100% is a good mark if you're taking an accounting class, not so good when it reflects how wrong you were with your budget predictions.
I wrote about this when our Saskatchewan Party government was out by 95% with their potash reveue projections late last year. But man, it takes a special kind of stupid to be so wrong with your projections that you end up being *over* 100% wrong and actually end up having to pay back a couple hundred million dollars you were paid in advance against resource royalties.
If anybody out there reading this really thinks it doesn't matter who you vote for (or even if you vote) and that all politicians are the same, I hope you realise that's not nearly the case.
I try not to get into politics with family very often but an elderly relative raised the subject a few months back. She was pumping up Brad Wall and running down the NDP so I pointed out what was at the time 95% error in the Sask Party's potash projections. She countered with this interesting bit of logic: “at least Brad Wall's a good speaker.” I was like “well, then let's get him a TV show because he really really sucks at being a Premier!”
But that kinda sums up the battle the NDP has for itself going into the next election – you've got the Sask Party with a leader who's (perceived to be) young, telegenic, a big football fan with a GW Bush-like capacity to make people think they'd just like to have a beer with him/that he's just a regular guy/he's a good speaker who's out there pounding the pavement to promote Saskatchewan.
Hopefully people will take off the blinders and think just a wee little bit about how screw-ups like this one do so much damage to our province and our people. Hmm, maybe time to give that aunt a follow-up call!
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I work for a Crown and farm as well. I've never been overly active politically but this current government is changed all that!!!
During Wall's first 6 months in office I was really impressed with him as a person and I thought…yip this time the conservatives are going to get it right.
Wrong! Because of their complete and utter failure with managing the provinces money it is affecting the RM that I farm in by the Sask Party not coming though with promised money now placing the RM in a tough spot because of a lot of improvments that they have aready started by hiring contractors for some of the projected work.
Now as far as being a Crown employee we are being cut so thin that it is going to affect our services to the point that the safety of the employees and the public are going to be jeprodized! All this at a time when the crown that I work for has never seen such huge growth in the province.
Maybe our now terrible service is a way for Brad Wall to gain public support for the selling of the cowns.
Thanks for your comment. Hopefully others will begin to see that Brad Wall, no matter how nice of a guy, leads a government that has been a massive failure.