That's the exact lines "Putting the money in the front lines" I heard 4x during an interview on CBC this morning. Dodge, deflect, repeat canned lines and never answered the host's questions.
We're in a money crunch (Liberals spent and spent, fine). But the policies to get us out of this mess is not being made. We need to raise revenues while cutting costs. Not cut to both. Realistically, should be small tax raises to keep up with inflation while introducing Toll roads, higher taxes while finding those efficiencies in the public sector. Not just a single minded approached - pissing off all the public servants won't do you any good as a political entity.
List of PC disasters:
1. Remove Cap and Trade ~ $2-3billion annual revenue stream - scrapped because of Oil is good, energy efficiencies are bad?
2. On a related note, wasting $30million to fight a loosing battle vs Fed Carbox Tax (Yes, I'll use their words).
3. 6million dollar man turned out to be 120+ million penalties we're on the hook for.
4. Talking about penalties, 100's of millions of penalties for breaching Beerstore/Lcbo contract (again, breach of contract - not a great businessman).
5. Wants our kids to get high, drunk, and make uninformed life and sexual choices because of reasons?
6. Scrapped the Clean Air/regulations that required emission testing - remember them smog days a decade ago? Lets bring that back!
7. Scrapping at 90% complete clean energy with a Global energy firm while making into law that they cannot sue/recoup their loses while declaring "Open for Business" - optics here are whacked. No sane business organization will invest money in Ontario (also see 6million dollar man and Avista Energy)
One of my favorite quotes to live by "You're as good as your last job/project"... Deco labels has been in decline ever since their father died and Ford took over. How do we elect idiots to run our public organizations is still mind boggling.
I'll leave it at 7 points for now. Saving #'s for 3 more years of entertainment.