2007 Budget Survives

[El Barto]

What are you guys complaining about, this is politics, vote getting, favor delivering, population manipulation. If its not one party it will be another. When did we ever have a government that truly worked for the people first with no hidden agenda?
This is a game , appreciate it as one,. This one is interesting, who's for it and why, and who will it benefit, and how it plays out.

 

[GenGap]

aka. A typical Liberal budget.

It must really suck for liberal supporters to get back what they had been dishing out for 13 years.

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

Actually we will all be raisins after this budget!

 

[Liberalman]

The conservative party with reform western separate roots is finding out that if you want to remain the leader of a minority government you cannot play hardball with the other parties you have to compromise.

The first half of their leadership they tried to act like a party that had a majority and found out very quickly when you try to pass pro conservative bills it always fizzles in the committee stage because they do not have a majority.

They sold out their conservative voters with this budget but they got the support of the bloc, which means Quebec.

This is why the conservative party will never get a majority.

And if you look at it, Harper wants to hold onto power for another two years so he can qualify for his golden pension.

 

[s243a]

The conservative party with reform western separate roots is finding out that if you want to remain the leader of a minority government you cannot play hardball with the other parties you have to compromise.

The first half of their leadership they tried to act like a party that had a majority and found out very quickly when you try to pass pro conservative bills it always fizzles in the committee stage because they do not have a majority.

They sold out their conservative voters with this budget but they got the support of the bloc, which means Quebec.

This is why the conservative party will never get a majority.

And if you look at it, Harper wants to hold onto power for another two years so he can qualify for his golden pension.

In my opinion Harper has mad sensible compromises. A leader must listen to the people. What is important is to keep enough principles to remind voters on why they voted for them. When Harper compromises as much as Mr Dithers then it will be time for him to go.

 

[Liberalman]

Originally Posted by s243a

When Harper compromises as much as Mr Dithers then it will be time for him to go.

Harper is Mr. Blunders because when he got elected as minority leader he still didn't get it.

 

[unspoken]

They sold out their conservative voters with this budget but they got the support of the bloc, which means Quebec.

You mean just like the Liberals sold out their voters two years ago to the NDP, and to a higher dollar amount?

 

[BitWhys]

$4.1B over two years to one province to spend, or not, as it pleases compared to $4.6B over 5 years for national housing, education, environment foreign aid and worker protection programs.

I can see how you would prefer one over the other.:lol:

 

[BitWhys]

When Harper compromises as much as Mr Dithers then it will be time for him to go.

such as?

 

[crit13]

Looks like the Liberal supporters enjoyed playing the game called politics when they had made up the rules as they went along.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, it burns them up inside. As a previous poster noted, a good leader compromises which is exactly what he did with this budget.

He could have easily provided deep tax cuts across the board but then the liberals would complain that he didn't spend enough on programs. There is no budget that would have satisfied the Liberals. I hope we have an election this year so that Liberal members can try and explain why they voted down a budget that essentially liberal in nature.

The Liberals are obviously not conservative. They aren't even liberal anymore. They tried being green and that has been a failure. Now they are trying to be far left with even less success. What exactly does todays Liberal party stand for anyway? Does anyone really know?