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Originally Posted by belsarius
I totally agree with the semantics of it. The problem I have is when people call the entire thing operational and dismiss the government as doing nothing for stimulus through capital works. Its just a pet peeve because it is a political rhetoric designed to shame the NDP by exaggerating the situation. The problem is that it ends up having many people believe the situation that the NDP spending is out of control and it is all wasted. I think you get the same feeling when people try to exempt the government by claiming the entire deficit is capital stimulus, which exaggerates that spending isn't an issue and the NDP shouldn't be accountable for trying to curtail it.
When the actual truth of the situation is somewhere in between and they have increased capital spending for economic stimulus but they have also refused to cut services and reduce spending on more ideological and political reasons. They did campaign on no cuts so we at least have to give them the fact they are standing by that promise at least.
I have no problem debating the policy of not cutting expenses and having anything of an operational deficit. I believe it is worthy of debate as there are lots of different examples for each side. But its hard to properly debate when people are told either extreme and start to believe it.
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I empathize with your frustration here, because I get irritated hearing that the only way to save money on services is going to be to eliminate frontline workers.