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Originally Posted by timun
The sheer ####ing hypocrisy is why I'm mocking it. Slava simultaneous absolutely cannot forgive the NDP for their "cardinal sin", yet nary a peep about the financial mismanagement of the UCP government other than a sheepish " well, I'm not planning to vote for them either...".
Yes, the provincial debt did go up a lot under the NDP. They racked up $32B in budget deficits over four years.
The UCP racked up another $29.1B in their first two years. And they were forecasting another $18.2B deficit in fiscal year 2021-22, which they only managed to avoid because revenues ended up being $25B more than forecast through essentially no creditable action on their part whatsoever! And now this year they're forecasting an almost $12.3B surplus because—surprise!—resource revenue is forecast $22.7B higher than it ever was in any given year 2015-2019.
Just so we're all clear on what actually happened (all figures in millions of $):
Can we finally put this bull####-####ing-narrative that "the NDP are fiscally incompetent" to rest? 2019-2020 was self-inflicted stupidity on a scale far worse than the NDP EVER did. |
First, I couldn’t possibly care less about your mocking. Fill your boots. It’s childish and lame, but whatever floats your boat.
Why are so keen for me to criticize the UCP? I don’t have to prove anything to you or anyone else on that front. I think they’re stunningly incompetent, and I don’t see anyone arguing otherwise. What I do see is a bunch of people trying to claim fiscal prudence for the NDP though, and I completely disagree, which is where my conundrum is.
And not to defend the current government, but there was a little extenuating circumstance in the midst of this term. I think that for a chunk of their financial situation you have to give them a pass? Let’s not kid ourselves about whether the NDP would’ve matched or exceeded that spending. I guess we’ll never know with any certainty, but I’d be taking the over.