Comments on: Bridge watching http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2008/08/19/bridge-watching/ My personal opinions on social and political issues from a progressive standpoint. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jaybird http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2008/08/19/bridge-watching/comment-page-1/#comment-15979 jaybird Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:20:15 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/?p=1888#comment-15979 Scott: ok you are absolutely right, touring around right before an election handing out goodies is unseemly and definitely old-school politics. It is what governments do. What they have always done and will continue to do. I had a relative that was a Liberal MP for some twenty years and was re-elected by making sure there was fed money for highways in his riding in the maritimes. The Chretien and Martin governments did the same thing. They went around the country right before every election and promised funding for everything under the sun. But like calgarygrit pointed out today, they promised considerably more than they delivered for the entire 13 years of their super majority governments. Although I am in no way a supporter of the Cons it does strike me that your post is of the 'pot meet kettle' variety. Scott: ok you are absolutely right, touring around right before an election handing out goodies is unseemly and definitely old-school politics. It is what governments do. What they have always done and will continue to do. I had a relative that was a Liberal MP for some twenty years and was re-elected by making sure there was fed money for highways in his riding in the maritimes.

The Chretien and Martin governments did the same thing. They went around the country right before every election and promised funding for everything under the sun. But like calgarygrit pointed out today, they promised considerably more than they delivered for the entire 13 years of their super majority governments.

Although I am in no way a supporter of the Cons it does strike me that your post is of the ‘pot meet kettle’ variety.

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