Feds post $1.7 billion deficit for August

[Colpy]

Colpy

Which party has a recent record of successive balanced, or surplus budgets? Was it the Conservatives?

Yep.....the Conservative Party of Canada has been in surplus for both of the years they've been in power,.....they have no history before that, as this is their first time in office.....

Was it fiscally responsible to post a forty or fifty billion dollar deficit every year they were in office.............Could the Mulroney Conservatives do this?........Yes they could.....and did.

This is not the Progressive Conservative Party.
Remember, the majority of those that joined to make the new Conservative party were Mulrooney haters...........completely different animal.

Oh and by the way, the cost of gun injuries and deaths in Canada is roughly 6 billion dollars a year.

Oh pure unadulterated baloney. Do you know how they come up with that figure? They take every gunshot suicide "victim", (as if controling guns controled suicide) and calculate his estimated earnings for LIFE, then use that as the cost of his death. Just a ploy.....It doesn't even meet the criteria for propaganda.....simply dishonest BS, like the "you are 43 times more apt to shoot a friend or aquaintance than a criminal if you keep a gun for self defense" Not even reasonably close to the truth..

You'll find anti-gun people habitually lie through their teeth............

To prove my point?

The 6 billion bucks it costs, divided by the 1400 victims, comes out to 4.28 MILLION dollars each....now, considering at least 80% of those deaths are suicides.........you see how ludicrous the claim is.......

 

[Socrates the Greek]

NDP are the economy crashers, the Cons are the deficit Kings, the Liberals are the surplus kings. It makes no scene when history is supporting the three political party descriptions above, people still vote for the Cons in bigger numbers, while being subjected to a deficit environment.. Of-course the Liberals can be blamed for this but I am sure they are looking to change things...................And soon will govern again.....

 

[lone wolf]

NDP are the economy crashers, the Cons are the deficit Kings, the Liberals are the surplus kings. It makes no scene when history is supporting the three political party descriptions above, people still vote for the Cons in bigger numbers, while being subjected to a deficit environment.. Of-course the Liberals can be blamed for this but I am sure they are looking to change things...................And soon will govern again.....

Economy's going yuk, Sock.... Maybe you better take that hat you talk through away from your eyes....

 

[#juan]

You'll find anti-gun people habitually lie through their teeth............

To prove my point?

The 6 billion bucks it costs, divided by the 1400 victims, comes out to 4.28 MILLION dollars each....now, considering at least 80% of those deaths are suicides.........you see how ludicrous the claim is.......

Colpy, you've proved nothing. What is ludicous is your assumption that the 1400 deaths are the only victims. The policing costs have to be considered. As well, the non-fatal gunshot wounds have to be considered. A wounded person could spend months, or even years in hospital and more months in physio-therapy to recover from a gunshot wound. There is the cost of the loss of production and loss of wages, as well as other costs associated with getting shot. I haven't even mentioned the cost to the family of a lost wage earner.
The article I linked in a previous post above was written by trained professionals, not usually given to emotional outbursts. I would suggest reading a bit more before calling them liars.

 

[Tonington]

$4.28 million per person is pretty low actually. You can find statistics like that in government departments. For instance, in the past year, the US EPA reduced the cost of one American life from $8.04 million to $7.22 million.

 

[#juan]

But the costs of firearms licensing and registration are only one part of the equation. Firearms in the
1980s, cost Canadians more than 1,400 lives each year, including accidents, suicides and homicides.
That is almost 4 per day and for every death, many more were injured and traumatized. Firearm death and injury were estimated to cost the Canadian economy and society over 6 billion per year (in 1993 dollars) , a price tag that dwarfs the investment in firearms licensing and registration. The bulk of the
investment to date, it is important to note, has been made in developing the systems and processes necessary to screen prospective gun owners

The gun registry is without a doubt ungodly expensive, but even that billion dollars is dwarfed by the cost of firearm death and injury.

 

[Avro]

Seems Canada's savior thinks the cons are poor money managers.