With as many as 4 million people expected to attend the inauguration events today, Barack Obama’s inauguration will be the largest to ever take place. With big screens set up throughout the National Mall area for these people to witness Obama’s inauguration address – one of the most anticipated speeches of all time. Obama’s speech will last approximately 20 minutes and will discuss responsibility and removing the “me first” philosophy, in order to make America a greater country to live in.
To protect Barack Obama, there will be 25,000 security guards, including snipers, police dogs, and air and naval support, as well as 5,000 security cameras.
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Wasn’t it just one year ago that the Harper government was telling us we would receive more tax cuts due to the large surplus?

However, on November 19, 2008, Michaelle Jean (our Governor General) strongly hinted that Canada would be facing a deficit in the short term.

“Ongoing, unsustainable deficits are quite rightly unacceptable to Canadians. These structural deficits must never return. At the same time, in a historic global downturn, it would be misguided to commit to a balanced budget in the short term at any cost…”

The excuse is that we are in a global financial crisis and thus a deficit can not be avoided, but wasn’t it just recently (in his election campaign) that Harper promised Canada would not be affected. I guess one month after being elected is a long enough wait before breaking the promises that likely swayed a lot of voters on Election Day.

Let’s just examine some of the things Harper told us before the election:
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