SEPARATED AT BIRTH?
After hearing HARPER's latest set of promises I'm convinced that Charlie Sheen's character on "Two and a Half Men" - CHARLIE HARPER, and Canadian Prime Minister STEPHEN HARPER are twins, separated at birth.
How else can you explain the semi-incoherent ramblings? And I don't mean Charlie's, I'm talking about Stephen Harper's blathering here.
We've known for a long time now that Prime Integer Stephen "YOU CAN TELL I'M LYING BECAUSE MY LIPS ARE MOVING" Harper will say anything that his research staff tells him will get a majority, but surely someone stopped him at some point today to ask if he was really going ahead with today's whopper! Someone?
Here's what it comes down to.
The Reformers only talk populist. We know that, you know that, he knows that. So what are the hottest populist buttons to hit? You should know them because they're the CINO's greatest hits.
DEBT REDUCTION
The core Conservative isn't happy that Harper and his Finance Minister, Jim "NINE TOES AND COUNTING" Flaherty, who have racked up the largest per year deficit since World War II and completely wiped out the 12 years of Chretien/Martin belt-tightening, debt payments in a scant two and a half years. So one of the promises is to balance the budget. He's shown no ability to do anything like that in 5 years of leading but hey, anything's possible, right?
SMALLER GOVERNMENT
It ain't hard to convince the average voter that Government Employees have it too easy and there are too many of them, until you start gutting the services and the lines mushroom like a nuclear bomb blast. But that's "later talk" for now, Harpie wants his Majority so he's promising not to replace the majority of the soon to be retiring civil service jobs, which he claims number some 80,000 positions over the next 'few years'.
TAX BREAKS
Yup, Harpie's promising tax breaks. Not right away mind you, not even during this next term, and that's where the Prime Integer slips into Charlie Sheen - rambling while on crack territory.
Presuming its even possible to cut the government as much as he promises, without downloading services (which anyone in Ontario during the Mike Harris years will tell you is still causing problems), presuming he can cut costs, cut jobs and cut services enough to balance their overinflated budget, presuming all that, the promise comes with not 1 but 2 conditions... You've got to give him a majority now, and because the promised tax breaks won't come for 5 years and each term only lasts 4 and a half, you've got to give him another majority just before payday - 4 and a half years from now.
If that didn't make you say WTF then you're either brain dead or heading to a Harper Superprison. And you'll deserve it.
How else can you explain the semi-incoherent ramblings? And I don't mean Charlie's, I'm talking about Stephen Harper's blathering here.
We've known for a long time now that Prime Integer Stephen "YOU CAN TELL I'M LYING BECAUSE MY LIPS ARE MOVING" Harper will say anything that his research staff tells him will get a majority, but surely someone stopped him at some point today to ask if he was really going ahead with today's whopper! Someone?
Here's what it comes down to.
The Reformers only talk populist. We know that, you know that, he knows that. So what are the hottest populist buttons to hit? You should know them because they're the CINO's greatest hits.
DEBT REDUCTION
The core Conservative isn't happy that Harper and his Finance Minister, Jim "NINE TOES AND COUNTING" Flaherty, who have racked up the largest per year deficit since World War II and completely wiped out the 12 years of Chretien/Martin belt-tightening, debt payments in a scant two and a half years. So one of the promises is to balance the budget. He's shown no ability to do anything like that in 5 years of leading but hey, anything's possible, right?
SMALLER GOVERNMENT
It ain't hard to convince the average voter that Government Employees have it too easy and there are too many of them, until you start gutting the services and the lines mushroom like a nuclear bomb blast. But that's "later talk" for now, Harpie wants his Majority so he's promising not to replace the majority of the soon to be retiring civil service jobs, which he claims number some 80,000 positions over the next 'few years'.
TAX BREAKS
Yup, Harpie's promising tax breaks. Not right away mind you, not even during this next term, and that's where the Prime Integer slips into Charlie Sheen - rambling while on crack territory.
Presuming its even possible to cut the government as much as he promises, without downloading services (which anyone in Ontario during the Mike Harris years will tell you is still causing problems), presuming he can cut costs, cut jobs and cut services enough to balance their overinflated budget, presuming all that, the promise comes with not 1 but 2 conditions... You've got to give him a majority now, and because the promised tax breaks won't come for 5 years and each term only lasts 4 and a half, you've got to give him another majority just before payday - 4 and a half years from now.
If that didn't make you say WTF then you're either brain dead or heading to a Harper Superprison. And you'll deserve it.
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