From Someone Who Spent Years In The Trenches

Scare, Stiff & Screw

The scare ‘em, stiff’em and screw ‘em exercise is underway, an ancient political, stunt that we keep falling for.

Last week roly poly finance minister Dwight Duncan tabled his economic statement, revealed a 25 billion dollar deficit and issued the first warnings about cutbacks and a tough times budget.

Duncan --- and since image is so important these grim days, why doesn’t McGuinty find somebody who looks like Uriah Heap --- said that the Ontario economy has shrunk to the same level as 2005.

As I recall, 2005 wasn’t such a bad year...

There will be a federal election in 2010 and a provincial in 2011. The Ontario Liberals won’t want to inflict collateral damage on their federal buddies and certainly not on themselves.

They’ll keep making scary noises until March. We’ll tremble and worry. They’ll table a budget with a couple of fishhooks. But after five months of the ..
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