Why doesn't Harper fire Flaherty?
By James Laxer | December 17, 2008

Today, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is meeting with provincial
ministers of finance in Saskatoon.

Why is this man still at the helm of financial policy making in
Ottawa?

This is the finance minister who earlier this year said publicly that
he could see little reason why companies would choose to invest in
Ontario. His cure for everything, including the massive problems of
the auto industry, has been corporate tax cuts. His beef with Queen's
Park was that the Ontario government wasn't slashing corporate taxes
the way Flaherty thought they should.

Just under two months ago, on October 23, here is Jim Flaherty
speaking in Calgary:

"Our economic fundamentals are the strongest in the G7. I'm proud to
serve as the Finance Minister and travel abroad and meet with my G7
colleagues. I was speaking with one of them this morning on the phone
in Europe. Our economic fundamentals are the envy of the G7. We run
balanced budgets here.....As I say, other nations are envious of our
situation."

Here is how Flaherty concluded his speech:

"Let me conclude by repeating that our economy has solid economic
fundamentals, and Canadians can take some pride in that. I can assure
you that our budget will remain balanced. We do have the strongest
economic fundamentals in the G7. I can also assure you that our
spending will be controlled."

"Let me end with three good reasons to be optimistic about Canada and
our economy. Our economy is strong. Our government is focused with
strong leadership by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. And our country is
united. My friends, we have a brilliant future together and I thank
you for the invitation to be with you today."

Remember, this speech was delivered after the election---Flaherty was
not trolling for votes. This self-centred, smug, bone-headed view of
things is what the man actually thought a few weeks ago. He likely
still thinks this heap of bromides makes sense.

Even John McCain and Sarah Palin weren't saying things as dumb as this
about the economy in late October.

Then came Flaherty's Economic Statement on November 27, a document
that has been amply analysed for its economics and its politics as
dumber than a bag full of hammers (an expression beloved in the
Maritimes).

Any competent government on earth by now would have fired a finance
minister with a record as dismal as that of Jim Flaherty. No one
trusts him. When he tells the media, as he did today, that he wants to
work "collaboratively" with provincial finance ministers, it doesn't
pass the giggle test.

Nothing more clearly reveals the ingrained stubborness of the Harper
government than the fact that it has not turfed out this incompetent
minister.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff ought to pay careful attention to
this. He has to decide by late January whether to vote confidence in
the Harper government. That vote may come on the new Speech from the
Throne or on the Budget. Before choosing to throw in his lot with the
"Harper Team," he ought to ponder what it means that next to the prime
minister, Jim Flaherty has been kept on as the number two man on that
team.

On Dec 19, 8:08*am, fraeoldbobpeff...@gmail.com wrote:
> Why doesn't Harper fire Flaherty?
> By James Laxer | December 17, 2008

Showing your intellectual dishonesty again my roving socialist
fruitcake?

Here is the source for your bit of plagarism. Trotskyism at its best.

[url]http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/derrick/why-doesnt-harper-fire-flaherty[/url]

Lay off the ginerbread cookies, they're constipating you.

On Dec 19, 11:00*am, "Matthew Kruk" <over...@rainbow.com> wrote:
> Lay off the ginerbread cookies, they're constipating you.

Peffers had better lay off a *lot* more than gingerbread cookies.
That and drink a 40 gallon drum of laxatives.

[email]fraeoldbobpeffers@gmail.com[/email] wrote:


Rabble, oh Racist one? That's the best you can plagiarize? Hahahaha,
you are so stupid! What a moron.

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"If a coup does not make use of the masses, or of warfare,
what instrument of power will enable it to seize control of the state?
The short answer is that the power will come from the state itself."

-Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook
By Edward Luttwak

Loaf of Bread wrote:
> On Dec 19, 11:00 am, "Matthew Kruk" <over...@rainbow.com> wrote:
>> Lay off the ginerbread cookies, they're constipating you.
>
> Peffers had better lay off a *lot* more than gingerbread cookies.
> That and drink a 40 gallon drum of laxatives.
>

That's gotta be enough to get rid of his/its socialist brain tumor.

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"If a coup does not make use of the masses, or of warfare,
what instrument of power will enable it to seize control of the state?
The short answer is that the power will come from the state itself."

-Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook
By Edward Luttwak

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:53:20 -0700, while chained to a desk
in the scriptorium snowman <x@x.x> wrote:
> $Loaf of Bread wrote:
> $> On Dec 19, 11:00 am, "Matthew Kruk" <over...@rainbow.com> wrote:
> $>> Lay off the ginerbread cookies, they're constipating you.
> $>
> $> Peffers had better lay off a *lot* more than gingerbread cookies.
> $> That and drink a 40 gallon drum of laxatives.
> $
> $That's gotta be enough to get rid of his/its socialist brain tumor.

Unfortunatley my tanker truck is dedicated to scotch
deliveries. So Peffers will have to find an alternate
supplier.

--

John Fleming
Edmonton, Canada

Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O
With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,
Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP
Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:52:18 -0700, while chained to a desk
in the scriptorium snowman <x@x.x> wrote:
> $fraeoldbobpeffers@gmail.com wrote:
> $
> $Rabble, oh Racist one? That's the best you can plagiarize? Hahahaha,
> $you are so stupid! What a moron.

You don't really expect him to quote "The Economist", do
you?

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John Fleming
Edmonton, Canada

Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O
With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,
Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP
Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O

In article <1rook4lgpinkocotv9idumde500sh9l4s8@4ax.com>,
John Fleming <nospam@sprynet.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:53:20 -0700, while chained to a desk
>in the scriptorium snowman <x@x.x> wrote:
>> $Loaf of Bread wrote:
>> $> On Dec 19, 11:00 am, "Matthew Kruk" <over...@rainbow.com> wrote:
>> $>> Lay off the ginerbread cookies, they're constipating you.
>> $>
>> $> Peffers had better lay off a *lot* more than gingerbread cookies.
>> $> That and drink a 40 gallon drum of laxatives.
>> $
>> $That's gotta be enough to get rid of his/its socialist brain tumor.
>
>Unfortunatley my tanker truck is dedicated to scotch
>deliveries. So Peffers will have to find an alternate
>supplier.
>
>--
>
>John Fleming
>Edmonton, Canada
>
> Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
> And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O
> With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,
> Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP
> Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O

Mixed with Peach schnapps?
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"The Doctor" <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message
news:giiqst$j4q$22@gallifrey.nk.ca...
> In article <1rook4lgpinkocotv9idumde500sh9l4s8@4ax.com>,
> John Fleming <nospam@sprynet.com> wrote:
>>On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:53:20 -0700, while chained to a desk
>>in the scriptorium snowman <x@x.x> wrote:
>>> $Loaf of Bread wrote:
>>> $> On Dec 19, 11:00 am, "Matthew Kruk" <over...@rainbow.com> wrote:
>>> $>> Lay off the ginerbread cookies, they're constipating you.
>>> $>
>>> $> Peffers had better lay off a *lot* more than gingerbread cookies.
>>> $> That and drink a 40 gallon drum of laxatives.
>>> $
>>> $That's gotta be enough to get rid of his/its socialist brain tumor.
>>
>>Unfortunatley my tanker truck is dedicated to scotch
>>deliveries. So Peffers will have to find an alternate
>>supplier.
>>
>>--
>>
>>John Fleming
>>Edmonton, Canada
>>
>> Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
>> And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O
>> With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,
>> Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP
>> Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
>
> Mixed with Peach schnapps?

Scotch is best straight or on ice.