Thank you, Capt. Obvious.

11 Replies to “Thank you, Capt. Obvious.”

1. Keep your eye on him. The Cal Governor “balanced” the California budget by taking the unfunded pension liabilities off the balance sheet. The State Controller let him get away with it in return for a shot at being Governor.

2. The fact that justin is just downright dumb has now even become apparent to the MSM , even they can’t hide it now

3. If anyone is stupid enough to believe that “budgets balance themselves” and “modest” deficits are good things, then they deserve the poverty that is coming their way.
   The Liberals didn’t lie or hoodwink anyone about this. It was said outright.
   Enjoy your poverty, Liberal voters. You deserve it.

4. It’s as if he’s discovering that expenditures and deficits depend upon numbers and that numbers can be *big*. Then again, what does one expect from a prime minister who acts as if numbers greater than 3 would be, for him, higher mathematics?

5. ” has now even become apparent to the MSM” I wish. DenTendt is one commentator. Most of the journalists are still treating Trudeau with kid gloves. I would like to know why the refugee fiasco is not being covered — those being brought over were not from refugee camps, but were living safely in apartments at various places. I am not sure what they were told to lure them to Canada, but they have been brought here without adequate availability of housing. Putting them up in hotels (when they already had safe apartments somewhere) is a complete waste of money. I was not aware that Rae has not been welcomed into the Trudeau fold. That’s interesting. I wonder if it has to do with the strong Muslim influence in the party. When Dion was nominated there was a strong anti-Rae movement among the Muslim faction — Trudeau has obviously decided to embrace the Muslim faction. Canada has tossed aside good governance for chaos. We are not in good hands.

6. No even six months in and the Wynnites have already lost control of the federal budget. Severe pain to follow and possible buyers’ remorse. No wait, it’s Harper’s fault, he stuck them with a balanced budget through the crash in commodity prices and demand drop in China, along with NA fracking. Harper was dealt a much worse hand, especially the sub-prime fraud scandal. Dumbo is likely $25b in the hole out of the gate in relatively good times.
   Government spending & borrowing will slow demand here as it did in China. The mediocracy’s death rattle is the only way this idiot was electable, so a perfect storm of irrelevant noise around the Tories and a free ride from economically illiterate and unethical national media dinosaurs like Laphlegm, Oliver and Fife sealed the deal for their Laurentian buddies to get rid of the western yahoos. They better watch it lest the yahoos decide to hurrah Ottawa.
   Now we get big government to choke off the upcoming commodity recovery for Canadians. Change all right; change to poverty; change to innumeracy; change to cronyism. After all that’s “what Canadians want.”
   All of this predicted, all of this suppressed, all of this predicated on the moronic idea of removing one person from power, all of this presumptive of magical powers of government which never existed, all of this presumptive on ditching the poor for middle class free stuff.
   Junior Trudeau can pull of his father’s massive economic and political damage to this country in a much shorter time; one re-election ought to do it.

7. too bad we all have to get screwed over by liberal policies. I think only liberals should have to pay for what they voted for.

8. That’s been my mantra for eons….if only it were so…

9. “…numbers greater than 3 would be, for him, higher mathematics.”
   Not to mention numbers with decibels.

10. Meanwhile, back in the real world:
    John Robson: Trudeau’s productivity challenge
    “Government budgets are vast, unwieldy things. They are not written in a month or two, nor scribbled on the back of a napkin, and do not respond quickly to even the best-intentioned commands. During the election, Trudeau promised an enormous amount of new spending with shockingly little evidence of serious thought about how to deliver. Canadians were offered blithe assurances of huge benefits and economic stimulus that would pay for itself. If that was never very likely, it is even less so now.”
    Trudeau is no more responsible than former prime minister Stephen Harper for the dramatic fall in the price of oil. But both are guilty of budgeting as though no such thing could happen. The Liberals made the additional mistake of campaigning on the notion that they could easily put right an economy that was being badly mishandled, only to spend their early weeks backtracking, jettisoning promises and struggling to redefine the measures for success. Before even delivering his first budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau has blown through his $10 billion deficit cap, begun fudging the pledge of a balanced budget within four years and redefined hard promises as “goals” or aspirations.”
    Hardly the time to drive spending through the roof eh?
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/john-robson-trudeaus-productivity-challenge

11. Want more? BTW where were these guys last election? Oh right, covering the Duffy trial.
    Akin: Politics not prudence the reason for finance minister’s ‘fudge line’
    “Morneau points to his own latest forecast that Ottawa will post a deficit of $2.3 billion on March 31, the end of the fiscal year. First, the fine print in his own forecast shows that, had the Liberals done nothing and simply continued with Harper’s status quo, the “deficit” he’s forecasting now would be just $300 million. Most of the “deficit” is the result of $2 billion worth of new spending or tax breaks the Liberals brought in.”
    Second, Morneau’s own department said this week that for the first nine months of the current fiscal year, Ottawa posted an actual $3.2-billion surplus. Morneau told the finance committee he expects a lot of extra costs in the final three months of the year and a lot of revenue to dry up. Well, he’d have to see expenses exceed revenue by about $6 billion to make his forecast of a deficit this year stick and be able to hang it on the Harper government.”
    Why shouldn’t he do that, right? Politics is a partisan sport and he should be entitled to score points for his side. Except for one thing. He’s the finance minister of a G7 country and using a “fudge line” for deficit projections or trying to fob off fiscal responsibility on an opponent does nothing for his or his government’s credibility.” Thusly we send anti-growth message to the world, where real investment happens.
    http://www.torontosun.com/2016/02/23/politics-not-prudence-the-reason-for-finance-ministers-fudge-line