Tories brace for deficit, plan to blame Liberals, NDP

[HeresyLives]

October 22, 2008

Tories brace for deficit, plan to share blame
By Alexander Panetta, THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are bracing for the prospect of a return to budget deficits and plan to share the blame with their political opponents if Canada slides back into the red.

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With economists already warning that a decade-long string of federal surpluses is about to end, any opposition spending request would carry an additional price tag.
One government official said that any program cut the opposition opposes, any tax cut they propose, or any spending program they demand would push the federal treasury deeper into the red.
This would make it more difficult for opposition parties to blame the Conservative government for blowing a once-massive federal surplus.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2008/10/22/7169241-cp.html

[daleo]

1. How can they blame people who aren't in power?

I mean, I know they will, but it is quite pathetic. I thought conservatives believed in people taking responsibility for their own actions.

[HeresyLives]

2. Rule # 1: Everything is ALWAYS somebody

else's fault. It is NEVER the fault of the Conservatives.

[daleo]

3. Very true

Rule 2: IOKIYAC (It's ok if you're a Conservative).

[HeresyLives]

4. Yeah, sums them up nicely.

[iverglas]

5. excuse me

while I go tell somebody that one.

[LiberadorHugo]

6. hahaha...What a joke.

Harper has a Master's in economics doesn't he know that deficit spending during a recession is a good for the economy if the money is spent correctly? Or do he and his cronies apply to the Palin school of economics: It doesn't matter how much or little we may know; what matters is that God will get the Chosen Ones safely through economic tribulation.

[HeresyLives]

7. Harper's ideology

overcomes every other possible thought.