Flaherty's slip sliding away. But not fast enough!

Jim Flaherty is the poster boy for the consistently bozo-types. Here is a FinMin telling us that he will not force a surplus on the backs of Canadians. What to hell does that mean? Is he so inept that he does not understand that there is only one taxpayer in Canada. The corporation pass their taxes on to the public through their prices. We, the citizens, pay their taxes! It is only us, the people of Canada, who pay taxes. Get it Jimmy? YOU GET IT?

Flaherty fled Queens Park to Parliament Hill in 2004 leaving behind a $5.8 billion deficit, all the while claiming that Ontario was in surplus. That cost the taxpayer of Ontario billions to fix and forced the Libs to re-introduce the health levy.

Flaherty was no sooner on Parliament Hill as FinMin in 2006 when broke a solemn Con promise and taxed Income Trusts, costing pension plans of retirees tens of billions of dollars.

In 2008 he began a one man crusade to destroy the economy of Ontario by telling anyone who would listen that Ontario was the last place he would invest.

He continued sniping at Ontario by claiming they were the only jurisdiction that did not reduce corporate taxes when he wanted them to. That would have been a tax reduction for profitable companies at the expense of Ontario's real taxpayers, Jimmy.

Now. Jim-Bob wants us to believe him when he says that deficits are not bad things - even if two weeks ago he and his boss, PM Harper, were telling us that the economy is strong and that there would be NO deficit in the future.

He won't even consider canceling or reducing the $5 billion in subsidies that go to the (mostly foreign) oil companies. That would keep us in surplus but, of course, that would anger his constituents in the oil patch and on Bay Street (and I don't mean the voting constituents).

Remind me, will you? Why was this government returned?