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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
None at all? It seems to me that no matter what your politics, it matters a great deal what the deficit was incurred for.
I mean, even taking your point about Klein, it's not like the NDP got into office and said, "wow, we really need to borrow a bunch of money to catch up on infrastructure that's lagging behind", and went on to spend money to achieve that end. They were borrowing to cover operating expenses. And that's leaving aside the $2.2 billion borrowed on behalf of the balancing pool to address a payable incurred through sheer incompetence.
It just doesn't seem to me to be a reasonable stance to take, unless you can explain why the source of these astronomical debt figures seems to you like good money to spend.
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I don't always (or even often) agree with Corsi, but this is a great post. I am likely to make it to the end of my life without ever voting NDP (even if we reach the singularity...) but I can respect borrowing money to do productive things. Build hospitals, give union employees above market raises, build transit etc. That stuff is all ideologically consistent and has value.
But the power pool fiasco is basically just the NDP incinerating billions of dollars that we all pay back for no productive reason.