Kelowna B.C.

Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thats January 2009 in the books
Well that’s the first month gone by for this year and a somewhat eventful one at that. President Barack Obama was inaugurated and proceeded to get busy immediately revising some of the bad legislation that George Bush imposed. That included the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison camp, which is good because their were people being held in that prison without trials for years and years without even being charged, the proper place for this activity is in a normal court of law! He also made it legal for each individual state to legislate it own vehicle emission standards, George Bush prevented this and the auto makers will finally have to keep up to the foreign auto plants who make fuel economy and emission their priority. Another thing he did just the other day was to make a new law that enabled women the right for fair and equal pay, Obama really does have values that reflect a Liberal attitude. Contrary to this new American law for women’s rights our Conservative government led by Steven Harper introduced his new budget for 2009, and in it he outlined the fact that the Canadian law for women’s fairness and equity would no longer be a legislated matter and instead is up to each women to barter and negotiate. Wow that just shows the difference between Liberals, who look out for the rights of individuals, and the Conservatives like George Bush and Steven Harper who look out for the interest of businesses and that "old boy's" club mentality. Speaking of that new budget, on Tuesday it was officially released and man o man what an expensive budget. This budget puts us on track for a deficit of over 85 billion dollars over a matter of 4 or 5 years, that’s the same debt we had over twenty years ago, the last time a Conservative government was in power, Brian Malroney. The Liberals had to vote yes to this budget because of the complete and utter chaos that our parliament was in, having being prorogued and all. Other countries were the governments could or would not take immediate action on the financial crisis surrounding all of us, have either been over thrown or their is rioting in the streets, countries like Iceland, England, France, Italy, Spain, ect. Anyways the Liberals did the right thing by not voting no, the budget will pass and some of the much needed money that has been allocated to infrastructure spending will be spent and that puts Canadians back to work and off of E.I. They also added an amendment that requires the Conservatives to report back quarterly to show how all this money and plans have helped the economy to get back to normal. I do not agree with most things in this budget but the need to get things started right away far out weigh the need to get all the details in order. The N.D.P. are really mad about the Liberals decision to support the budget because Jack Layton was hell bent on forming a coalition government and he used the agreement he had with Stephane Dion as the sole purpose to oppose everything and anything that Conservative government said or did, at the end of the day it is the N.D.P. who look childish and no cooperative. I hope under the new leadership of Michael Ignatieff that the Liberals do get back into power, and quickly, because it always seems to be the Liberals who are financially responsible and they do look out for the vulnerable and the minority groups. I think that us Canadians have the reputation in the world for being polite, pleasant, tolerant, and leaders in equality, is because it has been a Liberal government in power here in Canada for about 90% of our existence as a country. Sure they have done some things wrong or their had been corruption but every government has that, no one is perfect and the good things far out weigh the bad things with the Liberals. Anyways that’s the post this week, I have been clipping out the various infrastructure projects slated for the Okanagan and I will be following up on what government spending is done here and how many jobs it will be creating, I look forward to blogging about that.
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