And you, Mr. Harper, our good Conservative Prime Minister, are spending too much of our cash.
There I said it.
As most true blue conservatives, I am concerned about the level of spending in this budget. I will forgive the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance for now, because I know they have to appease the minority government gremlins working against them, at this time, but I won’t let this matter slip by like so many conservative ideals and principles and priorities of past Conservative governments and Conservative Parties in-waiting.
So in case it helps, The Prime Minister has acknowledged the spending problem. Here’s a snippet of a transcript of a speech he made yesterday (that’s why it is broken into paragraphs as it is—that’s the way the transcript came out):
[…]
On the spending side, our budget is focussed.
Now let me just say, ladies and gentlemen, that I am concerned about the rates of spending increase.
They are down in this budget from the double-digit increases we’ve seen in recent years, but we are still increasing spending at least as fast as economic growth.
Minister Flaherty and the President of the Treasury Board, John Baird, are committed to an overhaul of the expenditure management system,
• Which is completely broken,
• And they have promised me results by the early fall.
But even now, our spending is more controlled and more focussed.
We have a limited set of major priorities – five, not fifteen, not fifty.
There will be no more wasting money on ever-changing and ever-expanding priorities.
We know what we believe.
We know where we stand.
And the vast majority of our new spending is going to clear areas of federal jurisdiction.
Enforcing public security and the surveillance of our borders.
Toughening criminal justice and restaffing the RCMP.
And, of course, beginning the long-term job of rebuilding our armed forces.
[…]
(—courtesy of the PMO)
So that gives me some comfort. All conservatives need to stay on top of this and ensure that the usual tax and spend pressures from the liberal-left don’t encourage the Conservative government to cave and let spending increase. It needs to decrease dramatically.
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