Politics of Fear and Loathing

So we are about to have a Lib-Dip-Bloc government because Canada needs immediate economic stimulus.  Never mind that GDP was up over the last quarter, or that all the other countries that we are told to model are actually in recession.  No no, Canada must follow suit and drop untold billions into the economy (sounds a tad vague).  The scariest part of this is that no one really knows what a coalition government will actually do.  Will they help the auto sector?  because unless their stimulus plan involves making Americans want to buy pickup trucks again, its not going to work.  Apparently, thats no reason to not engage in deficit financing again.  But then again, when was the last time the opposition parties actually had a viable plan for Canada anyway?  I'm getting the feeling that this coalition will simply reveal a synergetic stupidity.  Hopefully that stupidity becomes apparent before the GG even thinks about handing Dion the keys to 24 Sussex (So that he can hand them over to someone else in May).

The real irony in this is that the coalition is pushing its agenda forward under the guise of a recession and a deficit.  We now know that we are not in one and if we do go into one, its going to be pretty damn mild compared to what the rest of the western world is going through and that has a lot to do with PM Harper and the Conservative government.  The opposition is selling the idea that Canada is a broken country, they want Canadians to believe that life sucks right now and that the only answer lies in statism.  The fact is that there is no better place to be in light of current events than Canada.  But thats not what they would have you believe. 

 Looks like the ball is the GG's court, hopefully she will do the right thing (even if another election is a horrible idea).  A $300 million election would be much better than an untold billion dollar socialist experiment that will fix nothing while spending a lot of our money doing it.  On the bright side, its looking good to be in Quebec.