It was with tongue in cheek that I recently watched Jack Layton and Michael Ignatieff fill the heads of their TV audience with election promises. It brought back good, and not so good, memories.
Jack Layton and the NDP have promised a reduction in credit card interest. The NDP must have found new powers that they didn’t possess when I was farming back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when we were paying up to 19 percent (I’ve heard of higher) on farm operating loans and mortgages.
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Then NDP Premier Roy Romanow and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau always told us that interest rates were not in the government’s hands, but in the tenure of the Bank of Canada and world money markets.
I’ve figured a way to get to the University of Saskatchewan free of charge. If I donate by body to the pathology lab, after my death, of course, they’ll make use of it and I’ll save the cost of a funeral.
As for low interest credit, I’ve learned that paying cash solves all interest problems. And as for the May 2, 2011 election, I’m playing it safe and sticking with Stephen Harper.
John Hamon,
Gravelbourg, Sask.
Michael Ignatieff is now promising assistance for university students. It was in June of 1968, the year that I was in Grade 12, that a Liberal candidate came to speak to us about the upcoming election, and how Trudeau was going to provide all of us with low cost or no cost university education. I was 18. I’m now 61 and
