I read Facebook comments it is generally those written by self confessed conservatives/republicns that are the most negative and abusive. Conservatives (conservatards) are those that generally find the negative in something and therefore support things like the reduction of the minimum wage, while liberals often called libtards find the good in human nature and want to add a dental plan to that phone in order. There are many points of view in between but essentially conservatives seem for centered on fiscal issues, therefore are fiscally conservative and would never support a dental plan or increase the minimum wage while liberals by nature seek to improve the quality of life and oddly even when accused of being fiscally iresponsible, that charge doesn’t seem to consistently hold when viewed over Canadian or American history.
Each government type, despite their claims, are capble of creating debt. What Conservatives excel at and leave liberals in the proverbial dust time and time again is selling off national assets, anything from 400 highways in Ontario, to Air Canada, Petro Canada, the Wheat Board, Real estate, Canaair, Candian Arsenals, Teleglobe and Canadian National come to mind. It was Mulroney who entered Canada into NAFTA and to do so had to reduce the universality of some of our social net programs to be more comparable to the United States.
Conservatives followed the lead of Reagan and Thatcher promoting the idea of less government and trickle down economics. If we look at the gaps in wealth in the American economy today it is safe to conclude that nothing actually trickles down. Conservatives and those who are wealthy have the individual boot strap mental philosophy of life that they are the only ones that work hard while the poor are basically undeserving because they don’t work hard , some don’t even have boot straps. Its as if the wealthy accomplished everthing in a vacuum without a society to support them, no educated work force, health care system infrastructure etc. Since they did it for themselves, or so they think, they seem hard done by when it comes to paying taxes. The idea is that if they created jobs built part of the economy why the taxes that accomplishment in and of itself should prove sufficient. Besides the rest of the world is just lazy. The richer one gets the more out of touch one becomes as to who contributes and the fact accomplishments are not in a vacuum they are in a society, a community and therefore there is merit in distribution of wealth.
