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"Trying" and "should" arguments indicate that you should review David Hume's treatise on the is/ought divide. I'll repost this because you two aren't following the rules: <img src="http://i.imgur.com/Y0lGR.jpg">

There is no explanation for your beliefs other than that it's a religion, because the facts simply do not bear your beliefs out. And yes, I'm a fiscal conservative. Clinton "forced" by the Republicans? Two points: he decreased the deficit before the Republicans won their majority in...

The GST was introduced by the Liberals? Huh? The GST was introduced January 1, 1991, by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his finance minister Michael Wilson. So-called "Conservatives." I won't bother reading the rest of your post because it's obvious that you're on another planet.

I won't address your whole post because it's idiotic, but just off the top, Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 244,000 in April. If you can't figure out why using an "average" is wrong may God have mercy on your soul.

Your math is, uh, "interesting." Adding $150 billion to $250 billion is a 60% increase. $150 billion added to $400 billion is only a 37.5% increase, which is even better considering the compounding that the 60% increase in debt caused. Do you trade? How do you not understand compounding...

Well you're factually wrong. Most of the debt in Canada was accumulated under the Brian Mulroney government, which was a Conservative government as the graph below shows which actually reinforces my point that the Canadian Conservatives are absolutely, 100% not fiscal conservatives. <img...

I gave you a list of items where the Conservatives were chronic wasteful spenders. You stated that I had no other examples, so I gave an additional list where they were chronic and wasteful spenders. The Liberals paid down the debt for 13 years. All of that money is now gone. Anything...

Exactly. You're keeping an open mind until the report is released. Unless, of course, it shows wasteful spending (which the draft already did), then it doesn't matter anyway. So heads you win, tails I lose. You can see how intellectually dishonest that is, of course.

Why can't he choose a third option: to try to improve the state of wealth inequality?

The draft report was already released, sorry to tell you. The Canadian Press already saw it, the Conservatives already lied about it, the Auditor General already slapped their hand for it...

I've spent a lot of time in Finland and, except for the winters, it's better. The only reason that Canada scores better on the HDI is because of its GDP. Plus Finland offers the average Joe 30 days paid vacation per year, plus 13 holidays.

You can see wait times in BC here: http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/swt/faces/Home.jsp;jsessionid=cc5f0ed1250b1762fa6630b900e0

Hmmm... who to believe, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the US government or Lockheed Martin... You're really keeping your head in the sand about the million dollar lake party.

There are plenty of examples: Million dollar fake lakes, critical reports from the Auditor General regarding G8 and G20 spending (which the Conservatives misquoted as if it were complimentary), more prisons, Internet surveillance, giving money out to "faith-based schools", none of gas taxes...

They've pledged to wipe out the deficit that they created. That sounds exactly like the Republicans. Three years from now Canada will still be mired in deficit, of course, because of all the promises they made. The military spending will be on F35's, in the age of drones, which have already...

Actually last I saw the "Conservatives" wiped out 13 years of Canadian debt repayments with the deficit from a single budget. So no, the raw debt is as bad as it ever was. Now they want tax cuts, and they want more spending on things like the military which means more debt.

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Ah, you don't like taking a "snapshot" at what is happening now? Okay, let's take another moment in time. The US in the past -- see the massive increases and reduction in GDP corresponding to increases and decreases in tax rates? Yeah, I don't either: <img...

Yeah, what's the US' petroleum fund at right now? Oh right, nothing. The reasons why Norway has so much money in their fund? One, they DON'T spend it, and two, they charge oil companies through the nose for royalties. Has business in Norway been suppressed? Doesn't look like it. Is their...

An interesting theory, until one looks at the statistics: Norway is, if not the richest, one of the richest countries in the world -- with high taxes and lots of socialistic policies. Sweden has a lower income per capita than the US -- until you accommodate for wealth disparity, then...