Those you you that actually read my blog, know me well enough to know that i'm fairly middle of the road when it comes to politics. I don't really lean to the right or left of the political scale... so the following will be a fairly neutral article about the political state of our country...
Naw, I'm kidding!! I'ma slam the liberals for a bit. If you are a liberal, i don't want this to sound judgmental, or condescending. I'd just like you to realize that I'm better than you.
So news came out today that there are six Liberals who ran for office in our last election, including former leader Stephane Dion that still have not paid off their campaign debts. Seems they were already granted an 18 month extension on their loans, and the deadline for that was jan 1. They are no longer eligible for anymore extensions, and this matter will now have to be resolved through the courts.
It has not been released how much money they all owe, but an "insider" has said that Dion has approx, $80,000 left to pay. The original bill is said to have been around $950,000. Now that election was in 2007, and here we are in 2010. At 6% interest (which was the going rate at the time of the loan), think about all those interest payments he's having to make.
As a donner of the liberal party, how do you feel knowing that your $500, is not making a difference in the campaign, but instead just paying interest...?
My second question is, If These liberals can't even handle their 1 million dollar campaign budget, how do they figure they'll handle all of Canada's budget of billions of dollars? hmmmm?
Don't get me wrong, i do like Harper, and what he's doing for Canada, but i don't agree with everything he does either. Harper comes up with ideas, and strategies, and runs our country fairly well...at the same time constantly putting out attack adds against the liberals, and the NDP. To me,it's not really necessary. Canadian politics have always been riddled with attack adds, but Harper seems to use them more than most.
On the other hand i would LOVE it if Liberals would actually come up with idea's on their own, and explain how they work. I read Canadian news almost everyday, and i constantly see liberal quotes that look like this "Stephen Harper is running our country into the ground, if WE were in power, we'd do things better!" or "Our plan for the country includes more jobs, and higher wages" really? that sounds great! But how the heck do you plan on doing these things? no one knows. Maybe they plan on using your tax dollars the same way they run their finances in their campaigns...
-chuck out
