Where Do U Stand

[Moonlight_Graham]

If you want what the Conservatives are promising, vote Conservative.  If you want what the Liberals are promising, vote NDP.

;) i like that

[Truffle Pigs]

Meh,I'd vote Liberal.......don't feel like explain why...... ;)

 

On a side note,I wonder if we'd end up with another minority government if the election was right now.....

[no yu begin wher i end]

I don't think so. I've heard on the news and read that if there was an election soon, the Liberals would be able to pull off another majority government.

[Biggie]

Not while the Bloc is popular in Quebec. Maybe a stronger minority.

[no yu begin wher i end]

Maybe. It's been a few months since I saw the polls that put the Martin government at roughly just over 50% of popular support.

[cavalier_eternal]

i'll take a nine inch nails lyric on this one...

 

'my moral standing is lying down'

 

heh.

[no yu begin wher i end]

Gee, aren't you an optimist.

[Moonlight_Graham]

Speculation a few weeks ago before the Liberal convention was that the Liberals might have called another election soon so that they could gain a majority gov't. those rumors turned out false of course.

 

The anger over the sponsership scandal & Dalton McGuinty has died down a bit so i think the Libs would likely get a majority.

[Matt]

If you want what the Conservatives are promising, vote Conservative. If you want what the Liberals are promising, vote NDP.

The N.D.P. would never likely fulfill their promises due to the fact that economically they could not work. Taxing the rich means that those taxes will get passed down to the people purchasing the goods and services. This could have a negative effect, such as a depression. If wage increases do not keep up with price increases people have less money to buy the goods, meaning layoffs happen, and as less and less money is available, more and more layoffs are made. The N.D.P. would also send us into more debt.

[TheKwas]

There's a huge difference between taxing the rich and taxing the richly owned buisness'

 

Taxing the rich= No problem

Taxing the rich-man's buisness= bad for buisness

[Matt]

But the rich man will put the money into the cost of the goods and services in his buisness because he wants to keep up his former amount of income.

[TheKwas]

Rarely, he usally uses buisness money for that.

[Matt]

Money has to be kept into the buisness at equal or greater value to maintain or increase the value of it. It's not that rare for him to increase the price...

[Moonlight_Graham]

The N.D.P. would never likely fulfill their promises due to the fact that economically they could not work. Taxing the rich means that those taxes will get passed down to the people purchasing the goods and services. This could have a negative effect, such as a depression. If wage increases do not keep up with price increases people have less money to buy the goods, meaning layoffs happen, and as less and less money is available, more and more layoffs are made. The N.D.P. would also send us into more debt.

the NDP would fulfill their promises. It doesn't matter if it wouldn't work economically, because they'd do it anyways and pile up more national debt. Just like Pierre Trudeau did.

 

NDP would kill our country economically. Yes its nice to help people, but you've also got to run a country like a business.

[Bizud]

Contrary to popular belief, provincial NDP governments, on the whole, have a better record of fiscal conservatism (avoid deficit spending and pay down debt) than any other party. As for NDP promises not working, yeah, that must be why other countries have such better social programs and such smaller debt than us. Boing.

[Matt]

I was refferring to the federal N.D.P. But, the provincial N.D.P. spent money on programs that did not work, they were not fiscally conservative in the least.

[TheKwas]

The federal NDP doesn't have any type of record.

 

And what provincal NDP are we talking? BC?

[Bizud]

But, the provincial N.D.P. spent money on programs that did not work, they were not fiscally conservative in the least.

 

This is false, sir.

 

The federal NDP doesn't have any type of record.

 

And what provincal NDP are we talking? BC?

 

I meant in general, across all provinces where they've been in power. But especially in BC, where, contrary to popular belief, they inherited a massive budget deficit from the SoCreds, reduced it over time and ran surpluses for their last few years, paid down some of BC's debt, and then lost the election in 2001 to the Liberals - who promptly ran the biggest deficit BC had seen in decades.

Edited March 16, 2005 by Bizud

[rmak]

time to resurrect an old thread

[Moonlight_Graham]

better yet, i'll start a new one for ya to get some new poll results.

[pennies]

i know it doesn't seem practical but i think my beliefs reside with NDP...i need lower tuition!! it's a fine line though i did all those political spectrum tests i'm some sort of left-wing socialist or something like that.

 

but you know what's funny? the more extreme you get..you start coming back around the other side. maybe i'm twisted but i think after a while communism starts sounding like capitalism.