Some badly needed good news

[terrym]

There may be life yet to the Conservatives chance to win another one. JT's comments certainly do make him look like an imbecile not a PM in waiting. The CPC are now polling in the lead for seat projections.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/14/surprise-surplus-lifts-tory-fortunes



http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives...015/index.html

[ninepointer]

They'll all take us back into deficit (its a thin and subjective line), but Harper won't sink us as deep or as often. Despite what TM promises in the way of a surplus (Seriously, Tom???!!!) he'll sink us the most. JT simply made the mistake of admitting that his plan requires a deficit and he has tried to sell this as an honesty virtue. Hudak tried that strategy in Ontario and it was disastrous for him.

[terrym]

Harper can't control what the Arabs do and the price of crude oil nor can he control the mess at the EU/ Greece. What he will do is respond intelligently and control spending. The two other idiots will shove another knife into our fragile economy with massive tax increases like Carbon taxes which will drive up the price of everything we consume. Sucking disposable income out of taxpayers is no way to stimulate an economy. You also can't spend your way out of debt. Running a temporary deficit for extraordinary circumstances ( like war, global recessions ) is one thing but adding debt for public sector raises and feel good programs just does not work. I think JT's shift to the left and big spending/big tax agenda has sunk him.

[Cass]

I'm Conservatives all the way. Definitely the lesser evil. No one likes government, its human nature. Doesn't matter who gets in people will complain. Go with what you know. Liberals and NDP would be the worst thing that could happen to our country right now.

[terrym]

Unfortunately I'm convinced that Harper will be lucky to get a minority and if he even manages that the 2 losers will form a coalition and take him down.

[Wahoo]

Unfortunately I'm convinced that Harper will be lucky to get a minority and if he even manages that the 2 losers will form a coalition and take him down.

Unless the pollsters have had this wrong from the get go, I have to agree. The 'time for a change' message might resonate with the undecided vote when folks go to mark their ballots.

[HaroldH]

Unfortunately I'm convinced that Harper will be lucky to get a minority and if he even manages that the 2 losers will form a coalition and take him down.

I'd say Fortunately!!! Bring it on!!!

[flowerjohn]

Harper can't control what the Arabs do and the price of crude oil nor can he control the mess at the EU/ Greece. What he will do is respond intelligently and control spending. The two other idiots will shove another knife into our fragile economy with massive tax increases like Carbon taxes which will drive up the price of everything we consume. Sucking disposable income out of taxpayers is no way to stimulate an economy. You also can't spend your way out of debt. Running a temporary deficit for extraordinary circumstances ( like war, global recessions ) is one thing but adding debt for public sector raises and feel good programs just does not work. I think JT's shift to the left and big spending/big tax agenda has sunk him.

I agree terrym. The problem with these opportunistic taxes is how they flow down the line. Example. Carbon tax. The newly elected liberals could possibly decide to affix a meter to every taxpayer's and everytime you let one go you pay a fee. Some private contractor will make a fortune off the meter and when people begin to get their bills in the mail they will worry that they are eating too much fibre. So they will stop eating beans and other healthy stuff to save on the farting tax but eventually they end up at the doctor because the colon is not feeling so healthy from eating too much rice and pasta to keep the fart meter from going off. Increase in health care costs. So. The government begins a multi million dollar publicly funded ad campaign to let people know that if they take their fibre after nine pm the fart tax will be discounted until six am. That is when they will have to eat the good stuff and fart away only to have to hold the collective rectum in check by six am since the emissions will become more expensive. Does any of this sound familiar?

[terrym]

I'd say Fortunately!!! Bring it on!!!

LoL!!! Yeah, we'll have to agree to disagree there.

[trimmer21]

Polls,schmolls. Never before in the history of any democracy since the fall of the Berlin wall has the media attempted to influence an election outcome like the Toronto Star,The CBC,the Globe and Mail and the National Post. EVERY polling company is paid and run by the media. They can make any poll read however their paycheck signatories dictate simply by targetting specific demographics. Rocket science it ain't. The ONLY poll that counts is on election day.