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To: Leep
The US federal government is far too big and intrusive. You need to cut out whole departments. Start with the EPA and the ATF. Break up and make the DHS much smaller. Close the Agriculture Department which has more employees than there are farmers in the US. Close the Energy Department, which produces no energy. Close the Education Department, which doesn't educate anybody.

Canada is cutting the number of government employees. We have nothing comperable to ATF or EPA. Our border and customs services is just that. "Homeland security" is taken care of by the RCMP. We have no federal Education Department and almost everybody can read and write. Our Agriculture Department does not have a food stamp program and is not engaged in welfare.

The conservative government of Stephen Harper is on track to move the federal government to a budget surplus by 2015. For those from Yorba Linda, a budget surplus is the opposite of a deficit. According to Wiki, the federal debt is around $600 billion. Roughly a third, proportionally of the US federal debt. Canada is forecast to be one of a very few number of countries to retain a AAA credit rating for the next decade.

BTW, your president does not like PM Harper or the economic success story he represents. Harper is an economist by trade (imagine that). Their meetings consist of Harper trying to educate your president on economics. Your president doesn't like that.

75 posted on 07/17/2012 10:47:13 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

The US federal government is far too big and intrusive. You need to cut out whole departments


Absolutely, and Romney could earn the respect and admiration of his most ardent conservative critics and do a those things.
I would NEVER speak ill of him and I can’t stand him.

Anyhow,put all those under the catagory of TRUE REFORM. If Romney is as “severe” conservative as he claimed we will likely know it very early on.
Probably is very few of us believe he is anything more than a go along to get along squishy moderate (nice term for even dumber than a liberal).


80 posted on 07/17/2012 11:37:09 AM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the StatistI)
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