Trillian Rand: Of course Mr. Harper takes flack for making rosy predictions. That is partly because he is all over the map with his predictions but mostly because he is far from the orator of President Obama. Few would call Harper a PM that inspires.
Indeed I believe it is the PM's job to show a "glass half full" mentality, to encourage consumer confidence and promote stability. There are those in society that see everything through a negative coloured lens and insist on facing "reality", whatever that means. Reality is a relative thing, depending on what type of person you are and how you view your world.
I for one see the current corrections in the market as a good thing that will eventually produce a better, more stable financial system with better checks and balances and more income equality. An evolution of society for the better.
I am certain that is not what those "glass half empty" negative people see. But it is also worth noting that those type of people are never the leaders in society, never the visionaries, inventors or Entrepreneurs that create jobs and generate wealth.
One of my favorite quotes comes from Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, the man who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause;
who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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