The reviews are in

Murray Mandryk:

(I)f Gantefoer and his government have been unfairly criticized for their work in math class, they surely deserve the criticism they've received for their poor grades in basic philosophy and economics. This is a party that clearly drank it's own bath water, convincing itself that its mere presence in government offices as believers in the free enterprise system somehow magically turned around the cyclical nature of Saskatchewan's commodity resources and the revenues that governments derived from them.

Perhaps worst of all, this is a government that didn't pay attention to the details of budgeting. Believing that the tide of money would just keep flowing in, it allowed the operational spending of government departments to increase to $10 billion (as of the mid-year update of the 2009-10 budget) from $7.7 billion (in the 2006-07 budget, the last full year of the NDP administration).

As has been previously stated, the Sask. Party government has had more of a spending problem than a revenue problem.

The good news, judging by what we've been hearing this week from Gantefoer and Wall, is that there's a realization that you can't keep spending more money than you take in.

The bad news is that you may not like the Sask. Party's new math.