Journal Pioneer, Summerside, PE
February 21, 2007
Dear Editor:
The present speed with which our Provincial Treasurer, Mitch Murphy, is announcing the growth in budget surpluses is astounding. It would appear that the Minister must have thrown away his old slide rule and bought a new calculator. It all though has the odor of pre-election.
I remember the same Minister did not know how to figure out the proper use of his government credit card, couldn’t remember his ownership in a construction company, and isn’t able to understand a court order demanding payment on a home repair job gone terribly wrong. But then this Minister’s budgets have never been within a country mile of the actual cost to Islanders.
Who can forget the rosy picture he painted going into the 2003 election, only to discover that his forecast was so off the mark, that in reality he was spending this province into the largest single deficit in our history.
If the new surplus is indeed factual, we can only hope that he will make sure that the million dollar cut to disabled islanders, dished out in last years budget, will be returned to these people in the upcoming March 2007 Budget.
I remain
Sincerely,
Michael Le Clair
Charlottetown, PEI
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