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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
I often think that Randall Denley is off the wall on many subjects but look at what he says about costs alone.
7,100 new prisoners @ $95,000 per year = $674.5M per year plus capital costs of $2.2 B to build new prisons
That is what we may end up spending on punishment versus $10M for crime prevention.
Are we really setting our priorities correctly?
It reminds me of Lowell Green's comments about the poverty industry, which he claimed was designed to preserve jobs and appease special interest groups rather than really reduce poverty. Sounds like we may now be building the punishment industry.
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Sounds like pork-barrel spending. Remember the icebreaker announcement - more pork-barrel spending. Harper doesn't seem to know the priorities of the majority. What's next? A Bridge to Nowhere?
Harper also says that the economy will going to be as bad as in the US - looks at what's going out east with the forest, agriculture, auto and tech sectors as well as other manufactured jobs. Also the jobs related to culture could be taken a hit with his massive cuts. Sure the oil companies and big banks are really doing well but most of the rest of the sectors are not.
And then his promise to end the mission in Afghanistan in 2011 - I would guarantee he will extend it even further if he gets a majority.
Then almost nothing on environment and transit. Nothing on health and food safety. Nothing on social housing and poverty.
The Conservatives have almost no agenda. As much as I ridicule Stephane Dion at least he has an agenda with his somewhat complicated plan, while Jack Layton probably has the best planned agenda so far. I guess Stephane doesn't want a coalition with the NDP because he would likely not be the leader since Layton is way much better then him.