Michael Hartog » Politics http://www.michaelhartog.com Detailing random personal things since 2008 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:07:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Conservative Spending http://www.michaelhartog.com/blog/2011/07/conservative-spending/ http://www.michaelhartog.com/blog/2011/07/conservative-spending/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:39:51 +0000 Michael Hartog http://www.michaelhartog.com/?p=593 You hear it all the time from conservatives: “Liberal Spending”. ‘They are going to waste all your money on the arts, on poor people and on social programs. Millions of dollars on helping other people. We’re not like that, we are going to save your money.’ And yet, every conservative government seems to go into debt just the same. It’s because conservatives are big spenders, too. They just spend money in a way that their buddy likes. Tax breaks for the rich, tax breaks for big business and jets for the military. But they have fooled everyone into thinking that tax breaks, for some reason, aren’t spending. For some reason, if you give me money, then I give part of that money back, you think I haven’t given you money? Bullshit, I effectively have less income which ends up being the same. And these things all proportionately favour the rich. That is, you will get $20 back and not care, and they will get $20,000 back… and not care. When the government gives people money back in taxes they save that money. It doesn’t help the economy, it doesn’t help the businesses.

And how about this. A party that is so intent on businesses proving themselves and capitalist rules yet they still want to give money to them every year. Tax breaks means giving businesses money. Spending government money on businesses. Except I thought that a business was supposed to survive if they were better than other businesses and consumers decided to spend money there, not based on government handouts. Just using the exact same political comments that conservatives use where applicable.

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I haven’t been following politics since the election so I have no idea if this is deserved but I’ve heard and seen things related to this issue specifically. Mostly the number of facebook groups that believe this is in some way ‘unconstitutional’ or illegal in some way.

I believe a quote from this link summarizes that very nicely:

Harper himself signed a letter to then-Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in 2004, claiming the right to form a government if Paul Martin’s minority Liberals could be defeated in a confidence vote in the Commons.

His ostensible partners would have been NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe — now derided by Harper as the “socialist” and the “separatist” in Liberal Leader Stephane Dion’s coalition.

So Harper tried the exact same thing with the exact same people in 2004. He tried and failed and now someone else is trying and succeeding.

And his reaction to the whole thing is to shut down parliament for 7 weeks, because that’s a very democratic thing to do.

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