Oh the Madness- a rant

Yesterday Finance Minister Jim Flaherty presented his fall economic update. The contents included a motion to take away the $1.75/vote of taxpayers money the political parties receive and no stimulus package; but the door was left open on that. Before the end of Flaherty's speech yesterday the Liberals had announced that they wouldn't support it. Neither did the NDP, and Bloc. Now today the Liberals have said they are going to for non-confidence on Monday. They have a coalition all set to govern.

These guys just don't get it. The Liberals are pissed because they've just gotten cut off from their funding and they can't fundraise because nobody likes them and they have no leader. They're playing games, and now it's about to either cost us another 300 million, or give us an administration we never voted for- how is that democratic?? Causing an election now will make sure the Liberals won't see the government side of the house for the next 20 years or so and it will cost us very precious money that is needed in these tougher economic times.

When Canadians voted how we did 2 months ago we did so with a message. We said: we like Stephen Harper a little better than we did 3 years ago, but not enough to give him the keys to castle. And he accepted it. He seemed humbled, and now that the election was out of the way ready to work. It's the opposition parties that don't get it. They lost, Harper won- get over it, work with the stubborn man, and move on. The fall economic statement was never designed to include any kind of stimulus package- merely to update the people on how the nation's finances were doing. What's getting lost in all this is two things, one is that the cut in the party subsidy harms the Conservatives more than it does the opposition. They stand to lose $10 million because of this move. That alone shoots down the whole argument of trying to kill their opposition. If they were trying to do that, they'd cancel opposition days, or prorogue Parliament. The second thing is they left the door open on a stimulus package. They didn't say they weren't going to do it. They said it wasn't going to happen yet.

I agree with the way Harper is handling the economic situation. Canada's economy is in a stable position. The way to keep it that way is to take it one step at a time, one measure at a time. Too many people with the line of 'saving the economy' could cause more of a crisis than there already is. We need to hold tight and let the guy do his job. Because if Harper and his Conservatives spend 5 weeks out on the election trail when they could be working on a stimulus, I'll be pissed.

Stop the maddness- and get along.