Imaginary Conversation
PM: “How bad is it, Jim?”
JF: “Ugly. Not so ugly in most of Canada, horrible in Ontario.”
PM: “Suggestions?”
JF: Well, other than diverting a few of Benanke’s helicopters. Not much. Problem is that unlike the rest of the world we have a functioning banking system and a relatively small national debt. If we start pumping money in all we’ll do is make the debt bigger and create inflation.
PM: But the Opposition keeps demanding bailouts. Our own guys want us to be seen as “doing something”.
JF: Sure. We won the election and all.
PM: No we didn’t. That’s the Hell of it. We picked up a few seats.
JF: We’ll get our majority next time.
PM: Not if next time is on the other side of a full scale 15% unemployment recession.
JF: Not going to happen.
PM: You know that, I know that, but the Toronto Star is howling for deficits right now! You know Jim, it might not have been a bad idea to have lost the last election by a few seats and let Stephan carry the can.
JF: Well that could be arranged…
PM: How Jim, tell me how.
November 28th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Coalition now
Nothing would be funnerer that seeing Harper as Leader of the Opposition for, you know, seven weeks.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:38 am
It is to laugh. When economists (or those who play them on TV) aren’t predicting 8 of the last 3 recessions, they are, with the help of the anti-capitalist crowd, predicting the end of capitalism.
This happened in the early 1990s.
It happened in the early 1980s.
Hell, the entire 1970s was one long economic crisis if you read history backwards.
If this isn’t the adult equivalent of “Chicken Little” you wouldn’t be able to pick out the difference at a distance.
And there comes Howard Hampton saying “...some people even call it a Depression…”.
Yeah, that’s helpful, Howie. How is it that yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is against the law, but this dork can get away with this?
Hasn’t anyone else noticed that recessions are getting shallower, shorter and further apart?
November 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I’m with Alan—
Coalition now!
November 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
We need t-shirts that say that.
November 28th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I wanted a hippopotamus for Christmas, but that’ll definitely do instead.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:11 am
If voters are as cynical as I am with majority governing politics, they are now as cynical of oppositions who foment political coups instead of amend legislation.
Prediction: Harper calls it unworkable (the coalition wants to deficit spend in a recession) , we go to the polls in Feb and we see 10 new seats for a CPC government….BTW we cam blame this dysfunctional parliament on Danny Williams. ;-)
November 30th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
It has been said that Stephen Harper doesn’t do anything by chance. I totally agree with you, Jay: I believe that Harper has deliberately orchestrated a chain of events, specifically designed to make his government fall. This is a strategic defeat; losing this current battle in order to win the war. If the economy is destined to “go for a shit” no matter what anybody does, much better that it happen on someone else’s watch. Also, if the Bloc Quebecois do a deal with the Liberals and NDP (i.e., supporting the evil federalists), the Bloc will lose credibility with the separatists in Quebec—-sheer brilliance!
Coalition Now!!