How Stupid Does Harper Think You Are?

I'll tell you how stupid he thinks you are: he thinks you're a blithering idiot with a very short memory. How do I know that he thinks this? Well, let's look at Mr. Harper's latest attack line: that the Liberals will drive the country into deficit. First of all, that's impossible, because by all accounts, Mr. Harper has already put us there. First quarter fiscal statements for this budgetary year confirm that. Now, perhaps things will rally and we might squeak through this year in decent shape, but it's been a long time since that was even a concern at all.

Let me remind Stephen Harper of a thing or two: it was the hard work of a LIBERAL Government that wiped out Brian Mulroney's massive deficits. It was a LIBERAL government that took the heat, but did it because it was right, and it was Tories who whined and griped about it back then. Oh, and while that heavy lifting was going on, Stéphane Dion was at the Cabinet table, helping to make those tough decisions.

One of the first things Stephen Harper did when he came to power was to roll back the tax cuts on people in the lowest income brackets, while at the same time giving out massive handouts to all kinds of corporate entities, as well as the oil and gas industry, which is making a killing and doesn't need a subsidy from me. We are in the middle of an era that will see a massive transfer of wealth within Canada, where those at the very top will be awash in cash, while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet. The slash and burn policies of Mr. Harper and Mr. Flaherty have pushed us into another age of deficits, handing off more debt to our children, and their children, to pay for.

So let me remind the Prime Minister of something: Liberals won't put this country into a deficit; Liberals will bring this country back out of the fiscal hole dug for us by Mr. Harper. This Prime Minister is no more capable of managing the economy than McCain-Bush, and it's about time that Canadians woke up, saw the writing on the wall, and realized that. Stephen Harper thinks that you're too dumb to figure it out though. He thinks you're too big an idiot to see through the wool he's pulled over your eyes. It's time to prove him wrong.