What the fuck. *epic facepalm*

[dantaron]

So, I came home from work last night around 10:45, went to bed, woke up this morning. And then my mom said "Did you hear about the coup last night?" Of course, I hadn't. And diofnsioudnfvod.
Fucking idiotsApparently, the gen-ass Liberals teamed up with the the NDP and the BLOC QUEBECOIS to form a coalition government and kick the Conservatives out

Comments

[dantaron]

Oh, no, it's not illegal, and neither is seizing power from the government - it's just idiotic and probably not what's best for the people.
Also, quoting Edward Luttwark in Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook (as reached through wikipedia):
"A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder."
Smaller part of the government taking over the whole thing. =/ Sounds reasonable, but again, it's just what my mom called it, so I've been calling it the same.

Well, if you want to overthrow the government but don't want another election (traditionally, whenever that happened, like in the 20s, the GG would refuse the request to dissolve parliment - and that was a year after the last election! this is seven weeks!), don't overthrow the government in the first place. Unless you want to do, well, this, and ally with a bunch of separatists whose purpose is to further Quebec's agenda and destroy Canada's unity.

Again though, what economic crisis? >_> Unemployment hasn't been this low since 2006, stock markets -were- pretty steady - Ontario's basically screwed because of its heavily reliance on the auto industry, but at the same time Newfoundland is now a have-province.
Even if that is the case and there is an economic crisis, you don't want to throw millions and millions of taxpayer money everywhere you think there's a problem, like the coalition wants to do. They've been doing that to GM since the 80s, funneling money to it (over in the States), and it just keeps losing and losing money.

I agree with you that a second election would be pointless, but this instability and coalition governments, with the NDP who favour government spending on everything as well as increased taxation (to pay for it~), is what we really don't need, I think. I prefer Harper's approach to just sitting and doing nothing because a) so much of it relies on how the US does, them being such an influence on us and b) a lot of this is private businesses where the government has no place in - if they're not profitable, no amount of money you throw at them is going to fix it.
If you're going to throw money around, through it at the people.

Like, to use an analogy, dividing up that 150 billion (recently got upped) bailout in the States between everyone over the age of 18 in the States (200 million), and you would have had enough to pay off every mortgage and more, instead of throwing it at businesses who just brought it open themselves. =/

[vyctori]

I think a lot of our disagreement here comes down to differences in ideologies, because while I've not really got a solid opinion on current political events, I don't agree that sitting around and doing nothing is the best of ideas. I also think it was colossally dumb on Harper's part to expect that the other political parties would simply sit back and take him practically demolishing their budgets without doing anything, so there you are.

Regardless, I've a feeling we're just not going to agree on this, no matter what conclusions I come to on my own, since, you know, I'm a proponent of increased taxes and increased spending and a big fan of the NDP. And I kind of wish Harper would diaf already.