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Originally Posted by jmt18325
Except that the NDP did balance the budget. You don't like the way they did it, but they did it by introducing proper accounting principles. Hydro is a Crown asset, and its revenue is crown revenue.
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Yeah , and if Hydro was a private venture it would be in the black , developing further profit initiatives , and contributing healthily to the tax base . Sure it's a Crown asset ... and the NDP is doing to it what governments always do to profit generators by depriving it of its ability to develop and compete in a changing world . Forget the party lines , I really don't care about that ... they all do this but some are more economically astute than others . The NDP occupies the lowest rung on that ladder .
Remember the Rainy Day fund ? I guess we had quite a few rainy days
before the global economy went temporarily belly-up .
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Originally Posted by jmt18325
Then you simply haven't been paying attention. Economic growth, healthcare, infrastructure, trade, education, crime prevention and prosecution - all have improved under the NDP. You don't want to see it, fine, but you can't pretend it doesn't exist.
Unlike you, some of us can see past party labels. The NDP in Manitoba is nothing like the federal NDP. I vote Conservative federally, and so far in Manitoba, I've voted for the NDP. Obviously, with at least Doer, the federal Conservatives agree with me. They don't sem to mind Selinger either.
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Economic growth ? Well then why are we still a have-not province with no change in that status for the foreseeable future ?
Healthcare ? Sure , they've invested in it and sure , I'll give them credit for it as well . It's one of the few things that we can always count on the NDP to invest in and I'm not knocking them for it . Of course , in taking private players out of the game (think Pan Am clinic) we wouldn't know whether we could have it any better or not .
Infrastructure ? What exactly stands out in your mind on this matter ? I guess the Floodway might be a special case but every party would have committed to that . I don't think any party would have done things any differently in this regard. Ever since Ottawa loosened the purse-strings and increased transfer payments. Come to think of it , wasn't it the NDP that insisted that Floodway workers have a union-approved contract ? Strange because the only people who strike are people in unions and the Floodway was supposed to be open to private bidders . Gosh , go figure .
Education ? Uh ... how do you figure that that's any better ? You mean by throwing more money at it ? Have grades improved ? I mean , that's what the whole point of education is supposed to be so if we're not turning out more graduates with higher test-scores then I don't see how the NDP has done anything special in this regard . If you mean new buildings well sure ... they've put some cash towards it and they get credit for it .
Okay ... now this makes me laugh : Crime prevention and prosecution .
The provincial NDP HAS been barking at the feds to do something about crime and for that they DO get credit . Unfortunately their federal counterparts are morons. With that said , it doesn't change the fact that there is very little that the provincial government can do to actually fix the problems we have in any direct way . I neither blame them nor credit them for the problems or the solutions respectively .
Now , as to the party-line jab you took at me : Nope . You're wrong , wrong , wrong . I personally could give a rat's ass what the name of the party is . I rather liked Doer actually and honestly found him to be quite the most tolerable of virtually every politician that I could think of . The problem is that now he's gone and he was the only thing keeping the rest of his socialist dinosaurs from doing a Pawley-encore . Now that Selinger has taken the reins off , it's all back to the same old outdated ideology that drives economies into the ground . That's the same method of doing things that almost bankrupted us in the eighties and Selinger still hasn't clued in . I don't want McFadyen running things but then , that's why I voted for Gerard last time around .