Dear Editor:
Re: Critics say budget doesn’t go far enough, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 24.
The Liberals need to be criticized extensively; they are corrupt and pathetic, as is the rest of the establishment in our nation, but a balanced budget should not be one of the grounds for criticism.
The budgetary objections of NDP MLA Raj Chouhan and Green Party of B.C. candidate Rick McGowan are mistaken.
This province is $66,000,000,000 in debt. Each person’s share of that debt, including anyone reading this letter, is about $14,000. We accordingly pay billions of dollars in interest to the bankers, which, if we were free from such slavery, we could spend on education, health care, and so on.
The same prudence we apply in our personal lives should extend to our analysis of government spending.
When you have debt on a credit card and not enough to pay it off, is it better to spend even more or to focus on paying it off?
Chouhan and McGowan apparently feel that the government should borrow even more from the money masters to pay for things that we can not truly afford.
I care about the poor, as you both do, but advocating for continued servitude to an insidious usury is not a good way of helping anyone. Surplus budgets are not objectionable, and you should both change your minds.
Elias Ishak, Burnaby
