tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post116362805568448972..comments2024-03-27T07:47:11.168-07:00Comments on LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Death Of Laissez-Faire PoliticsEUGENE PLAWIUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-1163676985437997022006-11-16T03:36:00.000-08:002006-11-16T03:36:00.000-08:00The 1993 economic policies were neo-libeal as I ha...The 1993 economic policies were neo-libeal as I have written here before. They were the politics of the big lie, crying debt and deficit hysteria used to introduce attacks on the public sector and attempts to bring a Republican style privatization agenda into Canada. While the current crop of Conservatives attack the Chretien Liberals for their cuts in transfer payments to the provinces, they praise provinces like Alberta for doing exactly the same thing.<BR/>There is no such a creature as a social conservative, if there was they would be a libertarian. What folks who call themselves social conservatives are is white evangelical christians.<BR/>Which is neither conservative nor libertarian.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-1163642683891335282006-11-15T18:04:00.000-08:002006-11-15T18:04:00.000-08:00What the writer is really talking about is social/...What the writer is really talking about is social/cultural conservatism, where economic/social/cultural is conflated to one overall meaning. That said, I have to say that when I hear liberals talk about how progressive they are, I cringe. Particularly when I look at their economic policies since 1993. It wasn't till that minority govt of Martin, that they economically became more progressive, but they went kicking and screaming all the way.susansmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02573558646874765432noreply@blogger.com