What did we do? Harper Majority!!

[PoliticalNick]

You guys have *no* education.

I have a university degree in economics, 3 different trade tickets and a whole fistful of endorsements and certificates so I'll let this one slide due to your incessant psyco-babble and obvious need for medication.

I bet none of you have read the Canadian Atlas of 1900.

I have looked at the maps in many an atlas but never foud more than 1 or 2 pages to read. Do you read phone books too Omi?

 

[petros]

What did it say?

It said there is gold in them thar hills.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I have looked at the maps in many an atlas but never foud more than 1 or 2 pages to read. Do you read phone books too Omi?

Only when he's wearing his secret decoder ring. :lol:

 

[Omicron]

I have a university degree in economics, 3 different trade tickets and a whole fistful of endorsements and certificates so I'll let this one slide due to your incessant psyco-babble and obvious need for medication.

Okay, how do we bring up 9 billion people to a middle class standard of living when the planet has resources capable of supporting only 1.5 billion at that level, and what do you do when you have the resources to live the way your ancestors dreamed and you piss it away?

Oh I know... you say to your ancestors in heaven... we were washing Jesus's feet.

 

[petros]

Okay, how do we bring up 9 billion people to a middle class standard of living when the planet has resources capable of supporting only 1.5 billion at that level,

Eat the dead of course. Why? What you prefer? Thai? Mexican? Italian?

 

[Omicron]

Eat the dead of course. Why? What you prefer? Thai? Mexican? Italian?

Ahh, soylent green.

 

[Corduroy]

In 40 years of voting, this is the first time I have been on the clear winning side.

I hope I don't have to wait 40 years!

 

[Praxius]

Yeah, I do.

 

[CDNBear]

CDNBear
Do not trust corporations
I work with many of them and my network is full of exectives
My true issue is any government that empowers corporations and the conservatives do just that more than any other party. I mean they all do it, but Harper is the worst I have even seen in Canada

And it is not doom and gloom...
It is just the true reality of how money and the economy works
Money is the medium of exchange, control that and you control the people
Fine print does just that
(this is all in simple terms of course, as there is much more to it)

It is a catch 22

In our current society we need their services to compete. Yet to get their services we must sign contracts. We become slaves to the contracts with which we must sign for their services' that we HAVE to have (in order to compete). They get to say "well, if you do not like our contract, do not use our service. It is a free country, no one forces you to..." But we are forced to, in order to compete

Do you really want a government to empower such organizations enmass? Conservatives do just that

PS I work in corporate financial law

Ya, ya, blah blah blah...You bitch about corporations, while you leech off them.

We call that hypocrisy.

Time to move to EUROPE

Can I help you pack?

 

[El Barto]

You suck it up. That's Democracy.

40 % votes to get a majority is not democracy.

 

[wulfie68]

40 % votes to get a majority is not democracy.

Liberals said it was when it happened for Chretien, as the Reform and PCs split votes...

 

[DurkaDurka]

Time to move to EUROPE

Bosnia would probably take you.

Whatever!! I'm entitled to my opinion. The only thing I detest more than Harpo himself is our FPTP pluralty electoral system that allows for a majority govt with 39.5% of the votes and theoretically could give a significant majority with less than 30% of the vote.

But on the same token, if the conservatives had only won a minority, I'm fairly sure you wouldn't have been bothered by the NDP and Liberals forming a coalition to govern.... that's how the system works.

You guys are morons.

We're in a f-cking tyrant situation, underneath the IQ of Dutch Reformers thinking they are doing the world better by sucking dick of multinationals which is why Holland kicked them out.

You're a Dutch *****... how about that? lol

 

[TenPenny]

With a majority we lose a long gun registry, abortion rights, a government health care system for a two tier one and doctors able to extra bill patients.

Same sex marriage will be reversed and private jails will be built faster.

I think you need to take a few deep breaths and relax.

Abortion rights won't change.
Health care will not likely change, but in some ways, any change could only help.
Same sex marriage isn't likely to change.

The long gun registry doesn't seem to actually accomplish anything, so I don't care if it goes or not - there should be some form of licensing for those who want to own guns, but the registry of guns is a complete mess, so it would be better to scrap it.

 

[taxslave]

The only bad things I see in the results is the dippers being the official opposition and elle may getting to annoy us for four years. Shows there are more free loaders in this country than I thought.
On the bright side the long gun registry is gone and we will have stable government and a solid economy for four years even if we may not like some of the new laws.

 

[earth_as_one]

This election is reminiscent of George W. Bush winning in 2000. At the time I knew instinctively it meant bad times ahead. I have that same feeling of dread with Harper winning a majority. I predict Canada will be directly affected by some Pearl Harbor like event within a year.... probably within 6 months.

 

[DurkaDurka]

This election is reminiscent of George W. Bush winning in 2000. At the time I knew instinctively it meant bad times ahead. I have that same feeling of dread with Harper winning a majority. I predict Canada will be directly affected by some Pearl Harbor like event within a year.... probably within 6 months.

George W had to go the Supreme Court to be declared President, Harper won a majority, I really don't see the parallel between the two.

Why would you predict an attack in the next six months?

 

[Fallout]

Oh well, let the disappointment commence...
...and it will

Reading this made me laugh.

Mr. Layton will have a large and inexperienced caucus to manage, including Ruth Ellen Brosseau of Berthier-Maskinongé, an assistant pub manager who barely speaks French, doesn’t live in the riding and vacationed in Las Vegas during the campaign – but still won by double digits over the Bloc candidate.

After losing out to that, me thinks that if The Bloc have any class at all, they will join Duceppe, and call it quits.

 

[Machjo]

This is a sad day for Canada...

Or should I say the 51th State of America

Why Canada why?

Harper ruled his minority like a dictator

Now with a majority he can pass any law he likes

You reap what you sow

Give me a break. I handed in a blank ballot again this election one reason being how all my local candidates spent more time attacking each other than presenting their platform.

Though I lean right, I actually liked Layton as a leader as well as May for not being as confrontational than Ignatief and Layton. Heck, even Duceppe was more admirable on that front.

This OP shows the left still has not learnt its lesson any more than the right. If you want to win seats, stop just pulling the boogey man out of the hat and present something people will vote for.

Based on what the other parties were offering, a Harper majority is no better or worse.

 

[JLM]

40 % votes to get a majority is not democracy.

I don't normally disagree with you Bart, but as I tried to explain to Nick, when there are 3 or more parties running, "majority" is a moot point.........a "plurality" is what's important. 40% for does NOT mean 60% against, it simply means that a maximum of 60% regard the winning party as second choice. :smile:

 

[mentalfloss]

I don't normally disagree with you Bart, but as I tried to explain to Nick, when there are 3 or more parties running, "majority" is a moot point.........a "plurality" is what's important. 40% for does NOT mean 60% against, it simply means that a maximum of 60% regard the winning party as second choice. :smile:

Of course not.

But 40% != 55%

Which is the difference between a majority and a minority government.

I'd like to preface this by saying that, regardless of which parties ended up where, we should begin to slowly evolve to a more proportional system. It's only fair, no?