Why I simply cannot vote for Harper's Conservatives!

[foragefarmer]

Walk

Increased deficit by 160 billion in six years

Only PM while at the controls with two recessions

Spent 750 million on ads, most of it on Economic Action Plan, what's to show for them, when unemployment is at 6.8% while for young people over 13%

Cut funding to Veterans and closed 13 Veteran Affairs offices, while over a billion dollars budgeted for Veterans went unspent

I personally do not call these little mistakes made by Harper!!!

Walk I'm sure you have to admit Harper has made huge mistakes, and how can he not be held responsible for them???

[TOM4CWB]

DML,

In 2011 When the Federal Conservative Majority took over 570,000 workers. March 31 14 510,000.

You are wrong about contracted workers. Federal pensions and benefits are not paid on contract work... and Sick days unused being paid out; are being changed [in the 2015 budget] to stop that drain. Simple management to reduce cost. The treasury Dept is not doing these changes to increase cost... you must admit!

[dmlfarmer]

Tom Harper has been PM since 2006. You cannot simply drop years to make his record better. Under his watch, the civil service numbers increased from 2006-2012!

You second point is valid if and only if the total cost of doing the same job is less than having the civil servants do it. But then why has the cost of contract work and outsourcing increased by 27.8% under Harper from just over 7 billion to more than 10 billion? The only two reasons is the outsourcing is more expensive or there is more government, neither which I voted for.

BTW, did you downsize your combine because smaller combines are more fuel efficient? But now you have to hire a customer operator because you do not have the capacity? That is equivalent to you saying Harper is doing a good job because by cutting workers he no longer has to pay the sick time or pensions

[BreadWinner]

I can't wait for the NDP/Liberal coalition!!!! I can drop my kids at the $15 a day daycare and we can go eat brownies and smoke pot all day everyday. While the top wage earners pay for everything...HAHAHAHAHA..
That sounds like a Evil plot from a budget movie. I can see this country going downhill real fast.

[Hamloc]

Forage you point to youth unemployment as being to high at over 13%. I would agree, when you look at youth unemployment by province Ontario is the highest after the Atlantic provinces. If your belief in bigger government and higher taxes creates jobs Ontario would have the lowest youth unemployment. Higher taxes only stifle creativity. Government bureaucracies are insulated from market forces and are too slow to react.

[TOM4CWB]

dml

If smaller combines are more fuel efficient (which they are) we choose the lower hppower units that save both fuel and put more grain in the hopper.

PM Harper is not perfect. Under the Majority they have genuinely tried to put this gov 'combine' under better management... with less money used [like fuel] and more constructive outcomes for Canadians [more grain in the hopper]

Folks are sadly mistaken to put their trust in NDP policy to create a more efficient prosperous country...
Proof over and over from past experience is that; the opposite (less output and prosperity) is proven from gov management of real assets... who ever owns those assets. Look at CN. From losses of Billions... to profits of billions under private management.

[TOM4CWB]

Take a good long look at Greece. Socialism and gov. control of an economy is an unmitigated disaster for absolutely everyone... even those who were to get the 'free lunch'!!!

[dmlfarmer]

Tell me Tom, why have you chosen Greece to back up your argument? Why not Norway or one of the Scandinavian countries, or China, or Vietnam, or New Zealand? China and Vietnam are closest we have to true Marxist Socialism. The others are Social Democracys, all of which have better growth rates than Canada.
I would even argue Canada has a more socialist society than Greece. Socialism is not the cause of Greece's economic woes, it was a case of not having control over their own currency as well as an avoidance of paying taxes by society. Greeks wanted the services but were not willing to pay the cost.
And you talk of non government efficiency, tell me which is more efficient and which do you prefer, our health care system or the US free market system? In which country would you rather have your heart attack?

[perfecho]

And the CN used to serve much more of Canada...not just the profitable routes....
In a country this large, we have to decide if we are in it as a society....or just give service's to the "elite".

[perfecho]

Alberta had a pretty decent, low cost electrical system, and then it was privatized. We now have one of the most expensive electrical systems, although we still do have decent service.
I know which system I would have chosen....

[fjlip]

DML, I like the way you are thinking, opens my eyes, a VERY difficult decision om Oct 19. The devil we know by the record OR the devils we imagine with answers to some issues, but clueless to others. And the consequences of socialist actions are much to be debated.

[newguy]

Harper is a real marketer.Let out that he charges as much as 78 thousand if you want to follow his campaign and ask him questions.Only 5 questions are allowed 1 local and 4 paid for. How much MP and Senate BS expense money made its way back into the election fund? Canada can not afford 4 more years and let him take over the Supreme Court with more appointments of you lieing piece of shit old stock Canadians.