Anyone who would claim that a nation with socialized medicine is conservative is a blooming idiot...you named 4. Where do you get your political philosophy from?....wiki? Maybe cereal boxes? I knew that you didn't know jack regarding science, but I thought you journalist types at least knew the difference between liberal and conservative.
Brittan's "conservative" party is far more liberal than the American rebublican party and the American republican party is no loger conservative. It is simply less liberal than the democrat party.
Same thing in Germany. The CDU & CSU were truly conservative...no debt no deficit etc...then the wall came down and millions of ex-communists became instant German citizens.
Now we got a top graduate from the Soviet Academy for Propaganda and Agitation as a "Conservative" Chancellor...
It was a simple "shot gun" strategy. Ex communists formed groups and joined each existing party..especially so the party which was in power.
Now there is no getting rid of Angela Merkel...after every election she has lost she forms a "coalition" with all the other parties that also lost and stays in power pushing the Marxist Agenda while wearing conservative clothes.
Typical of siagon's "elitist" type. Lots of self esteem but not much to substantiate having so much of it. He, and those like him, know what they are told to know and are happy with that arrangement. Genuine freedom and life under a conservative government that would let you succeed or crash and burn on your own and let you live with the results of either would terrify someone like that. They love the nanny state.
Guess I shouldn't go to hard on the nanny state since you live in canada. Do you like it or are you far enough out in the boonies that you really don't feel like you are living under a thumb?
I get a chuckle out of this "elitist" thing. They are not the elite by any measure but have circulated that term because that`s what they would like to be called. I never oblige them. They are underachieving malcontents that hate everybody else who succeeded....
the 47% that Romney mentioned in a private conversation that Democrats taped and used against him
Obama`s remark "you did not build that" says it all does it not?
Don`t worry about the nanny state and Canada. We, our MP`s and our Prime Minister are doing our best to clean house.
The problem is that the previous Liberal Government has hired scores of civil servants that have a union contract and can`t get fired....but we are working on it. We already abolished the gun registry and increased prison sentences for criminals that had more rights than the victims before the liberals got swept away in a landslide election.
Also resource development oil, gas, hydro-electric etc has been re-opened for business. The liberals almost managed to kill it off.
School boards that preach nanny philosophy like "we are co-parenting" are under fire in the media..it takes time to unscramble eggs but we`ll do it.
Right now all Canada is angry how a nobody from the New Democratic Party has seen fit to go to Washington to tell Nancy Pelosi and Obama that "most Canadians oppose the Keystone pipeline"
We don`t really care because if Obama keeps stalling on that we are already starting to build a pipeline to the west coast and sell our oil to China and the rest of Asia.
They (China) are already in Canada heavily investing in Alberta and the infrastructure to supply them with oil and liquid natural gas.
Canada has been the US` closest ally especially in energy needs and since Obama is in office Obama was closer to Chavez than Stephen Harper...if not outright hostile to conservative Canada.
The big joke on America`s democrats is that while they`ve been blocking the Keystone pipeline, Warren Buffet`s railway has been making a killing shipping Alberta oil to U.S. refineries on rail...Warren Buffet is of course no friend of the Republicans and would like to keep Keystone stalled indefinitely....and Obama is obliging !
Right now the Republicans are drafting a bill that would get the pipeline started...it`s sure to pass, even many Democrats are on side...but Obama has the veto pen and will use it. After all Warren Buffet was a big $$$$$ contributor during the last 2 elections.
I`ve been watching a PBS interview when Charlie Rose interviewed Buffet about his huge investment in the rail system.
PBS aired that interview shortly after Obama was elected the first time around.
Buffet said he did it "because rail will phase out road transportation of freight due to high fuel costs and Charlie admired Buffet`s foresight and pioneering spirit.." I`m going to check if PBS has it in their internet archive.
Buffet is neither a pioneer nor a genius,...neither is Obama. That rail road deal between a President of the United States and one of his financial supporters was probably the most blatant case of insider trading ever perpetrated on the American public.
In Canada we don't have just kiss-ass media and that Obama-Buffet-Keystone triangle deal has been public knowledge just as soon as it got off the ground.
We know who buys our oil and how they get it. It`s plain to see what rolls out on our railroad tracks which run parallel to our roads.
We also know who finances these protests on our side of the border.
Neither the San Francisco Tides- or the Rockefeller foundation can make a secret out of it because the enviro-groups they finance here
have to fill out income tax forms like everybody else + they have to make their financing public if they want to keep their charity status with Revenue Canada.
And everybody in Canada noticed that these professional protesters that go from Province to Province blocked construction sites , highways ...well just about anything having to do with oil blocked the railway going south into the US only once for a few hours and were for some "strange reason" called off and never blocked the rail again.
These railroad tanker trains stretch for miles and miles and you can go home and have dinner till the last car clears the rail crossing.
If there is a derailment then there will be an environment disaster.
All the while these enviro-wackos protest because they say that the most modern, over engineered and best monitored pipeline in the world will be a safety issue. Meanwhile Warren Buffet`s railroad tanker trains are rolling from Canada deep into the U.S. on Buffets dilapidated rail tracks south of our border unhindered by any protests.
At least we have been fixing our infrastructure on our side of the border. We don`t have bridges collapsing except in the corrupt and liberal city of Montreal. Now we even have to pick up the tab for Obama and fix the International bridge into Detroit because Obama is too cheep to pay for his side.
But Warren Buffets oil trains keep on rolling on rotten tracks south of our border because Obama promised him "Yes you can" as long as Obama can keep blocking the Keystone pipeline.
Amazing how the U.S. media can keep so many people in the dark for so long.
In Canada a Prime Minister would have been drummed out of office by the Governor General and new elections would be held as soon as a much lesser conflict of interest comes to light.
So far every public official right up to the Prime Minister has resigned voluntarily just as soon as his integrity is in question.
A Bill Clinton stunt or what Obama is doing would never work here...so we are not a nanny state.
We have nanny officials in cities like Montreal or Toronto like New York`s Bloomberg. It`s the "ethnic minority group" voters that they know how to cater to that puts them into office in these "multi-cultural" cities.
They play the race card at every opportunity...well just like Chris Mathews does on MSNBC...but that only works in the gay-parade cities, not anywhere else
As soon as you go west of Ontario that voter segment is too small and everything stays pretty well on the sane side.
