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Originally posted by OFKU0
Face it. The Conservatives can do no worse than the Liberals. I can't understand why after countless scandals, people still gravitate to the Liberals.
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They paid down 10% of the debt.
Do you have any clue how hard that was? 50 billion fewer dollars that Canada doesn't owe.
Just the interest on that (at, say , 3%) is over a billion dollars every single year from now until eternity.
Their plans for the future involve continueing to pay down the debt while ramping up spending. This is a smart plan.
The NDP want to stop paying off the debt.
The Conservatives want to go deeper into debt.
The Bloc want to say "neener neener".
There is about half-a-trillion more dollars to go on the Federal debt. That's 15-37 billion dollars a year we are paying for past government's fixcal idiocy.
http://www.ppforum.ca/ow/ow_p_11_25_2002.htm
Or how about fixing social security? Unlike the US, our CPP has balanced books.
But, they misspent about 3 billion total dollars in 10 years. This is a bad thing. The good things they did shouldn't be ignored, especially good things that other parties have no plans to continue.
If either the NDP or the Conservative party where planning on being fiscally responsible, that would be one thing. But, they plan on bread and circuses.