Ozzyfan4077

Here's the problem with Corporate tax breaks, you won't see tax relief for the poor or working class if you give the corporations the tax breaks. The Right, in an attempt at de-villifying themselves, claims that it will lead to the "Trickle-down effect" well, guess what? That's such a load of bull shit that Penn and Teller would spontaneously combust if they tried to cover it. That creative manipulation of words leads us to believe that by giving the corporations tax it breaks will lead to better paying jobs and/or more employment, well, that money never trickles down past the corporate office, and ends up in the pockets of the rich pigs that got the break in the first place. Also worth noting that a lot of these coprorations are the same ones that took advantage of the free trade agreement brought in to place by Blue man Brian Mulrooney and have all their workers in 3rd World countries working for pennies a day. Windsor, Ontario never forgot what Mulrooney did to them with Free Trade, thanks to that Windsor saw all it's car plants go to Mexico when the companies that were founded off the working backs of Windsorites and Detroiters decided they were going to take adavantage of the agreement and skip town. Isn't it funny that so called Canadian companies like Bell have all those Call center agents with very thick east indian accents? Oh wait, that's right, thanks to that free trade deal they could stop paying people in Canada $10 (friggin $10, min wage in most cases, maybe they'd pay a bit more now) an hour to speak good English to fellow Canadians and ship that work off to India so they could do it for a fraction of the cost. Bet you'd like to see Bell get a big juicy corportate tax break, that'd make it's way to laid off workers like me, right? right? Oh wait, I'm in Canada, not India. Cut out the Blue, filter down the Green to Elizabeth May and you've got a hell of party. It'll be interesting to see how the Liberals try to rebuild themselves from their absolute devastation. Hopefully the Bloc takes the hint and deregisters.

Well...That's a variable stat, sure, there are probably people that felt that way, but there's also those who may have missed their opportunity to vote for some reason, those who didn't like any candidates, etc. So to throw all that on the Conservative vote is unfair. Interesting thought though.

Uh huh, and a Republic Government can pass such laws as well. As can a Communist, Totalitarian or Monarchy government, your point is?

Here's an article from the The Telegram, the main news paper in NL, I think you'll enjoy the read. http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2011-05-07/article-2486153/The-best-of-times%2C-the-worst-of-times/1 5.8 mil voted Blue, but as usual, there were far more voting Red or Orange, 7.3 mil total. The Left won, again, but the unified Right took the title. Makes me hate this three party system, if we were a two party system like the U.S We'd have the left in power right now.

I'll admit, Iggz was a terrible party leader. Much of the blame for several Ontarian traditional red ridings may have been lost because of him, his own riding included, but my MP is a great guy, and serves our riding very well. I also think that perhaps Justin Trudeau could make a good leader for the party, but that goes back to my original wish for a unified left, and if that were the case I'd be inclined to see Layton lead them. That brings me to the Greens. Aside from May herself they're write-ins, this is not a party I could ever get behind, in my riding and the neighboring ridings in NL they were University students with no idea what they were doing, yet May thought they'd be good candidates? However, she could be a good member of a Unified Left, leader, no, member, yes. I'm aware of the insanity that is the Tea Party, I agree, EXTREME Right. I also agree with your view on the Bloc, yet believe it or not they're considered Leftists. Hopefully, they get deregistered in the next four years, or become no more a contender than the Rhinocerous party. The Bloc are blatantly self serving and stomp on the other provinces rather than work with them, and everytime ANYONE, right or left, suggests something thats not 100% satisfactory to them they start raving about referendums and seperation.

Never said I was a Liberal, Not once did I say I was a Liberal. If a label must be affixed to me I'm a Leftist. In my riding the Left winger that stood the best chance of winning was the Liberal candidate, and he also served our riding very well since his previous win. The other ridings, like that of Scott Simms and Gerry Byrne (Oddly enough, there was a Conservative candidate named Jerry Byrne in another riding.), were also served exceptionally well in the previous minority governments. Liberals, with Loyola Hearn being a glaring exception, have been loyal to their province, and until now were at worst, the Official Opposition, hence their repeated success. However, they've been unseated before by the Blue crew, and Provincially, we've been blue for almost ten years under the revolutionary leadership of Danny Williams. That being said, if you look at many of the blue ridings East of Manitoba (even a scattered one west of it), you'll see a remarkable pheonomenon I call Divided Left Decision. We live in a left wing country aside from Canada's Texas and Alabama a.k.a Alberta and Sask. Unfortunatly, since the Conservatives came under one umbrella there's been only one way for Conservative supporters to vote, and thats with the Harper crew. On the other side of the coin, you have two major parties (NDP and Liberals) and one write-in party (Green), so while the Right stands united, the left vote gets split between the two majors, with a few votes lost to the Greens, but if you add up the two major lefts, Left wins in many cases. But Alberta and Sask can't vote outside the blue box. We saw Harper pull off things that would get the rest of us fired in from our jobs leading up to this Election, yet the West blindly voted for him and Ontario and the Maritime provinces that aren't Newfoundland got the split left losing to a united right resulting in him not only keeping his job, but basically getting a fucking promotion. If a Right side leader like Danny came along, I'd vote for him, but Harper, is the antithesis of Danny, and the Conservative candidates that tried to get the NL vote were nothing but puppets who were given cushy jobs as Senators, Ambassadors and the head of NALCOR as favours to be repaid when Harper came calling. Lets see what happens in the next four years, my gut says nothing good. In fact, with the opposition basically helpless to stop Harper and his puppets from passing or doing whatever they want, as with Conservative majorities of the past, people (Alberta and Sask excluded) will be begging for Left wing leadership again. My only hope is that with a destroyed Bloc and a reeling Liberal party we'll finally see a united left to compete with the Conservatives. Yeah, on the topic of people's right to speak, did you notice how Alberta's chosen one wouldn't even allow the very people he depended on to vote for him to even ask him questions during his campaign? I never said people had to do what I said, my intention was to open the eyes of Canada's voting public to the deplorable activities of our own leader and to elect new leadership.

