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Originally Posted by shermanator
Thought this was an interesting post on the subject by Kathleen Smith. I have a feeling most posters in this thread are going to get huffy over this. For the record, I am neither a PC nor a Wildrose nor an NDP supporter:
https://www.facebook.com/KathleenGeo...53748175673768 |
I'm not going to get all huffy over this, but I won't pretend that its sensible either. I have a hard time taking the idea that "the good times were built on the backs of the disadvantaged" kind of thing seriously. The cuts that took place in the early 90's weren't great for a lot of people, but I don't think that it's purely the disadvantaged who suffered. It also gets a little stale when we're blaming things done 20 years ago for every potential issue today. On a federal level people hate the idea of the NEP being brought up today, and then talk about 1995 in the next breath. Its a little disingenuous.
I wish we would've chosen a more centrist approach to the past election. The stupidity of the "we'll never run a debt because debt is evil" crowd is just as ridiculous with the mirror image of "we'll just borrow every last dollar because rates are low". Neither position is sensible, and both are damaging. The NDP has just shown that they can't come anywhere near that balance though.