[Newsbot]

Title: Conservatives commit $16 million to 'action plan' ads while cutting programs
Category: Political
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2012-10-10 17:07:02
Canadian

[Curtman]

$1:

The Conservative government has approved tens of millions of dollars in "economic action plan" ads this year even as it cites fiscal restraint to cut programs such as scientific research and environmental monitoring.
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When the Conservatives came to office in 2006, they inherited a federal advertising budget of $41.3 million -- a total they have doubled, and in one case more than tripled, every year they've been in power to date.

Well done fiscal Conservatives. The Ministry of Information is expanding at a rapid pace.

[PluggyRug]

You need to write to the ministry of ministries to complain.

[Zipperfish]

Noit exactly a new trick. The Liberals Did It To and all that. Although watching their commercail talking about all the wonderful things they've done for the environment isa little tough to swallow. It's like "If you play the tape backwards you can see the officers are trying to help Mr. King up."

[Curtman]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Noit exactly a new trick. The Liberals Did It To and all that.

The Liberals did it with surplus money. The irony of borrowing money to tell us how they've got a great plan to help the economy is pretty funny.

[Freakinoldguy]

Curtman Curtman:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Noit exactly a new trick. The Liberals Did It To and all that.

The Liberals did it with surplus money. The irony of borrowing money to tell us how they've got a great plan to help the economy is pretty funny.

Was that surplus money, after Mr. Martin balanced the budget????

[Curtman]

2002 was the only year they came close to the cons record of 130 million. That year they had a 7 billion surplus after a 37 billion debt payment.

[Lemmy]

Curtman Curtman:

The irony of borrowing money to tell us how they've got a great plan to help the economy is pretty funny.

I did notice that they took down the gigantic



sign on Highway 400 near Parry Sound, conspicuously, right after the shady G8 spending fiasco in Tony Clement's riding hit the news.

[OnTheIce]

Surely they could have got the message out without spending as much as they do. It's excessive.

Curtman Curtman:

The Liberals did it with surplus money. The irony of borrowing money to tell us how they've got a great plan to help the economy is pretty funny.

And spending surplus money, money that could be used to pay down wouldn't have been a better idea?

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Newsbot Newsbot:

Title: Conservatives commit $16 million to 'action plan' ads while cutting programs
Category: Political
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2012-10-10 17:07:02
Canadian

-J.

[bootlegga]

Why aren't they advertising on CKA? They should be funneling some of that cash Trev's way! Dirty rotten bastards!

Seriously, who cares? $100 million is a drop in the bucket budget-wise.

It's just like the $30 million for political parties. Cutting it isn't going to do a damn in dealing with the $20 BILLION or so deficit. All this is is another form of partisan politics (and yes, it's one the Liberals used when they were in office too). It's just one of the advantages of running the government and not sitting in the Opposition.

[Freakinoldguy]

Curtman Curtman:

2002 was the only year they came close to the cons record of 130 million. That year they had a 7 billion surplus after a 37 billion debt payment.

Hmm I wonder where a large portion of that 37 Billion dollar payment came from.

$1:

Supreme Court grants PSAC leave to appeal pension surplus case

The Supreme Court of Canada has granted PSAC’s application for leave to appeal a longstanding pension case.

In October 2010 the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed our case against the federal government for expropriating $28 billion from the federal superannuation fund.

At issue is the fact that the federal government raided a $28 billion surplus from the public service, RCMP and Canadian Forces pension plans after passing legislation that restructured the way the plans are managed.

And can you guess when this pension grab took place? Long before the Conservatives came to power.

So after clawing back pension monies, EI benefits and other things, yes the Liberals did indeed spend surplus monies on their political campaigning, but it was only surplus money because they took it from another source and put it in general revenue.

So to quote another person on this board who objected to percieved unfair criticism of his party:

"This whole thread can fuck right off".

[Regina]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

"This whole thread can fuck right off".

Most sensible comment in the thread.

[Curtman]

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Co ... story.html

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an examination of the Conservative government's first five years in office shows it overshot those cabinet-approved ad budgets by $128 million — more than 37 per cent
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NDP finance critic Peggy Nash questioned why taxpayers' dollars are being spent in a time of restraint on a budgetary concept first introduced to Canadians almost four years ago.

"The 'economic action plan' is already completed," Nash said.

"So we have to wonder why they're advertising now on a program that's already finished — during a budget period that is based on austerity and cutting back programs and services for Canadians."
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In 2010-11, the last full year for which final accounting is available, the Harper cabinet approved $65.4 million in spending, but the government ran up an advertising bill of $83.3 million.

A year earlier, at the height of the economic crisis and during an influenza pandemic, the government approved $85.3 million in advertising but spent $136.3 million.

Poor managers created the deficit. They aren't capable of fixing it.

[PluggyRug]

Regina Regina:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

"This whole thread can fuck right off".

Most sensible comment in the thread.

This thread is like trying to plait sawdust.