ht: National Newswatch
The Leftist Opposition's accusation that the Conservatives have "mismanaged" the economy and the country's finances is demonstrably completely false.
We are in surplus.
So far this fiscal year, 2008-09, Ottawa has posted a surplus of $2.9 billion, which is ahead of Finance forecast of $2.3 billion but down 57 per cent from last year due to lower revenue from corporate tax and the GST (which was lowered this past January to five per cent from six per cent).
There is no recession. And the tax cuts proved a good idea. Perhaps they prevented a recession.
The Left would rather raise taxes and cause one! So that they could impose more social programs as a means of providing Leftist voters their comfort food, thus making them dependent on the party that imposed the social program. Eww! Dependence on the state! How degrading! How communist!
Jobs are being created. Overall, net. Sure, some jobs went, but others were created to more than make up for those losses. Nothing unusual about some jobs being lost and others being created; it happens all the time, it's a fact of life, is inevitable... too bad the Left doesn't understand this! Why can't they understand the concept of more jobs being created than were lost? Don't they remember that some jobs were lost, too, during the Liberal regime? Do they think that not a single job should be lost, and that if just one is lost, then that means that the government somehow did something wrong? Stupid Leftists!