I hate the provinces west of Ontario, fucking hate them. Like Lemmings they vote Conservative every damn election without even giving a hint of consideration that other parties even exist. Adolf Hitler himself could run for the Conservative party and get a seat out West, its pathetic. In my experience out West I found a lot of Albertans acting condescending toward me because I was from Newfoundland, and they perceived me as stupid because of it. Well, at least my Province had the Political conscience not to vote for a party who's own leader prorogued and deceived their way to the Election in the first place. But it's fine though, if there's anything left to Canada in four years then just like every Right wing majority before it, they'll piss off everyone to the point where everyone EAST of Manitoba will vote in a Left wing party, hopefully a unified Left wing party. The only consolation in this Election is the decimation of the Bloc.

If only we were still in those naive days of thinking that your vote was for the lesser of three evils. No, there's only one evil at play here, and it's Harper. A power hungry, Democracy dodging asshole of a human being. A vote for the Conservatives is a vote against Democracy and a vote against your very country. Harper has to go, there's no other way.

Damn right I'll be voting. Vote Right for a Dictator, Vote Left for Democracy. That's what this boils down to. Drynot, don't be afraid to vote for the left despite your Provinces history of voting for the right. Follow Quebec's example and show that other parties can survive in your province.

Also consider that being a female your options for professional competition are severly limited. Not being sexist, just relaying information I've learned along my own path to become a fighter. (albeit, a Pro Wrestler, but you'd be amazed at how much the two sports have in common. There's a reason why Ken Shamrock, Brock Lesnar, Josh Barnett, Frank Trigg, Dan Severn, Sean O'Haire and Bobby Lashley have all trasitioned between the two sports) The only MMA Organization in North America with any exposure that offers Female divisions is StrikeForce, which were bought out by Zuffa, the group that owns UFC, which as we know, has no interest in a Womens product. So we'll see how long it lasts in StrikeForce from here on in. Bellator has flirted with the idea, but they're struggling to stay outside the UFC umbrella as it is. So you're options would be to fight at Flea Markets and the like with basically no other way up outside of going to Japan or hoping that StrikeForce gets to continue it's Womens division into the forseable future.

The one time I bought diapers they were Life brand (From Shoppers Drug Mart), and I had a roommate at the time, so I hid them beneath my dresser. The dresser I had then had no opening on the bottom, as some do, so I placed them under the bottom drawer, my roommate had no idea.

Again with the cost of an Election. That tired, dead horse gets beaten once more. Harper wasted more on The Summit than will be spent for this election. I for one, despite what Harper said the Canadian people wanted, jumped at the thought of an Election. A chance to push out the dictator, hell yeah I want that. It's hardly a parliamentry break when he continually pulls the prorogation crap, Harper prorogued every time the opposition did it's job and opposed him. You know, as well as I do, that's evasion of democracy. Think of it this way, if you were watching a Boxing match and every time one fighter was about to knock his opponent out the other fighter's corner called time out, wouldn't that seem unfair to you? As for tax cuts to the big guys on the basis of creating jobs. I've been to Windsor, Ontario, where the big guys got tax breaks. You know what they did with those tax breaks? Thanks to Brian Mulrooney (A Blue Priminister, but a different Blue, albeit.) and his free trade agreements they took their car plants to Mexico. Check out that dying city where the rich are still rich and no one else can find a damn job, but thanks for giving those big corporations those tax breaks. All anyone can really say about the Orange and Red sides is "Higher Taxes, OH NO!" But that's the only reason I'm hearing to vote against them, that and Ignatieff keeps getting portrayed as generally inept. (I'd rather an inept leader than an iron-fisted dictator) But Harper promised once upon a time he wouldn't raise taxes and shortly after getting elected broke that promise. Every campaign rides of the platform of lowering taxes or at least keeping them at their current level, so I don't buy any of Harpers attack ad "High Taxes" crap he keeps flinging around. I do agree with you though, I would like to see an American style platform like the one you mentioned. I also agree that we won't be seeing eye to eye politically, maybe, with a change of leadership we might, but I will NEVER cast a vote for a man who shows predjudice towards my home province, that's Harper. Harper wins, Canada loses...Unless you're a filthy rich Albertan or a fighter pilot. (I'll take the loss on the army quote, I sourced it afterwards and wound up on the same dead end as you.)

