[R-G] 'Top Ten Reasons Harper is the Best Leader...

[Anthony Fenton]

...For Citizens who Don't Like Themselves nor their Country...'

http://web.me.com/dman5/Harper_is_Your_Man/Top_Ten_Reasons.html


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1.connect-the-financial-meltdown-dots: the ideological architects of  
the current US (and subsequent world-wide) financial crisis are some  
of Harper’s most revered thinkers. Alan Greenspan, Paul Wolfowitz, and  
Donald Rumsfeld are all disciples of the “Chicago School” of  
economics, with Milton Friedman as their guru. Thinkers like Friedman  
and Friedrich Hayek gave birth to the notion that any government  
oversight in the ‘free-market’ is a perversion of ‘pure’ market  
forces. The university professors that nurtured Harpers brain, Barry  
Cooper and Tom Flanagan, are considered the Canadian torch holders of  
the Chicago School.  “The predecessor of the Reform party, the Social  
Credit party, was very much like this. Believing in funny money and  
control of banking, and a whole bunch of fairly non-conservative  
economic things.”  - Harper at a speech to the Council for National  
Policy, a conservative American lobby group, June 1997
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2.why should canada own canada, it’s better off in foreign hands: The  
Harperites think they only chance we have of maintaining a strong  
economy is by selling it of and opening it up to foreign ownership,  
and there have been some 16,000 sell-offs in the past two years. They  
extend this idea to include our financial institutions. “The panel,  
which was commissioned by the Harper government, also says the  
existing prohibition against bank mergers should be lifted, which  
could open the way to consolidation among banks and other financial  
institutions”  - The Star, Jun 26, 2008
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3.he has disdain and contempt for canada:  “Canada appears content to  
become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly  
about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status”.  
National Post, Dec. 8 2000 p. A18   “There is a Canadian culture that  
is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture  
coincides neatly with borders.”  Report Newsmagazine January 7, 2002
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4.‘experiment’ and ‘dismantle’ are not conservative words: Harper  
solution for Canada’s health care system is to allow the provinces to  
‘experiment’ with various schemes of private sector hospitals. We  
shouldn’t forget that his former chariot, the National Citizens  
Coalition, tried to bring down the Canada Health Act in order to pave  
way for the private insurance sector. “Libertarian conservatives work  
to dismantle the remaining elements of the interventionist state and  
move towards “a market society for the 21st century.” - Harper,  
Toronto Star, April 6, 1997
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5.he doesn’t like conservatives: "...the term Progressive Conservative  
will immediately raise suspicions in all of your minds. It should.  
It's obviously kind of an  
oxymoron 
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  fact, before the Reform Party really became a force in the late  
'80s, early '90s, the leadership of the Conservative party was running  
the largest deficits in Canadian history.”      - Stephen Harper's  
Speech to the US Council for National Policy
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6.he loves lobbyists: Being a former lobbyist himself it was hard to  
digest his platform of ending the revolving door of lobbyists in and  
out of of government. Nearly all of his current top advisers are  
lobbyists or industry think-tank hired guns, currently two of his top  
advisers are placed directly from Oil-sector lobby organizations  
(Bruce Carson, Kory Teneycke). Within months of forming government  
almost 50 former Conservative staffers registered as lobbyists.
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7.he finds himself to be irresponsible and incapable of following his  
own rules: "The government is clear that it will not be seeking an  
early election. At any time Parliament can defeat the government and  
provoke an early election, if that is what the opposition  
irresponsibly chooses to do”. - Hansard       “Fixed election dates  
prevent governments from calling snap elections for short-term  
political advantage”. -CBC News
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8.he has no experience serving the public, and no interest the public  
good: Is Mr. Harper the former Mayor of some city, former Premier of a  
province, former Cabinet Minister, former president of the Rotary  
Club? No, No, No. He has only ever been a private sector lobbyist and  
campaign strategist. Only once did he serve as an MP under Preston  
Manning. He enjoyed serving the public so much that he left the public  
forum in favor of doing more productive projects like trying to smash  
the Canadian Wheat Board with the National Citizens Coalition (not  
actually a citizen’s group or a coalition).
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9.he is a fraud by his own account: When campaigning in Newfoundland  
during the 2006 federal election Mr. Harper promised to remove  
nonrenewable resource revenues from the calculation of equalization  
payments. His brochures made the promise and quoted a famous Gaelic  
proverb "There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept".  Of  
course he broke that promise almost immediately after getting into  
power.
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10. stephen harper is a muppet not a man: he acts like a sock poppet  
for leaders of other (G8) countries. In the Khadr case, even the US  
military lawyer said Harper should “...stop taking his orders from the  
Bush administration...”.  In the middle of the US banking melt down he  
said Canada’s “economic fundamental’s are still strong”, repeating  
nearly verbatim Sen. McCain’s statement several hours earlier. More  
recently we find out his grandstanding speech as opposition leader  
about the Iraq war in 2003 was a xerox copy of Australian PM’s John  
Howard.
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