Tories cagey about cuts to the budget (Globe & Mail).

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Tories cagey about cuts to the budget
BILL CURRY
OTTAWA— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Published Tuesday, Feb. 08, 2011 9:32PM EST
Last updated Wednesday, Feb. 09, 2011 7:26AM EST

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-cagey-about-cuts-to-the-budget/article1899857/?cmpid=nl-news1

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Nearly a year after the Harper government’s 2010 budget promised to find $17.6-billion in savings as part of its plan to erase the deficit within five years, virtually no details have emerged as to what jobs will go vacant or what programs will end.

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Yet the Harper government insists this time is different. Ending the stimulus spending, freezing operating budgets and trimming 5 per cent from each department will be enough to erase the $55.6-billion deficit, officials argue.

“Some people would like us to go further. We think we can manage without doing that,” Treasury Board President Stockwell Day – the keeper of the public purse – told a House of Commons committee Tuesday.

While the details on the budget freezes and 5-per-cent reductions may come in the March budget, opposition MPs aren’t holding their breath. NDP MP Pat Martin accused Mr. Day Tuesday of deliberately keeping the bad news of spending cuts a “deep dark secret” until after a possible spring election.

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What is with all these conservatives, in Canada and the USA, and embargos on information on spending cuts? What are they up to?

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1. Is it like that psychotherapy where the psychiatrist says nothing at all to you and you reveal

all your issues inadvertently in your feeble attempt to fill up the empty space.... is the gop hoping Democrats are the first to put social security on the table? The silence on spending cuts is deafening.