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Originally Posted by JD159
I didn't hear the Canadian conservatives crying when Harper was running a deficit. All of a sudden Trudeau does and it is the end of the world. Harper manufactured a surplus for political perception during an election year.
24 Sussex Drive is a **** hole. Nobody wants to spend the money to fix it because people complain. Ambassadors and guests to our country can't even stay in our "white house" because it is such a dump. Yes it will cost a few million up front, but we are paying hundreds of thousands a year in trying to keep a sinking ship afloat.
My point is, sometimes you have to spend money to make money. Right now an investment has been made. In a few years, we have to look back at that investment, and if the outcome is positive, we express our support, if negative, gimme a better prime minster from either party, doesn't matter.
I'm like you. Neither liberal nor conservative. Not saying you are this, but I don't like when people always see a glass as half empty just because it isn't "their" political party. Nobody seems to be able to look at things objectively. Everyone has to pick a side.  |
I too have no particular issue running a deficit when it is affordable and when prudence requires investment. And as a conservative, I firmly and forcefully put my feedback into Harper when he ran a deficit for many of the same reasons that others are criticizing Trudeau.
The concern with Trudeau is that his mindset appears to be one of tax and spend liberalism, particularly riding on a populist coat-tail of "tax those rich buggers to give to the rest of us".
The man is not particularly bright and does not have a terribly strong team around him, so being able to put a deficit spending programme together that includes when and how to pay it back is likely beyond their capabilities.
I note that it was a Liberal that slayed the deficit of the '90's, but only when Canada had its near to death experience financially. I just wish Trudeau was up front about the need to invest, perhaps at a deficit level but with a mind set to stop the deficit spending as soon as possible.
Plus the endless photo ops that the media expounds only trivializes whatever talent the lad actually has....
Dennis