The problem with ‘austerity’ — as ‘progressives,’ activists, advocates and allies insist on labelling any attempt to recognize that the money pot isn’t bottomless — is that …
The Canadian Snowbird Association recently fired off a missive to its Ontario members, warning of the provincial government’s plan to cancel coverage for out-of-country medical emergencies.
Thus seniors joined the growing list of Ontarians upset at the Progressive Conservative government for straying into its back yard as it labours to reduce expenditures and meet its promise to reduce the swollen deficit. But the problem with “austerity” — as “progressives,” activists, advocates and their allies insist on labelling any attempt to recognize that the money pot isn’t bottomless — is that every expenditure was put there to please somebody, and even the mildest reductions provoke disapproval. Snowbirds, for example, wonder why, after a lifetime of labour , the province would see fit to threaten their retirement years with penny-ante reductions in important medical benefits.
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