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Quite succinct David.  There of course will follow much drooling and
sputtering from the gullible and weak-minded who swallow with gusto the
great gobs of pablum offered up as "political thinking" by such as
Harris, Klein, Black etc.

David wrote:
> 
> If you want to discuss the brilliance of  Ms. Barlow and her followers, why
> don't we start with the "Banking Reality".  That sad reality, according to
> Ms. Barlow and her researchers, had it that in the eighties and nineties,
> Corporate Canada (via the BCNI), in conspiracy with the Conservatives,
> maintained high interest rates to reduce unemployment in order to create a
> low wage labour pool and to increase the deficit so that there would be
> fresh impetus to call for massive spending cuts. The Conservative government
> did this so that Corporate Canada would donate truckloads of money to the
> Conservative Party.  Funny though, while the banks and Corporate Canada made
> record profits, they laid off employees and harmed the domestic economy.
> Exports have led Canada's economic growth while government spending cuts and
> layoffs have shrunk the domestic economy. This is currently the case in Mike
> Harris's Ontario where the domestic economy has actually shrinked since he
> came to power. (Tax cuts don't work because they require governments to cut
> spending which offsets any infusion of capital.) Both the domestic economy
> and exports grew during the last year of the Rae government. The tax cutters
> say that Ontario's tax cuts have caused Ontario's economy to boom. But as I
> previously indicated, the economy took off before the Tories were elected.
> Corporate Canada's new shell game is that we need to cut taxes to stay
> competitive and to stop the so-called "brain drain." The corporate media
> propagandists at Conrad Black's papers are now trying to deceive Canadians
> into believing that tax cuts will create the "good society" when they are
> really trying to sellout the public interest.