I'm against Harper, yes, and my words attack his government, I admit, but I'm not running for candidacy, I'm aggresively fighting to save my Province, Newfoundland and Labrador, YOUR Maritime neighbors from the tyranny and poverty a Harper Majority would bring. Newfoundland, despite what the ignorant masses in Ontario, Alberta and Quebec think, have actually become economically viable, we're one of the few provinces with a surplus, and our oil wells are the reason. Before Danny Williams came along we were losing money on our own oil to Ottawa and Danny fought to right that wrong, and he did. Two billion was to be awarded to our province and Paul Martin signed on the deal, the Atlantic Accord. Along the way, one of our own, John Efford tried to convince Danny, for Effords own benefit, to settle for less, he refused. Then Harper came along, with his lap dog Fabian Manning, and Harper decided to break Martin's promise and not give us what was rightfully owed to us, and act of persecution against a Province he didn't like. Danny fought valiantly, while Manning applauded Harper for breaking his promise. We won again, the two billion was ours again, but by the time it was all said and done we lost 1.6 back to Harper in his claw backs. He's robbed us of what is rightfully ours, and he doesn't care because all he see's are seven seats, not 500,000+ people. If you think he see's New Brunswick and differently you're kidding yourself. Yeah sure, throw away 29 or 30 Billion on Jets, but at least have the balls to tell us, he was going to hide his costs until the NDP and the Liberals spoke up and called foul. The man was found in CONTEMPT over those jets, so yeah, big win for the army there, enjoy your ill gotten gains. OH WAIT, No, the Armed Forces can't enjoy that because Harper froze their f-ing wages. Even if Ignatieff did have poor attendance, he didn't have the audacity to prorogue government when he wasn't getting his own way, no, that's Harper's doing, MULTIPLE TIMES. The only thing in this for Harper is his own weatlh and ensuring his own Oil Baron buddies in Alberta get to enjoy their wealth too. That's your quote, Green or Conservative. Explain to me how Harper doesn't sound like an Elitist? He cuts funding to First Nations and Womens groups, he continually tried to cut off Newfoundland at the knee caps every time we showed prosperity, (and only thanks to Williams dedication to the battle with Ottawa did we acheive that) and levies tax breaks to the rich corporations. That's an elitist by definition, someone who rules by weilding power with the Elite of Society. A Vote for the Conservatives is a vote AGAINST Democracy!

Really? Half a billion dollars that the NDP and Liberals spent is what made you decide to not vote for either party? Given that Harper spent over 35 billion on those damn jets you're going to worry about half a billion? What about Harpers spend spree on the Summit last summer? Is that ok? Is Harper cancelling parliament because he doesn't like the outcome and hiding costs ok? Just because your riding is typically blue is no reason just to join the Mob. That mentality is the same one that's allowed middle eastern dicators to control their countries for decades at a time, rise up, be heard! People should not fear their government, The Government should fear it's people! Don't listen to attack ads either, which is where your info on Ignatieff's attendance comes from, I like Layton, I do, but I hate attack ads, all it states is "Look at what the other guy did!" It doesn't tell me why I should vote for you, it just tells me why I shouldn't vote for him. In a multi-party system that can cast votes away to the other parties. If you watched the English debate at all you'd have seen the true colors of Harper seeping through his cue card rhetoric, he's a dictator, and a man who stomps on our democracy time and time again to serve his own needs. That's my rant.

This is it, my fellow Candians, it's time to go back to the vote and decide who we want controlling our livlihood. Whether you like to admit it or not, the folks in the suits on the hill decide who gets taxed, who gets funds and who gets to develop their resources. YOU get to decide who you want making these decisions when you VOTE. That's your voice and your way to be heard, I'm looking at you my fellow young, eligible voters, get out there and make a change for once and stop letting the older generations decide whats best for us and whats best for those about to come after us. Stephen Harper, NEEDS to go. For the good of Canada, he NEEDS to be voted out. He's proven time and time again that Democracy is nothing but an obstacle to him, and he's bypassed it when he could, thats unacceptable in a democratic society. He's prorogued parliament, hidden costs and been found in Contempt of Parliament, something no one in Canadian or Commonwealth history has done. Think about that. If you're a Newfoundlander, you definitely have no reason to vote for him, he's shown nothing but discontent towards our humble little Province and has taken from us when he can. Even when our Premier, Danny Williams was fighting for our rights he was breaking his promises and taking from us. Danny was awarded 2 Billion for our province and when Harper was done he had raked back 1.6 Billion of that. His minions running in for the Conservatives here in NL are there only to line their own pockets, and as Fabian Manning has proven before he's willing to sell us down the river to suit himself, and the others are no better than he. So get out there and vote, my fellow Canadians, but remember, a Harper majority, given his iron fisted, democracy parrying past could lead to a dictatorship in the home of the Maple Leaf.