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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] <font size=-3><aside>Actually, Tahna, I always found it funny that while Trudeau ran up a big debt in Canada by being a spendhappy liberal, the oh-so-amazingly-awesome conservative Republicans in the US ran up, proportionately speaking, just as big, if not a bigger debt. And we in Canada got a nice public health care system with all the trimmings and all sorts of other groovy social programs like a better education system, and all the Americans got was, um... well, rid of a few socialist regimes in a few small countries, a lot of nuclear weapons, and a huge gap between rich and poor.</aside></font size> I can't see how a lot of the stuff in that speech is conservative. Ahem... [QUOTE]They [Liberals] do not seek to equalize everybody. They do ensure that equality of opportunity is there for all . . . They confront the powerful. They confound the secure. [/QUOTE] Considering that American conservatives... (a)...insist there already is equal opportunity in the US thanks to the oh-so-holy Constitution and therefore any form of affirmative action is wrong, and that actively fighting to ensure equality of opportunity is inherently useless. (b)...rather than confront the powerful, allow them to pay for their political conventions (Yup, gotta love the fact that the Philadelphia convention was overwhelmingly bankrolled by Tobacco and Oil companies) (c)...hold that the secure are secure beacuse they're good and the ideal for all society. They don't let the thought enter their minds that many of the so-called "secure" are actually greedy pigs who stay secure by downtrodding on the insecure. Therefore appeasing rather than confounding the secure is their agenda. I can't see Trudeau as, by any stretch of the imagination, being a conservative of any shape, size, color or texture. Sorry. I'm afraid the the following is not an equality: "Good politician concerned about the rights and freedom = conservative" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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