I have observed in President Obama a man who says much but does little beyond serving his personal agenda. The stimulus package is merely a way to suck investment from the future and transplant it into the present, hardly an act of great leadership. The stimulus package is just a hodgepodge of pork, with only some of the money going to infrastructure. Will it create confidence among the American people? Those who voted for Obama will be glowing with confidence.

Yes, the amount of money that the Obama administration is spending (borrowing) terrifies me, too, and the inevitable consequencies of it.  At least our current administration has done a good job being proactive & preparing Canada over the last few years to position us as one of the most stable economies in the world (see IMF report today & listen to economists over the last 8 months).
Did the Opposition last Fall get frustrated that they didn’t get voted back in to resume their assumed “divine” right to govern with their typical urban-undemocratic-majority and did Harper become too principled at the same (wrong) time?  Sure, but the Governor General proved her worth for the first time in many generations.
Still looking forward to those public funding cuts to political parties.

I’m also thankful that Canada hasn’t shown such “leadership” as Obama has. The numbers are simply staggering. George Bush spent like a drunken sailor but after Obama pooh-poohed the Republicans for a 400 billion dollar shortfall, it seems incredible that anyone would stand still for 4,000 billion. Oh, I forgot...Obama just demanded his staff cut a pissant $100 million from their budgets.