{"id":9724,"date":"2011-06-08T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:25:44","slug":"ontarios-pathetic-choices-in-the-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/ontarios-pathetic-choices-in-the-next-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario’s (pathetic) choices in the next election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read ’em and weep<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Dalton\u2019s McGuinty\u2019s record is so well known it barely justifies repeating: the health tax he promised not to introduce, but did. The HST. The eco tax. The soaring power bills. The epic borrowing. The multiple boondoggles. The \u201cwage freeze\u201d that turns out not to apply to police, nurses, civil servants or anyone who actually gets paid by the government. The big bonus for eHealth workers for overseeing a billion dollars in wasted spending. Stop me before I break into tears.<\/p>\n

Tim Hudak says he\u2019ll end the agony, but can\u2019t be believed. Sorry Tim, but it\u2019s true. If the campaign platform recently released by the Tories was handed in as a project in a first-year finance class, it would be returned with suggestions that the author find another line of interest. Like line dancing; something that doesn\u2019t involve numbers, or adding and subtracting. Mr. Hudak says he\u2019ll raise spending on all the important programs, but make up for it by finding \u201cwaste\u201d. We all know that isn\u2019t going to happen. Politicians never find waste. What they find is that if they keep spending money, their chances of re-election improve. The federal Tories have been promising to find waste for five years now, and have jacked up spending every year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s been widely understood that this election was the Tories’ to lose . . . and they’re determined to do exactly that<\/em>. This is how the NDP might finally get another chance to form a government . . . perhaps the misery of the Rae experiment has finally been forgotten. Between McGuinty and Hudak, the NDP could run a cardboard cut-out of Jack Layton and be (significantly) more appealing to the average Ontario voter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read ’em and weep: Dalton\u2019s McGuinty\u2019s record is so well known it barely justifies repeating: the health tax he promised not to introduce, but did. The HST. The eco tax. The soaring power bills. The epic borrowing. The multiple boondoggles. The \u201cwage freeze\u201d that turns out not to apply to police, nurses, civil servants or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,53],"tags":[509,584,71,188,798,87,118],"class_list":["post-9724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-politics","tag-civilservice","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-debt","tag-electionwatch","tag-ndp","tag-ontario","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2wQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14131,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/14131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}