OnTheIce OnTheIce:
Kevin Page "predicted" a deficit. People predict stuff all the time. Some people predict the World is going to end next year
Read it again. This wasn't some pie in the eye prediction but rather a careful analysis of the data. He called it right and he kept calling it right even as Flaherties budget estimates were shown to be woefully wrong over and over and over again.
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
So while companies are stuggling, take more money from them and raise the GST on people too? Not really the best "plan" to recover from a recession.
This plan has never come to the surface, either.
The issue you cited was that they were going to run a deficit just like the CPC not the viability of their plans (which economists supported BTW).
One has nothing to do with the other. They had plans to minimize the impact of the recession and Harper did not and as detailed in Pages report, it was Harper's policies that were driving us into the red.
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
First, I've never made a peep about the shit the Liberals were left with coming into power in 1993. I don't ignore reality. Eveyone knows they were handed a bag of shit and did whatever they could to dig us out.
You say that now but I recall you said something different during one of our many debates and in addition laid a lot of the fiscal blame on Trudeau who also had his own recession.
The bolded part? Where have you ever posted such a sentiment. Its not like you posted "excuse me, but I realize the Liberals did a wonderful job but they did actually add to the debt". Had you said that it would be a different story.
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
Not all people who support the Conservative Party are the same, Derby. You've consistantly had a problem with that, thinking anyone who supports Harper thinks the same and has the same opinions.
And yet you were all cheering on Harper prior to the massive deficit. I have consistently laid out a policy of defending the Liberals fiscal performance based on what they did and only bring Harper into it when somebody tries to use his as an example of sound fiscal policies.
I far from treat every CPC supporter as the same. I don't hold you are to be anti-choice or anti-gay marriage just because that is a majority held CPC position. I deal specifically with those people in the proper topics. Yours just happens to be a consistent misrepresentation (and that is my opinion) of the realities of the economic position the Libs were in and what they did. Plenty of CPC supports are pro-choice, pro-SSM, and raving Atheists like myself.
Doesn't alter my belief that the CPC under Harper will reopen the abortion and SSM debates.
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
Give people the benefit of the doubt and hear them out before you put words in their mouths.

I'm not putting words in your mouth. You seem to get extremely offended that anybody even suggest the Liberals did anything but add to the federal debt and thus don't deserve their economic reputation.
Partisanship aside, you'll recall I said the only good thing about a Harper government was that he would keep paying down the debt. I did however once explain to Tricks that either Harper was going to break many of his promises or else we were headed to deficit spending (and this was back in 2007). I was right on the money.
