I didn't want this election to happen. Four elections in seven years in my mind is two too many.
I'm angry at the Conservatives for insisting on a budget that the opposition wasn't going to support. I'm angry at the opposition for not working with Conservatives to create a budget that everyone could live with.
Elections cost about $300 million a pop. Times that by four and that gives you over a billion dollars - yes over a BILLION dollars! How many hockey rinks would that build? Or kilometers paved? Schools built?
But, nooooooooo.
It hasn't even been two weeks since the writ was dropped and I can't take anymore of the news coverage or the advertising campaigns. It all just angries up the blood. And my head is still hurting from that unnatural shrill emitting from Elizabeth May when she found out she wasn't going to be part of the debates.
I am electioned out. Don't get me wrong - free and democratic elections are a good thing! I am grateful that I can vote. And if this democracy needs me, I would vote every day but this election has nothing to do with preserving democracy.
I'm not sure what it's about (couldn't this have been taken care of in the men's locker room with a ruler) but I am pretty sure it's got nothing to do with me, my family or the people I love.
I just want this to be over. Like a family vacation in a crowded car with broken air conditioning and a gassy little brother. I know that we are going somewhere with this election but really, I just want to know - are we there yet?
I'm angry at the Conservatives for insisting on a budget that the opposition wasn't going to support. I'm angry at the opposition for not working with Conservatives to create a budget that everyone could live with.
Elections cost about $300 million a pop. Times that by four and that gives you over a billion dollars - yes over a BILLION dollars! How many hockey rinks would that build? Or kilometers paved? Schools built?
But, nooooooooo.
It hasn't even been two weeks since the writ was dropped and I can't take anymore of the news coverage or the advertising campaigns. It all just angries up the blood. And my head is still hurting from that unnatural shrill emitting from Elizabeth May when she found out she wasn't going to be part of the debates.
I am electioned out. Don't get me wrong - free and democratic elections are a good thing! I am grateful that I can vote. And if this democracy needs me, I would vote every day but this election has nothing to do with preserving democracy.
I'm not sure what it's about (couldn't this have been taken care of in the men's locker room with a ruler) but I am pretty sure it's got nothing to do with me, my family or the people I love.
I just want this to be over. Like a family vacation in a crowded car with broken air conditioning and a gassy little brother. I know that we are going somewhere with this election but really, I just want to know - are we there yet?
Not sure why you're angry at the Conservatives over the budget... it was very reasonable and had small goodies in it that the opposition had requested... do you honestly think that no matter what the Conservatives put in there, the opposition wouldn't have demanded more? And besides, it wasn't the budget that brought them down, it was the oppositions 'democracy' shenanigans.
ReplyDeleteI share your pain with having to endure election press, media, whining Lizzy, etc. but this election NEEDS to happen to sort this mess out. However it turns out, I think we'll see a new roster of leaders very shortly.
I really hope the Conservatives manage even a one seat majority!
One billion dollars.Thats how much these elections have cost us in 7 years.Despite the opposition being out of power for 5 years they still manage to spend the taxpayers money.
ReplyDeleteTried being reasonable and hoped they could work together for canucks but noooooo...
So a CPC majority it is then.
Joshua
One billion dollars. Add a few million more and you've got a 2-day bun-fest/police state at the G20 G8. Democracy? Priceless.
ReplyDeleteI wish that there was a consumer protection law for taxpayers! I would be demanding a refund or at least a store credit...
ReplyDeleteYou really believe the opposition was going to support any budget? There was going to be an election this spring even if Stephen Harper had Jack write the budget himself.
ReplyDeleteFern...Please answer me this question, because it bugs me every time one of you lefties make comments about a "police state"?
ReplyDeleteJust what do people expect when they decide to start destroying private property OR egg on those destroying private property. If you don't want to be rounded up and questioned about your motives - don't go there!!
This kind of crap happens at EVERY international meeting - it is well planned and excuted by activists who don't have the gall to show their faces - go in - destroy property and then cry about police brutality and police states and lack of democracy.
Well sweetie - the kind of democracy where hoodlums and their supporters destroy property in the name of "protest" isn't democracy, it is anarchy.
Time to grow up Fern.
Time to get informed, Alberta Girl.
ReplyDeleteLargest ever mass arrest in Canadian history. Cops standing by while ninjas (yeah they were there and, as you say, to be expected) broke windows and burned cops cars. Cops all brave when later facing one-legged guys, students, tourists, journalists, passers-by. Over 1,100 arrests. How many dropped charges? Nearly all.
Were you there? I was, all 57 years of me.
@Fern....blah blah...get out of your bubble...
ReplyDelete@Alberta Girl...always enjoy your posts...this one is no exception..
@RightChic-this was a good budget-what on earth were you looking for...or did you not read it..the libs, the ndp and the bloc would not have supported it at all ever, naaada, they wanted this election, they plotted and schemed for it...where have you been....there are some things I cannot agree with you, this is one of them....none of us wanted this election, only those who didnt agree with the results of 2008 and their failed coalition attempt did...
Rightchik,
ReplyDeleteIMHO it really boils down to this...
in Ottawa there's money to be stolen and handed out in brown envelopes to the "right " people. The Liberals won't rest until they can get their sticky fingers back into our cookie jar.
Stealing our money and getting their entitlements... that's why four elections in seven years.
NO QUARTER
And just to put the icing on the cake, it's the last day of tax season (i.e. the deadline for filing your T1).
ReplyDeleteSadly, the election is not about us at all:
ReplyDeleteIf Mr Ignatieff can hold the CPC to a minority he can trigger the coalition, become Prime Minister, avoid a hostile leadership review AND kick Bob Rae and the Young Dauphin in the teeth. Having Jack Layton in Cabinet and doing Gille Duceppe's bidding (and fleecing us of $300 million) is a small price to achieve such outstanding results!