Harper and the Economy

Harper is getting a lot of slack for his position on the economy. However, on that issue I firmly believe he is right. The government should not be pouring taxpayers money into the stock market. The United States is insane and we should not follow them on that practice. It is not the government’s job to create jobs and stimulate the stock market.

The government’s job is collect taxes to pay for a set of democratically chosen social programs like police, fire department, building roads and in our case health care. The stock market rises and falls. Other than regulating fraud, the government should not be involved. We finally have a balanced budget. Let’s protect heath care and education and not pour money down the toilet.

The Liberals were great for not following America into Iraq based on a lie. However, for generations the Liberals have incurred massive debt with insane sponsorship scandals and the like. We don’t need to walk down that road again. Massive debt and massive interest spells slavery and economic failure.

The best thing a government can do for the economy is to balance it’s budget and reduce taxes. That will create the climate for the economy to thrive. It’s that simple. As soon as the government is in the business to make business that is the self defeating recipe for failure.

I am very concerned with Harper’s Bush buddies and the secret drive to form the North American Union behind closed doors. Nevertheless, let’s not criticize Harper for not following Bush’s insanity on the economy.