The media and people are fawning all over Francoise David of the QS mostly because she was "articulate" and "coherent" and was able to "make her case."
Gee. Now we judge people on the ability to complete sentences without sounding like idiots? It's the least we can expect, no?
Never mind that she's a sovereigntist and a socialist.
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Charest had a rather uncomfortable smirk last night. I wasn't sure if it was one of arrogance or a guy who wasn't sure of his position. I got the feeling he kept saying to himself, "boy they came prepared! Who knew?"
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I don't like ideologies predicated on the necessity of using other people's money through coercion. That's just me.
However, I'm not sure of there's logic in the argument that socialists would be bad with money. I think it's possible to be able to build a social-welfare state while being fiscally responsible. I don't believe socialists are financially illiterate. It's just that, at the moment, there aren't very promising and prominent examples of socialism doing a good job.
Vermont under Democrat (socialist) Bernie Sanders ran balanced budgets back in the 1980s and 1990s but I'm not sure if that was an exception and still the case. VT is a small state with a small population (about 620 000) with a rather straight forward economy. I would think that should be the case or else there would be little help for the social-welfare state.
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