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Originally Posted by Slava
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.
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Who is arguing the bolded?
The argument is:
1. NDP is no worse fiscally than UCP or previous PC regime (which is all that really matters in the binary debate we find ourselves in)
2. People generally accept that the NDP will spend more, and are okay with that, because we like where they want to spend the money
3. #2 isn't even true. The NDP spending is right inline with the regimes that sandwich them. The UCP just happened to get a 1 year windfall of resource revenue that exceeded the NDP's entire 4 year term. If you want to focus only on the net that's your right, but it's incredibly short sighted and ignores who set us on these resource rollercoaster tracks.