. Indoctrination continues. And heaven forbid we have mandatory testing to actually find out if the children are learning anything other than AGW propaganda and other socialist leanings. And we don’t even have an NDP govt.! Saw a piece yesterday on how much more intelligent kids are today than 20 years ago. Sorry but I can’t believe that when you look at what happened at Uof Zero last week and on campuses across the country. Despair is in the air.

  12. So…. the fresh younger NDP members are concerned about deficits,..and….reduced size of government. I guess they are so young as to not have a real worry that what they advocate is higher taxes.

  13. “The NDP will be lucky to hold on to their existing seats in Saskatoon and Regina.” – LC Bennett @ 11:35 AM
    And they’ll be more seats for the SK Party to win after the redrawing of ridings in 2013!

  14. Re “early childhood education” …
    Ontario has already launched this by a stealth move!
    Now 4 year olds get to go to ALL DAY “pre-kindergarden” which pulls them INTO the unionized government school system funded by taxpayers and OUT of the privately operated day care system funded by parents.
    Private day cares in Ontario are down by as much as 20% in some areas where this program has fully launched (20% being – oddly enough – exactly ONE entire year’s worth of kids prior to their former age of starting school at 5.

  16. L C Bennett @ 11:35:
    “The NDP will be lucky to hold on to their existing seats in Saskatoon and Regina.”
    But “T”roll states:
    “the Sask. Party will feel it during the next election.”
    Given the new, positive attitude in Sask. these days, I am inclined to agree with the first prediction. Gone are the days when the average Sask. voter was a 70 year old farmer hauling grain 5 miles to the local elevator in his 1 ton truck emblazoned with Farmers’ Union stickers on the windshield. Gone are the days when the ever present fear, envy and loathing tactics of the NDP and their “hidden agenda” fearmongering would influence voters. You won’t unseat the Sask Party when your only support comes from union leaders, government employees and university professors.

  17. Sask already started an early childhood education/pre-K program. The Kidsfirst program was started in nine communities with large native populations. It was designed for high risk families and provides to-the-door service to transport kids. Of course, the high risk families ended up not using the program. Instead of ending the program, Kidsfirst expanded the program to all families (minus the minivan service). In the town I lived in the government funded program is now mainly middle class kids and enrollment in the parent funded daycare co-operative dropped to less than half.

  18. The people of the former Soviet Union and other eastern European governments threw out the socialist communist bums out and only a small minority want them back.
    What else can you expect when all levels of education have been heavily infiltrated by Karl Marx’s disciples. University of O-Zero and University of Rejects are prime examples.

  19. I am convinced that T is actually a conservative whose posts are designed to provoke a reaction. Sask NDPers are often naive and idealistic (or government union workers) but not as moronic and one dimensional as T.
    The NDP’s biggest problem is that they thrive on doom and gloom. Sask is now a province with a positive outlook. If the SP can shrink the public service the NDP will be in opposition for a very long time.

  20. Does this mean he has finally given up applying for The Job and has settled on another falling star? I’m glad to get to hate this one too pretty soon.

  21. “…union leaders, government employees and university professors” which make up most of the workers in the big urban centers. No guvment employee is likely to vote his/her job away.

  23. Obama will win another term. If he had lost the health care bill, he would have been finished. But people are going to like it on the whole, and the GOP will campaign against it, fueling their defeat. Say what you like about him, but Frum writes a good article on this and how Republicans can’t win politically if they advocate repeal.
    Look for Obamas poll numbers to edge up to around 53 – 55% in the next bit. He has momentum now.

  24. So T – Membership is up in the NDP – aspecially with the young huh? I heard that the Leader was sending people to the day-cares of the province on recruitment drives – especially in the day cares of Reserves.

  25. Must disagree Steve. Obama’s disapproval numbers are around 53% now, and won’t be getting better. Many commentators suggest the Dems are gonna get slaughtered in the Nov mid-terms. One term pres and practical shoe-in candidate for worst president ever.

  27. Steve…….
    Wishing won’t make it happen…or ignoring the huge TEA-PARTIES…..
    The reality of OBAMACARE/PELOSICARE is the taxes which engage right away but any benefits are years away.
    Comparing OBAMACARE to Canada’s dis-functional MEDICARE is totally inaccurate.
    A bunch of people will be just as dissappointed as that loon who thought Obama would pay her mortgage and supply her with a car.

  28. I can’t wait for the NDP to start criticizing American style politics in this….what? They’re the ones doing it? Really?
    Huh.

  29. Re: incongruity in your post theme and links.
    Kate don’t you think Billy Carter more closely represented what the Sask Dippers did to Saskatchewan over their regimes? Perhaps “yes we did and our bladders are ready again” would be a better more accurate but of election sloganeering for the Dips.

  32. Thanks Louise. Feel free to use it. Hopefully some of the student union chapters start to take back their campuses.
    Nice Human Achievement Hour video on your site.

  33. And drive the oil patch to its rightfull place …in Alberta!!
    Right frickin on bro!!!

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