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Originally Posted by Yakk
I consider balancing the budget and social issues to be more important than a relatively small amount of money spent poorly on national unity.
Canada’s debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio is expected to decline to 38.8 per cent in 2004-05, down from 68.4 per cent in 1995-96.
Canada's GDP is 1 trillion dollars.
30% of that is 300 billion dollars. That's a fuckton of fiscal responsibility.
0.1% of that is the highest figure I've seen for the sponsorship scandal. I want to see the Gomrey inquiry and the criminal trials go forward.
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It still doesn't make make fraud, corruption, lies and slander, exorbitant levels of mismanagement and general incompetance acceptable. Ask me how much I pay in taxes every year? That might explain my angst somewhat.
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