41% of Americans Want to Get Fired!

Even when the economy is tumbling a new poll shows that Donald Trump could actually be a contender in the 2012 election. Polls show that he would get 41% and Obama would get 43% that's incredible considering no other match up has the Republican that close to Obama. It seems the guy who's catch line is your fired seems to be the guy who people think can fix the unemployment woe's of the United States. If people didn't take Donald Trump seriously before now he could be even the front runner. He hasn't said he would run, but he said he would consider. He continues to talk about how the world is trying to hurt the U.S and how if he was the president the world would respect the U.S. I am not at all a supporter of Donald Trump, but if he does run (he says he will tell in June) it would be very interesting having a guy who never held political office all of a sudden becoming the President of the U.S. I can see Obama's ads now: showing  his your fired comment over and over again.
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Harper Living off the "Socialist"

Aparently Stephen Harper supports spreading the wealth. Or in this case seats, and only if it benifits him (the oil companies or accomplishes the goal of runing Canada and destroying the enviroment.) . Stephen Harper called the NDP socialist, and since the Liberals are voring agaisnt the budget, and so are the Bloc The NDP or the "socialist" are the only thing keeping this Conservative Goverment a live. Think of it the so called socialist are holding the the goverment a float. The NDP aren't actually socialist, but the truth is for everyy bill Harper passed he needed help from the "Tax and spend Liberals" or the "Sepratist" who's leader he called "too Montrealer". If these parties are so bad why don't you just call an election Harper and get a majority since the choice is so easy. The fact is that Harper isn't even getting his 2008 polling numbers. And many people would support some sort of a coalition (which is legal Harper Because I know you have trouble knowing the diffrence). I want an election already and I hope the NDP won't sell out whcih there leader has said they wouldn't. I find this great when all three opposition parties work together to push Stephen Harper to do the right thing and change his budget.

Stop Being Tough on Crime

As has been proven many times before, being "tough on crime" as the Conservatives like to call it does not work. Instead of reducing crime, it has the potential to harden petty criminals and make them repeat offenders, committing worse crimes. Besides, crime has actually been decreasing since about a decade ago. Why stop a system that has already been working for an inferior system already proven wrong?

Moreover, being "tough on crime" also costs more money. A lot more.The Tories are planning to spend at least $2.7 billion on new prisons and other "tough on crime" policies (the budget watchdog says it's more like $5 billion). Even some conservatives in the United States are starting to recognize that this is not the way to lower crime. Being tough on crime just isn't a smart fiscal or crime policy.

The Conservative administration in Ottawa continues to advocate U.S. Republican-style legal solutions even though the American justice system is in a shambles. 

Prison populations are exploding, police and prosecution budgets are strapped and in many states the legal-defender system has all but collapsed.

Read more at the Vancouver Sun.

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Canada Believes in Climate Change.

The vast majority of Canadians and a majority of Americans believe in global warming.The Climate change skepitics haven't won this war, and this should be no surprise.In Canada another vast majority of us believe that our federal, provincial and municipal goverments should all be a part of the solution. some kind of a Carbon tax is very popular in Canada. 73% of Canadians would be willing to pay 50 extra dollars a year in energy so that other resources would be used instead of oil. In the U.S this is also popular 55% said they would be willing to pay more in energy cost for more renewable energy.When asked about a carbon tax derictly the a poll found that 61% of people would support it. It seems that a carbon tax isn't as politically suicide as many have thought, and a surprising figure made 5 years ago is that the majority (54%) of the oil rich Stephen Harper country of Alberta actually support a carbon tax. Another surprising fact is that People who support the Liberals believe in Climate change more than people who support the Green Party. In the U.K green taxes have 63% support. A carbon tax isn't a bad word, I can't wait till other parties besides the Green party start putting a carbon tax on there platform like Stephan Dion.

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Same Polls

There have been a few recent polls showing Liberal support tanking and Conservative support growing tremendously, not far from majority territory. It wasn't only EKOS that showed this, it was a few others too. Yet, EKOS' most recent poll has shown that support is back to where it has been for two years now. Conservatives at 32% and Liberals at 27%. No change at all and this is what I think we will be seeing for a while. People's minds are set and will probably not change until an election is called. This could be due to the fact that only 10% of the population is actively following politics. Once the campaign starts, people will follow. It is time to clear the air with an election.

The federal Conservatives' lead over the rival Liberals stands at five points, according to a new survey by EKOS, putting the parties back on a familiar footing after recent surveys showed a much wider gap. 

The latest results from EKOS, released exclusively to CBC News, found 32.4 per cent of respondents said they would vote for Stephen Harper's Conservatives if an election were held now, compared with 27.3 per cent prepared to vote for Michael Ignatieff's Liberals.

Read more at CBC. 

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