http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12827085
Looks like our neighbor to the north is experiencing some of the same political infighting as us when it comes to dealing with politics and budgets. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in quite a fight with the more liberal wing of his government with regard to corporate tax breaks and military spending. When politicians finally decide they want to balance their budgets, cutting military spending never seems to be an option. So far Obama has fired approximately 235 tomahawk missiles into Libya at a cost of about 1.5 million dollars a launch-to what avail??? Yet he wants to cut Pell grant funding for college students. Looks like President Obama and Prime Minister Harper might want to get together for a beer.
Jim Fehring
Ryan Maness
It's interesting how most of the time we believe these issues only take place in our country. Canada is going through similar reform proposals as we are. Education grants, aid for low income families, and libraries, museums, etc..., are all facing financial cuts while money for war and tax cuts for rich are "untouchable". It will be interesting to see how the Democratic Party in Canada deals with these proposals by the Prime Minister. This is another example that national security remains top priority and the nation's education and well being, if necessary, will have to suffer to maintain national security.
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