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Originally Posted by Slava
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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Why am I so keen for you to criticize the UCP? Because you get so close to doing it and then you skew off onto some bogus tangent about the NDP, and it reminds me of so many people I know in real life.
Case in point the post above. You just can't help yourself from making excuses for the UCP's financial mismanagement, and throwing shade at the NDP. The UCP cut taxes, increased spending, "borrowed for operations" and ran a bigger deficit than the NDP
ever did in the 2019-2020 fiscal year.
Why in the hell does that deserve a pass? Covid hadn't happened yet.
The reason you absolutely cannot abide the NDP is "borrowing for operations", and yet the UCP borrowed more in that one year than the NDP did over the course of their entire time in government, and you say "I think we have to give the UCP a pass". WHY?!?! "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." WHY?!?! Again: you're running cover for a bunch of idiots who by your own criteria were WORSE! Why in the hell should any of us believe the NDP would've been worse? The UCP
are worse, demonstrably so.
You say you think the UCP are stunningly incompetent? Then quit making excuses for them. Quit repeating Conservative propaganda about how they're better financial stewards. Quit being a hypocrite. Quit acting like a brainwashed rube trying to gaslight the rest of us into believing this stupid crap.