LadyJean - That sounds good...but I wonder? In Canada unscrupulous fiscal conservatives have sometimes balanced government budgets too...you know how? NOT by increasing efficiency! Hell no! They did it by downloading their government costs onto the backs of towns, municipalities, and ANYONE else that they could dump the bills on. They did it by eviscerating vital social programs, schools, and hospitals. They did it by throwing mental patients out on the street to fend for themselves. They did it by auctioning off publicly run services to private industry and laying off government workers...whereupon private industry (seeking a profit) tried to do the job with half as many people and did it half as well and CASHED IN...whereupon everything got MORE expensive and a whole lot worse for ordinary people, towns, and municipalities!!!

And this they call "fiscal responsibility"! What a lying bunch of thieves they are, robbing Peter to pay Paul and padding their own pockets in the process. No wonder private industry funds their political campaigns!

Unfortunately the people who voted for them could see no farther than the glowing announcements about "balancing the budget", and of course their puny tax cut, as promised at election time... This is like a man who pays off one credit card (the official one) while going into debt five times over on three other credit cards that he used to pay off the first one, but he doesn't tell people about those other three credit cards.

It's a case of selective blindness.

And that is the real conservative agenda in North America. Lies and sleight of hand, while the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class withers away.

- LH