If and it's a big IF, Conservatives told the truth this is what we would be hearing on the campaign trail;
We'd like to cut taxes by 25%. Of course this would benefit the rich greatly because they would save huge amounts of money....well because they make huge amounts of money. Fair is fair!! You will save money too, but you better hang on to your savings, you'll soon see why.
With government revenues down, you the ordinary worker will now have to pay user fees for services that your collective taxes used to pay for.
Yes! We know that user fees are another form of a tax, but we will use Government revenues to pay our pals in the advertising industry to convince you that they are in fact not taxes. You'll believe us too. We learned that from the Mike Harris Tories in Ontario after he was re-elected to a second term.
What it will also do is reduce the governments ability to govern and would allow business to violate all the rules/red tape that society has imposed on them, because, gee...we hadda layoff all those civil servants who would have enforced the rules.
We will then have to implements cuts in Medicare....again...gee......because government revenues are down. Gosh and gawddamn...we just gonna have to delist more and more services that used to be covered by Medicare to our buddies in the private sector. Yeah! We know it's privatizing Medicare, but hell, with a majority government you cannot stop us. 'Sides..we'd just do some more advertising...
Kyoto? What Kyoto? We don't agree with that treaty because our pals in business told us that we do not support that illogical treaty. There is no global warming. It's a figment of your imagination, George Bush said so!
That George has some fine ideas. We especially like his ideas about Iraq. We've said it before and we'll say it again. Our troops should have gone to Iraq because of Saddam Husseins arsenal of WMDs,........no sorry, because Saddam was an evil dictator and we needed to liberate the Iraqi people......actually because Iraq is the forefront of the war on terror. Yeah! We know again that the majority of Canadians opposed this war, but we'd just do some advertising to convince the voters that they really support it. Of course we're not going to suit up Jason Kenney in body armour nor will we provide Stockwell Day with a jet-ski and send them off to Iraq. Do you see any of the political elite, or the children of prominent Americans going to Iraq? Whassa matter with you?
That's the job of ordinary citizens and their sons/daughters. Plus it will provide them with good jobs, because we'd speed up the imposition of Free Trade treaties with the rest of the Americas. We have to do this because Canadian workers are too highly paid and our businesses cannot compete with other low wage countries.
As you'll recall, under the last Conservative government the N.A.F.T.A. agreement cost a lot of Canadians their well paying jobs and made us and our business associates a lot of money.
We'd roll back many of the liberties that Canadians have come to take for granted because of the war on terror and..
Oh! Yeah, we'd build some super-jails and hire extra police, 'cause you know, there are some trouble makers out there in society who want to protest just about everything. Our Mike Harris experience taught us that.
Of course we are only asking for two terms. After that you will not recignize Canada, just like Brian Mulroney famously told you three Liberal majorities ago.
We know that after two terms we are not likely to ever get elected again. But thats okay with us. After all it was okay for Mikey and Brian as well.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
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