Perhaps they consider Harper's stimulus spending that helped us survive the
recession to be socialist. He needed it to pass his budget actually.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aDcSCVUtNQP4&refer=canada
It is rather wild though to call government spending to save a capitalist
economy socialist.
Cheers, ken
Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
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From: Jim Devine <[email protected]>
To: ken hanly <[email protected]>; Progressive Economics
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:27:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] the Maple Leaf Rag
ken hanly wrote:
> A policy of hard-headed socialism from Stephen Harper our most
> reactionary prime minister in recent times?
in the degraded version of English typically spoken in the U.S., the
word "socialism" means any government meddling in the mythical free
market (which is assumed to persist without government help).
--
Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you
should at least know the nature of that evil.
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