Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!mnh From: mnh@utcsrgv.UUCP (Mark N. Hume) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Let those who vote Liberal pay off the deficit. Message-ID: <4986@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 11:25:53 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4986 Posted: Thu Aug 2 11:25:53 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Aug-84 11:54:52 EDT References: <1@utecfc.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 37 I'm so glad Mr Thompson decided to *tell* us all how to vote. Saves us all the bother of looking at all those complicated issues upon which we base our choice. Vote Conservative (oh sorry, Progressive Conservative , the ultimate contradiction)! What a vulgar characterization of ethnic and French Canadian voters! As to the test to see whether we are "smart" or "aware" enough to vote, I think Mr Thompson has missed the point of the Universal Franchise! It is not too long ago that Women were considered not aware enough, or not capable of making an intelligent choice, and thus were denied the vote. How about people who haven't gone to university, or high school for that matter? Shall we exclude them from our *club* of voters? As to the deficit, from which his venom pours, I suppose that he fully supports the $20 Billion cost of the Conservative election promises. As for US defense spending. I read the other day that the cost of *one* MX missile would equal the cost of raising *every* US single mother family above the poverty line. I could go on, and on about the so called US defense spending. As for the reason the Liberals were elected last time, perhaps Mr Thompson would consider the statement of The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, "We are going to govern as if we had a majority". Talk about arrogance! That's really treating parliament with the dignity and respect it deserves. And finally, user fees. I think Mr Thompson does not grasp the difference between extra billing and user fees. User fees are charged by the hospitals, extra billing is done by the doctors. I suppose he thinks that all those hypochondriacs (sp?) are admitting themselves into hospital. And I can't believe that a large percentage of those being charged user fees or being extra billed are hypochondriacs. Maybe I'm expecting too much. I thought that users of this news group would present opinions and observations and back them up with reasoned arguments, not with rhetoric from one party leader or another. Oh, well.