{"id":2446,"date":"2009-10-06T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2009-10-06T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:03:00","slug":"harpernomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"Harpernomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/10\/06\/stephen-harper-no-longer-singing\/#idc-container\">Wells<\/a>, Harper today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">\u201cThe difficulty with the opposition, everyone knows, is they can complain about the deficit all they want, but everyone knows they\u2019d run it a lot higher and they\u2019d make it permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to get into a situation like the Liberals had us in in the \u201990s, where they were raising taxes and cutting health care and education.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, to recap, our economist Prime Minister believes that the Liberals would:<\/p>\n<p>a) Increase taxes<br \/>b) Cut spending<br \/>c) Increase the deficit<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve taken a few ECON classes at <a href=\"http:\/\/econ.ucalgary.ca\/\">Harper&#8217;s alma mater<\/a>, and this kind of goes against what they taught us. Of course, I may have skipped that class &#8211; in which case, I&#8217;m sure that was also the same day they covered &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/famous-last-words.html\">if we were going to have a recession, it would have happened by now<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wells, Harper today: \u201cThe difficulty with the opposition, everyone knows, is they can complain about the deficit all they want, but everyone knows they\u2019d run it a lot higher and they\u2019d make it permanent.\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t want to get into a situation like the Liberals had us in in the \u201990s, where they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}