Recently Mr. Flatulence boasted that Canada’s economy is getting better faster than expected and I felt like I was a teenager again and listening to some guy with slicked back hair tell me about the exotic features of some old clunker.
“You’ll love how easy it is to reach the volume control on the radio.”
Translation: The a/c hasn’t worked since 1964 and the car dealership won’t put a dime towards it.
“Look how solid the body is.”
Translation: Don’t look under the car.
“There’s only 59,000 miles on this baby.”
Translation: This year alone. The total is over the moon.
When Flatulence says “we have virtually recouped a recession’s worth of economic decline in less than a year” (June 22, London Free Press) he wants us to skip over the fact that our nation’s overall debt and annual budgetary deficit are at record highs.
When he says “Canada has been able to have a vigorous stimulus package” he forgets to mention that taxpayers will have to spend the next decade digging out from under it.
When he says “at the same time, our deficit and debt levels are way below what they are in other advanced countries” he means, some countries really, really, really suck right now but we just really, really suck.
Yup, only 59,000 miles on this baby.
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Finance Minister Jim Flatulence does have one plan to try to save Canada some money. But it won’t work.
Please click here to read my careful, and brilliant, analysis concerning his plan.
http://itstrikesmefunny.blogspot.com/2010/05/pennies-pennies-pt-2-does-it-make-sense.html
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