My question is how is he planning on paying it back???
Harper could get away with politically motivated gimmicks like cutting the GST when times were good, but there are no gimmicks available to pay back billions in debt.
Maybe Harper will once again follow the lead of his buddy George Dubya Bush and run the country's economy into the ground and leave it to the grown-ups to pick up the pieces.
We warned you this day would come. Here, here, here, here, here, here and here
Um. What do I know anyway
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My problem is that will any of the monies be released? The towns, cities have to put up 1/3 of the infrastructure stimulus & they don't have the money. And Baird said, yesterday, it was the 1st he'd heard they don't have the money. Don Newman said it a few times & he repeated the same answer.
There will most likely be all kinds of pre-releasing monies stipulations & nothing will be freed up. Hence no deficit.
That's incredible...Baird had no idea Municipalities can't afford the money for infrastructure spending?
In that case, who did the CONs consult?
Certainly no "ordinary Canadians"!
I imagine that the CONs consulted The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.
From their what's new sidebar:
Prime Minister says P3s are exactly what economy needs
Needed to help "bolster confidence" (Jan. 12/09)
http://www.pppcouncil.ca/
P3s are all the rage with Winnipeg's city council and mayor. Private capital investment upfront, tax payer debt for the next few decades (or worse if the investors pull out as they did with the Olympic Village project in Vancouver).
From the Financial Post:
How investors can cash in on economic stimulus
Levi Folk, Financial Post Published: Monday, January 26, 2009
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As the global economic downturn sinks in, bipartisan politics is taking a backseat to broad support for Keynesian style fiscal stimulus and infrastructure projects in particular are getting a major boost because they are quickly implemented and lead to immediate job creation.
Monday, the Conservative government unveiled the $7-billion in infrastructure spending, to take place over the next two years.
Share prices of publicly listed companies in the infrastructure space are reacting to this near term investment opportunity...
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1220116
Upon rereading your blog, I wonder how much of the taxpayers money Harper is going to waste in his lawsuit against Elections Canada?
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