Yeah, dream on. A politician with common sense and the balls to speak the truth? Kind of Like Ford in Toronto. He is anything BUT a politician. Only problem with getting someone like O'Bama or Ford into office is their hands are tied by all the other politicians that get in.
Bill Maher said it best the other day (about spending of governments). He said "there are supporters of our missle defence system. Against who? The taliban sure doesn't have ICBMs, Russia is no longer our enemy, China wouldn't attack because destroying 700 walmart would ruin their economy. Why spend the money for something that isn't needed"?
If I were premier or prime minisiter I'd:
1) Automatically abolish the pension for life for past elected officials. This bs about serving 4 yrs and getting paid a full pension for the rest of your life is LUDICROUS
2) Automatically simplify the income tax system: If you make over $500,000.00 per year, you pay 50% tax. EOS. You either pay $250,000.00 in tax, or you hire 10 employees from YOUR salary.
3) Make software developers accountable. I'd make it mandatory that you accept returns of your product should they be found to be either defective or unsatisfactory.
4) Bring back the death penalty to those criminals found to be caught red handed (ie: video evidence)
5) Create a "camp" in northern ontario. In this camp will be shipped the worst of the worst criminals and crack heads. Ie: drive a bus down any street is any city. Pick up ALL the street people. Test them: if they have any meth or crack in their system? Give them a choice: all the crack you want, or rehab. If you opt for the crack? You're shipped to this camp. This camp is one way: no food, no shelter, no escape. (aka gulag).
6) Welfare: you have 1 yr to find a job. If within that year you don't find a job? you're cut off. No longer do you get 3 generations on welfare. I mean, if mentally handicapped people can get jobs, then an able bodied person sure as hell can. (I used to use an organization that had these people do things like package nuts and bolts for "kits".