Premier Brad Wall's frightening problem right now is that he truly does think he can get out of the dark deficit hole he's dug by digging even deeper.
That won't work even if he does strike potash. You can't sell it in today's market, anyway.
Wall's conviction that the billion-dollar deficit his Saskatchewan Party government unveiled last month will magically turn around when resource revenues recover is an economic and political disaster in the making. It's accomplishing what the NDP has failed to do for five years now -- give credence to the notion that Brad Wall is Grant Devine, reincarnated.
That's because Wall truly appears to be suffering from Devine's affliction -- the need for just one more hit of resource revenue to give the government one more spending high.
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
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