Comments on: Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/ As narrated by the most charming and vicious women on the internet Fri, 17 May 2013 21:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BearDownCBears http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-67086 BearDownCBears Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:37:58 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=19708#comment-67086 @wondering: Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

This is a public service announcement from your bossy southern neighbor. :)

]]> By: wondering http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-67028 wondering Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:36:24 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=19708#comment-67028 Crap, my first link didn’t work.

Women are breaking up with Harper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5RzQCx7So

]]> By: wondering http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-67027 wondering Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:35:39 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=19708#comment-67027 Oh, and Women are breaking up with Harper

There are several webisodes of this and everyone is encouraged to make their own video.

Oh and all of the shit Harper did videos. Here’s one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQm0t1v2wOM

]]> By: wondering http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-67026 wondering Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:33:18 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=19708#comment-67026 BearDownCBears: Just take heart in the fact that while our public systems are struggling with cost controls, we still pay less per person than the US does per person for its public system (Medicare/Medicaid). By a lot – in 2004 the US paid double what the next highest country did in per person parity dollars.

I don’t have the most recent OECD data (I collected this mostly between 2004 and 2007), but I’d be surprised if it had suddenly changed.

]]> By: wondering http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-67024 wondering Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:26:56 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=19708#comment-67024 http://www.shitharperdid.com

It doesn’t cover everything the Conservatives had done that’s wrong, but it gives folks a taste.

Oh yeah, am I biased. I can not, for the life of me, understand why anyone would vote for the Conservatives at this point. And I grew up in a rural riding that always votes strongly Conservative. IT BREAKS MY MIND.

]]> By: Endora http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-66985 Endora Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:21:33 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=19708#comment-66985 I know it’s selfish, but I’m glad to hear even Canada’s politics aren’t perfect – it makes me feel less bad about my countries’ politicians.

Can I just vent for a minute about the coalition thing? I really don’t get what is so difficult about the concept. You know, compromise and whatnot. Other countries (Germany, that I know of first-hand) do it all the time and do very well.

Of course, the current UK coalition is a clusterfuck, but that’s because the LibDems have basically let the Tories turn them into their whipping boys in exchange for just the tiniest taste of power and a chance at getting an alternative voting system.

]]> By: BearDownCBears http://www.harpyness.com/2011/04/14/stephen-harper-and-the-conservative-party-of-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-66981 BearDownCBears Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:48:15 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=19708#comment-66981 I admit I hope you guys guinea pig cost control on your single payer system before we institute it so we can copy your methodology if it works. From what I understand, none of the Western countries with public health care really have the whole cost control thing down, and it’s starting to get worrisome. Of course, by the time we get single payer, I’ll probably be enjoying Medicare…maybe.

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