I'm Iggy, and I'm Spinning My Wheels

I watched Iggy's press conference yesterday. What a mess it was. The least idiotic thing that I heard was his partially valid critique of the difference in spending on H1N1 awareness and the stimulus package. I don't know, but I'm thinking that the media has done a good job, free of charge, relating the H1N1 situation to the public. There was some hyperbole, but it remains the quickest way to get info out there, and do it for free.

Iggy's critique of the deficit might have had some teeth, and I say might, if he had actually spent a second or two opposing stimulus. He was on board, to the point of wanting more money spent. In the same press conference, he suddenly wasn't so much opposed to the deficit, but where the money was being spent. It was almost as if he was throwing stuff against the wall to see what would stick.

The final item that really brought home the idea that Iggy was abroad for 20 plus years was the notion that the Liberals killed the deficit with no undue hardship to Canadians. I think that those of us who lived here at the time would say something slightly different on that one. I'll be the first one to say that cutting the deficit was necessary and that measures needed to be taken as soon as possible.

Iggy floated a trial balloon, and it needs to be popped. He wants us, the people who lived here during the recession and recovery, to think that very little was sacrificed to get us back on track. When we clawed our way out of recession and debt, we did it with deep cuts across the board. These cuts affected everyone from every walk of life. We paid the necessary price.

That there is a deficit now is of some annoyance to me and other fiscal hawks. I think, however, there is a consensus that it is necessary and it is manageable. It will not be as bad in any sense, as the horrific mismanagement of the Trudeau Liberals or the Mulroney Tories. The recovery will not be as painful as it was in the 90' s under the Chretien/Martin Liberals. The one thing that Canadians did learn over the past 30 years is that we appreciate bland, boring balance.

Iggy is bland, he is boring but he is utterly unbalanced. The longer this protracted election campaign continues, the worse he is going to look. The press conference itself was pointless and the press seemed annoyed they were being asked to cover a quasi campaign speech about what Iggy would do if Iggy were PM.