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Misconceptions about the Conservatives’ Fiscal Abilities.

Posted on 20 April 2010

The Conservatives are running around these days talking about how well they are handling the economy and held off the recession from affecting Canadians too badly.

This Conservative government did not create a strong economy and country, they inherited it.

It takes decades to lay the foundation for a strong and prosperous country that will withstand the outside pressures of a global financial meltdown. The Conservatives wasted a huge surplus with programs that were intended to buy votes without looking at programs which would provide any long term benefit to the country.

We were headed for a large deficit long before the global recession happened. I read an article shortly after the “stimulus package” was created that said most of the projected deficit (the one neither Steve or Jim saw coming) was not due to the stimulus package, more than half of the deficit was due to Conservative programs already announced. I would like to know how much of this and future deficits can be attributed to the so called stimulus packages and how much debt we were going to be saddled with had the recession not become an issue.

The global recession has been a great boon to Harper’s reputation and clearly covered up his mismanagement by providing him with an excuse for tough times and huge deficits.