Why I simply cannot vote for Harper's Conservatives!

[freewheat]

JAy mo. Young Justin has no plans for a balanced budget for at LEAST THREE years.

All the while the deficit slayer, Paul Martin, runs around with him stating, with a straight face, mind you, that it is fine to run deficits... lol

Oh to be a leftist.

Blame Harper for deficits that you forced, and then say deficits should be continued when they are balanced.

Oh to be liberal!

[Crestliner]

Wow....changing your lifelong political voting pattern based on an article from Macleans magazine....news flash....Macleans is a non credible left wing Canadian magazine that makes me choke everytime I read it. IMO.

[sawfly]

seabass are you sure you want a daul system.
the Fraser institute, a right wing think tank.
puts the cost of US health care at almost double the cost of the CDN. system.
we are under 60%of US expenditures.
and they still do not cover everybody.
so if you figure another 20,000$ a year health cost ,
for a family of 4 over the course of your life is a good deal ,
then keep voting Harper.
he will get you there.

just in the news today , a private firm get's a hold of an old off patent
TB drug . and raises the price 9,000%
overnite.
that is where Harper is headed.

can you imagine there is potential 40% of the cdn. health budget. just laying there, waiting to be gobbled up by the US health industry.
and you and Harper are saying come on in and take it.

[sumdumguy]

In TV interviews, the young people connect with Justin and then it hit me, that connection is the test of a political party. I asked myself, " how did the Harperites connect with seniors, with veterans, with youth, with women, with their loyal followers? Well, they had ample opportunity. For months, their daily phone calls, begging for help, that is how they connected with me. Guess if I'd quit answering the phone they would issue my death certificate and quit taxing the "dead" person. Oh but don't be too harsh, I was lucky enough to get one robo call directing me to the wrong polling station.

[stonepicker]

No forage, i never voted for gary doer,although i think he was well respected in general. He did pretty good, for a college dropout. As far as duffy and wahlin, they were both well respected journalists, would you have known they would turn out like they did?

[dmlfarmer]

Crestliner: I am not changing my vote because of the MacLean's article. The article only summarizes very well why I had already decided to give up on the Conservatives.

Tell me Crestliner, what in the article is incorrect? What have they printed that is not true? Or are you so stuck in your ways you won't even read something that you think is contrary to your opinion.

What is truly sad is people who are so narrow minded they refuse even to consider alternatives. People willing to reward truly bad government simply because that is who they have always voted for.

[vvalk]

Sawfly. Typical lefty fear mongering. If we were to change our healthcare ( which we have absolutely no choice) why compare to the USA? Very successful health system in the world is public private. When healthcare spending increase at double or triple or in recession 10 times your GDP it's just not sustainable. But then you would vote for our leader of a G8 nation who has had to mortgage his own house 11 times. But he will run balanced budgets. Just like his own finances

[mustardman]

vvalk Harper ,when head of Canadian Citizens Coalition , said his ambition was to end CbC,the CWB and to PRIVATIZE health care.

He said it himself

[freewheat]

I wish he would take the cbc and shove it into oblivion.

Trudeau will probably increase the budget. And Tommy would rename it Pravda, or Al Muljeera.

[HFL]

Getting rid of the CBC is a great idea. They are a complete waste at my house

[bucket]

Don't like it don't watch it.

I still find it informative. And ctv and cbc national news are identical. Same stories in the same order.

There was a good story on some drug that had 80 bucks worth of drug but the company was charging the canadian system 7500 bucks a treatment for.

It's good to get different perspectives. Doesn't mean your a socialist just a different thought.

There is a problem when everyone agrees - no one is thinking.

[freewheat]

The trouble is, I do not watch. BUT I DO PAY FOR IT. Those who want to watch inferior content, should pay themselves.

In other words, the CBC should pay its own way or die...

I agree with various perspectives and freedom. Just not when one perspective is subsidized by tax dollars.

The other problem is the half truths and lies, along with outright ommissions of facts about the leftist leaders, spread by the CBC at critical times like elections. Too many people get their ONLY news from the leftist CBC, and get completely brainwashed.

And we all pay for it.

[pourfarmer]

Oh so voters JUST started watching CBC this election? how come they weren't "brainwashed" when the great harper was elected?

[freewheat]

Well IMO, this time it has been far more brutally dishonest than prior elections.

[newguy]

Freewheat. It could be a bunch worse on Harper as far as the media goes.Harpers events are pre picked people only can get near him.Questions asked he allows 5.only 1 is by a local media the other 4 are question from media that have paid Harper up to 78 thousand for the right to be there.Think the whole problem with CBS is maybe they have ethics to tell the whole story and not the Harper story Harper wants told..