Dear editor,Before the election last spring Parliament was dysfunctional; Prime Minister Harper didn't accomplish much more than insulting and vilifying the Opposition, and tried to make the malaise seem like their fault when it was his.He forced a new election by engineering his own government's defeat, telling Canadians that the only way forward was to give him a majority. Through contempt of Parliament, attack ads, voter exhaustion and electoral fraud, you finally managed to acquire one.Now we find that Parliament is still dysfunctional, and no productive work is getting done because he and your party appear to be incapable of the simplest tasks in governing.He makes stupid decisions based on God knows what logic, understandable to nobody but themselves and maybe not even then. He spends his way into a massive deficit, and tries to hack his way out of it with indiscriminate and poorly conceived cuts that appear to go against his own policies.Any Canadian householder could do a better job of prioritizing spending and managing the resources at hand; it is more and more obvious that a degree in economics is useless when it is not accompanied by practical common sense.Did he not learn anything at university? Was there nothing in his life that prepared him to lead this great country or inspired him to love it, as so many of us do?When I look at his government I see a gang of incompetent bullies whose guiding principle is to avoid the truth at any cost. Having his inflatable goons standing up in our House of Commons, spouting evasions, is deeply insulting to Canadians.Please do "stay the course" with a "steady hand on the tiller," or whatever absurdities you used to inveigle voters last spring. You will hasten the moment when Canada begins to recover from the ugly freak accident that you are proud to call the Harper Government.Anne Bauman,Cumberland
