Monday, May 31, 2010

Canada? CANADA??

Yup.

...Its unemployment rate is lower, its budget deficit breathtakingly smaller (after nearly a decade of balanced budgets), its debt burden far lighter, its banks more stable. The Canadian dollar, once worth as little as .62 cents, is currently nearly at parity with the American dollar.

...Beginning in the mid-1990s, Canadians came to grips with their fiscal crisis. They cut spending at both the national and provincial (state) level, reduced the size and payroll of government, slashed debt, and produced what Paul Martin, then finance minister and later prime minister, called smaller, smarter government. --Fred Barnes, quoted by PowerLine

And Canada has begun breaking apart its national health monopoly.

2 comments:

neomom said...

And yet we ignore the lesson of Canada and Japan and hurtle ourselves toward Greece.

Amy said...

And yet we ignore the lesson of Canada and Japan and hurtle ourselves toward Greece.

Because Obama will do it so much better!