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Originally Posted by Drybrain
It;s the usual partisan nonsense. I'm friends with card-carrying liberals and card-carrying NDP members, and I lean more left, but I still can't get into a political conversation with any of them. It's always "everything our guys do is good, everything the other guys do is the worst".
From all sides. Absolutely no one can bring themselves to acknowledge when, perhaps, another party or individual politician may have a good idea which is worth collaborating on. It's tremendously off-putting to anyone (and intellectually simple-minded) to anyone who isn't dogmatically party-aligned (i.e., most people).
Anyway, I'll defend the NDP, though their time in office certainly wasn't perfect. The very right-wing Fraser Institute even ranked Dexter as one of the most fiscally responsible premiers in Canada. The reaction to their mistakes was beyond over-the-top, and I'm not sure what Fillmore means when saying the NDP added $2 billion to the debt, given that they oversaw the addition of $800 million to the debt, as well as the one of the biggest budget surpluses in the province's history.
Beats the McNeil government's obsession with slashing spending regardless of the consequences, to the point that they're making idiotic cuts (like gutting film-tax credit) that will, probably, end up having negative financial implications for the province and government revenues in just a few years. But boy, they're desperate to post a balanced budget.
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McNeil has made stupid decisions, but I thought the NDP's education policies were the absolute worst. Somehow they managed to be both neo-liberal AND faux populist. They closed elementary schools all over the province, and also gutted higher education funding by about 3% a year, year over year, from the beginning of time in office, until they were turfed.
Meanwhile, they put a tuition freeze for several years (while cutting education funding!) which really killed our universities, which are among the few NS institutions that punch above their weight nationally and internationally.
NDP were straight up anti-education. And while they were closing schools and gutting higher education, they were ramping up healthcare spending like there's no tomorrow. Health care is already half of our budget; and rather than tackling our (obviously out of control health spending), Dexter just piled it on, while nickle and diming other parts of the budget. Gut universities/schools. Move government departments out of Halifax (inefficient, costly, and stupid).
NDP were just another pro-Boomer, anti-youth party. Same as the NS Liberals, just they attack other young sectors (media/entertainment).
This is why they're all idiots, but at least Liberals have actually increased education funding, one of the few things governments do for young people in this province.
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