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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
So what's your point? They are all bad and they all miss on projections but you continually point a finger at the Wildrose. Some balance would be nice.
The Wildrose definitely got it right in saying this government has a spending problem and their budgeting would lead to a huge deficit. Chalk one up there.
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I can only assume that the Wildrose suggesting a deficit wasn't just a stroke of luck. They knew darn well that they weren't able to balance the budget and if they couldn't then they weren't sure how anyone else could either. That's hardly commendable.
We have no idea how they were going to balance the budget. The only suggestion we heard from them was the Carbon Capture, and I believe its been noted dozens of times that this wasn't enough to do it because
A) It wasn't $2B because most of that was spent
B) The government had already entered into a number of JV's and presumably those partners wouldn't be thrilled with a sudden change in course just based on a whim.
The funny thing about the CCS for the Wildrose is that it sounds exactly like the NDP and left-wingers when they talk about re-regulating the electricity markets. Its just not that simple, and would end up costing a fortune because of the lawsuits that would inevitably follow.