Flaherty Needs More Cash? Ask Department of My Wife
Winnipeg Free Press › October 01, 2009
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There [Jim Flaherty] was on our TV sets Tuesday, amid a crush of reporters in Ottawa, flashing a cheesy/nervous/sheepish grin, essentially telling us: "Ha ha ha! Just kidding about that $34 billion. I may just be spitballing here, but let's try, maybe, $50 billion... for starters!"
These are just broad strokes, mind you. We'd still have to work out the details. Right now some of you are probably thinking: "Gee, [Doug], if your wife doesn't let the government spend ANY money, won't that hurt the economy?"From what my wife tells me, her birthday pops up in every month with a "syllable" in it, and lasts for at least 30 days. ("Look, honey, we all chipped in and got you the Phoenix Coyotes!")See the full content of this document
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Flaherty Needs More Cash? Ask Department of My Wife
OK, simmer down everyone; let me see if I've got this straight.
About six months ago, in his fall economic update, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told us that, thanks to his Princeton education, we were all ("Hurray!") looking at ye...See the full content of this document
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