I will be suprised if Iggy votes against the Cons:

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

There goes the coalition.

Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius

Listening to the news after super, I hear the low down on the buget and I hear Iggy's speech about how it's gonna be a close call and all the dismal failures the Cons have made thus far while in power, blah blah blah..... you guys probably know much about it now, if not, look it up, it should be fresh in the news online.

My prediction:

Iggy, although I have some respect for the guy and seems to have a good head on his shoulders, I believe he's going to do the Liberal thing.

To tuck his tail up his arse and fold...... vote for the Conservatives.

Why?

Let's look at the record shall we:

Previously with Dion, everytime the Conservatives pulled some stunt and thumbed their nose at everyone, they'd get on the cameras, put on a big tough face, b*tch about the Conservatives doing something that screwed them up and they're going to make sure things get done right...... The Liberals had a chance to hang the Conservatives by the balls, they instead ended up voted with them (Where they'd get back on camera and bicker about having little choice and has a few tid bits here and there they'd like to have) ...... Or they'd all walk out of the vote, avoid doing their jobs of representing the people who voted them into their jobs, and the Conservatives would win either way (Then go on camera and bicker about how it was so outragious, they didn't vote in protest or something stupid)

Iggy knows that at least the Conservatives tried their best, albeit lame and solves nothing when you look at the numbers......

For example, someone making 20-30 thou a year I think they said makes back, what?

$33??

And they want you to spend it to help the economy?

Yeah ok there buddy, don't spend it all in one place...... jeeezzzuzzz... Thanks a lot, I'll go buy..... um..... what the hell can I get for 33 bucks that's actually worth me getting off my ass to buy it?

?? Yeah some cheap Canadian vodka...... help out the local economy eh!

So Iggy's gonna make us sit it out and think about what he thinks we think if he thinks were thinking, he's thinking about putting the boots to the Cons for once and pull the big General 3-Star McGee and save Canada.

Nope.... He's gonna make it appear as a wise decision to do something to save the economy and thus the party votes for it and away we go with yet another Conservative joke fest while people try and figure out how the hell they're supposed to get into these programs and have enough money to live while trying to study and pay for books, transportation, etc.... for really not a whole hell of a lot if you ask me..... and I know the costs.... it's not cheap as everybody here should be aware themselves through their lives.

Like I said..... I'll be really suprised and may shat meself into my boots if Iggy pulls the Coalition Card and gives us a better option, if there is one..... but this sure doesn't seem like it.

Now that I hear the layout and plan, it's going to do nothing.... it's going to be a waste of money overall, we'll be sucked into a deficit which Harper blattered out of his mouth he would never put Canada through just months ago when everybody was saying we're in a world of sh*t Private Pyle!

But NNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! *Farts*

Everything was just fricking peachy wasn't it folks??

He had that dumb ass Evil smile you'd normally see on a Romulan in Star Trek full of two faced Bull Poop!! He told everybody to just stay calm..... .Don't listen to the rest of the other parties, DON'T LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE WORLD AS THEY ALL FREAK OUT!........

No..... we're all just cool..... they're no problem, they're all on those drugs you know? They've gone all loco....

Well.... we'll just see what happens

Opposition Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was keeping his own counsel early Wednesday as Ottawa awaited his 11 a.m. ET verdict on the federal budget and, by extension, the fate of the Conservative government and the shape of Canada's response to a worldwide economic slump.
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois set to vote against the government, Ignatieff and his Liberals will decide whether the budget passes — possibly with Liberal amendments — or the country heads toward a Liberal-NDP coalition or an election.
The CBC's Margo McDiarmid, reporting from Ottawa, said it all comes down to Ignatieff, who declared after the budget was tabled Tuesday that he wanted to read it and sleep on it.
"But I have to tell you that the Liberals did have a caucus meeting last night," she said, "and some of them said, 'Well, you know, this is not a slam dunk. We're not going to necessarily, automatically support this budget.'"
For his part, Ignatieff kept things vague, telling CBC News there were things he liked about the budget and things he didn't.
"My concerns about the budget are: Have they underestimated the seriousness of the crisis? That affects all the numbers. If they make that judgment wrong, pretty well everything goes south, including the deficit projections," he said.

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But he also said, "I certainly would not look at changing the focus of the document. We care about people; we're doing the EI amendments; we're going to retrain people; we're going to invest in infrastructure; we're going to take care of the important sectors of our economy that need taking care of; and we're going to protect access to financing. None of that's going to change."

The NDP and Bloc Québécois said Tuesday they would not support the budget.

"It's very clear it doesn't help the most vulnerable. It's going to leave a lot of people behind, especially those unemployed," NDP Leader Jack Layton said.

Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe criticized the budget for not including enough for pay equity, the environment, seniors, social housing or lower-income families. "Obviously, we will not support that budget," he told reporters.

Quote: Originally Posted by Risus

Praxius, if you look around the world, the economy is in the crapper. Get your head out of the sand. Its gunna take a few years of deficit budgets to stimulate the econoimy out of the funk its in... Other world economic powers are doing the same.

Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius

Listening to the news after super, I hear the low down on the buget and I hear Iggy's speech about how it's gonna be a close call and all the dismal failures the Cons have made thus far while in power, blah blah blah..... you guys probably know much about it now, if not, look it up, it should be fresh in the news online.

My prediction:

Iggy, although I have some respect for the guy and seems to have a good head on his shoulders, I believe he's going to do the Liberal thing.

To tuck his tail up his arse and fold...... vote for the Conservatives.

Why?

Let's look at the record shall we:

Previously with Dion, everytime the Conservatives pulled some stunt and thumbed their nose at everyone, they'd get on the cameras, put on a big tough face, b*tch about the Conservatives doing something that screwed them up and they're going to make sure things get done right...... The Liberals had a chance to hang the Conservatives by the balls, they instead ended up voted with them (Where they'd get back on camera and bicker about having little choice and has a few tid bits here and there they'd like to have) ...... Or they'd all walk out of the vote, avoid doing their jobs of representing the people who voted them into their jobs, and the Conservatives would win either way (Then go on camera and bicker about how it was so outragious, they didn't vote in protest or something stupid)

Iggy knows that at least the Conservatives tried their best, albeit lame and solves nothing when you look at the numbers......

For example, someone making 20-30 thou a year I think they said makes back, what?

$33??

And they want you to spend it to help the economy?

Yeah ok there buddy, don't spend it all in one place...... jeeezzzuzzz... Thanks a lot, I'll go buy..... um..... what the hell can I get for 33 bucks that's actually worth me getting off my ass to buy it?

?? Yeah some cheap Canadian vodka...... help out the local economy eh!

So Iggy's gonna make us sit it out and think about what he thinks we think if he thinks were thinking, he's thinking about putting the boots to the Cons for once and pull the big General 3-Star McGee and save Canada.

Nope.... He's gonna make it appear as a wise decision to do something to save the economy and thus the party votes for it and away we go with yet another Conservative joke fest while people try and figure out how the hell they're supposed to get into these programs and have enough money to live while trying to study and pay for books, transportation, etc.... for really not a whole hell of a lot if you ask me..... and I know the costs.... it's not cheap as everybody here should be aware themselves through their lives.

Like I said..... I'll be really suprised and may shat meself into my boots if Iggy pulls the Coalition Card and gives us a better option, if there is one..... but this sure doesn't seem like it.

Now that I hear the layout and plan, it's going to do nothing.... it's going to be a waste of money overall, we'll be sucked into a deficit which Harper blattered out of his mouth he would never put Canada through just months ago when everybody was saying we're in a world of sh*t Private Pyle!

But NNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! *Farts*

Everything was just fricking peachy wasn't it folks??

He had that dumb ass Evil smile you'd normally see on a Romulan in Star Trek full of two faced Bull Poop!! He told everybody to just stay calm..... .Don't listen to the rest of the other parties, DON'T LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE WORLD AS THEY ALL FREAK OUT!........

No..... we're all just cool..... they're no problem, they're all on those drugs you know? They've gone all loco....

Well.... we'll just see what happens

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

Yeah, I think he knows better. Who but an abject friggin' imbecile is going to go along with a "coalition" part of which is the Bloc- at least anyone outside of Quebec?

Quote: Originally Posted by Risus

Praxius, if you look around the world, the economy is in the crapper. Get your head out of the sand. Its gunna take a few years of deficit budgets to stimulate the econoimy out of the funk its in... Other world economic powers are doing the same.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zzarchov

And in fairness, get your head out of the sand. Alot of world governments, having seen this coming (there are always recessions in the economy) save money in the good times to spend in the bad.

Thats the whole point of having someone to manage the economy. Harper dumped all that money (admitantly, back into the economy) when things were going well.

I mean seriously he ran on the platform he knew how to run the economy, but he failed to do the primary task associated with managing the economy, preparing for the bad times. That was even his excuse for why things are going bad "We could not have forseen this".

THATS YOUR JOB! thats like an insurance broker telling you they don't have money for your claim, because they couldn't forsee you getting in an accident since you were such a good driver. Thats all they are paid for for crying out loud.

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

Yeah, I think he knows better. Who but an abject friggin' imbecile is going to go along with a "coalition" part of which is the Bloc- at least anyone outside of Quebec?

Quote: Originally Posted by Zzarchov

You mean like Harper? When he tried to set the exact same thing up when it was Martin's Minority Government?

Quote: Originally Posted by Zzarchov

And Hurray! He does back down!

I think that Mercer Video should be played every election.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zzarchov

And Hurray! He does back down!

I think that Mercer Video should be played every election.

Quote: Originally Posted by darkbeaver

Iggy is the next Obama like clone you know.

Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius

You mean the Canadian James Bond version of Obama? Acting like the cool cat with the fancy hair and charming smile for the ladies, international man of mystery.... white and old?

Quote: Originally Posted by darkbeaver

Iggy is the next Obama like clone you know.