Urgent pants staining press rel3ase from Conservative HQ:

It's become obvious that the Liberals don't trust you to spend the money that you've earned, Scott Reid's beer and popcorn quip just underlines the rank paternalism evident in the Liberal-Adscam-Socialist-Bush Bashing- Planet Polluting-Insider Trading Party

Like the Liberal Gun Registry at an exorbitant cost of $2 Billion. The Conservatives trust you to know how to best spend your money to register your guns, therefore a Conservative government will give $2000 each to every registered gun owner to help defray their personal costs of gun control. The Liberals only spent $1000 per registered owner and didn't trust responsible gun owners to protect their firearms. Why these farmers and urban gun nu... er... enthusiasts love their guns like they love their children, but there the Liberals go banning children small enough to be cradled in the palm of one's hand.

Or for that matter the weak and bureaucratic justice system. Canada has 36,000 prisoners and we spend $4.6 Billion per year on public security. The Conservatives feel that money is being wasted by the bureaucracy and the politicians and thus instead will make a payment of $100,000 per year to each prisoner to let them look after themselves and in return they can be responible for beating the shit out of terrorists on domestic soil too. We're sure they'll eventually end up mugging a terrorist or two. Now Scott Ried would have you believe that if we let these prisoners make their own incarceration that they'd blow it on Hookers and Beer. Well the Conservative Party trusts Canadians with Canadian money.

Let's not forget Defence policy. Right now Canada is spending $12.9 Billion on defence. Who from? Well even though the Liberals are massing troops and CCRA agents at the 49th paralell for an invasion of the United States, the Conservatives know that the threats are the Iraq insurgency, Iran, and North Korea. So we'll just cut them a cheque for $4.3 Billion to cover the expense of invading and blowing the crap out of themselves. Surely Kim Jong Il is better suited to inflicting misery on North Korean than a distant political bureaucracy. Why should we be so presumptuous? Here in the Conservaitve policy we understand that you can't solve problems just by cutting a cheque. No the cheque has to be based on a flimsy rationalle of some sort.

The preceeding was satire. I hope.

Actually, Scott Reid has a point:

First customer I talked to about this 'gaffe' this morning said that he pays $680 a month for child care. So unless $580 is affordable and $680's out of reach you're pretty much up shit crick without a paddle when it comes to institutional 9-5 care, which, oddly enough, is what institutional 9-5 workers, either single or 2 income, tend to need. So if the money can't buy you more or better child care what can it buy you? well it can make life a little easier for you and the kids. Maybe you'll have a 6 pack and a couple of videos and fire up the air popper for a little bit of popcorn. This isn't to say that that won't make life easier for parents and children, just that parents, like everyone else are very good at shifting expenditures. For that matter, parents may 'blow' the money they save under the Liberal plan on the same beer and popcorn. Scott Reid would just like to see some guarantees that the money the government spends can be traced directly to child care. Fair enough the Conservatives would like some guarantee that money the government spends can be traced to value too, but apparently being a parent is more than enough oversight for the Conservative party.

BTW Scott Reid would also like some Prairie Fellatio. I can't help him with that, but I'm sure that there must be someone out there in Seanquixoteland who would take Scott up on his offer. Please, look him up. The guy must be stressed by now.

Oddly enough:

The Conservatives trust you to take your child to pre-school, but not to hockey practice. Having introduced a $500 non-refundable tax credit that will work out to $80 at tax time if you're earning enough to pay taxes. If not, well flabby children are really the least of your concerns. Why do the Conservatives think that everything can be made all better with a tax credit? Tax credits for apprentices, bus passes, soccer moms. The tax credit system, by the by, is the most complicated and bureaucratic part of the tax return, this in addition to the cut in the GST rate, which will keep enforcement costs the same, will make government less efficient in its collection of taxes.

Vote Conservative for more suck, less buck.