Bobo Bonobo® > wrote in
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>> Someone said there are no atheists in foxholes, and just as surely,
>> there are no libertarians in economic crises. *
>
> There are still a few. They've just gone into hiding. Mammon worship
> is a fundamentalist religion, and we know that fundie religios don't
> always respond to reason.

"Don't always"? How about "never"?

>> Case in point, the government of
>> Canada brought down what the party ideologues consider a "far left
>> wing" (tm applied for) budget, in other words a budget of measures
>> the slightly more centrist party, the Liberals, insisted were a
>> condition for Harper to cling desperately to shreds of power.
>>
>> Why the man wants to run the country at this time completely eludes
>> me.
>
> I was under the impression that Canada is getting off a bit easier
> than most other First World nations.

You must have read that Oct 2008 OECD report which suggested that Canada
was the best off in a really bad list of G-7 nations. The minister of
Finance is always touting that one even now, disregarding the IMF report of
last week which contradicts that.

The only way Canada can keep its head above water is if trade continues.
Obama's Buy USA is going to kill that, unless he believes that a secure
Canadian petroleum supply is worth bending the principle. Leastwise,
that's what the consies hope.

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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest
of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone. - John Maynard Keynes